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Liangting Sun (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)28/09/2026, 09:00Contributed Oral Presentation
As the first demonstration ion source of the fourth generation, the FECR (First Fourth-Generation ECR Ion Source) has been developed and utilized for the production of highly charged ion beams since July 2024. It now serves as the primary injector ion source for the Low‑Energy intense‑highly‑charged ion Accelerator Facility (LEAF), which entered routine operation in 2025. To date, FECR has...
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Luigi Celona (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)28/09/2026, 09:30Contributed Oral Presentation
The evolution of ECR ion sources is driven by the demand for higher charge states, beam intensities and reliability, requiring advances in plasma physics, microwave engineering and superconducting technologies. To support these developments, INFN-LNS is building two research infrastructures: TELAMONES and PANDORA. TELAMONES will host an AISHA source operating at 18 and 21 GHz for beam...
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Fabio Maimone (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)28/09/2026, 10:00Contributed Oral Presentation
To address the increasing demand from the facility and its user community for high-duty-cycle ion beams, the development of a continuous-wave (CW) linear accelerator (LINAC) is foreseen in the coming years. The corresponding injector is designed to deliver ion beams with mass to charge ratios up to 6 in CW operation and up to 8.5 in pulsed mode, with beam intensities exceeding those currently...
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ShiXiang Peng (Peking University)28/09/2026, 11:00Contributed Oral Presentation
Positive Ion Mass Spectrometry (PIMS) represents an advanced methodology for radiocarbon dating, operating on principles distinct from those of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS). Current research mainly focuses on the miniaturization carbon ion source and high charge exchanging cell for a prototype PIMS system. At Peking University (PKU), several PIMS-related experiments have recently...
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H.I. Park (Texas A&M University)28/09/2026, 11:30Contributed Oral Presentation
An upgrade of the magnetic field profile of the Texas A&M 14.5 GHz electron cyclotron resonance ion source, ECR2, is underway, guided by well-established magnetic-field scaling rules. The axial magnetic field at the injection end has been increased by installation of a modified lower-carbon steel plug and replacement of the aluminum biased disk with a steel one. The radial field is being...
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Jake McLain (Argonne National Laboratory)28/09/2026, 12:00Contributed Oral Presentation
The Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) continues to receive requests for increasing beam intensities, energies, species, and time on target. Over the past few years, most of the ion beams delivered to experiments have been produced by the two ATLAS Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources (ECRIS), ECR2 and ECR3. While demands increase, the ATLAS team continues to make improvements...
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Tengming Shen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)28/09/2026, 14:00Contributed Oral Presentation
Superconducting electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources are in operation around the world for heavy ion accelerators. These sources rely on magnets wound using Nb-Ti conductors. Due to its higher magnetic field limits, Nb3Sn conductors can result in a magnet providing stronger magnetic fields to enable higher intensity high charge beams. In this context, LBNL is collaborating with the...
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Marco Antonio Ortiz Villicaña (Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas "Francisco García Salinas")28/09/2026, 14:30Contributed Oral Presentation
Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources (ECRIS) are devices capable to provide a constant flow of ions at high currents. The ions extracted from the ECRIS can be used in material doping applications. In this paper, we present the design of an ECRIS magnetic system for graphene doping. The design is based in the use of Cable-In-Conduit superconducting cable and a superferric sextupole. This...
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12. Ultracompact Low-Power ECR Sources: Bridging Micro-Scale Plasma and Industrial Beam ApplicationsJerome Vernieres (Cameca (France))28/09/2026, 15:00Contributed Oral Presentation
Recent developments at CAMECA build on the pioneering work of P. Sortais on ultracompact Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) micro-sources, extended into the TES (Tubular ECR Sources) family. These devices rely on microwave-driven micro-cavity discharges operating at very low power (~1 W), defining a regime that departs from conventional ECR sources requiring tens to hundreds of watts.
