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Rev Sci Instrum. 2020 Jan 01;91(1):013312. doi: 10.1063/1.5128431.

Low charge state lithium beam production from chemical compounds with laser ion source.

The Review of scientific instruments

Shunsuke Ikeda, Tommy Whelan, Andrew Tamis, Harry Chalfin, Antonino Cannavò, Takeshi Kanesue, Masahiro Okamura, Kazumasa Takahashi

Affiliations

  1. Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
  2. Physics Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06457, USA.
  3. Department of Engineering Science, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
  4. Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
  5. Nuclear Physics Institute of CAS, 25068 Rez, Prague, Czech Republic.
  6. Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan.

PMID: 32012647 DOI: 10.1063/1.5128431

Abstract

In recent years, the primary ion source for the Brookhaven National Laboratory has been the laser ion source, which provides many types of ions within a short switching time of several seconds. The task is difficult for other ion sources. In the previous work, we tested metallic lithium as a target material of the laser irradiation. Although an intense lithium beam was demonstrated, some operational difficulties were observed due to its reactiveness to oxygen. For accelerator applications, a more robust and reliable target material has been demanded. For this purpose, we tested lithium niobate, LiNbO

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