A Test Stand for Ion Sources of Ultimate Reliability
- Fundacion Tekniker-IK4, Eibar (Spain)
- University of the Basque Country, Dpt. Electricity and Electronics, Leioa, Spain, and Consejo Superior de Investgaciones Cientificas, Inst. Estructura de la Materia (Spain)
- Elytt Energy, Portugalete (Spain)
- Jema Group, Lasarte (Spain)
- ISIS Accelerator Division, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot (United Kingdom)
- Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge (United States)
The rationale behind the ITUR project is to perform a comparison between different kinds of H{sup -} ion sources using the same beam diagnostics setup. In particular, a direct comparison will be made in terms of the emittance characteristics of Penning Type sources such as those currently in use in the injector for the ISIS (UK) Pulsed Neutron Source and those of volumetric type such as that driving the injector for the ORNL Spallation Neutron Source (TN, U.S.A.). The endeavour here pursued is thus to build an Ion Source Test Stand where virtually any type of source can be tested and its features measured and, thus compared to the results of other sources under the same gauge. It would be possible then to establish a common ground for effectively comparing different ion sources. The long term objectives are thus to contribute towards building compact sources of minimum emittance, maximum performance, high reliability-availability, high percentage of desired particle production, stability and high brightness. The project consortium is lead by Tekniker-IK4 research centre and partners are companies Elytt Energy and Jema Group. The technical viability is guaranteed by the collaboration between the project consortium and several scientific institutions, such the CSIC (Spain), the University of the Basque Country (Spain), ISIS (STFC-UK), SNS (ORNL-USA) and CEA in Saclay (France)
- OSTI ID:
- 21269131
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1097, Issue 1; Conference: 1. international symposium on negative ions, beams and sources, Aix-en-Provence (France), 9-12 Sep 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3112545; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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