In the early morning of February 16’th, the first 100-MeV beam made its first revolution in the 130-m circumference booster synchrotron for the Australian Synchrotron Project after a few days of mainly debugging the system. After an additional couple of days, this was followed by a stored beam, which could be observed for a thousand turns. This lifetime of the beam is determined by the emission of synchrotron radiation as no radio-frequency voltage was applied. As soon as the infrastructure for RF system is available, acceleration of the beam to the maximum energy of 3 GeV will commence.
The figure shows the happy crew after the first turn was observed. The persons are from left to right: Sergio Costantin, Mark Boland, Greg LeBlanc (sitting), Eugene Tan, Søren Pape Møller, Martin Spencer, Rohan Dowd, Diana Martin, Erhard Huttel, and Søren Friis-Nielsen (standing)
The oscilloscope trace shows the signal observed on a strip-line detector. Each time-division corresponds to 50 turns.
