Design and construction status of the AGS Booster accelerator

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5303693

Weng, W; Lee, Y Y

To meet the requirements of new experiments in high energy physics and nuclear physics, a fast cycling Booster accelerator was proposed to fulfill the following three technical objectives: The AGS Booster has three objectives. They are to increase the space charge limit of the AGS, to incrase the intensity of the polarized proton beam by accumulating many linac pulses (since the intensity is limited by the polarized ion source), and to re-accelerate heavy ions from the BNL Tandem Van de Graaff before injection iinto the AGS. The machine is capable of accelerating protons at 7.5 Hertz from 200 MeV to 1.5 GeV or to lower final energies at faster repetition rates. The machine will also be able to accelerate heavy ions from as low as 1 MeV/nucleon to a magnetic rigidity as high as 17.6 Tesla-meters with a one second repetition rate. As an accumulator for polarized protons, the Booster should be able to store the protons at 200 MeV for several seconds. We will report primarily those design and construction issues related to high intensity proton acceleration of the Booster. 4 refs., 6 figs., 4 tabs.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5303693
• Report Number(s): BNL-41030; CONF-880263-1; ON: DE88007964
• Resource Relation: Conference: Accelerator design workshop, Los Alamos, NM, USA, 17 Feb 1988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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