A COST-EFFECTIVE RAPID-CYCLING SYNCHROTRON
- Fermilab
- Fermmilab
The present Fermilab proton Booster is an early example of a rapidly-cycling synchrotron (RCS). Build in 1960s, it features a design in which the combined-function dipole magnets serve as vacuum chambers. Such a design is quite cost-effective, and it does not have the limitations associated with the eddy currents in a metallic vacuum chamber. However, an important drawback of that design is a high impedance, as seen by a beam, because of the magnet laminations. More recent RCS designs (e.g. J-PARC) employ large and complex ceramic vacuum chambers in order to mitigate the eddycurrent effects and to shield the beam from the magnet laminations. Such a design, albeit very successful, is quite costly because it requires large-bore magnets and large-bore rf cavities. In this article, we will consider an RCS concept with a thin-wall metallic vacuum chamber as a compromise between the chamber-less Fermilab Booster design and the large-bore design with ceramic chambers.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1487395
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-18-546-AD-DI; 1709289
- Journal Information:
- Reviews Of Accelerator Science And Technology, Journal Name: Reviews Of Accelerator Science And Technology
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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