Simulation/Studies
•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”….