Design and characterization of Cesium oven for a multi-cusp plasma device

In the Multi-cusp Plasma Device, contact ionized Cesium plasma will be confined by a multi-cusp magnetic field. Since magnetic field at the axis of the device is near to zero, the drift waves based fluctuations (as present in classical Q-machine) are expected to be not present. This may help to record the real thermodynamic fluctuations. A hot oven feeding well collimated Cesium beam maintaining an uniform vapor pressure into a high vacuum (10^-7 mbar) region is designed for this device. In this paper a brief description of the design of the Cesium oven including critical components and its characterization will be discussed. (author)