Author: Johnson, D.E.
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TH2A01 The Linac Laser Notcher for the Fermilab Booster 710
 
  • D.E. Johnson, K.L. Duel, M.H. Gardner, T.R. Johnson, D. Slimmer
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • S. Patil
    PriTel, Inc., Naperville, USA
  • J. Tafoya
    Optical Engines, Inc., Colorado Springs, USA
 
  In synchrotron machines, the beam extraction is accomplished by a combination of septa and kicker magnets which deflect the beam from an accelerator into another. Ideally the kicker field must rise/fall in between the beam bunches. However, in reality, an intentional beam-free time region (aka "notch") is created on the beam pulse to assure that the beam can be extracted with minimal losses. In the case of the Fermilab Booster, the notch is created in the ring near injection energy by the use of fast kickers which deposit the beam in a shielded collimation region within the accelerator tunnel. With increasing beam power it is desirable to create this notch at the lowest possible energy to minimize activation. The Fermilab Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) initiated an R&D project to build a laser system to create the notch within a linac beam pulse at 750 keV. This talk will describe the concept for the laser notcher and discuss our current status, commissioning results, and future plans.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2016-TH2A01  
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