Variable Charge Heavy Ion Synchrotron Theory

A new approach is developed to solve the problem of heavy ion synchrotron acceleration. As is shown, the circular strong-focusing structure of a resonable width provides the substantial charge confinement with a spread of |¿q|/q0 = 0.1+0.2. Charge-exchange injection on the internal target makes it possible to overcome the limitations imposed by the Liouville theorem. The synchronous ion acceleration with charge spread is considered possible and the average beam charge is supposed to increase by the gradual stripping of the orbital electrons up to the complete stripping of them. The operation modes considered appear to be most suitable to accelerate as heavy ions as that of uranium.