Recently a novel approach to the problem of multi-turn extraction was proposed. It consists of splitting the beam by adiabatic capture inside stable islands created in the transverse phase space by sextupoles and octupoles. Numerical simulations indicate that such a technique should be feasible and potentially superior to the method presently used at the CERN Proton Synchrotron. During 2002, intense efforts were devoted to the experimental verification of this newly proposed extraction mode. Finally, beam capture into the islands was observed. In this paper, the extraction principle is briefly reviewed and the experimental results are presented and discussed in detail.
EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH CERN -AB Division
AbstractRecently a novel approach to the problem of multi-turn extraction was proposed. It consists of splitting the beam by adiabatic capture inside stable islands created in the transverse phase space by sextupoles and octupoles. Numerical simulations indicate that such a technique should be feasible and potentially superior to the method presently used at the CERN Proton Synchrotron. During 2002, intense efforts were devoted to the experimental verification of this newly proposed extraction mode. Finally, beam capture into the islands was observed. In this paper, the extraction principle is briefly reviewed and the experimental results are presented and discussed in detail.