Simulation of 6 to 3 to 1 merge and squeeze of Au77+ bunches in AGS
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
In order to increase the intensity per Au77+ bunch at AGS extraction, a 6 to 3 to 1 merge scheme was developed and implemented by K. Zeno during the 2016 RHIC run. For this scheme, 12 Booster loads, each consisting of a single bunch, are delivered to AGS per AGS magnetic cycle. The bunch from Booster is itself the result of a 4 to 2 to 1 merge which is carried out on a flat porch during the Booster magnetic cycle. Each Booster bunch is injected into a harmonic 24 bucket on the AGS injection porch. In order to fit into the buckets and allow for the AGS injection kicker rise time, the bunch width must be reduced by exciting quadrupole oscillations just before extraction from Booster. The bunches are injected into two groups of six adjacent harmonic 24 buckets. In each group the 6 bunches are merged into 3 by bringing on RF harmonic 12 while reducing harmonic 24. This is a straightforward 2 to 1 merge (in which two adjacent bunches are merged into one). One ends up with two groups of three adjacent bunches sitting in harmonic 12 buckets. These bunches are accelerated to an intermediate porch for further merging. Doing the merge on a porch that sits above injection energy helps reduce losses that are believed to be due to the space-charge force acting on the bunched particles. (The 6 to 3 merge is done on the injection porch because the harmonic 24 frequency on the intermediate porch would be too high for the AGS RF cavities.) On the intermediate porch each group of 3 bunches is merged into one by bringing on RF harmonics 8 and 4 and then reducing harmonics 12 and 8. One ends up with 2 bunches, each the result of a 6 to 3 to 1 merge and each sitting in a harmonic 4 bucket. This puts 6 Booster loads into each bunch. Each merged bunch needs to be squeezed into a harmonic 12 bucket for subsequent acceleration. This is done by again bringing on harmonic 8 and then harmonic 12. Results of simulations of the 6 to 3 to 1 merge and the subsequent squeeze into harmonic 12 buckets are presented in this note. In particular, they provide a benchmark for what can be achieved with the available RF voltages.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC00112704
- OSTI ID:
- 1336040
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-112197-2016-IR; R&D Project: KBCH139; 18031; KB0202011; TRN: US1701390
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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