Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
Northern Illinois Univerity, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan
BYU-I, Rexburg, USA
KU, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
The low-energy section of the photoinjector-based electron linear accelerator at the Fermilab Accelerator Science & Technology (FAST) facility was recently commissioned to an energy of 50 MeV. This linear accelerator relies primarily upon pulsed SRF acceleration and an optional bunch compressor to produce a stable beam within a large operational regime in terms of bunch charge, total average charge, bunch length, and beam energy. Various instrumentation was used to characterize fundamental properties of the electron beam including the intensity, stability, emittance, and bunch length. While much of this instrumentation was commissioned in a 20 MeV running period prior, some (including a new Martin-Puplett interferometer) was in development or pending installation at that time. All instrumentation has since been recommissioned over the wide operational range of beam energies up to 50 MeV, intensities up to 4 nC/pulse, and bunch structures from ~1 ps to more than 50 ps in length.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
Northern Illinois Univerity, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Masking a dispersive beamline such as a dogleg or a chicane [1, 2] is a simple way to shape a beam in the longitudinal and transverse space. This technique is often employed to generate arbitrary bunch profiles for beam/laser-driven accelerators and FEL undulators or even to reduce a background noise from dark currents in electron linacs. We have been investigating a beam-modulation of a slit-masked chicane, which was deployed for crystal-channeling experiments at the injector beamline of the Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) facility. With a nominal beam of 3 ps bunch length, Elegant simulations showed that a slit-mask with slit period 900 um and aperture width 300 um induces a modulation with bunch-to-bunch space of about 187 um (0.25 nC), 270 um (1 nC) and 325 um (3.2 nC) with 3 ~ 6% correlated energy spread: An initial energy modulation pattern has been observed in the electron spectrometer downstream of the masked chicane using a micropulse charge of 260 pC and 40 micropulses. Investigations of the beam longitudinal modulation are planned with a Martin-Puplett interferometer and a synchro-scan streak camera at a station between the chicane and spectrometer.
[1] D.C.Nguyen, B.E.Carlsten, NIMA 375, 597 (1996)
[2] P.Muggli, V.Yakimeno, M.Babzien, et al., PRL 101, 054801 (2008)
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab aims to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a precision of 140 ppb ─ a fourfold improvement over the 540 ppb precision obtained in BNL experiment E821. Obtaining this precision requires controlling total systematic errors at the 100 ppb level. One form of systematic error on the measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment occurs when the muon beam injected and stored in the ring has a correlation between the muon's spin direction and its momentum. In this paper, we first analyze the creation and transport of muon polarization from the production target to the Muon g-2 storage ring. Then, we detail the spin-momentum and spin-orbit correlations and estimate their impact on the final measurement. Finally, we outline mitigation strategies that could potentially circumvent this problem.
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
Politecnico/Milano, Milano, Italy
The ability to transport a high current proton beam in a ring is ultimately limited by space charge effects. Two novel ways to overcome this limit in a proton ring are by adding low energy, externally matched electron beams (electron lens, e-lens), and by taking advantage of residual gas ionization induced neutralization to create an electron column (e-column). Theory predicts that an appropriately confined electrons can completely compensate the space charge through neutralization, both transversely and longitudinally. In this report, we will discuss the current status of the Fermilab's e-lens experiment for the space charge compensation. In addition, we will show how the IOTA e-column compensates space charge with the WARP simulations. The dynamics of proton beams inside of the e-column isunderstood by changing the magnetic field of a solenoid, the voltage on the electrodes, and the vacuum pressure, and by looking for electron accumulation, as well as by considering various beam dynamics in the IOTA ring.
