INJECTION LINE OF THE SMALL ISOCHRONOUS RING

The Small Isochronous Ring (SIR) under development at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University (MSU) is a ring whose main purpose is the study of longitudinal space charge effects in the isochronous regime (1)-(3). This paper describes de SIR injection line. Descriptions of the ion source, einzel lens, bending magnet, diagnostics, chopper, and ring injection inflector plates are given. Single particle beam dynamics simulations performed using COSY (4), SIMION (5) and TOSCA(6) are detailed.