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Olli Tarvainen (Science and Technology Facilities Council)28/09/2026, 15:30Contributed Oral Presentation
CUBE-ECRIS is a permanent magnet prototype ion source operating at 11 GHz frequency. It was constructed to (1) study the electron heating and the stability of the plasma in a minimum-B quadrupole magnetic field topology, (2) demonstrate high-charge state ion production and beam transport from the quadrupole field through an extraction slit, and (3) support the development of a net-zero...
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Shunsuke Ikeda (Brookhaven National Laboratory)29/09/2026, 09:00Contributed Oral Presentation
A hydrogen molecular ion ECR ion source is being developed to provide proton beams to the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In the past, proton beams at NSRL were supplied by the 200 MeV LINAC or the Tandem accelerator. However, NSRL has requested the capability to deliver protons from the EBIS beam line as well, in order to achieve simpler and more...
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ShiXiang Peng (Peking University)29/09/2026, 09:30Contributed Oral Presentation
Recently attention was paid to produce high current high fraction DC H2+, H3+ generation with PKU (Peking University) Type Miniaturized 2.45 GHz Microwave Driven Ion Source (MMDIS) atour ion source group. A 22 mA DC H2+ ion beam with its fraction of 70% was obtained last year [1]. This data was updated to 24 mA newly. To overcome space charge effect, activation and Lorentz stripping limits...
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Liangyi Chen (Nusano)29/09/2026, 10:00Contributed Oral Presentation
The deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion reaction has long been of interest to the field of nuclear physics. Existing research involving bombarding a deuterium-loaded target with incident deuteron beam has characterized how the D-D reaction cross section depends on incident beam energy, but the tens-of-keV range remains comparatively unexplored. Using the Nusano ion source, the D-D reaction over...
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Guillaume Machicoane (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)29/09/2026, 11:00Contributed Oral Presentation
This paper review solid beam operations from the Superconducting ECR ion source at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University. FRIB delivers beams for nuclear physics experiment after acceleration through a superconducting linac. The current beam list is composed of 25 different isotopes out of which two third are solid elements. This list will continue to expand...
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Benoît gall (Université de Strasbourg)29/09/2026, 11:30Contributed Oral Presentation
Development of Intense 50Ti, 51V and 54Cr Metallic beams, from MIVOC to HT Ovens
B. Gall, Z Asfari, L Charbonnière, C Charpentier and M Filliger,
Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, 67037 Strasbourg, France
The 48Ca beams associated to the heaviest actinide targets available enabled the discovery of the heaviest superheavy elements (SHE) known up to oganesson. Search for...
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Andrea Cernuschi (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Grenoble Alpes)29/09/2026, 14:00Contributed Oral Presentation
This study reports the results of kinetic plasma simulations of the Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Plasma Accelerator (ECRIPAC). ECRIPAC* is an original compact plasma accelerator capable of producing high-energy pulsed ion beams by leveraging established and reliable ECR ion source technologies, without the need for axial radiofrequency cavities or high-power laser systems. The concept is...
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Thomas Thuillier (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)29/09/2026, 14:30Contributed Oral Presentation
The Debye length in an ECRIS plasma can be as low as tens of micrometers while the confining plasma chambers are tens of centimeters in extent. Resolving the Debye length when solving the Poisson equation on a mesh inside these chambers requires an extremely fine mesh density, requiring large amounts of computer memory and resulting in long solution times. Methods to reduce the mathematical...
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Alexis Ribet (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds)29/09/2026, 15:00Contributed Oral Presentation
Non-interceptive online diagnostics are essential for monitoring ion sources, particularly during physics experiments. Optical emission spectroscopy, already used in other laboratories, has been deployed at GANIL. The light emitted by the plasma is captured by a CCD camera placed behind a glass window aligned with the ion source and by an optical fiber connected to an optical spectrometer...
