• S. De Santis
  LBNL, Berkeley, California
• M.G. Billing, M.A. Palmer, J.P. Sikora
  CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
• B.T. Carlson
  Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania

The CESR Damping Ring Test Accelerator collaboration (Cesr-TA) utilizes the CESR e+/e^- storage ring at Cornell University for carrying out R&D activities critical for the ILC damping rings. In particular, various locations have been instrumented for the study of the electron cloud effects and their amelioration. In this paper we present the results obtained using the TE wave propagation method to study the electron cloud evolution and its dependence on several beam and machine parameters. Whenever possible, we have also compared our measurements with those obtained by using retarding field analyzers (RFA) with good agreement. Amongst the results obtained, we were able to detect a strong resonance of the electron cloud with the TE wave in regions of the beampipe where a dipole-like magnetic field is also present. Besides the standard transmission method, we are also developing an alternative procedure, the so-called resonant BPM, which can be used for a more localized measurement of the electron cloud density, which has already yielded promising results.

• M.A. Palmer, J.P. Alexander, M.G. Billing, J.R. Calvey, C.J. Conolly, J.A. Crittenden, J. Dobbins, G. Dugan, N. Eggert, E. Fontes, M.J. Forster, R.E. Gallagher, S.W. Gray, S. Greenwald, D.L. Hartill, W.H. Hopkins, D.L. Kreinick, B. Kreis, Z. Leong, Y. Li, X. Liu, J.A. Livezey, A. Lyndaker, J. Makita, M.P. McDonald, V. Medjidzade, R.E. Meller, T.I. O'Connell, S.B. Peck, D.P. Peterson, G. Ramirez, M.C. Rendina, P. Revesz, D.H. Rice, N.T. Rider, D. L. Rubin, D. Sagan, J.J. Savino, R.M. Schwartz, R.D. Seeley, J.W. Sexton, J.P. Shanks, J.P. Sikora, E.N. Smith, C.R. Strohman, H.A. Williams
  CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
• F. Antoniou, S. Calatroni, M. Gasior, O.R. Jones, Y. Papaphilippou, J. Pfingstner, G. Rumolo, H. Schmickler, M. Taborelli
  CERN, Geneva
• D. Asner
  Carleton University, College of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario
• L. Boon, A.F. Garfinkel
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
• J.M. Byrd, C.M. Celata, J.N. Corlett, S. De Santis, M.A. Furman, A. Jackson, R. Kraft, D.V. Munson, G. Penn, D.W. Plate, M. Venturini
  LBNL, Berkeley, California
• B.T. Carlson
  Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania
• T. Demma
  INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
• R.T. Dowd
  ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
• J.W. Flanagan, P. Jain, K. Kanazawa, K. Kubo, K. Ohmi, H. Sakai, K. Shibata, Y. Suetsugu, M. Tobiyama
  KEK, Ibaraki
• D. Gonnella
  Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York
• W. Guo
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
• K.C. Harkay
  ANL, Argonne
• R. Holtzapple
  CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA
• J.K. Jones, A. Wolski
  Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
• D. Kharakh, J.S.T. Ng, M.T.F. Pivi, L. Wang
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• M.C. Ross, C.-Y. Tan, R.M. Zwaska
  Fermilab, Batavia
• L. Schächter
  Technion, Haifa
• E.L. Wilkinson
  Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) has been reconfigured as a test accelerator (CesrTA) for a program of electron cloud (EC) research at ultra low emittance. The instrumentation in the ring has been upgraded with local diagnostics for measurement of cloud density and with improved beam diagnostics for the characterization of both the low emittance performance and the beam dynamics of high intensity bunch trains interacting with the cloud. Finally a range of EC mitigation methods have been deployed and tested. Measurements of cloud density and its impact on the beam under a range of conditions will be presented and compared with simulations. The effectiveness of a range of mitigation techniques will also be discussed.

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