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EPL
Volume 113, Number 3, February 2016
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Article Number | 34001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/113/34001 | |
Published online | 25 February 2016 |
First implementation of transversely split proton beams in the CERN Proton Synchrotron for the fixed-target physics programme
1 CERN - CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
2 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, LPAP - CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
3 Vienna University of Technology - Karlsplatz 13, AT-1040 Vienna, Austria
(a) massimo.giovannozzi@cern.ch (corresponding author)
Received: 25 January 2016
Accepted: 11 February 2016
A new extraction technique has been studied at the CERN Proton Synchrotron with a view of using it for the fixed-target physics programme at the Super Proton Synchrotron. The extraction scheme is based on advanced concepts of non-linear beam dynamics: prior to extraction a particle beam is split into several beamlets in a transverse plane by crossing a stable resonance, which allows extracting the beamlets over multiple turns. The principle of the extraction, the detail of its implementation, and the progress of the beam commissioning over the years are discussed here. More importantly, the results obtained during the first period of successful use for the physics programme are presented, focusing on the performance analysis of the novel extraction.
PACS: 41.75.Lx – Other advanced accelerator concepts / 29.27.Bd – Beam dynamics; collective effects and instabilities / 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
© CERN, 2016
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