
TL;DR
This paper provides an overview of the physics, technology, and design considerations of vacuum systems in particle accelerators, including calculations, effects on beam lifetime, and component selection.
Contribution
It offers a comprehensive introduction to accelerator vacuum systems, including pressure calculations, effects on beam lifetime, and component materials, filling a gap in accessible technical literature.
Findings
Pressure profiles can be computed using 1D models.
Vacuum quality affects beam lifetime through scattering effects.
Material and component choices are critical for system performance.
Abstract
This lecture introduces major physics and technology aspects of accelerator vacuum systems. Following an introduction, in the second section generic vacuum quantities such as pressure, gas density, the gas equation, pumping speed, conductance are introduced. Since accelerators typically have lengthy vacuum tubes, one-dimensional calculation is in many cases sufficient to compute a pressure profile for an accelerator, and methods for doing so are developed in the next section. In the fourth section accelerator specific aspects of vacuum are considered. This includes lifetime limiting effects for the particle beam, such as bremsstrahlung, elastic and inelastic scattering. Requirements for vacuum properties are derived. In the fifth section types of components and suitable materials for accelerator vacuum systems are described. Such components are for example flange systems, vacuum…
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TopicsParticle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers · Particle accelerators and beam dynamics
