Magnetic design of the advanced light source harmonic sextupoles

Forty-eight harmonic sextupole magnets with integrated dipole correctors and skew quadrupole coils will be introduced in the Advanced Light Source Storage Ring. These new magnets are required to allow the ALS to provide the 40 beamline users with higher photon beam brightness (factor of 2 or 3). Introducing new combined-function magnets in an existing storage ring is a challenge due to the limited space available and a balance had to be found between magnet performance and spatial constraints. Consequently four different magnet designs were required. The calculation and simulation results obtained for each design as well as the impact of the different design choices on the magnetic performance are developed in this paper. © 2002-2011 IEEE