Conceptual Design of an Electrostatic Trap for High-Intensity Highly Charged Pulsed Beam

Highly charged ion sources play an important role in the advancement of heavy-ion accelerators worldwide. Demands of highly charged heavy ions for new and existing accelerators have driven the performance of ion sources to their limits. A new high charge state ion accumulating trap concept is proposed that converts a dc ion beam from an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source into a short-pulsed ion beam with suitable compression ratios. With a simple trap composed of an electron gun, a solenoid, and a set of drift tubes (DTs), the injected ions from a dc operation ECR ion source will be trapped radially and axially. By manipulating the potential of the DT, highly charged ions can be accumulated with multiple injections and extracted with augmentation of ion intensity in pulses of tens of
$\mu \text{s}$
. This article presents the simulations and design features of the envisioned ion trap.