THE LSU ELECTRON STORAGE RING

The Brobeck Division of Maxwell Laboratories, Inc., is building an electron storage ring for Louisiana State University. This turnkey project, the first storage ring to be built commercially in the United States, will be located at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices in Baton Rouge. The storage ring system consists of a 1.2 GeV, 400 mA storage ring and a 200 MeV linac injector, and it will provide intense beams of X-rays for research in X-ray lithography and in other areas. The magnet lattice has a Chasman-Green design. Four 3 m, zero-dispersion straight sections are incorporated in the storage ring, which has a 55.2 m circumference. The design phase of the construction project has been completed, and major components are being fabricated.