Initial performance of the Stanford Superconducting Recyclotron

Over the past several years the Stanford superconducting linac has been evolving from an experimental accelerator towards an operational facility capable of providing a high duty cycle electron beam for users. The linac has recently been fitted with bending magnets and other transport elements to allow its beam to be accelerated several times by the same linac sections (recirculated). At present, with one orbit of recirculation, an 84 MeV beam has been extracted. By the end of this year a 170 MeV beam is expected, and by the end of 1978, with the completion of four orbits, the beam energy will be 280 MeV. The beam duty cycle will be between 20 percent and 100%, the maximum beam current will be between 20 μA and 100 μA