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Title: Modified Thomson spectrometer design for high energy, multi-species ion sources

Abstract

A modification to the standard Thomson parabola spectrometer is discussed, which is designed to measure high energy (tens of MeV/nucleon), broad bandwidth spectra of multi-species ions accelerated by intense laser plasma interactions. It is proposed to implement a pair of extended, trapezoidal shaped electric plates, which will not only resolve ion traces at high energies, but will also retain the lower energy part of the spectrum. While a longer (along the axis of the undeflected ion beam direction) electric plate design provides effective charge state separation at the high energy end of the spectrum, the proposed new trapezoidal shape will enable the low energy ions to reach the detector, which would have been clipped or blocked by simply extending the rectangular plates to enhance the electrostatic deflection.

Authors:
; ; ;  [1]; ; ;  [2];  [3]; ; ;  [4]; ;  [5]; ;  [6];  [3];  [7];  [1];  [1]
  1. Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN (United Kingdom)
  2. Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf (Germany)
  3. Instituto de Fusión Nuclear UPM, Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, E28006 Madrid (Spain)
  4. Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG (United Kingdom)
  5. Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
  6. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ (United Kingdom)
  7. Dipartimento SBAI, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” 00161 Rome (Italy)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22254993
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Review of Scientific Instruments
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 85; Journal Issue: 3; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; ABSORPTION SPECTRA; EFFECTIVE CHARGE; INTERACTIONS; ION BEAMS; LASERS; MEV RANGE 10-100; NUCLEONS; PARABOLAS; PLATES; SPECTROMETERS

Citation Formats

Gwynne, D., Kar, S., E-mail: s.kar@qub.ac.uk, Doria, D., Ahmed, H., Hanton, F., Cerchez, M., Swantusch, M., Willi, O., Fernandez, J., Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, Gray, R. J., MacLellan, D. A., McKenna, P., Green, J. S., Neely, D., Najmudin, Z., Streeter, M., Ruiz, J. A., Schiavi, A., Zepf, M., Helmholtz Institut Jena, D-07743 Jena, Borghesi, M., and Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project, Na Slovance 2, 18221 Prague. Modified Thomson spectrometer design for high energy, multi-species ion sources. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4866021.
Gwynne, D., Kar, S., E-mail: s.kar@qub.ac.uk, Doria, D., Ahmed, H., Hanton, F., Cerchez, M., Swantusch, M., Willi, O., Fernandez, J., Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, Gray, R. J., MacLellan, D. A., McKenna, P., Green, J. S., Neely, D., Najmudin, Z., Streeter, M., Ruiz, J. A., Schiavi, A., Zepf, M., Helmholtz Institut Jena, D-07743 Jena, Borghesi, M., & Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project, Na Slovance 2, 18221 Prague. Modified Thomson spectrometer design for high energy, multi-species ion sources. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4866021
Gwynne, D., Kar, S., E-mail: s.kar@qub.ac.uk, Doria, D., Ahmed, H., Hanton, F., Cerchez, M., Swantusch, M., Willi, O., Fernandez, J., Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, Gray, R. J., MacLellan, D. A., McKenna, P., Green, J. S., Neely, D., Najmudin, Z., Streeter, M., Ruiz, J. A., Schiavi, A., Zepf, M., Helmholtz Institut Jena, D-07743 Jena, Borghesi, M., and Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project, Na Slovance 2, 18221 Prague. 2014. "Modified Thomson spectrometer design for high energy, multi-species ion sources". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4866021.
@article{osti_22254993,
title = {Modified Thomson spectrometer design for high energy, multi-species ion sources},
author = {Gwynne, D. and Kar, S., E-mail: s.kar@qub.ac.uk and Doria, D. and Ahmed, H. and Hanton, F. and Cerchez, M. and Swantusch, M. and Willi, O. and Fernandez, J. and Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX and Gray, R. J. and MacLellan, D. A. and McKenna, P. and Green, J. S. and Neely, D. and Najmudin, Z. and Streeter, M. and Ruiz, J. A. and Schiavi, A. and Zepf, M. and Helmholtz Institut Jena, D-07743 Jena and Borghesi, M. and Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project, Na Slovance 2, 18221 Prague},
abstractNote = {A modification to the standard Thomson parabola spectrometer is discussed, which is designed to measure high energy (tens of MeV/nucleon), broad bandwidth spectra of multi-species ions accelerated by intense laser plasma interactions. It is proposed to implement a pair of extended, trapezoidal shaped electric plates, which will not only resolve ion traces at high energies, but will also retain the lower energy part of the spectrum. While a longer (along the axis of the undeflected ion beam direction) electric plate design provides effective charge state separation at the high energy end of the spectrum, the proposed new trapezoidal shape will enable the low energy ions to reach the detector, which would have been clipped or blocked by simply extending the rectangular plates to enhance the electrostatic deflection.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4866021},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22254993}, journal = {Review of Scientific Instruments},
issn = {0034-6748},
number = 3,
volume = 85,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}