HIBISCUS: a new ion beam radio-frequency quadrupole cooler-buncher for high-precision experiments with exotic radioactive ions

TL;DR

HIBISCUS is a newly developed RF quadrupole device that enhances ion beam quality and bunching for high-precision radioactive ion experiments, with optimized parameters demonstrated at IGISOL.

Contribution

The paper introduces HIBISCUS, a novel ion beam cooler-buncher device with improved performance metrics for radioactive ion experiments.

Findings

Enhanced ion beam transmission efficiency.

Reduced longitudinal energy spread of cooled ions.

Produced short ion bunches less than 1 microsecond.

Abstract

HIBISCUS (Helium-Inflated Beam Improvement Setup that Cools and Undermines Spreads), a new radiofrequency quadrupole cooler-buncher device has been developed and commissioned offline at the Ion Guide Isotope Separator On-Line (IGISOL) facility in Jyv\"askyl\"a in Finland, as an in-kind contribution for the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research facility. HIBISCUS improves the ion optical properties of incident low-energy 6~keV beams with the option to have it ultimately extracted in temporally short bunches ($<1$~$\mu$s). This paper provides technical descriptions of its main characteristics, along with a set of optimum working parameters and performance in terms of transmission efficiency, longitudinal energy spread of the cooled ions and temporal width of the extracted bunches.