We demonstrated a new injection scheme using a single pulsed quadrupole magnet (PQM) with no pulsed local bump at the Photon Factory Advanced Ring (PF-AR) in High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK). The scheme employs the basic property of a quadrupole magnet, that the field at the center is zero, and nonzero elsewhere. The amplitude of coherent betatron oscillation of the injected beam is effectively reduced by the PQM; then, the injected beam is captured into the ring without largely affecting the already stored beam. In order to investigate the performance of the scheme with a real beam, we built the PQM providing a higher field gradient over $3\mathrm{T}/\mathrm{m}$ and a shorter pulse width of $2.4\mu \mathrm{s}$, which is twice the revolution period of the PF-AR. After the field measurements confirmed the PQM specifications, we installed it into the ring. Then, we conducted the experiment using a real beam and consequently succeeded in storing the beam current of more than 60 mA at the PF-AR. This is the first successful beam injection using a single PQM in electron storage rings.

• Received 30 July 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.10.123501

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