Implicit Particle-In-Cell Plasma Model Development for D-Pace’s TRIUMF Licensed Filament-Powered Volume-Cusp H¯ Ion Source

Ion sources are important for TRIUMF Canada’s national particle accelerator laboratory, as they are a key sub-system in the
TRIUMF 500 MeV Cyclotron which is used for world-class fundamental discovery science, and cutting-edge technology
development and transfer to the medical and industrial sectors. D-Pace is a spin-off of TRIUMF, and is a global leader in
developing, manufacturing, selling, and implementing ion source sub-systems around the world for industrial applications
(semiconductor production), for medical uses (radiopharmaceutical production), and for discovery science applications in
national laboratories. Implicit Particle-In-Cell plasma modelling techniques are innovative and cutting-edge techniques to
computer model an ion source plasma. It is important to quantitatively model the characteristics of ion sources so that we may
understand how they work internally, and how we might improve them for certain future new specification requirements for
medicine, industry, and discovery science ie more beam current may be required in future for these applications, and such
models will assist in figuring how to achieve this. Both TRIUMF and D-Pace will significantly benefit from this implicit Particle-
In-Cell software development work.

Faculty Supervisor:

Rick Baartman

Student:

Partner:

D-Pace Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

TRIUMF INC.

Program: