USA - RPI

PLASMA DYNAMICS LABORATORY
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
ECSE DEPARTMENT

6003 Jonsson Engineering Center
Troy, New York 12180-3590

Telephone: +1 518 276 6084
Telefax: +1 518 276 6261
E-mail: connor@rpi.edu
URL:   http://hibp.ecse.rpi.edu

	NAME	Telephone	Room	Telefax	E-Mail Address
	Connor, Kenneth A.	(518) 276-6084	6002 JEC	(518) 276-6261	connor@rpi.edu
	Demers, Diane R.	(608) 263-2967	3244C Chamberlain Hall	(608) 262-7205	diane@ecse.rpi.edu
			1150 University Avenue
			Madison, WI 53706-1390
	Hickok, Robert L.	(emeritus)			BH10200@aol.com
	Schatz, John G.	(518) 276-8226	7009 JEC	(518) 276-6261	john@ecse.rpi.edu
	Schoch, Paul M.	(518) 276-6072	6006 JEC	(518) 276-6261	schoch@ecse.rpi.edu

Research activities:
RPI develops and provides heavy ion beam (HIBP) diagnostics and presently operates such a diagnostic system, based on a 200KV ion accelerator, on MST (Madison, Wisconsin). Beams of 1⁺ ions are injected in the plasma and the resulting 2⁺ ions are measured with a spatial resolution of 0.1 cm³ and a time resolution of 1 μs. The abundance and energy of the 2⁺ ions are measured using an electrostatic energy analyzer operated at a voltage that is about 4-5 times smaller than the accelerator voltage. Measurements provide data on the electric potential profiles, fluctuations in density and potential, the current density profile and magnetic fluctuations. These are used to determine details of fluctuation induced particle and energy transport and to address other physics issues. System components used previously on such devices as TEXT (University of Texas-Austin) and ATF (ORNL) are available for application of beam probe diagnostics based on 200kV, 500kV and 2.5MeV accelerators. RPI also operates a small RF-driven plasma source to investigate techniques for improving HIBP time resolution by more than an order of magnitude and a component test facility for developing other new HIBP capabilities.