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The possibility of generating dense multicharged ion beams with a current density as high as ∼1 A/cm2 from an ECR plasma confined in a quasi-gas-dynamic cusp trap is studied both theoretically and experimentally. The most important advantages of this type of ion source are that the plasma in the cusp is stabile against MHD perturbations and that a trap intended to operate at fairly high pump-field frequencies (above 30 GHz) is relatively inexpensive. A theoretical model of confinement of a high-density nonequilibrium ECR plasma (T e ≫ T i ) in an open magnetic trap is proposed and results are presented from model experiments with an ∼30-cm-long cusp trap (here, by the cusp length is meant the volume of a paraxial magnetic tube divided by the area of its cross sections in magnetic mirrors) pumped by a pulsed microwave field with a frequency of 37.5 GHz and power of 100 kW. The possibility of achieving a quasi-gas-dynamic regime of plasma confinement of an ECR plasma in a cusp trap is demonstrated. Ion beams with a average ion charge number of 2–4 (depending on the sort of working gas) and current densities unprecedented for ECR sources are obtained. Good agreement between theoretical and experimental results makes it possible to reliably predict the ion beam parameters that can be achieved at even higher microwave frequencies.
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Original Russian Text © A.F. Bokhanov, V.G. Zorin, I.V. Izotov, S.V. Razin, A.V. Sidorov, V.A. Skalyga, 2007, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 387–396.
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Bokhanov, A.F., Zorin, V.G., Izotov, I.V. et al. Generation of dense multicharged ion flows from an ECR plasma confined in a quasi-gas-dynamic magnetic cusp trap. Plasma Phys. Rep. 33, 347–355 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X07050017
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