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Beam current deterioration in a 13.56 MHz RF negative ion source

2025· article· en· W4410859882 on OpenAlexaff
Anand George, Stéphane Melanson, Morgan Dehnel

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Instrumentation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicParticle accelerators and beam dynamics
Canadian institutionsSelkirk CollegePacific Insight Electronics (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCurrent (fluid)IonIon beamBeam (structure)Atomic physicsIon sourceMaterials sciencePhysicsElectrical engineeringOptoelectronicsEngineering physicsOpticsEngineeringQuantum mechanics

Abstract

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Abstract D-Pace is developing a 13.56 MHz external planar antenna-powered RF ion source for producing negative ions (H-, D-). The cesium-free RF ion source is expected to operate with lower maintenance cycle compared to D-Pace's TRIUMF-licensed filament ion source. The present challenge with the RF ion source is the deterioration in H- beam current extracted from the ion source during its operation over several days. The reasons behind the beam decay are not yet fully understood. Sputtering of the copper plasma chamber and the AlN RF window are considered likely causes for the beam decay. Experimental observations related to the RF ion source beam deterioration are presented in the current paper.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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