Background The control system for ion source is based on distributed architecture.The hardware structure,working principle,interlock design and graphics interface design are introduced and stated in this paper.Purpose...Background The control system for ion source is based on distributed architecture.The hardware structure,working principle,interlock design and graphics interface design are introduced and stated in this paper.Purpose To improve the accuracy and usability of the electron cyclotron resonance ion source with advanced design for HIMM.Methods The data acquisition system is based on PLC and FPGA integrated circuit.Interlock protection is designed for vacuum system,power supplies system and cooling water system.Results The control system is tested with C5+ion beam,where fast reaction time and high-precision data processing during beam tuning have verified the stability and maintainability of the control system.Conclusion The latest results and the reliable long-term operation of the accelerator demonstrate that the performance has been continually improved with the development of the optimized control system.展开更多
As clearly demonstrated at several laboratories,the performances of electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR)ion sources can be enhanced by increasing the physical sizes(volumes)of embedded ECR zones.En- larged ECR zones hav...As clearly demonstrated at several laboratories,the performances of electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR)ion sources can be enhanced by increasing the physical sizes(volumes)of embedded ECR zones.En- larged ECR zones have been achieved by engineering the central magnetic field region of these sources so they are uniformly-distributed"volumes"in resonance with single-frequency rf power.Alternatively,the number of ECR surfaces in conventional minimum-B geometry sources can be increased by heating their plasmas with multiple,discrete frequency microwave radiation.Broadband rf power offers a simple,low cost and arguably more effective means for increasing the physical sizes of the ECR zones within the latter source type.In this article,theoretical arguments are made in support of the volume effect and the charge-state enhancing ef- fects of broadband microwave radiation(bandwidth:200MHz)plasma heating are demonstrated by comparing the high-charge-states of Ar ion beams,produced by powering a conventional minimum-B geometry,6.4GHz ECR ion source,equipped with a biased disk,with those produced by conventional bandwidth(bandwidth:～1.5MHz)radiation.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U1632141).
文摘Background The control system for ion source is based on distributed architecture.The hardware structure,working principle,interlock design and graphics interface design are introduced and stated in this paper.Purpose To improve the accuracy and usability of the electron cyclotron resonance ion source with advanced design for HIMM.Methods The data acquisition system is based on PLC and FPGA integrated circuit.Interlock protection is designed for vacuum system,power supplies system and cooling water system.Results The control system is tested with C5+ion beam,where fast reaction time and high-precision data processing during beam tuning have verified the stability and maintainability of the control system.Conclusion The latest results and the reliable long-term operation of the accelerator demonstrate that the performance has been continually improved with the development of the optimized control system.
基金Supported by the U.S.Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle,LLC
文摘As clearly demonstrated at several laboratories,the performances of electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR)ion sources can be enhanced by increasing the physical sizes(volumes)of embedded ECR zones.En- larged ECR zones have been achieved by engineering the central magnetic field region of these sources so they are uniformly-distributed"volumes"in resonance with single-frequency rf power.Alternatively,the number of ECR surfaces in conventional minimum-B geometry sources can be increased by heating their plasmas with multiple,discrete frequency microwave radiation.Broadband rf power offers a simple,low cost and arguably more effective means for increasing the physical sizes of the ECR zones within the latter source type.In this article,theoretical arguments are made in support of the volume effect and the charge-state enhancing ef- fects of broadband microwave radiation(bandwidth:200MHz)plasma heating are demonstrated by comparing the high-charge-states of Ar ion beams,produced by powering a conventional minimum-B geometry,6.4GHz ECR ion source,equipped with a biased disk,with those produced by conventional bandwidth(bandwidth:～1.5MHz)radiation.
