Ffags and Cyclotrons with Reverse Bends
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This paper describes tracking studies of FFAGs and radial-sector cyclotrons with reverse bends using the cyclotron equilibrium orbit code CYCLOPS. The results for FFAGs confirm those obtained with lumped-element codes, and suggest that cyclotron codes will prove to be important tools for evaluating the measured fields of FFAG magnets. The results for radial-sector cyclotrons show that the use of negative valley fields would allow axial focusing to be maintained, and hence allow intense cw beams to be accelerated, to energies ≈10 GeV.
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