High Energy Ion Beam from the Plasma Focus: Physics and Applications

• Mahmud Vahdat Roshan (IPM)

Pulsed plasma systems with accelerating gradient of generate high intensity high energy radiation beams. Ion emission from the plasma focus, PF, is strongly related to the plasma column impedance. Ion acceleration parameter was developed, based on the experimental ion spectrum coupled to the space charge modeling. The plasma ion accelerator was designed to introduce a plasma platform to examine the Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA, of the link-boards typically used at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, LHC. Magnetic radioactivity competence scheme reflects the vision that small PF, as a smart alternative to cyclotron, generates medical grade radioactivity. Schemed with high repetition rate, the plasma focus device promises to simulate the radiation environment and analyze the biological effects on cells. The PF device operated at 1 Hz repetition rate produces ten Double-Strand breaks, DSB, per second. The surviving fraction of the DNA is likely to be more affected by higher dose frequencies.