Upgrade of the Slow-Extraction System in the U-70 Proton Accelerator

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to increase the efficiency of slow extraction of accelerated protons from the U-70 accelerator in order to provide the extracted beam for a physical setup requiring high intensity. On account of the limited power of the first extraction setup – an electrostatic deflector, the angle spread of the beam near the deflector barrier had to be decreased in order to decrease the losses and increase the efficiency. For this, the structure function β was increased by inserting two additional quadrupole lenses into the magnetic structure of the accelerator. As a result of the inadequate strength of the system which corrects the frequencies of the betatron oscillations at the maximum accelerator energy 70 GeV, the beam was extracted at energy 64 GeV, where the frequency of the vertical betatron oscillations could be set above the line of the resonance 4Q z = 39. As a result, the losses at the first two extraction setups increased by a factor of 3 and the efficiency of the slow-ejection system increased from 85% to 95%.