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Title: Experimental Demonstration of the Thin-Film Liquid-Metal Jet as a Charge Stripper

Abstract

For high-power heavy ion accelerators, the development of a suitable charge stripper, which can handle intense beams, is essential. This Letter describes the first experimental demonstration of a heavy ion liquid lithium charge stripper. A 10–20 μm thick liquid lithium jet flowing at >50 m/s was formed and confirmed stable when bombarded by various heavy ion beams, while increasing the charge state of the incoming beams to the desired charge state range. Finally, this demonstration proved the existing power limitation with the conventional strippers can be overcome by the liquid-metal stripper, opening completely new possibilities in high-power accelerator development.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]
  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  2. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States) ; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
OSTI Identifier:
1872386
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; SC0000661
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 128; Journal Issue: 21; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; liquid lithium charge stripper; beam processes; beam dynamics; fluid-particle interactions; interactions in fluid; thin fluid films; interfacial flows; rare-isotope facilities; accelerators and storage rings; low- and intermediate-energy accelerators; targets; accelerator subsystems

Citation Formats

Kanemura, Takuji, LaVere, Michael, Madendorp, Randall, Marti, Felix, Maruta, Tomofumi, Momozaki, Y., Ostroumov, P.  N., Plastun, Alexander  S., Wei, Jie, and Zhao, Qiang. Experimental Demonstration of the Thin-Film Liquid-Metal Jet as a Charge Stripper. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.128.212301.
Kanemura, Takuji, LaVere, Michael, Madendorp, Randall, Marti, Felix, Maruta, Tomofumi, Momozaki, Y., Ostroumov, P.  N., Plastun, Alexander  S., Wei, Jie, & Zhao, Qiang. Experimental Demonstration of the Thin-Film Liquid-Metal Jet as a Charge Stripper. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.212301
Kanemura, Takuji, LaVere, Michael, Madendorp, Randall, Marti, Felix, Maruta, Tomofumi, Momozaki, Y., Ostroumov, P.  N., Plastun, Alexander  S., Wei, Jie, and Zhao, Qiang. 2022. "Experimental Demonstration of the Thin-Film Liquid-Metal Jet as a Charge Stripper". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.212301. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1872386.
@article{osti_1872386,
title = {Experimental Demonstration of the Thin-Film Liquid-Metal Jet as a Charge Stripper},
author = {Kanemura, Takuji and LaVere, Michael and Madendorp, Randall and Marti, Felix and Maruta, Tomofumi and Momozaki, Y. and Ostroumov, P.  N. and Plastun, Alexander  S. and Wei, Jie and Zhao, Qiang},
abstractNote = {For high-power heavy ion accelerators, the development of a suitable charge stripper, which can handle intense beams, is essential. This Letter describes the first experimental demonstration of a heavy ion liquid lithium charge stripper. A 10–20 μm thick liquid lithium jet flowing at >50 m/s was formed and confirmed stable when bombarded by various heavy ion beams, while increasing the charge state of the incoming beams to the desired charge state range. Finally, this demonstration proved the existing power limitation with the conventional strippers can be overcome by the liquid-metal stripper, opening completely new possibilities in high-power accelerator development.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.128.212301},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1872386}, journal = {Physical Review Letters},
issn = {0031-9007},
number = 21,
volume = 128,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Tue May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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