The ReA electron-beam ion trap charge breeder for reacceleration of rare isotopes

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Title: The ReA electron-beam ion trap charge breeder for reacceleration of rare isotopes

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ReA is a post-accelerator at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. ReA is designed to reaccelerate rare isotopes to energies of a few MeV/u following production by projectile fragmentation and thermalization in a gas cell. The facility consists of four main components: an electron-beam ion trap (EBIT) charge breeder, an achromatic charge-over-mass (Q/A) separator, a radio-frequency quadrupole accelerator, and a superconducting radio-frequency linear accelerator. The EBIT charge breeder was specifically designed to efficiently capture continuous beams of singly charged ions injected at low energy (<60 keV), charge breed in less than 50 ms, and extract highly charged ions to the Q/A separator for charge-state selection and reacceleration through the accelerator structures. The use of highly charged ions to reach high beam energies is a key aspect that makes ReA a compact and cost-efficient post-accelerator. The EBIT is characterized by a high-current electron gun, a long multi-electrode trap structure and a dual magnet to provide both the high electron-beam current density necessary for fast charge breeding of short-lived isotopes as well as the high capture probability of injected beams. This paper presents an overview and the status of the ReA EBIT, which has extracted for reacceleration tests stablemore »« less

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Lapierre, A.; Schwarz, S.; Kittimanapun, K.; Fogleman, J.; Krause, S.; Nash, S.; Rencsok, R.; Tobos, L.; Perdikakis, G.; Portillo, M.; Rodriguez, J. A.; Wittmer, W.; Wu, X.; Bollen, G.; Leitner, D.; Syphers, M. ^[1]

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), Michigan State University (MSU), 640 South Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824 (United States)

Publication Date:: 2013-04-19

OSTI Identifier:: 22116999

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: AIP Conference Proceedings

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 1525; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: 22. international conference on application of accelerators in research and industry, Ft. Worth, TX (United States), 5-10 Aug 2012; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; BEAM CURRENTS; BEAM INJECTION; CAPTURE; CHARGE STATES; CURRENT DENSITY; DESIGN; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON GUNS; ION BEAMS; ION SOURCES; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MULTICHARGED IONS; NEON 20; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION; POTASSIUM 39; POTASSIUM 41; SUPERCONDUCTING CYCLOTRONS; TRAPS

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                    Lapierre, A., Schwarz, S., Kittimanapun, K., Fogleman, J., Krause, S., Nash, S., Rencsok, R., Tobos, L., Perdikakis, G., Portillo, M., Rodriguez, J. A., Wittmer, W., Wu, X., Bollen, G., Leitner, D., Syphers, M., and Collaboration: ReA Team. The ReA electron-beam ion trap charge breeder for reacceleration of rare isotopes.  United States: N. p., 2013. 
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                    Lapierre, A., Schwarz, S., Kittimanapun, K., Fogleman, J., Krause, S., Nash, S., Rencsok, R., Tobos, L., Perdikakis, G., Portillo, M., Rodriguez, J. A., Wittmer, W., Wu, X., Bollen, G., Leitner, D., Syphers, M., & Collaboration: ReA Team. The ReA electron-beam ion trap charge breeder for reacceleration of rare isotopes.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4802378

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                    Lapierre, A., Schwarz, S., Kittimanapun, K., Fogleman, J., Krause, S., Nash, S., Rencsok, R., Tobos, L., Perdikakis, G., Portillo, M., Rodriguez, J. A., Wittmer, W., Wu, X., Bollen, G., Leitner, D., Syphers, M., and Collaboration: ReA Team. Fri .  
        "The ReA electron-beam ion trap charge breeder for reacceleration of rare isotopes".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4802378.

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@article{osti_22116999,

  title        = {The ReA electron-beam ion trap charge breeder for reacceleration of rare isotopes},

  author       = {Lapierre, A. and Schwarz, S. and Kittimanapun, K. and Fogleman, J. and Krause, S. and Nash, S. and Rencsok, R. and Tobos, L. and Perdikakis, G. and Portillo, M. and Rodriguez, J. A. and Wittmer, W. and Wu, X. and Bollen, G. and Leitner, D. and Syphers, M. and Collaboration: ReA Team},

  abstractNote = {ReA is a post-accelerator at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. ReA is designed to reaccelerate rare isotopes to energies of a few MeV/u following production by projectile fragmentation and thermalization in a gas cell. The facility consists of four main components: an electron-beam ion trap (EBIT) charge breeder, an achromatic charge-over-mass (Q/A) separator, a radio-frequency quadrupole accelerator, and a superconducting radio-frequency linear accelerator. The EBIT charge breeder was specifically designed to efficiently capture continuous beams of singly charged ions injected at low energy (<60 keV), charge breed in less than 50 ms, and extract highly charged ions to the Q/A separator for charge-state selection and reacceleration through the accelerator structures. The use of highly charged ions to reach high beam energies is a key aspect that makes ReA a compact and cost-efficient post-accelerator. The EBIT is characterized by a high-current electron gun, a long multi-electrode trap structure and a dual magnet to provide both the high electron-beam current density necessary for fast charge breeding of short-lived isotopes as well as the high capture probability of injected beams. This paper presents an overview and the status of the ReA EBIT, which has extracted for reacceleration tests stable {sup 20}Ne{sup 8+} ion beams produced from injected gas and more recently {sup 39}K{sup 16+} beams by injecting stable {sup 39,41}K{sup +} ions from an external ion source.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.4802378},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22116999},
  journal      = {AIP Conference Proceedings},

  issn         = {0094-243X},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 1525,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2013},

  month        = {4}

}

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