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This study presents the current advancement on our investigation of the Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Plasma Accelerator (ECRIPAC), revisiting and greatly expanding this original accelerator concept initially developed in the nineties*. ECRIPAC is an innovative compact plasma device able to generate energetic pulsed ion beams using robust and well mastered electron cyclotron resonance ion source technologies, without requirements for axial RF cavities or powerful laser beams. It relies on the gyromagnetic auto-resonance of plasma electrons in a time growing magnetic field**, followed by the axial acceleration of ions through the plasma space-charge field inside a magnetic field gradient, up to energies close to 100 MeV/A.
The theoretical behaviour of ECRIPAC is summarized. Some preliminary results of kinetic plasma simulations inside a preliminary design of an ECRIPAC machine able to accelerate He2+ ions up to approximately 10 MeV/A are presented. Two sets of simulations are considered, one working with a cylindrical geometry and azimuthal mode decomposition in the open-source code Smilei*** and the other using a 3D geometry in the open-source code WarpX****, providing interesting insights on the plasma behaviour inside the accelerator.
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**J.-L. Vay et al., WarpX: An advanced Particle-In-Cell code. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4571577, https://blast-warpx.github.io (2018)
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