Diagnostic of the compensation process of ion beams with a time-resolving ion energy spectrometer

A. Jakob, K. Reidelbach, J. Pozimski, R. Dolling, H. Klein
Proceedings of the 1997 Particle Accelerator Conference (Cat. No.97CH36167)  
Space-charge compensated high-perveance ion beams are of main interest for the injection into RFQ systems. Space-charge compensation enhances the maximum transportable current in low energy beam transport lines which is mainly limited by space-charge forces. The compensation electrons are usually produced by residual gas ionisation. In this case beam pulses reach the final degree of compensation after a certain time. To investigate the compensation processes of a periodically decompensated
more » ... a time-resolving residual gas ion energy spectrometer was developed. Results of measurements and corresponding numerical simulations will be presented.
doi:10.1109/pac.1997.749607 fatcat:2q2bij4vmnachntomh7clq46sm