A novel structure of multipole field magnets and their applications in uniformizing beam spot at target

Abstract

A novel structure of multipole field magnets is proposed, and it can provide any order either symmetric or anti-symmetric field distribution within a good-field region in a flat rectangular shape with relative field errors of about 1%. Some of these field distributions cannot be obtained by standard multipole magnets but are quite useful in some applications, thanks to the decoupling of the two halves of the magnets by a pair of shielding plates. In addition, the simplified structure compared with the standard one makes the magnet fabrication easier and cost effective. Two-dimensional magnetic field calculations for anti-symmetric sextupole, octupole, decapole and dodecapole fields show that the new types of multipole magnets have good field quality. Three-dimensional magnetic field calculations have confirmed the validity of the two-dimensional calculations. Symmetric field distributions by the simplified multipole field magnets have also been confirmed by two-dimensional field calculations. Two application examples by using numerical simulations are also given to show the effectiveness of simplified multipole field magnets in producing uniform-like beam spots at two different targets with different beam inputs. It is also shown that combinations of the lower order anti-symmetric field magnets – a merit of this magnet structure – are more advantageous than the traditional combination of octupole and dodecapole magnets in beam spot uniformization, besides with cheaper construction and operation costs. The applications of non-standard field distributions such as anti-symmetric sextupole and symmetric octupole field distributions in synchrotrons are to be exploited in the future.