用于放射性束流的RFQ冷却聚束器

简要概述RFQ冷却聚束器的基本原理, 并给出了利用SIMION程序模拟的部分结果. 设计中的RFQ冷却聚束器与国际上其它同类设备相比, 具有特征半径大、入射粒子的允许能量上限值高和氦气气压高的特点, 因此本文最后对需要克服的困难作了一个简要的阐述.     

RFQ冷却聚束器

简要介绍了RFQ冷却聚束器的基本原理, 并对设计中的RFQ冷却聚束器的特点和利用SIMION程序进行模拟的初步结果进行了讨论.The principle of RFQ (Radiofrequency Quadrupole) cooler and buncher is briefly introduced. The characteristics of the being designed RFQ cooler and buncher and the preliminary results simulated by using the SIMION code are discussed.     

高压击穿现象的实验研究和对RFQ冷却聚束器RFQ1L的模拟

RFQ冷却聚束器RFQ1L是正在研制的超重核研究谱仪的一个关键部分. 为了感性认识气体的高压击穿现象, 对电极间能够承受的电压进行了实验测试. 另外, 根据现有已知条件, 重新详细模拟了离子在RFQ1L中的冷却和存储情况, 为RFQ1L实际工作点的选择提供了很好的理论依据.     

RFQ1L系统压升率的理论与实验研究

简单阐述了RFQ冷却聚束器对缓冲气体的要求, 从理论和实验两方面详细研究了RFQ1L系统的压升率。 研究表明, RFQ1L系统压升率的主要来源是真空室内材料表面的出气, 整个系统的压升率实测为（0.04±0.02） Pa/h。     

超重核研究谱仪的RFQ冷却聚束器RFQ1L

介绍了超重核研究谱仪中RFQ冷却聚束器RFQ1L的结构和运用SIMION程序对离子的冷却、聚束、引出和撇气过程的模拟情况。 模拟显示: 通过仔细选择工作点就完全可以把经过充气反冲质量分离器分离后的低品质束流转化为斑点小、发射度小和能量单一的高品质束流, 为紧接其后的磁铁和激光高效率分析提供条件。The structure and the simulation results about the cooling,bunching,extraction and skimming of the RFQ cooler and buncher RFQ1L, which is an important part of the being built super heavy nuclide research spectrometer, have been introduced. It shows that, by careful choice of its working point, we can obtain an ion beam with small beam spot, small emittance and mono energy, which can satisfy the requirements of the successive analyses by dipole and laser with high efficiencies.     

RFQ冷却聚束器研究简介

详细论述了RFQ冷却聚束器相关的基本原理,简单介绍了国际上此方面的研究和我们的工作。The radiofrequency quadrupole （RFQ） cooler and buncher has been developed in many laboratories to improve the secondary radioactive ion beam quality. In this paper, the principles of the RFQ constraint, buffer gas cooling, axial electric field and Paul trap are discussed in detail. The studies around the world and our work are also briefly introduced.     

SFC轴向注入系统和中心区的研究和设计

介绍了在HIRFL注入器SFC上进行的中心区、聚束器系统和轴向注入束运线的设计、加工和调试结果.中心区的设计采用了两种注入半径及相应的两套螺旋式静电偏转镜,解决了高频电压在某些工作区域偏低及三次谐波加速时轴向注入线上空间电荷效应较为严重的问题.新的锯齿波聚束器系统不仅可以提高聚束效率,而且还提出了采用半频聚束模式以提高SFC与主加速器SSC?的纵向匹配效率.新设计的轴向注入束运线配备了两台在线ECR离子源,提高了电荷态分辨能力和注入相空间匹配能力,在提高注入效率的同时还改善了离子源及束运线的工作环境和调束手段.     

SFC的新的轴向注入束流线

为了满足HIRFL-CSR对注入器SFC的束流强度和品种的越来越高的要求, 兰州重离子加速器国家实验室在研制超导ECR离子源的同时, 设计了一个新的SFC的轴向注入束流线. 这个系统可以分别使用现有的常规ECR离子源和新建造的超导ECR离子源, 期望把从C到U的各种离子的能量和束流强度提高到一个新的水平. 这个系统由二极磁铁, 四极透镜, GLASSER透镜, 螺线管, 螺旋形静电偏转器和两台丝网型线性聚束器组成. 在总结现有系统运行经验的基础上,无论在横向还是纵向, 其性能结构都做了必要的改进. 文章给出了新系统的设计思想, 系统的布局结构和束流光学计算结果, 并对进一步提高聚束效率和聚束器的改进设计作了简要的描述. 目前, 系统正在安装中.     

ECR氧离子源及整体分离环RFQ加速器低能输运系统的研制

根据研制分离作用RFQ和升级改造1MeV ISR RFQ的需要,设计了一台ECR 0+离子源及低能输运(LEBT)系统.低能输运系统使用2个静电透镜聚焦柬流,在引出电压22kV时,EBT末端得到6mA以上总脉冲束流、束流归一化均方根发射度为0.127πmm.mrad.束腰可前后移动160mm.     

