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Proton Source
News
Booster Corrector Package Upgrade
By Proton Source Staff
Edited by A. Waller, Proton Source
November 15, 2007
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New corrector magnet in place in Booster tunnel
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The Booster Corrector Package Upgrade is part of the Proton Plan Project.
It is one of the major upgrades that Booster needs to undergo in
order to move toward the path of improved Booster efficiency necessary for the higher beam intensities required by the Neutrino
program in the years to come.
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Corrector magnet before being potted
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The new Booster Corrector
Package will be capable of providing a full orbit, tune, coupling
and
chromaticity correction up to the extraction energy of 8GeV. The magnet
is a 12-pole iron dominated magnet. Each new corrector includes:
Horizontal
and Vertical dipole, Normal and Skew quadrupole, Normal and Skew
sextupole. Each of the magnets will be individually controlled using
operator
programmed current ramps designed specifically for each type of
Booster acceleration cycle.
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How corrector magnet is installed into Booster beam line
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Twelve correctors were installed during shutdown 2007. The remaining
correctors are scheduled to be installed during the next lab wide
shutdown in 2008.
The design, fabrication and installation of this
corrector package was the hard work of many dedicated people from the
Accelerator, Particle Physics and Technical Divisions.
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