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Bianca Peri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)29/09/2026, 15:30Contributed Oral Presentation
The PANDORA (Plasmas for Astrophysics, Nuclear decay Observation and Radiation for Archaeometry) project features magnetized plasmas in compact ECR traps as experimental environments for fundamental astrophysics and nuclear physics. A new algorithm for X-ray imaging in Single-Photon Counting mode was adopted, enabling space-resolved spectroscopy for magneto plasma properties investigations...
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Thomas Andre (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
High-frequency ECR ion sources are of paramount importance for high-power accelerators, as they provide the high-intensity ion beams required for nuclear physics experiments.
For several years, LPSC has been developing and refining a 60 GHz ECR ion source. Following the decommissioning of the SEISM source (Sixty-gigahertz Ion Source using Megawatt magnets), which relied on resistive copper...
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Jeongil Heo (Institute for Basic Science)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
RAON (Rare isotope Accelerator complex for ON-line experiments) is a heavy-ion accelerator facility constructed through the Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) to support rare-isotope science in Korea. Since 2024, RAON has delivered stable-isotope beams, including Ar, O, and Ne, using a 14.5 GHz Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source (ECRIS) for user experiments. Recently, rare-isotope beam...
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Dr Eunhun Im (Institute for Basic Science)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
RAON is a heavy-ion accelerator facility at the Institute for Basic Science, designed to provide high-intensity ion beams with a maximum beam power of up to 400 kW. Currently, various ion beams, such as Ar and Ne, are delivered using a 14.5 GHz electron cyclotron resonance ion source. To meet future beam requirements, a 28 GHz ECR ion source is being prepared at RAON. The ion source consists...
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Sangyoon Bae (Institute for Basic Science)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
A 4 kW continuous-wave (CW) LDMOS-based solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) has been developed for the low-energy superconducting linear accelerator (SCL3) at the IBS heavy-ion accelerator facility. The system provides RF power to 81.25 MHz quarter-wave resonators (QWRs) and 162.5 MHz half-wave resonators (HWRs). The amplifier features a modular parallel architecture comprising six 1000 W PA...
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Lianrong Xu29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
The 3rd-generation ECR Ion Sources, constructed with Nb-Ti superconducting wires and the conventional racetrack-and-solenoid structure, have been successfully operated for over two decades, achieving operating frequencies up to 28 GHz and utilizing about 90% of the critical current of the Nb-Ti wire. A Mixed Axial and Radial field System (MARS) ECRIS is being developed at LBNL. This system,...
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Christopher Griffin (TRIUMF)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion sources have been a cornerstone of ion beam production at TRIUMF for many years. ECR ion sources support a broad range of research programs through the delivery of a diverse suite of stable isotope beams from the “Supernanogan” at the Off-Line Ion Sources (OLIS) facility, and through the Charge State Booster (CSB) which promotes radioactive ion beams...
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Nicolas Savard (Columbia College)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
Ion source extraction modelling is commonly performed using IBSIMU, which couples non-linear sheath equations with a Poisson solver and self-consistently includes particle space charge. This approach has been widely applied using measured or fitted plasma parameters. In some ion sources, the extraction lens uses of boron nitride (BN) liners, which can enhance plasma density through electron...
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Nishi Intwala (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
Third-generation electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources utilize superconducting magnets to achieve the enhanced plasma confinement necessary to produce intense, highly-charged ion beams. However, since plasma density increases proportionally with the square of resonance frequency, the higher radiofrequency (RF) and higher power used to heat the plasma produce a greater number of very...
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Tim Winkelmann (Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Centre)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
Since the start of clinical operation in 2009, more than 10,000 patients have been treated at HIT with proton, carbon, and helium ion beams. Three Supernanogan ECR ion sources are operated for routine clinical beam delivery.
A fourth Supernanogan ECR ion source is available at the HIT test bench for studies on source optimization and injector development. As part of an ongoing measurement...
