Va. Anferov et Ys. Derbenev, SIBERIAN SNAKES WITH SMALL NUMBER OF MAGNETS FOR HIGH-ENERGY ACCELERATORS, Particle accelerators, 44(3-4), 1994, pp. 201-214
Considering the Siberian snake method, which is used to accelerate pol
arized beams, several snake configurations are investigated in assumpt
ion that for high energy machines the particle orbit excursion does no
t dominate in snake design requirements. Snake schemes with a small nu
mber of magnets can be effective. Using dipoles with an arbitrary fiel
d orientation various snake designs were considered containing four, f
ive magnets and three plus two correction magnets.