KEK, Ibaraki
A few issues on the path of the luminosity upgrade of KEKB B-Factory is described, including coherent synchrotron radiation, design of the interaction region, crab crossing, and high current operation. These issues will raise more obstacles on the upgrade with the High-Current Scheme. As an alternative, {¥it Nano-Beam Scheme} should be considered as a possible option for the upgrade.
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
It is well known that the beam-beam interaction has a focusing effect and therefore causes a dynamical beating of beta function around the rings. This effect becomes greatly enhanced when a collider, such as KEKB, is operated near half integer. The beating makes it difficult to interpret the measurement of horizontal beam size. We derived two coupled nonlinear equations and solved them analytically to obtain the beam sizes at the interaction points, taking into account of dynamical beta and emittance. It has been demonstrated its effectiveness using actual measured data at the synchrotron light monitors. It is expected that it will be implemented in the control room.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
Lancaster University, Lancaster
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: This work was partially performed under the auspices of the US DOE and the European Community-Research Infrastructure, FP6 programme (CARE, contract number RII3-CT-2003-506395)}
The LHC crab cavity program is advancing rapidly towards a first prototype which is anticipated to be tested during the early stages of the LHC phase I upgrade and commissioning. Some aspects related to crab optics, collimation, aperture constraints, impedances, noise effects, beam transparency and machine protection critical for a safe and robust operation of LHC beams with crab cavities are addressed here.
KEK, Ibaraki
KEK is studying the design of the superconducting final focus quadrupoles for the Super KEKB. The system consists of quadrupole-doublet cooled at 1.9 K. The vertical focusing quadrupole has the maximum magnetic field more than 8 T in the superconducting coils. The field gradient at the magnet center is more than 80 T/m and the effective magnetic length is 0.25 m. The horizontal focusing quadrupole is designed with the field gradient of 9.5 T/m and the effective magnetic length of 1.0 m. These magnet parameters will be iterated in the process of optimizing the beam optics. In this paper, the conceptual design of final focusing system and magnets will be reported.
KEK, Ibaraki
Crab cavities were installed at KEKB at the beginning of 2007. The beam operation with the crab cavities is in progress. In this paper, machine performance with crab crossing is described focusing on a specific luminosity and a beam lifetime issue related to the dynamic beam-beam effects.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
KEK, Ibaraki
Using a streak camera, we measured the longitudinal profiles of a positron bunch in the Low Energy Ring (LER) of KEKB at various currents. The measured charge densities were used to construct a simple Q=1 broadband impedance model. The model with three parameters not only gave an excellent description of longitudinal dynamics for a positive momentum compaction factor but also for the negative ones, including bunch shortening bellow a threshold and bursting modes beyond the threshold. Furthermore, our study indicated that the threshold of microwave instability was about 0.5 mA in bunch current in the LER. At the nominal operating current 1.0 mA, there was a 20% increase of the energy spread. The results of measurement, analysis, and simulations will be presented in this paper.