Adjustable ECR ion source control system: Ion Source Hydrogen Positive project

Author

Arredondo, I. ; Eguiraun, M. ; Jugo, J. ; Piso, D. ; del Campo, M. ; Poggi, T. ; Varnasseri, S. ; Feuchtwanger, J. ; Bilbao, J. ; Gonzalez, X. ; Harper, G. ; Muguira, L. ; Miracoli, R. ; Corres, J. ; Belver, D. ; Echevarria, P. ; Garmendia, N. ; Gonzalez,

Author_Institution

ESS Bilbao, Leioa, Spain

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

ISHP (Ion Source Hydrogen Positive) project consists of a highly versatile ECR type ion source. It has been built with several purposes, on the one hand, at the first stages, to serve as a workbench to test accelerator related technologies and validate in-house made developments. On the other hand, to design an ion source valid as the first step in an actual LINAC. Since this paper is focused on the control system of ISHP, besides the ion source, all the hardware and its control architecture is presented. Nowadays the ion source is able to generate a pulse of positive ions of Hydrogen from 2μs to a ms range with a repetition rate ranging from 1Hz to 50Hz with a maximum of 45mA of current. Furthermore, the first experiments with White Rabbit (WR) synchronization system are presented.

Keywords

ion sources; plasma radiofrequency heating; plasma sources; synchronisation; ISHP; LINAC; White Rabbit synchronization system; adjustable ECR ion source control system; current 45 mA; frequency 1 Hz to 50 Hz; in-house made developments; ion source hydrogen positive project; Control systems; Hardware; Ion sources; Plasmas; Radio frequency; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference (RT), 2014 19th IEEE-NPSS

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3658-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2014.7097477

Filename

7097477