Thursday, February 16, 2012

Important considerations for particle-beam storage

Magnets

Different types of magnets acclimated in the accumulator ring of the Australian Synchrotron. The beyond chicken one is a dipole allurement acclimated to angle the electron axle and aftermath the synchrotron radiation. The blooming one is a sextupole magnet, the red one (at back) a quadrupole allurement - these are acclimated to focus and beacon the electron beam

A force accept to be activated to particles in such a way that they are accountable to move about in a annular path. This may be able application either dipole electrostatic or dipole alluring fields, but because a lot of accumulator rings abundance relativistic answerable particles it turns out that it is a lot of applied to utilise alluring fields produced by dipole magnets. However, electrostatic accelerators accept been congenital to abundance actual low activity particles, and quadrupole fields may be acclimated to abundance (uncharged) neutrons; these are analogously rare, however.

Dipole magnets abandoned alone accommodate what is alleged anemic focusing, and a accumulator ring composed of alone these sorts of alluring elements after-effects in the particles accept a almost ample axle size. Interleaving dipole magnets with an adapted adjustment of quadrupole and sextupole magnets can accord a acceptable able absorption arrangement that can accord a abundant abate axle size. The FODO and Chasman-Green filigree structures are simple examples of able absorption systems, but there are abounding others.

Dipole and quadrupole magnets avert altered atom energies by differing amounts, a acreage alleged blush by affinity with concrete optics. The advance of energies that is inherently present in any applied stored atom axle will accordingly accord acceleration to a advance of axle and longitudinal focusing, as able-bodied as accidental to assorted atom axle instabilities . Sextupole magnets (and college adjustment magnets) are acclimated to actual for this phenomenon, but this in about-face gives acceleration to nonlinear motion that is one of the capital problems adverse designers of accumulator rings.

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