An electrostatic decelerator system capable of bringing to rest a continuous 60 keV DC ion-beam was developed and tested as to its suitability as the first part of a high-performance RFQ buffer gas beam cooler. The decelerator is intended to decelerate high-energy ions for injection into an RFQ ion-guide capable of producing bunches of ions at a repetition rate up to 100 Hz. Simulations of the ion motion through the decelerator and into the guide were made to test the design, and the decelerator was then constructed following the parameters used in the simulations. Although problems, such as sparking between the electrode surfaces of the decelerator, prevented it from being operated at potentials high enough to decelerate a 60 keV beam, its implementation proved, as in the simulations, that high-energy ions could indeed be decelerated to energies that would allow for their injection into an RFQ ion-guide by this design.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.98743 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Lambo, Ricardo. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | © Ricardo Lambo, 2005 |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002487162, proquestno: AAIMR24713, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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