LBNL, Berkeley, California
LLNL, Livermore, California
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Funding: This work was supported by the Office of Science, U. S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
A new set of resonances for electron cloud dynamics in the presence of a magnetic field has been found. For short beam bunch lengths and low magnetic fields where lb << 2*π/ωc, (lb = bunch duration, ωc = non-relativistic cyclotron frequency) resonances between the bunch frequency and harmonics of the cyclotron frequency cause an increase in the electron cloud density in narrow ranges of magnetic field near the resonances. For ILC parameters the increase in the density is up to a factor of approximately 3, and the spatial distribution of the electrons is broader near resonances, lacking the well-defined density "stripes" of multipactoring found for non-resonant cases. Simulations with the 2D computer code POSINST, as well as a single-particle tracking code, were used to elucidate the physics of the dynamics. The resonances are expected to affect the electron cloud dynamics in the fringe fields of conventional lattice magnets and in wigglers, where the magnetic fields are low. Results of the simulations, the reason for the bunch-length dependence, and details of the dynamics will be discussed.
C.M. Celata is presently also a visitor in Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: Supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-05CH11231 and by the Fermilab Main Injector upgrade effort.
We provide a brief status report on measurements and simulations of the electron-cloud in the Fermilab Main Injector. Areas of agreement and disagreement are spelled out, along with their possible significance.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
LBNL, Berkeley, California
ANL, Argonne
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Funding: Supported by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy under Contracts No. DE-AC02-06CH11357, DE-AC02-05CH11231, and DE-AC02-76SF00515, and by the Japan/US Cooperation Program.
CESR at Cornell has been operating as a damping ring test accelerator (CesrTA) with beam parameters approaching those anticipated for the ILC damping rings. A core component of the research program is to fully understand electron cloud effects in CesrTA. As a local probe of the electron cloud, several segmented retarding field analyzers (RFAs) have been installed in CesrTA in dipole, drift and wiggler regions. Using these RFAs, the energy spectrum of the time-average electron cloud current density striking the walls has been measured for a variety of bunch train patterns; with bunch populations up to 2x1010 per bunch, beam energies from 2 to 5 GeV, horizontal geometric emittances from roughly 10 to 133 nm, and bunch lengths of about 1 cm; and for both positron and electron beams. The effect of mitigation measures, such as coatings, has also been studied. This paper will compare these measurements with the predictions of simulation programs, and discuss the implications of these comparisons for our understanding of the physics of electron cloud generation and mitigation in ILC-like damping rings.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
LBNL, Berkeley, California
ANL, Argonne
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Funding: National Science Foundation award 0734867 Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy contracts DE-AC02-05CH11231 and DE-AC02-06CH11357
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring Test Accelerator (CesrTA) has commenced operation as a linear collider damping ring test bed following its conversion from an e+e- collider in 2008. A core component of the research program is the measurement of effects of synchrotron-radiation-induced electron cloud formation on beam dynamics. We have studied the interaction of the beam with the cloud in a number of experiments, including measurements of coherent tune shifts and emittance growth in various bunch train configurations, with different bunch currents, beam energies, beam emittance, and bunch lengths, for both positron and electron beams. This paper compares these measurements to modeling results from several advanced cloud simulation algorithms and discusses the implications of these comparisons for our understanding of the physics of electron cloud formation and decay in damping rings of the type proposed for future high-energy linear colliders.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
CERN, Geneva
Funding: Supported by the US-DOE under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231 and the US-LHC LARP. Used resources of NERSC, supported by the US-DOE under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Electron clouds impose limitations on current accelerators that may be more severe for future machines, unless adequate measures of mitigation are taken. Recently, it has been proposed to use feedback systems operating at high frequency (in the GHz range) to damp single-bunch transverse coherent oscillations that may otherwise be amplified during the interaction of the beam with ambient electron clouds. We have used the simulation package WARP-POSINST to study the growth rate and frequency patterns in space-time of the electron cloud driven beam breakup instability in the CERN SPS accelerator with, or without, an idealized feedback model for damping the instability. We will present our latest results and discuss their implications for the design of the actual feedback system.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
LLNL, Livermore, California
FZK, Karlsruhe
Funding: Supported by the US-DOE under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231, the US-LHC LARP, and the US-DOE SciDAC program ComPASS. Used resources of NERSC, supported by the US-DOE under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231.
At PAC05, we presented the package WARP-POSINST for the modeling of the effect of electron clouds on high-energy beams. We present here the latest developments in the package. Three new modes of operations were implemented: 1) “build-up mode” where, similarly to Posinst (LBNL) or Ecloud (CERN), the build-up of electron clouds is modeled in one region of an accelerator driven by a legislated bunch train; 2) “quasi-static mode” where, similarly to Headtail (CERN) or Quickpic (USC/UCLA), the “frozen beam” approximation is used to split the modeling of the beam and the electrons into two components evolving on their respective time scales; and 3) “Lorentz boosted mode” where the simulation is performed into a moving frame where the space and time scales related to the beam and electron dynamics fall in the same range. The implementation of modes (1) and (2) was primary motivated by the need for benchmarking with other codes, while the implementation of mode (3) fulfills the drive toward fully self-consistent simulations of e-cloud effect on the beam including the build-up phase. We also present benchmarking with other codes and selected results from its application to e-cloud effects.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
LBNL, Berkeley, California
KEK, Ibaraki
ANL, Argonne
Fermilab, Batavia
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
Funding: Support provided by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and the Japan/US Cooperation Program.
In March of 2008, the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) concluded twenty eight years of colliding beam operations for the CLEO high energy physics experiment. We have reconfigured CESR as an ultra low emittance damping ring for use as a test accelerator (CesrTA) for International Linear Collider (ILC) damping ring R&D. The primary goals of the CesrTA program are to achieve a beam emittance approaching that of the ILC Damping Rings with a positron beam, to investigate the interaction of the electron cloud with both low emittance positron and electron beams, to explore methods to suppress the electron cloud, and to develop suitable advanced instrumentation required for these experimental studies (in particular a fast x-ray beam size monitor capable of single pass measurements of individual bunches). We report on progress with the CESR conversion activities, the status and schedule for the experimental program, and the first experimental results that have been obtained.