Beam emittance growth in a proton storage ring employing charge exchange injection

Recently, it has been shown that very large currents can be accumulated in medium energy proton storage rings by multiturn injection of an H- beam through a charge stripping medium. Since the particles are injected continuously into the same phase space, it is possible to increase the circulating beam brightness with respect to that of the incoming beam by a large factor. The stored protons pass repeatedly through the stripper, however, so that this phase space is gradually enlarged by scattering. The dependence of the circulating beam phase space (emittance) growth rate on the nature of the scattering process and on where it occurs in the storage ring matrix is considered. Since the motivation for this work arose in connection with the design of the proposed high-current storage ring at LAMPF, the results are focused on the specific parameters of that device. (U.S.)