ECR-SFC轴向注入系统聚束器效率的研究

为了减少目前SFC轴向注入系统中聚束器杂散电场对束流轴向注入效率的影响, 提高新系统中SFC的束流俘获效率, 参考原始设计, 对目前聚束器的电极结构进行了设计改进. 两种情况下的聚束器杂散场对注入效率影响的计算表明, 改进后0B02的聚束效率较目前有较大提高. 同时计算了束流空间电荷效应对聚束效率的影响, 据此对新SFC轴向注入系统中聚束器的位置进行了重新调整.     

Time-differential perturbed angular correlation study of the electric field gradient in Ti2Rh MoSi2-type compound

At KVI the technical structures for the TRIμP facility are nearly all in place. The aim of the project is to use radioactive ions to study fundamental interactions and symmetries. We will measure β-recoil correlations in nuclear β decay. There the V,A structure of the Weak interaction may be violated. The second line of research is the search for a permanent electric dipole moment in Ra, with a magnitude forbidden by the Standard Model. By trapping these radioactive nuclei in atom traps a pure sample that can be manipulated facilitates these searches. The TRIμP facility consists of a production target and magnetic separator on the high energy side and a Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) cooler and buncher on the low energy side. An ion catcher stops the fast product nuclides and transport them into the RFQ cooler. New technological approaches were implemented for several of these devices.     

Improvement of the Applicability, Efficiency, andPrecision of the Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer ISOLTRAP

With the Penning trap mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP, close to 200 nuclides have already been investigated and their masses determined with a typical relative precision of δm/m=10⁻⁷. Recently, ISOLTRAP's beam preparation system was replaced by an RFQ ion beam cooler and buncher. The principle and the characteristics of this new beam preparation system will be presented. It is planned to use ions of various carbon clusters C⁺ _n (n>1) as reference ions for mass measurements. Apart from negligible molecular binding energies, these clusters have masses that are exact multiples of the unified atomic mass unit. This will allow ISOLTRAP to carry out absolute mass measurements as well as to investigate possible mass-dependent systematic errors. The results of tests of the production, transport, and trapping of such carbon clusters will be presented. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

一台2.45GHz强流中子源

A 2.45GHz microwave-driven ion source is being used to provide 40mA of deuterium ion beam (peak current) for an RFQ accelerator as part of a neutron source system.We have also designed a 60kV electrostatic LEBT using computer simulations.In our experiment,we measured the hydrogen and deuterium ion beam currents as functions of discharge power,gas flow,and magnetic field strength.The required beam current was obtained using leas than 700W of net microwave power with a gas flow of less than 1.5sccm.From the rise time data,it was determined that in order to obtain a high percentage of atomic ions in the beam, the beam extraction should start after 1ms of switching on the microwave power.At steady state,the proton fraction was above 90%.     

First results from laser spectroscopy on bunched radioactive beams from the JYFL ion-beam cooler

A new RFQ ion-beam cooler and buncher, installed after the mass-separating magnet of the ion guide isotope separator, IGISOL, JYFL, has dramatically increased the scope of on-line laser spectroscopy at this facility. The device, operated in a bunching mode, has permitted new measurements on short-lived radionuclei in the Ti, Zr and Hf chains at a sensitivity two orders of magnitude greater than that previously achieved. The device has also opened new prospects for laser-based nuclear spectroscopy at the facility, particularly collinear resonance ionisation spectroscopy. Received: 21 March 2002 / Accepted: 16 May 2002 / Published online: 31 October 2002 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: pc@mags.ph.man.ac.uk     

CARIBU: a new facility for the study of neutron-rich isotopes

The Californium Rare Ion Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) to the ATLAS superconducting linac facility is currently being commissioned. It provides low-energy and re-accelerated beams of neutron-rich isotopes obtained from ²⁵²Cf fission. The fission products from a ²⁵²Cf source are stopped in a large high-intensity gas catcher, thermalized and extracted through an RFQ cooler, accelerated to 50 kV and mass separated in a high-resolution separator before being sent to either an ECR charge breeder for post-acceleration through the ATLAS linac or to a low-energy experimental area. This approach gives access to beams of very neutron-rich isotopes, many of which have not been available at low or Coulomb barrier energies previously. These beams provide unique opportunities for measurements along the r-process path. To take advantage of these unique possibility, the reaccelerated beams from CARIBU will be made available at the experimental stations of ATLAS to serve equipment such as Gammasphere, HELIOS and the reaction spectrometers. In addition, the Canadian Penning Trap (CPT) mass spectrometer has been moved to the CARIBU low-energy experimental area and a new injection line has been built. The new injection line consists of a RFQ buncher sitting on a 50 kV high-voltage platform that will accumulate the mass separated 50 kV radioactive beams, cool and extract them as a pulsed beam of 3 keV. This beam can be sent either to a tape station for diagnostics and tuning, or a cryogenic linear trap for preparation before transfer to the high-precision Penning trap where the mass measurements will take place. Initial CARIBU commissioning is proceeding with a 2 mCi source that will be replaced by a 100 mCi source as the commissioning proceeds. Final operation will use a 1 Ci source and attain yield in excess of 10⁷ ions/sec for the most intense beams at low energy, an order of magnitude less for reaccelerated beams.