Kicker magnet systems for injector synchrotrons

A kicker magnet is a device capable of producing a pulsed magnetic field for the purpose of deflecting charged particle beams out of their defined orbit. The kicker magnets at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Laboratory are designed to transfer beam bunches from a series of three booster stages into a counter-rotating 20 TeV collider ring. The required kicker magnetic field is the result of factors such as bunch spacing, maximum allowable lost bunches, required angular deflection, and other characteristics of synchrotron operation.