High intensity proton acceleration at the Brookhaven AGS-an update

Author

Ahrens, L. ; Alessi, J. ; Blaskiewicz, M. ; Bleser, E. ; Brennan, J.M. ; Brown, K. ; Gardner, C. ; Glenn, J.W. ; Huang, H. ; Reece, K. ; Roser, T. ; van Asselt, W. ; Zeno, K. ; Zhang, S.Y.

Author_Institution

AGS Dept., Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

12-16 May 1997

Firstpage

89

Abstract

The AGS accelerator complex is into its third year of 60+×10 ¹² (teraproton=Tp) per cycle operation. The hardware making up the complex as configured in 1997 is briefly mentioned. The present level of accelerator performance is discussed. This includes beam transfer efficiencies at each step in the acceleration process, i.e. losses; which are a serious issue at this intensity level. Progress made in understanding beam behavior at the Linac-to-Booster (LtB) injection, at the Booster-to-AGS (BtA) transfer as well as across the 450 ms AGS accumulation porch is presented. The state of transition crossing, with the gamma-tr jump is described. Coherent effects including those driven by space charge are important at all of these steps

Keywords

particle beam injection; proton accelerators; storage rings; synchrotrons; AGS accelerator complex; AGS accumulation porch; Brookhaven AGS; beam behavior; beam transfer efficiencies; gamma-tr jump; high intensity proton acceleration; space charge; Acceleration; Control systems; Hardware; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Monitoring; Particle beams; Proton accelerators; Space charge; Synchrotrons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4376-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1997.749553

Filename

749553