THE ECONOMIC OPTIMISATION OF THE MAIN PARAMETERS OF THE 3 GEV ELECTRON BOOSTER SYNCHROTRON FOR DIAMOND

Usually, the boosters for synchrotron light sources and other storage rings are physically smaller than the storage ring, with higher dipole fields. However, the Swiss Light Source, (SLS) [1] incorporates a full-energy booster, with a circumference approximately equal to that of the storage ring. In the preliminary design work for the proposed UK 3 GeV synchrotron source, DIAMOND, the optimum size and number of cells in the full-energy booster synchrotron were investigated. Three different lattices, with 12, 16 and 20 ‘FODO’ cells were studied and costed. This paper presents the parameters obtained for the three lattices and the resulting cost variations.