• DocumentCode
    785879
  • Title

    Control of the Beam Spill at the PPA

  • Author

    Henness, J. ; Kang, C.L. ; Kirchgessner, J. ; Riedel, J. ; Shoemaker, F.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator Princeton University Princeton, N. J.
  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1967
  • fDate
    6/1/1967 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1071
  • Lastpage
    1073
  • Abstract
    The PPA machine operates on a 20 cycle per second machine rate and is not flat topped. Due to these two factors spill lengths in the region of 5 - 10 milliseconds are not only "long" but contain up to 10% energy modulations. Conversely "short" spills are those occuring in less than a few hundred microseconds. Another unusual feature of the PPA machine is the one to two nanosecond rf bunch width at spill time. This feature was inherent with the first spill techniques and has proven invaluable to experimenters doing time of flight measurements in neutral secondary beams and separating K\´s from ¿\´s.
  • Keywords
    Boundary conditions; Control systems; Magnetic separation; Oscillators; Particle beams; Radio frequency; Signal generators; Structural beams; Synchrotrons; Time measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1967.4324708
  • Filename
    4324708