High current carbon beam production with direct plasma injection scheme

Okamura, Masahiro*; Kashiwagi, Hirotsugu; Sakakibara, Kazuhiko*; Takano, Jumpei*; Hattori, Toshiyuki*; Hayashizaki, Noriyosu*; Jameson, R. A.*; Yamamoto, Kazuo*

We have been studying a new heavy-ion production technique called "direct plasma injection scheme", DPIS, since 2000. A new radio frequency quadrupole "RFQ" designed especially for the DPIS was commissioned in 2004 and very intense carbon beam was successfully obtained, reaching more than 60 mA accelerated current from the RFQ. Most of the contents of the accelerated beam was carbon 4+ as verified by beam analysis.