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Beamline for low-energy transport of highly charged ions at HITRAP

D. NeidherrStefan E. SchmidtStefan E. SchmidtJ. SteinmannG. VorobjevN. KotovskiyManuel VogelZoran AndelkovicKristian KönigB. MaaßT. MurböckF. Herfurth

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PhysicsNuclear physicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsLow energyBeamlinePhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsPhysics::Accelerator PhysicsBeam instrumentationAtomic physicsInstrumentationCharged particleIon

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Abstract A beamline for transport of highly charged ions with energies as low as a few keV/charge has been constructed and commissioned at GSI. Complementary to the existing infrastructure of the HITRAP facility for deceleration of highly charged ions from the GSI accelerator, the new beamline connects the HITRAP ion decelerator and an EBIT with the associated experimental setups. Therefore, the facility can now transport the decelerated heavy highly charged ions to the experiments or supply them offline with medium-heavy highly charged ions from the EBIT, both at energies as low as a few keV/charge. Here we present the design of the 20 m long beamline with the corresponding beam instrumentation, as well as its performance in terms of energy and transport efficiency.

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2015-09-01Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.05.055