Study of H- production in DC H- source of medical cyclotron

Haruhiko Etoh; Moriaki Onai; Yasushi Aoki; Hitoshi Mitsubori; Yoshihiko Arakawa; Junji Sakuraba; Takanori Kato; Toshinori Mitsumoto; Satoru Yajima; Takanori Shibata; Akiyoshi Hatayama; Yoshikazu Okumura

doi:10.1585/pfr.11.2406063

Study of H^- production in DC H^- source of medical cyclotron

Haruhiko Etoh
, Moriaki Onai
, Yasushi Aoki
, Hitoshi Mitsubori
, Yoshihiko Arakawa
, Junji Sakuraba
, Takanori Kato
, Toshinori Mitsumoto
, Satoru Yajima
, Takanori Shibata
, Akiyoshi Hatayama
, Yoshikazu Okumura

Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics

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Abstract

A filament driven multi-cusp negative hydrogen ion source has been developed for proton cyclotrons. In order to increase the H^- beam current, the dependences of H^- beam current on various design/operating parameters has been studied experimentally and numerically. In this paper, the effects of arc-discharge voltage and current on H^- production via the volume production process are investigated by three-dimensional kinetic modeling of electrons in the source plasma and zero-dimensional rate equations. This numerical analysis reproduces the experimental results of H^- beam current dependence on the arc-discharge condition, and also gives reasonable explanations for their characteristics.

Original language	English
Article number	2406063
Journal	Plasma and Fusion Research
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1585/pfr.11.2406063
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

EEDF
KEIO-MARC code
Medical cyclotron
Negative hydrogen ion source

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Condensed Matter Physics

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