The design of the advanced electronic cyclotronic resonance ion source (ECRIS) requires relatively high axial and radial magnetic inductions to allow the ECR frequency increase and to take advantage of the subsequent density increase (scaling laws). The last improvements of the commercial rare-earth magnet characteristics open new opportunities for ECRIS and enable the design of very high hexapolar magnetic fields for next generation compact ECRIS. Moreover, the high temperature superconducting (HTS) wires allow designing reliable and compact axial field coils (30 K cooled) at a very effective cost. It is thus very relevant to study a compact hybrid ECRIS using high remanence magnet and HTS technologies. In such a design, the volume of the plasma chamber is a free parameter that can be adjusted to the user requirement. It can be dedicated to very high ionic current production or high charge state production, pulsed, or cw operations. This paper presents the three-dimensional overall simulation of a 3 T axial magnetic field compact ECRIS with a high radial field sextupole composed with several magnet types and reaching similar to1.9 T in front of the radially magnetized magnets. This design study will lead to the building of the 28-40 GHz A-PHOENIX source at the laboratory which will deliver its first beam by the end of 2004. 2004 (C) American Institute of Physics.
