Booster Operation in Support of the Collider Program

The Basics

Booster layout

Booster Lattice Period

Multi-turn Ion Injection

Booster RF System

Booster Extraction (Long 3 and Long 13)

Control and Instrumentation

8 GeV Proton Run II Goals and Performance

Beam Loss Intensity Sensitivity

The “Run II Era”

Demand for 8 GeV Protons

Where do Protons Go Now?

Limitations to Total Booster Flux

Typical Booster Cycle

Proton Timelines

Summary of Proton Ecomomics

Time Line Issues

Booster Losses (Normalized to Trip Point)

Booster Tunnel Radiation Levels

How Have We Been Doing?

Some Cold Hard Facts about the Future

Some Things Which Have Been Done

Booster Collimator System

New Collimator System

New RF System?

New RF System (cont’d)

Injection Dogleg (ORBUMP)

Multibatch Timing

Active cogging

Simulation/Studies

Dogleg Problem

Parasitic Focusing

Parasitic Focusing (cont’d)

Predicted Effect of Doglegs

Preliminary Study: Dispersion

Dead Dog Studies

Transmission After Tuning

Transmission with One Dogleg

Record Running w/o Dogleg

Short Term Solutions

Long Term Solutions

Longevity Issues (non-radiation)

Longevity Issues (non-radiation, cont’d)

Radiation Damage Worries

Conclusions