The LHC injection kicker magnet

Proton beams will be injected into LHC at 450 GeV by two kicker magnet systems, producing magnetic field pulses of approximately 900 ns rise time and up to 7.86 μs flat top duration. One of the stringent design requirements of these systems is a flat top ripple of less than ±0.5%. Both injection systems are composed of 4 traveling wave kicker magnets of 2.7 m length each, powered by pulse forming networks (PFN´s). To achieve the required kick strength of 1.2 Tm, a low characteristic impedance has been chosen and ceramic plate capacitors are used to obtain 5 Ω. Conductive stripes in the aperture of the magnets limit the beam impedance and screen the ferrite. The electrical circuit has been designed with the help of PSpice computer modeling. A full size magnet prototype has been built and tested up to 60 kV with the magnet under ultra high vacuum (UHV). The pulse shape has been precision measured at a voltage of 15 kV. After reviewing the performance requirements the paper presents the magnet design, emphasizing several novel design features, and discusses the test results.