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Particle-in-Cell with Monte Carlo Collisions Gun Code Simulations of a Surface-Conversion H^− Ion Source

E. Chacon-Golcher & K. J. Bowers

Commun. Comput. Phys., 4 (2008), pp. 659-674.

Published online: 2008-09

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We present an extended update on the status of a particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collisions (PIC-MCC) gun code developed at Los Alamos for the study of surface-converter H ion sources. The program is fully kinetic. Some of the program's features include: solution of arbitrary electrostatic and magnetostatic fields in an axisymmetric (r,z) geometry to describe the self-consistent time evolution of a plasma; simulation of a multi-species (e, H+, H2+ , H3+, H) plasma discharge from a neutral hydrogen gas and filament-originated seed electrons; full 2-dimensional (r,z) 3-velocity (vr, vz, vφ) dynamics for all species; detailed collision physics between charged particles and neutrals and the ability to represent multiple smooth (not stair-stepped) electrodes of arbitrary shape and voltage whose surfaces may be secondary-particle emitters (Hand e). The status of this development is discussed in terms of its physics content and current implementation details.

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We present an extended update on the status of a particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collisions (PIC-MCC) gun code developed at Los Alamos for the study of surface-converter H ion sources. The program is fully kinetic. Some of the program's features include: solution of arbitrary electrostatic and magnetostatic fields in an axisymmetric (r,z) geometry to describe the self-consistent time evolution of a plasma; simulation of a multi-species (e, H+, H2+ , H3+, H) plasma discharge from a neutral hydrogen gas and filament-originated seed electrons; full 2-dimensional (r,z) 3-velocity (vr, vz, vφ) dynamics for all species; detailed collision physics between charged particles and neutrals and the ability to represent multiple smooth (not stair-stepped) electrodes of arbitrary shape and voltage whose surfaces may be secondary-particle emitters (Hand e). The status of this development is discussed in terms of its physics content and current implementation details.

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We present an extended update on the status of a particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collisions (PIC-MCC) gun code developed at Los Alamos for the study of surface-converter H ion sources. The program is fully kinetic. Some of the program's features include: solution of arbitrary electrostatic and magnetostatic fields in an axisymmetric (r,z) geometry to describe the self-consistent time evolution of a plasma; simulation of a multi-species (e, H+, H2+ , H3+, H) plasma discharge from a neutral hydrogen gas and filament-originated seed electrons; full 2-dimensional (r,z) 3-velocity (vr, vz, vφ) dynamics for all species; detailed collision physics between charged particles and neutrals and the ability to represent multiple smooth (not stair-stepped) electrodes of arbitrary shape and voltage whose surfaces may be secondary-particle emitters (Hand e). The status of this development is discussed in terms of its physics content and current implementation details.

E. Chacon-Golcher & K. J. Bowers. (2020). Particle-in-Cell with Monte Carlo Collisions Gun Code Simulations of a Surface-Conversion H^− Ion Source. Communications in Computational Physics. 4 (3). 659-674. doi:
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