New Harmonic Coils for Enhanced Beam Extraction at the U-120M Cyclotron

Abstract

Since its commissioning in 1977, the U-120M cyclotron has been equipped with one pair of harmonic coils dedicated to establishing optimal beam quality at low accelerating radii. In 2022, the cyclotron was upgraded and a second pair of harmonic coils was added. The new harmonic coils are positioned at a radius of approximately 50\,cm corresponding to the outermost beam orbit, where they were installed to ensure efficient extraction of positively accelerated ions from the cyclotron in the newly developed extraction system. This article describes in detail the design of the new harmonic coils, their installation in the accelerator vacuum chamber, and their use in the extraction process. Furthermore, the design of a new extraction system using the precession and linear integer resonance extraction methods is presented and a comparison of the basic properties of these two methods is given. Finally, an evaluation of their advantages and limitations concerning their possible use in the cyclotron and an estimation of the efficiency of the new extraction system is made.