Efficient focusing, bunching, and acceleration of high current heavy ion beams at low energy

Abstract

The efficient focusing, bunching and acceleration of high current, low energy heavy ion beams in an RFQ accelerator have been investigated. The considerations on the choice of the working frequency for increasing the beam current are introduced. Designed using an unconventional procedure, this 20 emA RFQ will be able to work with A/q≤ 60 ion beams in the β range of 0.002–0.016. The beam dynamics simulation shows that the design fulfills all requirements with good beam quality and a compact structure.