Milestone toward an ECRIPAC accelerator demonstrator
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| author | Cernuschi, Andrea Thuillier, Thomas Garrigues, Laurent |
| author_facet | Cernuschi, Andrea Thuillier, Thomas Garrigues, Laurent |
| contents | The Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Plasma ACcelerator (ECRIPAC) is an original accelerator concept proposed in the nineties for the generation of highly energetic pulsed ion beams, suitable for a wide array of applications. The initial studies on the subject were characterized by an important calculation mistake, leading to an incomplete and erroneous literature on the topic. Nevertheless, the simple and well mastered techniques involved in the system (radio frequency and magnetic field), together with the device compactness, are strong motivations for further studies on ECRIPAC. This work proposes a comprehensive introduction to the ECRIPAC accelerator physics, including a summary of its corrected theory. The designs of several compact demonstrator devices, able to accelerate different ion species to energies up to 100 MeV, are presented. A particular focus is devoted to a He2+ accelerator, capable of generating 9.5 MeV/nucleon ions inside a 1.8 m long accelerating cavity. This device has been simulated using a Monte-Carlo (MC) code, developed to model the electron dynamics inside this system. The MC results show an excellent agreement with the updated theory, which validates the new theoretical framework of ECRIPAC. Finally, some estimations for the beam parameters of the ion bunch extracted from the accelerator are provided. |
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| spellingShingle | Milestone toward an ECRIPAC accelerator demonstrator Cernuschi, Andrea Thuillier, Thomas Garrigues, Laurent Accelerator Physics Plasma Physics The Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Plasma ACcelerator (ECRIPAC) is an original accelerator concept proposed in the nineties for the generation of highly energetic pulsed ion beams, suitable for a wide array of applications. The initial studies on the subject were characterized by an important calculation mistake, leading to an incomplete and erroneous literature on the topic. Nevertheless, the simple and well mastered techniques involved in the system (radio frequency and magnetic field), together with the device compactness, are strong motivations for further studies on ECRIPAC. This work proposes a comprehensive introduction to the ECRIPAC accelerator physics, including a summary of its corrected theory. The designs of several compact demonstrator devices, able to accelerate different ion species to energies up to 100 MeV, are presented. A particular focus is devoted to a He2+ accelerator, capable of generating 9.5 MeV/nucleon ions inside a 1.8 m long accelerating cavity. This device has been simulated using a Monte-Carlo (MC) code, developed to model the electron dynamics inside this system. The MC results show an excellent agreement with the updated theory, which validates the new theoretical framework of ECRIPAC. Finally, some estimations for the beam parameters of the ion bunch extracted from the accelerator are provided. |
| title | Milestone toward an ECRIPAC accelerator demonstrator |
| topic | Accelerator Physics Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07827 |