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Antoine Breteaux (École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
LUTEX (Ligne pour UTilisateurs EXternes) is a high performance irradiation facility providing the world’s largest testing area (400 × 700 $mm^2$). It delivers light-ion beams with very high fluxes at 300 keV/u (∼5000km/s) for H+ up to 4×$10^{9}$ protons/$cm^2$/s. This enables rapid reproduction of extreme exposure conditions and allows for short time qualification of a material lifetime. For...
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Michel Kireeff Covo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
The Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion sources at the 88-Inch Cyclotron have integrated several established microwave technologies to meet increasing plasma-heating requirements. This work reviews the vacuum electron devices employed at the facility, including klystrons, traveling-wave tubes, and gyrotrons for ECR plasma heating. Although solid-state amplifiers continue to advance, vacuum...
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Thomas Andre (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
SEISM (Sixty-gigahertz Ion Source using Megawatt magnets) is a 60 GHz electron-cyclotron-resonance ion source that achieved in 2014 a record pulsed multicharged-ion current density of about 1 A/cm$^{2}$. Operation resumed in 2021 after upgrades to the beam line, and several experimental campaigns were performed to reproduce the conditions that previously enabled such high extracted...
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Alexander Katrusiak (TRIUMF)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
Automated tuning is an area of active development at Rare Isotope Beam (RIB) facilities worldwide. Machine development tests at TRIUMF's ISAC (Isotope Separator and ACcelerator) facility have shown that automation can be achieved using combinations of simulation and machine learning models, categorizing tuning elements into those modeled by physics simulations and those addressing unknown...
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Haoyu Cheng (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
At the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), inductively heated High Temperature Ovens (HTOs) have been developed to provide stable and reliable production of solid ion beams from the High-Power Electron Cyclotron Resonance (HPECR) ion source. Building upon previously reported HTO developments, recent efforts have focused on supporting future FRIB operations with increased beam power and on...
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Laurenz Birnbaum (Appalachian State University)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's (SAO) Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) traps highly charged ions for astrophysical spectroscopy. Elements are injected as neutral gas or singly charged ions via a Metal Vapor Vacuum Arc (MeVVA) source, then successively ionized by a dense, quasi-monoenergetic electron beam. At high beam currents, the beam's space charge draws MeVVA ions into the EBIT's...
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Carmelo Sebastiano Gallo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
This work reports a numerical investigation of the efficiency of an ECR-based charge breeder as a function of injected beam parameters. Combining particle-tracking with a realistic plasma-target model, simulations evaluate the effects of transverse emittance and longitudinal energy spread on the optimum injection conditions and the consequent breeding efficiency. The simulations use the...
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Richard Vondrasek (Argonne National Laboratory)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
Preparations are underway for the upgrade of the ECR2 ion source at the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) to enhance its beam capabilities. The upgrade incorporates a higher wall field hexapole, optimized iron shaping and materials, and higher solenoid operating currents to support 18 GHz RF heating. The components of the permanent magnet hexapole have been received, and...
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Moenir Sakieldien (iThemba LABS)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
The UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences (LABS) have developed an optical emission diagnostic system for monitoring ion sources. A particular interest in this work is probing the stability of the plasma of an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source (ECRIS) non-invasively. The newly developed diagnostic system, based on...
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Ambra Morana (Pantechnik)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
This paper presents the technical improvements, and experimental characterization of an 18 GHz Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source (ECRIS) manufactured by Pantechnik. The source has undergone significant upgrades to enhance its performance and reliability for heavy ion beam production.
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Rustam Berezov (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
The new project, based on a reversed HITRAP (Highly charged Ion Trap) facility to a PARTIH (PARTicle Injector Hitrap), will provide the first ion beam for the commissioning of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) and at the same time deliver a sufficient beam intensity of carbon ions to meet some basic experimental requirements already in 2027. To achieve this, accelerator...
