Design aspects and status of construction of the mVINIS ion source

Abstract

The mVINIS ion source is a multiply charged heavy ion source based on the electron cyclotron resonance effect. This machine is a part of the Tesla Accelerator Installation, an ion accelerator facility whose construction has been going on at the VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. mVINIS is an advanced version of the Dubna electron cyclotron resonance ion source 14-2, constructed at the.Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. It is a complete injector, consisting of an ECR ion source, focusing and steering-elements, an analyzing magnet, a vacuum system, and an ion beam diagnostic system. The main parts of mVINIS have been designed and manufactured at JINR, while the vacuum equipment, power supplies, ion beam diagnostics, and control system were purchased elsewhere. The preliminary testing (magnetic field measurements, vacuum testing, testing.of the ECR ion source) has been performed at JINR, and the final assembly of the mVINIS and measurement of the ion beam parameters have been going on at the VINCA Institute. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.