MCIS finished xenon development. MCIS is off and isolation valve is shut.
A new oxygen gas line is installed to microwave ion source via a hand valve neat PE.
Hand valve is tuned as a small leak so that the plasma can run with all other gas valves are shut.
However if one need to start the source Ne gas valves are needed to be opened.
A 3.13nA of 16O+2 is sitting at FC6 and ready to use as pilot beam. |