Pulsed magnet systems for high energy physics beam lines

During the past years pulsed magnet systems have been developed at Argonne National Laboratory to transport beam bursts of charged high energy particles of the Zero Gradient Synchrotron (ZGS) facility. The particular features of the switching circuits, the power supplies and the magnets are described. Included are septum, quadrupole, beam shutter and bending magnets with energies ranging from 25 J to 100 kJ. The degree to which magnet current must be repeated and held constant (flattopped) during beam spill varies from +-5 percent for a beam shutter magnet to +-0.005 percent for a bending magnet; the duration of flattop ranges from a few μs to many ms. (U.S.)