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Title: Integration of RFQ beam coolers and solenoidal magnetic fields

Journal Article · · Review of Scientific Instruments
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934637· OSTI ID:22482993
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  1. INFN-LNL, viale dell’Universitá n.2, 35020 Legnaro (PD) (Italy)
  2. INFN-Sezione di Milano and Physics Department, University of Milano, Milano (Italy)

Electromagnetic traps are a flexible and powerful method of controlling particle beams, possibly of exotic nuclei, with cooling (of energy spread and transverse oscillations) provided by collisions with light gases as in the Radio Frequency Quadrupole Cooler (RFQC). A RFQC prototype can be placed inside the existing Eltrap solenoid, capable of providing a magnetic flux density component B{sub z} up to 0.2 T, where z is the solenoid axis. Confinement in the transverse plane is provided both by B{sub z} and the rf voltage V{sub rf} (up to 1 kV at few MHz). Transport is provided by a static electric field E{sub z} (order of 100 V/m), while gas collisions (say He at 1 Pa, to be maintained by differential pumping) provide cooling or heating depending on V{sub rf}. The beamline design and the major parameters V{sub rf}, B{sub z} (which affect the beam transmission optimization) are here reported, with a brief description of the experimental setup.

OSTI ID:
22482993
Journal Information:
Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 87, Issue 2; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0034-6748
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English