Status report on the rapid cycling synchrotron

Conference · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981 · IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5108575

Potts, C W; Brumwell, F R; Cho, Y; Rauchas, A V; Volk, G J

The Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS), originally designed as an injection energy booster for the Zero Gradient Synchrotron (ZGS), operated under constraints imposed by ZGS operation until December 1979. Once these restraints were removed, the RCS made rapid strides toward its near term goals of 8 /mu/A of protons for Argonne National Laboratory's Intense Pulsed Neutron Source program. Reliable 30 Hz operation was achieved in the spring of 1980 with beams as high as 2*10/sup 12/ protons per pulse and weekly average intensities of over 6 /mu/A on target. These gains resulted from better injection matching, more efficient rf turn-on and dynamic chromaticity control. 8 refs.

• Research Organization: Argonne Natl Lab, IL
• OSTI ID: 5108575
• Report Number(s): CONF-810314-
• Journal Information: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States) Vol. NS-28:3; ISSN IETNA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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