Energy interlock in the Booster to Storage Ring transfer line
Under normal operational conditions in NSLS-II the energy of the beam extracted from the Booster and transferred to and injected into the Storage Ring (SR) is 3 GeV. It was determined that for the commissioning purposes energy range of the beam reaching the SR is allowed to be 2 GeV - 3.15 GeV. While the upper limit of the beam energy is defined by the maximum possible settings of Booster dipoles at the top of the ramp, the lower energy limit has to be provided by magnet interlocks. Dynamic interlocks of the Booster dipoles would be an ideal solution, yet the constraints of time and resources do not allow providing such interlocks for commissioning stage of NSLS-II. Therefore, the static interlock of magnets in the Booster to SR transfer line (BSR) shall be used to build a required “energy filter”. The goal of this exercise is to find a feasible solution for the BSR energy interlock that will be used at commissioning stage of NSLS-II accelerator.