Effect of Synchrotron Radiation in the Proposed 4-GeV Argonne Microtron

Abstract

Synchrotron radiation in the sector magnets of the 4 GeV microtron designed at the Argonne National Laboratory produces a small but noticeable distortion of the closed orbits of the system and a very significant growth of the horizontal and longitudinal phase space emittances. Because of the small apertures in the three 25 meter linacs, it is important that the expected growth of the beam be calculated as accurately as possible. The dynamical problem has been solved using a computer program which follows the motions of individual electrons in the four dimensional horizontal and longitudinal phase space as they are accelerated in the system. In this paper the authors call attention to the fact that there are 3 long 28 m linac sections separated by sector magnets from 3 dispersion sections where the orbits for different energies are separated. The interaction of the linac rf systems with the synchrotron energy loss in the sector magnets produces different orbit effects in the downstream and upstream linac sector magnets. The average synchrotron radiation energy loss per sector magnet is given.