JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
NewSUBARU/SPring-8, Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology for Industry (LASTI), Hyogo
RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako
Transverse beam instabilities were suppressed with chromaticity modulation (CM)* in the electron storage ring, New SUBARU. The horizontal and vertical betatron tune spread inside a bunch were introduced by CM with synchrotron oscillation frequency driven by an AC sextuple magnet**, to obtain Landau damping of the coherent bunch motion. The tune spread in a bunch is usually introduced by octupole field, however, its high nonlinearity reduces the dynamic aperture. And usual feedback against instabilities work only on m=0 mode and it is not easy to be applied to hadron synchrotrons because of their varying revolution period. The CM scheme has not such disadvantages. The damping time of coherent motion excited by external kick was measured and was found as less than 1ms, one order faster than that without CM. To observe the effect on instabilities, we intentionally tuned an HOM in a cavity to excite a horizontal multi-bunch instability. The instability peak in the spectrum of the beam motion was vanished with CM turned on and the instability was suppressed. We also observed the increase of the threshold current of the vertical single-bunch mode-coupling instability by factor 3 with CM.
* T. Nakamura, Proc. of PAC'95, p.3100 (1995).
** T. Nakamura, et al., Appl. Superconduct., IEEE Trans. Vol. 18, p.326 (2008).
