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The Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Plasma Accelerator (ECRIPAC) is a novel accelerator concept developed by R. Geller and K. Golovanivsky for an ECR plasma device able to produce very energetic pulsed ion beams. The advantages of this device include compact dimensions and the possibility to adjust the ions’ energy, making it suitable to a wide array of applications. Due to the considerable promises of ECRIPAC and its lack of literature, the realization of a complete and self-consistent simulation of this device is of great interest to better understand its working principle and assess its feasibility.
This work proposes an in-depth investigation of the ECRIPAC accelerator concept, divided in three main steps. The first step is a theoretical study based on the current understanding of ECRIPAC, reviewing and enhancing the current understanding of ECRIPAC, especially focusing on the accelerator stability and the influence of each parameter on the accelerator process. The second step is a numerical simulation of the electron population using a Monte Carlo Particle-tracking code, already developed and tested on ECR ion sources, which allowed obtaining important physical information regarding the electron behaviour during the acceleration process. The final step will consist of a Particle In Cell (PIC) simulation using SMILEI, aiming at studying in depth the ion acceleration and better understand the collective effects between the plasma populations.
