Conceptual Design of the Argonne 6-GeV Synchrotron Light Source

Abstract

The Argonne National Laboratory Synchrotron Light Source Storage Ring is designed to have a natural emittance of 6.5 × 10-9 m for circulating 6-GeV positrons. Thirty of the 32 long straight sections, each 6.5-m long, will be available for synchrotron light insertion devices. A circulating positron current of 300 mA can be injected in about 8 min. from a booster synchrotron operating with a repetition time of 1.2 sec. The booster synchrotron will contain two different rf systems. The lower frequency system (38.97 MHz) will accept positrons from a 360-MeV linac and will accelerate them to 2.25 GeV. The higher frequency system (350.76 MHz) will accelerate the positrons to 6 GeV. The positrons will be produced from a 300-MeV electron beam on a tungsten target. A conceptual layout is shown in Fig. 1. Related papers on the Argonne Synchrotron Light Source may be found in references 1-3.