Author: Pellico, W.
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WEPPD079 Measurements of Magnetic Permeability of Soft Steel at High Frequencies 2711
 
  • Y. Tokpanov, V.A. Lebedev, W. Pellico
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  The Fermilab Booster does not have a vacuum chamber which would screen the beam from laminations its dipoles cores. Therefore the booster impedance is mainly driven by the impedance of these dipoles. Recently an analytical model of the laminated dipole impedances was developed. However to match the impedance measurements with calculations one needs an accurate measurement of soft steel magnetic permeability. This paper presents the measurement results of the permeability in a frequency range from ~10 MHz to 1 GHz. Measurements of e.-m. wave propagation in 30 cm long strip line built from soft steel were used to compute the permeability. Measurements were performed in a DC magnetic field to observe the effect of steel saturation on the high frequency permeability. Both real and imaginary parts of the permeability were measured. As expected their values were decreasing with frequency increase from 10 MHz to 1 GHz and with saturation of steel DC permeability.
Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
 
 
WEPPR085 Observation of Instabilities of Coherent Transverse Ocillations in the Fermilab Booster 3129
 
  • Y. Alexahin, N. Eddy, E. Gianfelice-Wendt, V.A. Lebedev, W.L. Marsh, W. Pellico, A.K. Triplett
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Fermilab Booster - built more than 40 years ago - operates well above the design proton beam intensity of 4.e12 ppp. Still, the Fermilab neutrino experiments call for even higher intensity of 5.5·1012 ppp. A multitude of intensity related effects must be overcome in order to meet this goal including suppression of coherent dipole instabilities of transverse oscillations which manifest themselves as a sudden drop in the beam current. In this report we present the results of observation of these instabilities at different tune, coupling and chromaticity settings and discuss possible cures.
 
 
THPPP023 Momentum Cogging at the Fermilab Booster 3782
 
  • K. Seiya, C.C. Drennan, W. Pellico, A.K. Triplett, A.M. Waller
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  The Fermilab booster has an intensity upgrade plan called the Proton Improvement plan (PIP). The flux throughput goal is 2·1017 protons/hour which is almost double the current operation at 1.1017 protons/hour. The beam loss in the machine is going to be an issue. The booster accelerates beam from 400 MeV to 8GeV and extracts to The Main Injector (MI). Cogging is the process that synchronizes the extraction kicker gap to the MI by changing radial position of the beam during the cycle. The gap creation occurs at about 700MeV which is 6msec into the cycle. The variation of the revolution frequency from cycle to cycle is larger at lower energy and it is hard to control by changing the radial position because of aperture limitations. Momentum cogging is able to move the gap creation earlier by using dipole correctors and radial position feedback, and controlling the revolution frequency and radial position at the same time. The new cogging is going to save energy loss and aperture. The progress of the momentum cogging system development is going to be discussed in this paper.  
 
THPPP024 Alignment and Aperture Scan at the Fermilab Booster 3785
 
  • K. Seiya, J.R. Lackey, W.L. Marsh, W. Pellico, D.A. Still, A.K. Triplett, A.M. Waller
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  The Fermilab booster has an intensity upgrade plan called the Proton Improvement plan (PIP). The flux throughput goal is 2·1017 protons/hour, which is almost double the current operation at 1.1017 protons/hour. The beam loss in the machine is going to be the source of issues. The booster accelerates beam from 400 MeV to 8 GeV and extracts to the Main Injector. Several percent of the beam is lost within 3 msec after the injection. The aperture at injection energy was measured and compared with the survey data. The magnets are going to be realigned in March 2012 in order to increase the aperture. The beam studies, analysis of the scan and alignment data, and the result of the magnet moves will be discussed in this paper.  
 
THPPP065 The FNAL Injector Upgrade Status 3886
 
  • C.-Y. Tan, D.S. Bollinger, K.L. Duel, P.R. Karns, J.R. Lackey, W. Pellico, V.E. Scarpine, R.E. Tomlin
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
The new FNAL H injector upgrade is currently being tested before installation in the Spring 2012 shutdown of the accelerator complex. This line consists of an H source, low energy beam transport (LEBT) and 200 MHz RFQ. Beam measurements have been performed to validate the design before installation. The results of the beam measurements are presented in this paper.