1. EBIT – Electron Beam Ion Trap
O. Antonov Physics Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Selected Topics in Astrophysics

2. EBIT – Electron Beam Ion Trap
Outline
Motivation
History
EBIS/EBIT – operation principles
Operating parameters
EBIT facilities around the world
Summary
Bibliography

3. EBIT can be used as a source of highly-charged ions for
EBIT – motivation
Highly-charged ions
In a plasma of fusion facilities
Corona of the sun
Boundary of black holes
EBIT can be used as a source of highly-charged ions for
Studying the ions by themselves inside a trap (small kinetic energy)
Injecting the ions to larger facilities in order to study interactions with the ions
Lithography/Medicine/Industrial applications, etc.

4. History 1965/67 – Proposal of the idea of Electron Beam Ion Source1
1969 – First Electron Beam Ion Source facility and report on generation of Au19+(1)
1988 – Invention of first Electron Beam Ion Trap facility by Morton Levine and Ross Marrs in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory2
1994 – Bare Uranium (U92+) produced in Super-EBIT facility3
1. E.D.Donets, USSR Inventor’s Certificate No (1967); Bull. OIPOTZ 24 (1969) 65
2 .Morton A. Levine et al. “The Electron Beam Ion Trap: A New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements” Physica Scripta. T22, , 1988
3. R. E. Marrs et al. “Production and Trapping of Hydrogenlike and Bare Uranium Ions in and Electron Beam Ion Trap” Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 4082, 1994

5. EBIS/EBIT – operation principles
High density electron beam was used to trap, ionize and excite the ions
Magnetic field provided by superconducting Helmholtz-pair magnet
Axial trapping voltage provided by cylindrical cathodes
EBIT facility produce highly-charged ions which stay in the trap for surprisingly long times

6. EBIS/EBIT – operation principles

7. Typical operating parameters
Electron Beam Energy: [keV] (up to 200 [keV] for Super-EBIT in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Initial Electron Beam Radius: about 1 [mm]
DC Magnetic Field: 3 [Tesla]
Focused Electron Beam Radius: 30 [µm]
Trap Length: 3 [cm] (only 2 [cm] visible)
Ion Density: 3*109 [1/cm3]
Electron Density: 4*1012 [1/cm3]
Vacuum: 1*10-8 [Pa]

8. EBIT Facilities Around the Globe
The limit of 1012 charges for the trap capacity has been overcome in design only in the last decade
Even today projects are started with water and LN2 cooled solenoids as well as with permanent magnets
There is a need for highly charged ions in the full range of 105–1012 charges/pulse
An EBIT for spectroscopy and atomic physics needs only a low capacity, an EBIS for charge breeding and synchrotron injection a high one
For SC solenoids and Helmholtz coils cryogen-free cooling by refrigerators has become the standard

9. Summary
EBIT facility generate and excite ions of high ionization levels, when the kinetic energy of the ions is comparable to the potential energy (cold ions)
Spectroscopic measurements taken using EBIT facility were useful in many fields of physics (like: Plasma physics, Atomic physics, X-Ray astrophysics)
EBIT is relatively small and can be easily combined with large facility as an ion source (DC or pulsed)
Physical principles in EBIT and EBIS are the same
The current (main) problem in EBIT and EBIS facilities is the cooling problem
TESIS may have promising parameters, that have to be proved experimentally

10. Bibliography Publications:
Morton A. Levine et al. “The Electron Beam Ion Trap: A New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements” Physica Scripta. T22, , 1988
O. Heber et al. “Electrostatic ion beam trap for electron collision studies” Review of Scientific Instruments 76, , 2005
Reinard Becker and Oliver Kester “Electron beam ion source and electron beam ion trap” Review of Scientific Instruments 81, 02A513, 2010
Other sources of information:
Günter Zschornack et al. “Electron Beam Ion Sources”

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