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A 1000 keV, 5 MW, 1000 s neutral beam injector based on negative ions is being developed in the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk in collaboration with Tri Alpha Energy, Inc. The innovative design of the injector features the spatially separated ion source and an electrostatic accelerator. Plasma or photon neutralizer and energy recuperation of the remaining ion species is employed in the injector to provide an overall energy efficiency of the system as high as 80%. A test stand for the beam acceleration is now under construction. A prototype of the negative ion beam source has been fabricated and installed at the test stand. The prototype ion source is designed to produce 120 keV, 1.5 A beam.
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The status and the executing modernization of RUssian Diagnostic Injector (RUDI) are described. The ion source consists of arc plasma emitter and multiaperture four-electrode ion optical system. The present ion optical system with round beamlets is to be replaced by new slit apertures system for the reducing beam angular divergence in one direction. Due to enlarged dimensions and transparency of new ion optical system the extracted ion beam current will be by 50% increased. For the extension of beam pulse duration from 4 s to 8-10 s an optimized metal-ceramic arc-discharge channel is introduced. In the paper, the optical measurements results of beam parameters, including the profile of species distribution, scanned by custom-built multichannel spectroscope, are also presented.
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Long-pulse cold cathode arc-discharge plasma generators have been successfully used as high-quality hydrogen ion sources for plasma diagnostic neutral beams. One of the main advantages of this type of plasma source is a high proton fraction (80%-90%). However, the lifetime of the plasma source is limited due to intensive electrode's erosion, especially at the cathode region. An optimized design of the cathode and the nearest electrodes is found which reduces the erosion and allows us to increase the pulse length. The plasma source produces the extracted ion current up to 3 A at a low angular divergence, and at the pulse duration up to 2 s.
