Augmentation of beam currents in the JAERI tandem-booster accelerator facility

Modifications have been executed in these years of the accelerator system, aiming at higher beam currents. Advanced experiments e.g. search of unknown heavy nuclei and their synthesis, need large current accelerators. The use of stripper foils in tandem accelerators for the electron detachment severely limits the beam current, however. The first modification is to install ECR (electron cyclotron resonance) ion source in a high voltage terminal board, multicharged, rare gas ions being accelerated directly. The second is to eliminate the use of the second foils, but to increase the beam intensity. (M. Tanaka)