Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

I present in this paper preliminary design concepts for a fast kicker magnet and driver for the rapid transfer of the electron beam between radiator beam lines in LUX. This paper presents a feasibility study to find a roughly optimized subset of engineering parameters that would satisfy the initial design specifications of: Pulse width < 30 mu s, rise / fall time < 10 mu s, time jitter < 1ns, magnetic length < 0.5meter, gap height = 15mm, gap width = 25mm, peak field = 0.6Tesla, bend angle = 1.7 deg. for beam energy of 3.1 Gev, repetition rate = 10KHz. An H magnet core configuration was chosen. Through an iterative mathematical process employing Mathcad 11 [1] a realizable design was chosen. Peak current, Peak voltage across the coils, conductor losses due to proximity and skin effects, and basic circuit topology were investigated. Types and losses of core material were only briefly discussed. The final topology consists of two magnets in series running at 10KHz, .3Tesla, 630 amp peak current, 10 mu s pulse width, 693 Watts per coil section, driven by fast solid state switch with an energy recovery inductor.