Conceptual Design of the Argonne 6-GeV Synchrotron Light Source
The Argonne National Laboratory Synchrotron Light Source Storage Ring is designed to have a natural emittance of 6.5 × 10-9 m for circulating 6-GeV positrons. Thirty of the 32 long straight sections, each 6.5-m long, will be available for synchrotron light insertion devices. A circulating positron current of 300 mA can be injected in about 8 min. from a booster synchrotron operating with a repetition time of 1.2 sec. The booster synchrotron will contain two different rf systems. The lower frequency system (38.97 MHz) will accept positrons from a 360-MeV linac and will accelerate them to 2.25 GeV. The higher frequency system (350.76 MHz) will accelerate the positrons to 6 GeV. The positrons will be produced from a 300-MeV electron beam on a tungsten target. A conceptual layout is shown in Fig. 1. Related papers on the Argonne Synchrotron Light Source may be found in references 1-3.
Beam Stability in a 6 GeV Synchrotron Light Source
Future synchrotron radiation sources designed to produce low emittance electron beams for wigglers and undulators will present beam position control problems essentially similar to those encountered by users of existing accelerators,1,2 however tolerances will be tighter due to: 1) the small emittance (7× 10-9 mrad) proposed for the electron beam and the correspondingly small emittances (sizes) of secondary photon beams, 2) the sensitivity of the electron beam closed orbit to quadrupole motion and dipole roll, 3) the high power levels associated with undulator and wiggler beams which will permit (and probably require) high precision and stability of the photon beam position measurements, in addition, 4) the large number of users on the roughly sixty beam lines will demand beams capable of producing the best experimental results. For the present paper, we assume the accelerator control function, which would initially involve making and coordinating all changes, would eventually evolve to setting and verifying the limits of user control: within these limits the beam position would be controlled by users. This paper describes the effects of motion of beam components (quads, rf cavities and dipoles) on the beam and considers the properties of a compensation system from the perspective of users. The system departs from standard practice in considering active perturbation of the electron beam to verify beam corrections. The effects of local closed orbit perturbations to direct undulator beams at different experimental setups are also considered.
5.63 and 5.80 MeV levels of Ne20; de-excitation branching
Abstract The ratio Г γ /Г for the 5.63 and 5.80 MeV levels of Ne 20 has been determined to be 0.077 (±0.008) and −4 , respectively, by using the C 12 (C 12 , α)Ne 20 reaction and determining the fraction of the events in which the alpha-particle and the Ne 20 recoil are present in coincidence at the kinematically correct angles. In both cases these results in themselves are shown to imply radiative E1 transition (5.63→1.63 and 5.80→0, respectively) probabilities ⪡5 × 10 −5 Weisskopf units. When taken together with the life-time for the 5.63 MeV level measured by Evans et al . values of Г( E1 ) ≲ 5 × 10 −6 and Г α ≈ 6% of the particle estimate are obtained for this state.