Development and Performance of A Proton and Deuteron ECR Ion Source

A 5mA proton and deuteron rf source is under production at ACCEL. This source will provide the front end of our superconducting proton/deuteron linear accelerator. The design of the source is based on the proven AECL design of a 100 mA proton source [1]. The paper will describe the design of the source and the layout of the test bench currently set up at ACCEL to characterize the source. Results of the beam dynamic simulations performed to optimise the source geometry based on KOBRA 3D will be presented as well.