• A. Kanareykin, C.-J. Jing, A.L. Kustov, P. Schoessow
  Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio
• A. Altmark
  LETI, Saint-Petersburg
• W. Gai, J.G. Power
  ANL, Argonne

Beam breakup (BBU) effects resulting from parasitic wakefields are a serious limitation to the performance of dielectric structure based accelerators. We report here on numerical studies and experimental investigations of BBU and its mitigation. An experimental program is underway at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator facility that will focus on BBU measurements in dielectric wakefield devices. We examine the use of external FODO channels for control of the beam in the presence of strong transverse wakefields. We present calculations based on a particle-Green's function beam dynamics code (BBU-3000) that we are developing. We will report on new features of the code including the ability to treat space charge. The BBU code is being incorporated into a software  framework that will significantly increase its utility (Beam Dynamics Simulation Platform). The platform is based on the very flexible Boinc software environment developed originally at Berkeley for the SETI@home project. The package can handle both task farming on a heterogeneous cluster of networked computers and computing on a local grid. User access to the platform is through a web browser.

• I.L. Sheynman, A. Altmark, S. Baturin
  LETI, Saint-Petersburg
• A. Kanareykin
  Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio

The analysis of Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation generated by wide high current relativistic electronic bunch in a rectangular waveguide with multilayered dielectric filling is carried out. One ceramic layer of the structure possesses ferroelectric properties, which allow the waveguide frequency spectrum to be controlled by varying the permittivity of this ferroelectric layer by external electric field. On the basis of decomposition on orthogonal eigenmodes of a rectangular multilayered waveguide analytical expressions are received and numerical modeling of wakefield electromagnetic fields and the radial forces deflecting the bunch is spent.