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frederic LEMAGNEN (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds)29/09/2026, 16:00Poster Presentation
GANIL has been producing many stable beams for nearly 40 years. Constant progress has been made in terms of intensity, stability and reliability. The intensity for some stable metallic beams now exceeds or approaches the pµA level at an energy up to 95 MeV/u: Since 2019, the beam times available on the cyclotron accelerators have been reduced in favour of the commissioning of the SPIRAL2...
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Manjinder Oueslati (Indiana University Bloomington)30/09/2026, 09:10Contributed Oral Presentation
Project 8, a neutrino mass experiment, employs the novel frequency technique of cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (CRES) to perform a model independent measurement of neutrino mass via tritium beta decay. Our pioneering experiment will consist of an atomic tritium beamline that dissociates molecular tritium, surface cools atoms with an accommodator, evaporatively cools and slows atoms,...
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Romain BELLET (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Osmos X)30/09/2026, 09:40Contributed Oral Presentation
Electric Propulsion (EP) is a type of space propulsion that can reduce the cost of orbital service. There are different types of electric thruster*, including ECR Electrostatic Thruster (ECRET), which uses ECR to generate plasma. Ions are then accelerated in outer space by electric force to develop the thrust: $T=\dot{m}v$, where $\dot{m}$ and $v$ are the ion flow rate and their exhaust...
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Andrew Cooper (Los Alamos National Laboratory)30/09/2026, 10:10Contributed Oral Presentation
At the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), we are pursuing the capability to directly measure neutron reaction cross sections on unstable isotopes and improve our predictive modeling abilities for mission science and nuclear astrophysics. A Neutron Target Facility (NTF) will address these nuclear data needs. The NTF will employ a radioactive ion beam storage ring coupled to a thermal...
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Lixuan Li (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)30/09/2026, 11:10Contributed Oral Presentation
The production of mA-level high-intensity, highly charged pulsed ion beams is a key technology for the development of advanced heavy-ion synchrotrons. By utilizing the afterglow mode of an ECR ion source (ECRIS), pulsed ion beams can be produced with peak intensities several times higher than those in the conventional continuous-wave (CW) mode, and the application of a pulsed biased disk...
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30/09/2026, 11:47Contributed Oral Presentation
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Xinyu Wang (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)30/09/2026, 11:54Contributed Oral Presentation
Microwave heating efficiency is a pivotal factor in improving electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS) performance. Recently, Vlasov launchers have been applied in third-generation ECRISs and have yielded significant performance enhancements; however, the underlying physical mechanisms remain to be fully understood. In this study, we developed a plasma dynamics simulation model to...
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Ruoyu Fang (Nusano)01/10/2026, 09:00Contributed Oral Presentation
Nusano’s proprietary electron cyclotron resonance ion source has been commissioned with a magnetic Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) system operating at an extraction voltage of up to 60 kV. The LEBT has been used to diagnose, characterize, transport, and tune the beam extracted from the ion source. Initial results from deuteron beam operation will be presented, including measured beam...
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Jessica Rehak (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)01/10/2026, 09:30Contributed Oral Presentation
An essential part of electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source optimization and operation is the analysis of extracted ion beams. Reliable and accurate beam line analysis of the multi-species ion beam provides a vital indicator of ECR operation. In this work, we present new developments and improvements to beam line diagnostic tools developed for the VENUS ion source at Lawrence Berkeley...
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Luciano Silvestri (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)01/10/2026, 10:00Contributed Oral Presentation
This contribution presents initial efforts towards a machine-learning framework for estimating latent ECR source states from operational data collected at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). The approach combines time-series measurements from source controls, beam transport elements, and current diagnostics to infer hidden variables associated with plasma conditions, ion production,...
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Damon Todd (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)01/10/2026, 10:30Contributed Oral Presentation
There is agreement in the field that highly-charged ions are more prevalent on axis in an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source. Since the net radial diffusion is outward, it would seem to follow that injecting material into the ECR plasma (especially expensive, low-abundance material) nearer the axis would be advantageous. In this paper we give a progress report on our attempts and...
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