Kaon factory with TRIUMF as injector

Conference · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1983 · IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5274763

Teng, L C

A kaon factory is defined as a proton accelerator in the energy range of 15-30 GeV and with the average current range of 10-100 ..mu..A so that it can produce kaons copiously. Cost considerations become prohibitive, at these energy and current ranges, for any candidate accelerator mode except the synchrotron. The required average beam current of 100 ..mu..A is just possible with a fast cycling synchrotron, say, pulsing at 30 Hz and having 2 X 10/sup 13/ protons per pulse. The design of such a synchrotron with a linac injector is straightforward. To obtain a long beam spill for experiments one needs a beam-spill stretcher ring which is a dc storage ring having the same radius and installed in the same tunnel as the synchrotron. Accelerated beam pulses from the synchrotron are injected and stored in the stretcher ring to be spilled out uniformly in time by a resonant slow extraction system. The stretcher ring is an ideal application for superconducting magnets. To use a CW accelerator, or a cyclotron such as TRIUMF as the injector, one needs an accumulator ring which is an injection energy dc storage ring, again having the same radius and installed in the same tunnel as the synchrotron. The CW beam from the injector is accumulated in the accumulator during one complete cycle of the synchrotron and is transferred to the synchrotron in one turn to be accelerated as one pulse. This paper covers details of the timing properties between the accumulator, the synchrotron and the stretcher and goes on to describe the TRIUMF beam packet, the accumulator and accumulation scheme, and the foil scattering technique of the proposed kaon factory.

• Research Organization: Fermi Nat.'l Accelerator Lab., P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510
• OSTI ID: 5274763
• Report Number(s): CONF-830311-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States) Journal Volume: NS-30:4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
430303* -- Particle Accelerators-- Experimental Facilities & Equipment
ACCELERATORS
BEAM INJECTION
BEAM SHAPING
BOSONS
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS
CYCLOTRONS
DESIGN
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY RANGE
GEV RANGE
GEV RANGE 10-100
HADRONS
ISOCHRONOUS CYCLOTRONS
KAONS
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MESON FACTORIES
MESONS
PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS
STRANGE PARTICLES
TRIUMF CYCLOTRON