Considerations for NSLS-II Synchrotron Radiation Protection When Operating Damping Wigglers at Low Machine Energy
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Photon Sciences Directorate
The NSLS-II storage ring vacuum chamber, including frontends (FE) and beamlines (BL), is protected from possible damage from synchrotron radiation (SR) emitted from insertion devices (IDs) by a dedicated active interlock system (AIS). The system monitors electron beam position and angle and triggers a beam dump if the beam orbit is outside of the active interlock envelope (AIE). The AIE was calculated under the assumptions of 3 GeV beam energy and ID gaps set to their minimum operating values (i.e. “fully closed”). Recently it was proposed to perform machine studies that would ramp the stored beam energy significantly below the nominal operational value of 3 GeV. These studies may potentially include the use of NSLS-II damping wigglers (DWs) for electron beam emittance reduction and control. These DWs have the minimum operating gap of gmin=15 mm with the corresponding peak magnetic field B0=1.8 T. During regular machine operations or studies at 3 GeV, DWs are usually held at this minimum gap (thus maximum field), or, alternatively, they are fully opened to the gap of 150 mm, which corresponds to a negligible residual magnetic field. However, any intermediate values of wiggler gap can be easily set through the control system with micron level precision, so wiggler fields in the range of 0<B< B0 can be precisely set and maintained. For the low energy studies two likely modes of DW operation must be considered: 1) the maximum allowable wiggler filed is proportional to the storage ring energy, B(E)= B0 E/E0; and 2) the maximum allowable wiggler field (and thus the minimum allowable gap) is energy independent and is equal to its nominal 3 GeV value of 1.8 T (i.e. wiggler gap is fixed at 15 mm). The aim of this technical note is to consider the synchrotron radiation protection (SRP) implications of DW use during low energy machine studies, when DWs are operated in either of these two modes. For consistency with earlier SRP documents we will quote all the powers and power densities at the nominal NSLS-II design beam current of 500 mA, even though the low energy studies will be done at significantly lower beam currents, hence the SR power will be proportionally smaller.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- OSTI ID:
- 1505125
- Report Number(s):
- NSLSII-ASD-TN-212; BNL-211170-2019-TECH
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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