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Register a new userMethod for estimating charge breeder ECR ion source plasma parameters with short pulse 1+ injection
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J. Angot
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A new method for determining plasma parameters from beam current transients resulting from short pulse 1+ injection into a Charge Breeder Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source (CB-ECRIS) has been developed. The proposed method relies on few assumptions, and yields the ionisation times $1/n_eleftlanglesigma vrightrangle^{text{inz}}_{qto q+1}$, charge exchange times $1/n_0leftlanglesigma vrightrangle^{text{cx}}_{qto q-1}$, the ion confinement times $tau^q$, as well as the plasma energy contents $n_eleftlangle E_erightrangle$ and the plasma triple products $n_e leftlangle E_erightrangle tau^q$. The method is based on fitting the current balance equation on the extracted beam currents of high charge state ions, and using the fitting coefficients to determine the postdictions for the plasma parameters via an optimisation routine. The method has been applied for the charge breeding of injected K$^+$ ions in helium plasma. It is shown that the confinement times of K$^{q+}$ charge states range from 2.6$^{+0.8}_{-0.4}$ ms to 16.4$^{+18.3}_{-6.8}$ ms increasing with the charge state. The ionisation and charge exchange times for the high charge state ions are 2.6$^{+0.5}_{-0.5}$ ms--12.6$^{+2.6}_{-3.2}$ ms and 3.7$^{+5.0}_{-1.6}$ ms--357.7$^{+406.7}_{-242.4}$ ms, respectively. The plasma energy content is found to be $2.5^{+4.3}_{-1.8}times 10^{15}$ eV/cm$^3$.
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