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Low, L.

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THPLS114 "CAMSHAFT" Bunch Kicker Design for the ALS Storage Ring 3547
 
  • S. Kwiatkowski, K.M. Baptiste, W. Barry, J. Julian, L. Low, D.W. Plate, G.J. Portmann, D. Robin
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
 
  ALS is a 1.9 GeV third generation synchrotron light source that has been operating since 1992 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. There are two typical modes of operation of the ALS storage ring. In multibunch mode, the ring is filled to a current of 400 mA in 276 consecutive bunches with a single "camshaft" bunch located in the middle of the 52 bucket gap (h=328). Twice each year, ALS operates in "two-bunch" mode for periods of two weeks delivering 20 mA of average beam current in two diametrically opposite bunches to a small group of users requiring light pulses at lower rates. We plan to build a fast kicker system that will supply single bunch light to users during multibunch operation by displacing the orbit of the camshaft bunch at a prescribed frequency (every N turns). Realization of this project will increase ALS beam availability to multibunch users by at least 10%. This paper will describe the hardware design (pulse generator and beam deflection device) and the test results of the prototype kicker unit.