ALPHA Storage Ring

ALPHA Storage Ring

Indiana UniversityXiaoying Pang

Summary

• Purpose• Wiggler design• Injection and Extraction• RF cavity• Touschek lifetime• Vacuum• Photon source

Our Purpose• Provide radiation effect experiments for NASA Debunch the rf linac beam bunches

• Compact X-ray photon source based on Inverse Compton scattering (ICSX)

Advantage: low cost, easy operation. Difficulties: long damping time,

negative horizontal damping partition, space charge effect, beam lifetime issue.

Design Typical operational energy : 20MeV ~100MeV, maximum : 600MeV

Dipole (existing) 1) effective length 2m 2) bending radius = 1.273m 3) edge angle 12⁰ vertical focusing

Wiggler (three dipoles) 1) modify damping partition number horizontal betatron

motion stable (without wigglers Jx = -0.3 ) 2) tune momentum compaction factor

C = 20 mT = 66.6 ns

3m

Wiggler Design

• Three gradient rectangular dipoles with B1 /B0=1.9 m−1 , where B1=(dBz /dx)x=0

• The minimum vertical gap is 40mm.• Maximum field strength is 1.67 kG at 25MeV, 6.7kG at

100MeV.

0.1m 0.1m

0.2m

zero momentum compaction factor

positive horizontaldamping partition number

Wiggler Design

A linac beam can be debunched ofits rf structure in

one turn if |c|≥0.5

When the wiggler is turned off, w=∞

Qausi-isochronous condition

Wiggler Design25MeV

At 50 MeV , the horizontal damping time can be 10s.

Injection• Two bumpers and a Lamberston septum are

used • Use electrostatic kickers with kicker rise time

10ns• Beams are injected from a linac with 25MeV

(up to 60 MeV)• Phase space painting

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Number of Injection Turns per Closed Orbit Location

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Total number of Injection Turns

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A = 21 mm

Beam Size = 42 mm

x = 25 mm

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A = 25 mm

Beam Size = 50 mm

x = 32 mm

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Beam profile evolution around the ring

Considering the aperture: Let’s take into the consideration of the apertures at the bending dipoles and electrostatic kickers. Set the aperture radius at dipoles to be 100mm = 0.1m, at kickers to be 25mm. The total injection numbers will decrease.

With about 10 turns of injection, 50ns bunch length and 0.5A linac current, we can achieve:

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RF cavity

• Revolution frequency 15MHz• In the operational mode of debunching no RF

cavity is needed.• For beam physics study with quasi-

isochronous condition, we can modify the existing MPI cavity to make it operate at h=1, f=15MHz

MPI Cavity• Was built for proton acceleration with frequency from 2 to 10MHz• A quarter-wave –like cavity, is loaded with 10 ferrite rings with

quadrupole field bias.• Major RF tuning is achieved by parallel external capacitors. With an

external capacitance Cext =290 pF , the cavity was tested up to 11.4MHz, the resulting shunt impedance was about 1k.

Diameter of the cavity ~0.55m; Length ~0.6m

In the future

• For 15MHz operation, we need to reduce the external capacitance to about 120pF or the number of ferrite rings in the cavity.

• Reconfigure the ferrite rings to maximize the shunt impedance for a possible 3kV voltage.

• We will built a 90 MHz rf cavity for harmonic h=6 (or 494 MHz, h=33)in order to achieve a bunch length of the order of 10ps for short-pulse X-rays

Touschek lifetime Toucheck lifetime is sensitiveto the parameter:

is the rf bucket height, is the horizontal momen-tum spread can range from 0.001 to 1.

we will need a lifetime of 1h or more.

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Compact Photon Source

• The X-ray is generated by laser- electron scattering at the chicane magnet.

X-ray• The energy of the scattering photon is:

where, EL is the laser energy, c is the electron speed, is angle of

the scattered X-ray photon, * is the crossing angle of the laser and the electron beam, for head on collision, *=.

is a small correction term.

• The scattered X-ray photons are confined to a cone of 1/ with respect to the electron beam direction

• The bending angle of the chicane magnet can vary from zero to 110mrad.

• The scattered X-ray can easily be separated from the circulating

electron beam at a distance 25cm from the collision point.

Photon Brilliance

• The brilliance of the back scattering X-ray photon is:

• The X-ray flux is given by: where L is the luminosity. For head-on

collision, the luminosity is:• Brilliance 1/x

2z2

Quadrupole Triplet

Fitting results

Best results Parameters

• Currently the ALPHA ring is under construction.

• We will start the experiments on RF cavity soon.