Impact of gas Bremsstrahlung on synchrotron radiation beamline shielding at the advanced photon source

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) currently under construction at Argonne National Laboratory will be one of the world`s brightest synchrotron radiation facilities. The storage ring, capable of storing currents up to 300 mA at 7.0 GeV and 200 mA at 7.5 GeV, will produce very intense and energetic synchrotron radiation (E{sub c} = 24 keV for bending magnets and E{sub c} = 37.4 keV for wigglers, where E{sub c} is the critical energy). The synchrotron radiation (SR) beam lines consisting of experimental enclosures and transport lines will have to be shielded against synchrotron radiation and gas bremsstrahlung scattered from beam line components. For insertion devices placed in the straight sections (length = 15 m), the gas bremsstrahlung produced by the interaction of the primary stored beam with residual gas molecules or ions in the storage ring vacuum chamber dominates the SR beam line shielding. The impact of gas bremsstrahlung on the SR beam line shielding is discussed in this paper.