Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1829675 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 2008 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
We control the amount of carbon buildup on slackened thin cluster carbon stripper foils (less than 3.5 μg/cm2) by heating with a high-power infrared lamp during beam bombardment. Foil lifetime measurements were performed using 2.0±0.5 μA beams of 3.2 MeV Ne+ ions and quantified as the total charge/area before breakage. Lifetimes were obtained up to 1286 mC/cm2 at maximum and 1139 mC/cm2 on the average; these values are, respectively, approximately 51 times at maximum and 46 times on average greater than the best commercially available foils, when used unheated and unslackened.
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