Development of a Pepper Pot probe to measure the Four-dimensional emittance of low energy beam of electron cyclotron resonance ion source at IMP

Abstract

The ion beams extracted from an Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion source always exist strong transverse coupling effect that is caused by the field of the axis mirror magnets and the extraction solenoid. In order to obtain the four-dimensional (4D) characteristic matrix with coupling elements, a Pepper Pot probe was developed and used to obtain the full 4D transverse phase space distribution of the low energy beam extracted from the ECR ion source at IMP. This paper describes the detailed design and image processing procedure of Pepper Pot probe, especially the analysis results verification compared to another type emittance meter. The first 4D transverse phase space distribution measurement data of oxygen beams from the LECR4 experimental platform are presented and discussed.