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This work presents the characteristics of a high frequency ion source operating on a low energy, 150 keV accelerator. The latter is to be used as a neutron generator and its design is based on a theoretical analysis which shows that if the axial potential in an electrostatic electrode system is made to increase with four thirds the power of axial distance, inward electric forces will compensate space charge forces tending to blow up the beam. This results in a simplified acceleration tube much shorter and of higher gradient than the conventional acceleration columns. The ion source itself is an ordinary type using axial extraction of the beam, and its main properties investigated are the beam current and beam quality (or emittance). Dependence of the two on different parameters is investigated in a series of tests.
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Abdelaziz, M.E., Eid, M.A. & Abdelsalam, F. Characteristics of a high frequency ion source used in a low-energy accelerator. Pramana - J. Phys. 4, 229–241 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02847436
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