Development and Applications of Negative Ion Sources

Dr. Vadim Dudnikov holds a Ph.D. in Accelerator Physics from the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His array of substantial research accomplishments includes the development of charge exchange injection, the discovery, explanation and damping of the e-p instability (the electron cloud effect), and the discovery of the cesiation effect (enhancement of negative ion emission after adding cesium to the discharge); he has developed many different versions of surface plasma sources. He has extensive experience in both academia and industry, having held positions at (among others) the Budker Institute, Novosibirsk State University, the University of Maryland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Fermilab, Superior Design, Inc., South Cross Corp and Brookhaven Technology Group, Inc. Since 2009, he has been the Principle Investigator in the development of ion sources, beam physics and diagnostics at Muons, Inc. Dr. Dudnikov is author or co-author of more than 200 publications and holds numerous patents.

Chapter1: Introduction.- Chapter2: Charge exchange Technologies Control of Flow of accelerated particles.- Chapter3: Methods of negative ion beam production.- Chapter4: Surface Plasma Method for negative ion beam production.- Chapter5: Surface Plasma negative ion Sources.- Chapter6: Transportation of high brightness negative ion beams, space charge compensation, Instability.- Chapter7: General Remarks on the Surface Plasma Method of negative ion beams production.- Bibliography.