Multi-turn injection of 50 MeV protons into the CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster

Since 1978, Linac2 produces beams of 50 MeV protons with a current around 160 mA, which are injected into the CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) with conventional multi-turn injection using a horizontal septum. It is planned to replace Linac2 during a future long stop with a new H- linac, Linac4, injecting at higher energy (160 MeV) and making use of the modern chargeexchange injection principle. Due to the age of Linac2 and to a delicate vacuum situation the risk of a serious Linac2 breakdown has to be considered. Therefore it is necessary to study if the PSB could produce beams useful for the LHC and other experiments injecting a Linac4 proton beam at 50 MeV with much lower average current compared to Linac2 and without the need for a long installation of the 160 MeV H- injection hardware. Benchmarking of the PSB injection model with the existing injection system with Linac2 using the ORBIT code has been done for a LHC-type beam and then the injection model was used to estimate the brightness for LHC-type beams that could potentially be reached in one PSB ring with the injection of a Linac4 proton beam at 50 MeV.