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Shvedov, D.

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TUPMS014 Commissioning of the Booster Injector Synchrotron for the HIGS Facility at Duke University 1209
 
  • S. F. Mikhailov, M. D. Busch, M. Emamian, S. M. Hartman, Y. Kim, J. Li, V. Popov, G. Swift, P. W. Wallace, P. Wang, Y. K. Wu
    FEL/Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • O. Anchugov, N. Gavrilov, G. Y. Kurkin, Yu. Matveev, D. Shvedov, N. Vinokurov
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
  • C. R. Howell
    TUNL, Durham, North Carolina
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the US DoE grant #DE-FG02-01ER41175

A booster synchrotron has been built and recently commissioned at Duke University Free Electron Laser Laboratory (DFELL) as part of the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIGS) facility upgrade. HIGS is developed collaboratively by the DFELL and Triangular Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). The booster will provide top-off injection into the Duke FEL storage ring in the energy range of 0.27 - 1.2 GeV. When operating the Duke storage ring to produce high energy Compton gamma ray beams above 20 MeV, continuous electron beam loss occurs. The lost electrons will be replenished by the booster injector operating in the top-off mode. The compactness of the booster posed a challenge for its development and commissioning. The booster has been successfully commissioned in 2006. This paper reports experience of commissioning and initial operation of the booster.