ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
A 2.45 GHz compact National Institute of Radiological Sciences electron cyclotron resonance (NIRS-ECR) ion source has been developed for heavy ion medical accelerator in Chiba at NIRS. A new ECR source is expected to produce C2+ ions of more than 160 eμA for the high-energy heavy-ion cancer treatment. An ECR-type ion source is adopted because of its excellent characteristics of long lifetime and easy operation. The compact ECR ion source is 15 cm in diameter, 20 cm in length, and about 20 kg in weight. A set of permanent magnets was adopted to generate both the axial mirror and the radial sextupole fields. Several gas materials, He, CO2, CH4, N2, and Ne, have been tested. The present performance for C2+ ions, however, is 15 eμA and far below the medical requirements. The estimated vacuum in the plasma chamber is around 5.0×10−5 Torr. A much better vacuum pressure is desired to produce C2+ ions of more than 100 eμA. The ECR plasma, however, cannot be kept stable under such a high vacuum pressure. As another method to get the stable plasma, the different microwave injection was tested with a microwave antenna. © 1998 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1148637
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