Momentum Cogging at the Fermilab Booster

• Main Authors: Seiya, K, Drennan, C, Pellico, W. A, Triplett, K, Waller, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 30-01-2013
• Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.7353

The Fermilab booster has an intensity upgrade plan called the Proton
Improvement plan (PIP). The flux throughput goal is 2E17 protons/hour which is
almost double the current operation at 1.1E17 protons/hour. The beam loss in
the machine is going to be an issue. The booster accelerates beam from 400 MeV
to 8GeV and extracts to The Main Injector (MI). Cogging is the process that
synchronizes the extraction kicker gap to the MI by changing radial position of
the beam during the cycle. The gap creation occurs at about 700MeV which is
6msec into the cycle. The variation of the revolution frequency from cycle to
cycle is larger at lower energy and it is hard to control by changing the
radial position because of aperture limitations. Momentum cogging is able to
move the gap creation earlier by using dipole correctors and radial position
feedback, and controlling the revolution frequency and radial position at the
same time. The new cogging is going to save energy loss and aperture. The
progress of the momentum cogging system development is going to be discussed in
this paper.