Suppression of eddy-current effects in beam injection using a pulsed sextupole magnet with a new ceramic chamber

At the Photon Factory storage ring (PF ring) of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), a pulsed sextupole magnet (PSM) has been used for top-up injection for the first time. Following its successful operation at the KEK, this new injection scheme was expanded to one with a nonlinear kicker in BESSY II and was then applied at UVSOR and Aichi SR in Japan. Also, the PSM system in the PF ring was improved by introducing a rectangular shape for the magnet's bore to strengthen the magnetic field. However, this upgraded PSM was not implemented for user operation because it induced a horizontal oscillation of the stored beam with a maximum amplitude of 5.0 mm. This oscillation was assumed to be caused by eddy currents originating from the uniform inner coating of the ceramic chamber. We, therefore, developed a modified ceramic chamber with a new patterned coating designed to suppress the eddy current-induced magnetic field. The pattern shape was optimized to suppress this magnetic field and, simultaneously, to reduce the resistive wall impedance. A fine-line pattern-coating process, originally developed for a ceramic chamber with an integrated pulsed magnet, was modified for application with the magnet's chamber of the sextupole. The maximum horizontal oscillation amplitude was suppressed by a factor of 16 by using the new PSM chamber without any issues related to beam instability. Details of the historical background of the upgrading of the PSM system, an investigation of the cause of the abnormal oscillation problem, the development of the new process for coating the ceramic chamber, and the results of the beam-response measurements for the new ceramic chamber installed in the PF ring are reported in this article.