Specific features of dynamics of a heavy multicharged ion beam

For the purpose of investigating a possibility for increasing current in a heavy ion accelerator, longitudinal and transverse motions of a beam of quintuply charged ions in a linear accelerator with drift tubes and quadrupole-lens focusing have been studied. The value of the equilibrium phase has been assumed to be equal to -35 deg, the accelerating field amplitude in the gap 110 kV/cm, the wave length 2 m, the gap factor 0.25. The accelerating channel contained 142 oacceleration periods. It is shown that an increase in the beam effective emittance constitutes no more than 1.5 times. It has been concluded that the peculiarity of a multiply-charged beam dynamics is an increase in its phase volume and that an increase in ion charges in the beam accelerated after charge exchange may turn out to be a rather effective method for increasing current in a traditional linear accelerator