DAFNE ACCUMULATOR

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DAFNE ACCUMULATOR

The Accumulator during installation.

The DAFNE Accumulator is a small storage ring, which has been includedinto the DAFNEinjection system for the following reasons:

With the design positron output current from the Linacand the DAFNEMain Rings longitudinal acceptance, injection of the full design currentinto one of the two rings requires ~2x10

⁴

Linac pulses at 100%efficiency. Due to its Gaussian particle distribution, a small fractionof the stored beam hits the septum which separates the ring vacuum vesselfrom the injection line at each

injection pulse and gets lost. In orderto avoid saturation, this fraction should be much smaller than the inverseof the number of injected pulses (in our case 5x10

^-5

). By injecting,as an example, 50 pulses into the Accumulator, and then extracting andinjecting into the MainRings, the tolerable fraction of lost particles drops to ~0.1%.

The R.F. system runs at a very high harmonic of the revolution frequency(120) in order to allow storage of a large number of bunches to reach highluminosity. This is not necessary in an

intermediate ring, where only asingle bunch is needed. It is therefore possible to run the AccumulatorR.F. cavity at a sub-multiple frequency of the MainRings one, increasing the longitudinal acceptance (from 2.7 to 13.4ns) and therefore accepting the full charge in the Linac pulse.

After accumulating the desired current, injection into the Accumulatorcan be stopped for a short

time to allow the beam to damp down to its equilibriumenergy spread and emittance, which are

typically two orders of magnitudesmaller than the corresponding Linacvalues. In this way a high

quality beam can be extracted from the Accumulatorand injected into the MainRings, thus avoiding

the necessity of designing the Main Rings latticewith a larger physical and dynamic acceptance,

and relaxing the requirementson the Main Rings magnets with substantial savings on the overall

costof the facility.

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Schematic layout of the DAFNE Accumulator.

The Accumulator is a quasi-octagonal ring with a total length of 32.5m on the nominal trajectory. Its

lattice is made of four almost achromaticarcs, each consisting of two 45 degrees full iron H-type sector

dipolemagnets with a small gradient to optimise the damping distribution, a quadrupoletriplet and two

sextupoles to correct the ring chromaticity. All the dipolesare powered in series. The quadrupoles are

connected into three independentfamilies, the sextupoles in two families.

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The DAFNE Accumulator dipole on the magnetic measurement bench.

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The DAFNE Accumulator quadrupole under measurement with a rotating coilsystem.

The DAFNE Accumulator sextupole.

The electron beam coming from the Linacis injected into the ring by means of a system of two septum

magnets, thefirst bending the beam by 34 degrees and the second performing the finaldeflection of 2

degrees into a special 3.5 m vacuum vessel between twoachromats. The stored beam is extracted by a

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mirror symmetric system placedin the opposite straight section. The positron beam follows the

oppositepath. The remaining two straight sections host the pulsed kicker magnetsused to deflect the beam at injection and extraction and the R.F. cavity.

The DAFNE Accumulator R.F. cavity.

A system of 8 correctors and 10 position monitors allows a careful correctionof the closed orbit in the ring with the purpose of optimising injectionefficiency. Two synchrotron light monitors and two stored current monitorsare also part of the diagnostic system. A transverse feedback system isimplemented on the ring: it consists of a stripline pick-up and a striplinekicker.

The vacuum chamber is fully stainless steel and a pumping system consistingof 18 sputter ion pumps is designed to reach an average dynamic pressurein the ring of 5 nTorr.

DAFNE ACCUMULATOR PARAMETERS

Energy 510 MeV

Circumference 32.56 m

Emittance 0.26 mm.mrad

Horizontal betatron tune 3.12

Vertical betatron tune 1.14

R.F. frequency 73.65 MHz

R.F. voltage 200 KV

Bunch average current 150 mA

Bunch length 3.8 cm

Synchrotron radiation loss per turn 5.2 KeV

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Horizontal betatron damping time 21.4 msec Vertical betatron damping time 21.4 msec Longitudinal damping time 10.7 msec

Number of bending magnets 8

Bending radius 1.1 m

Bending angle 45 degrees

Bending operating field 1.55 T

Bending gradient -0.66 T/m

Number of quadrupoles 12

Quadrupole bore diameter 100 mm Quadrupole operating gradient 8 T/m Quadrupole maximum gradient 12 T/m Quadrupole magnetic length 30 cm

Number of sextupoles 8

Sextupole bore diameter 108 mm

Sextupole operating gradient 135 T/m

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Sextupole maximum gradient 180 T/m

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Sextupole magnetic length 10 cm

The damping ring is fully operational and its performance has reachedthe design values with both

electrons and positrons. The capture, as wellas extraction, efficiency is very near 100% and the foreseen

single bunchcurrent of 120 mA can be injected in less than 1 second at 50 Hz. The maximumstored

current is near to 220 mA.

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False colour image of synchrotron radiation spot from the Accumulatorbending magnet. The dotted plots on the left and bottom sides of the pictureare the vertical and horizontal linear density distributions.

During commissioning the optical parameters of the ring and the beamcharacteristics have been carefully measured, and found to be in excellentagreement with the theoretical predictions and field measurements on themagnets. The measurements of beam position at all available monitors confirmedthe reliability and precision of the alignment procedures followed by theLNF group during theinstallation of the machine: in fact the current in the dipole orbit correctorsnecessary to drive the beam on its ideal trajectory is much smaller thanits available range, and the injection and extraction efficiency does notchange when they are switched off.

Using the results of the measurements performed on the stored beam areliable optical model has been

found, which is the primary tool to setthe machine at any desired working point by means of a limited

number ofparameters set by the Control System. Several beam characteristics, interestingfrom the

machine physics point of view, such as the bunch length and synchronousphase versus stored current,

have been measured, and the results confirmedthe predictions of the simulations on the interaction of the

beam withits surrounding environment.

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False colour representation of the bunch length measurement in the Accumulatorring. Each slice corresponds to a different stored current, increasingfrom left to right. Time is on the vertical scale. The

intensity scaleis displayed on the left.

Longitudinal bunch shape measured at different current levels (0.5 to60 mA).

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Dependence of the bunch length (full width at half maximum) on the averagecurrent. The dots are the measured values, the solid line is a numericalsimulation based on the machine impedance estimate.

Plot of the stored current into the Accumulator during atypical Main Ring commissioning cycle. Three electron pulses are storedinto the ring before the extraction pulse. The steps on the rising sideare

injection pulses, those on the fall side are due to the limited resolutionof the scope.

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M.Preger29 JUN 1998