•Historically, the booster has lacked a
fundamental understanding
of beam loss mechanisms.
•If (!!!) it is possible at all to go the
the required beam flux, it will
require some mitigation of beam loss.
•Recently, there has been an great increase
in the involvement of the Beam
Physics department in the Booster:
–Space charge group (W. Chou, et al) has
begun to focus on the Booster again.
–Chuck Ankenbrandt has moved into Booster
group as “Beam Physics Liaison”
to help coordinate studies.
–Starting to make quantitative comparisons
between predictions and measurement.
•An almost immediate result of this increased effort was
the discovery of the “dogleg problem”….