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| MPPT067 | Stray Field Reduction in ALS Eddy Current Septum Magnets | 3718 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098. Stray field from an eddy current septum magnet adversely affects the circulating beam and can be reduced using several techniques. The stray field time history typically has a fast rise section followed by a long exponential decay section when pulsed with a half sine drive current. Changing the drive current pulse to a full sine has the effect of both reducing peak stray field magnitude by ~3x, and producing a quick decay from this peak to a lower field level which then has a similar long decay time constant as that from the half sine only drive current pulse. A method for tuning the second half sine (reverse) drive current pulse to eliminate the long exponential decay section is given. |
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| RPAE067 | Investigations, Experiments, and Implications for Using Existing Pulse Magnets for 'topoff' Operation at the Advanced Light Source | 3727 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098. ALS top-off mode of operation will require injection of the electron beam from the Booster Ring into the Storage Ring at the full ALS energy level of 1.9GeV. Currently the Booster delivers a beam at 1.5GeV to the Storage Ring where it is then ramped to the full energy and stored for the user operation. The higher Booster beam energy will require the pulse magnets in the Booster and Storage Rings to operate at proportionally higher magnetic gap fields. Our group studied and tested the possible design and installation modifications required to operate the magnets and drivers at "top-off" levels. Our results and experiments show that with minor electrical modifications all the existing pulse magnet systems can be used at the higher energy levels, and the increased operational stresses should have a negligible impact on magnet reliability. Furthermore, simple electrical modifications to the storage ring thick septum will greatly reduce the present level of septum stray leakage fields into the storage ring beam. |
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| RPAE080 | Diagnostic Systems Plan for the Advanced Light Source Top-Off Upgrade | 4066 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Science Division, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098. The Advanced Light Source (ALS) will soon be upgraded to enable top-off operation,* in which electrons are quasi-continuously injected to produce constant stored beam current. We will upgrade our injector from 1.5GeV to full-energy 1.9GeV, and top-off operation will also require more precise injector beam characterization and control than we are capable of using our current diagnostics system. Therefore, a diagnostics upgrade will be crucial for the success of top-off, and our plan for it is described in this paper. Among the improvements will be the integration of all existing beam current monitors along the accelerator chain into an injection efficiency monitoring application. New booster ring diagnostics will include a tune kick and monitoring system, updated beam position monitor electronics, and a new scraper. Two new synchrotron light monitors and a beam stop will be added to the booster-to-storage ring transfer line, and a dedicated bunch purity monitoring system will be installed in the storage ring. Together, these important diagnostic upgrades will enable smooth commissioning of the full energy injector and a quick transition to high quality top-off operation at the ALS. *Please see the ALS Top-off Upgrade presentation at this conference. |