ARC-ECRIS explained

ARC-ECRIS is an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source (ECRIS) based on arc-shaped coils unlike the conventional^[1] ECRIS which bases on a multipole magnet (usually a hexapole magnet) inside a solenoid magnet.^[2]

First time the arc-shaped coils were used already in the 1960s in fusion experiments, for example at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (MFTF, Baseball II,^[3] ...) and later in Japan (GAMMA10, ...).

In 2006 the JYFL ion source group^[4] designed, constructed and tested similar plasma trap to produce highly charged heavy ion beams. The first tests were promising and showed that a stable plasma can be confined in an arc-coil magnetic field structure (see references).

External links

• YouTube video of a conventional ECRIS plasma (hexapolar magnetic field)

Notes and References

1. Book: R. Geller . Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources and ECR Plasmas . . 1996 . 978-0-7503-0107-7.
2. P. Suominen, T. Ropponen and H. Koivisto . First results with the yin-yang type electron cyclotron resonance ion source . . 10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.324 . 578 . 2 . 370–378 . 2007. 2007NIMPA.578..370S .
3. On the frontier of missile defense technology . Newsline . 27 . 20 . 3 . 2002 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100528041551/https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/employee/articles/2002/05.17.02-newsline.pdf . 2010-05-28 .
4. Web site: JYFL Ion Source Group . 2009-06-02.