# 17th International Conference on Ion Sources

15-20 October 2017
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

## Experimental Benchmark of the EM-PIC-MCC Code NINJA and its Application for Simulating the Linac4 H$^-$ Ion Source Plasma

16 Oct 2017, 15:00
20m
CERN

#### CERN

Centre international de Conférence Genève (CICG). http://www.cicg.ch/
Oral presentaion Negative ion sources

### Speaker

Dr Stefan Briefi (Universitaet Augsburg (DE))

### Description

A dedicated performance optimization of negative hydrogen ion sources applied at particle accelerators is only possible by assessing the processes occurring in the plasma. However, due to the typically very compact source design, diagnostic access is very difficult and often limited to optical emission spectroscopy yielding only line-of-sight integrated results. In order to gain spatially resolved plasma parameters and therefore a detailed insight into the plasma characteristics, the electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell Mote Carlo collision (EM-PIC-MCC) code NINJA has been developed for the Linac4 H$^–$ ion source at CERN. The code considers the RF ﬁeld generated by the ICP coil and the present external static magnetic ﬁelds and calculates self-consistently the resulting discharge properties. A benchmark of the NINJA code has been carried out at the diagnostically well accessible lab experiment CHARLIE for a variation of RF power and gas pressure. This allows for a detailed comparison between simulation and experiment where a good agreement is observed in general although some slight deviations are present. They can be explained by the assumption of strong inductive coupling in the simulation, whereas loose coupling would be more appropriate for the CHARLIE discharges. Nevertheless, the Linac4 ion source plasma is strongly coupled and accordingly, the plasma parameters evaluated from optical emission spectroscopy agree very well with the NINJA simulations. The contribution covers a detailed presentation and discussion of the benchmark investigations at the CHARLIE experiment including spatial distributions of electron temperature and density as well as line-of-sight integrated plasma parameters obtained from optical emission spectroscopy. For the Linac4 ion source, the comparison of measurement and NINJA simulation will be shown for a variation of the RF power. In addition, a first assessment of the discharge properties with respect to negative ion production and destruction rates and hence to the ion source performance will be carried out.

### Primary author

Dr Stefan Briefi (Universitaet Augsburg (DE))

### Co-authors

Stefano Mattei (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH)) Mr David Rauner (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik) Jacques Lettry (CERN) Ursel Fantz (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik)

### Presentation materials

 ICIS2017_Briefi.pdf ICIS2017_Briefi.pptx