10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Progress of polarized ion sources at BNL

WEP070
13 Aug 2025, 16:00
2h
Ballroom A (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Ballroom A

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Poster Presentation MC3 - Novel Particle Sources, Acceleration Techniques, and their Applications Wednesday Poster Session

Speaker

Deepak Raparia (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Description

The OPPIS has undergone multiple upgrades since 2000, with the most recent completed in 2022. Improvements to the Rb and Na cells have reduced vapor dispersion in the beamline, significantly lowering consumption and improving source stability. Plasmatron modifications extended component lifetimes. These upgrades enabled reliable Run-24 operation, with a mean current of 350 μA, 300 μs pulse width, and ~80% polarization delivered at the 200 MeV linac exit.

Development is also underway for a high-intensity (2×10¹¹ ions/pulse) polarized ³He⁺⁺ source for the future EIC. The approach uses metastability-exchange optical pumping of high-purity ³He gas in a strong magnetic field, followed by ionization in EBIS. In tests with an “open” cell, 80–85% polarization has been achieved. The final gas cell configuration is now being tested with a 5 T EBIS solenoid magnet.

Funding Agency

Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-SC0012704 with the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Author

Deepak Raparia (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Co-authors

Andrei Sukhanov (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Antonino Cannavó (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Edward Beebe (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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