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By Lawrence Jones, Frederick Mills, Andrew Sessler, Keith Symon, Donald Young
This publication provides a background of the Midwestern Universities study organization (MURA) in the course of its lifetime from the early Nineteen Fifties to the overdue Sixties. MURA was once accountable for a couple of very important contributions to the technological know-how of particle accelerators, together with the discovery of fastened box alternating gradient accelerators (FFAG), in addition to contributions to accelerator orbit thought, radio frequency acceleration recommendations, colliding beams know-how, orbit instabilities, computation equipment, and designs of accelerator magnets and linear accelerator cavities. a couple of scholars have been informed through MURA in accelerator thoughts, and went directly to very important posts the place they made additional contributions to the sector. The authors have been all contributors of the MURA employees and themselves made many contributions to the sector. No different such background exists, and there are really few courses dedicated to the background of particle accelerators. old heritage The Early MURA Years, 1953 1956 The Madison Years, 1956 1963 The final Years of MURA, 1963 1967 effects and Reflections
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After four rf cycles. Most of the original beam has been picked up after four cycles. The phase displacement of the accelerated beam due to later rf cycles is clearly seen. If this were actual beam stacking, a new beam would be injected at the initial energy before each rf cycle. By studying these plots, one can determine the result of an actual beam stacking experiment. The group studied, analytically and using numerical simulation, the capture of beam in an rf bucket, with particular attention to capture efficiency.
He served the government in many ways. During World War II, he worked at the MIT Radiation Laboratory on the development of airborne radar. He was a member of the Office of Naval Research in Washington (1952–1953) and later in London (1960–1961), and he was the first head of the high-energy physics branch of AEC (1961–1963). In 1963, Laslett went to Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, where he worked for the rest of his life. Here he continued to be a leading figure in accelerator design and theory, making major contributions to the design of the Electron Ring Accelerator and to the Heavy Ion Fusion Accelerator program and, most importantly, to the subject of collective instabilities.
8 shows the results of a numerical simulation of an rf acceleration process in which the rf and voltage are fixed. Once per revolution one plots a point at the particle energy and the rf phase when the particle arrives at the accelerating gap. There is a fixed point at phase π, energy 500 MeV, where the rf is nine times the revolution frequency, and another at 814 MeV, where the rf is ten times the Fig. 8. A theoretical study of longitudinal phase space as generated by a single rf cavity. The ordinate represents kinetic energy and the abscissa, rf phase.