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.
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
Lattice design for SuperKEKB is based on the present KEKB lattice. The unit-cell structure of KEKB has a wide range of flexibility, therefore main beam-optical parameters can be adjusted without changing the arcs. The interaction region (IR) and the other straight sections are changed to squeeze the vertical beta function to 3 mm at IP, keeping sufficient dynamic apertures. Recent progress such as a new design of IR with superconducting quadrupole magnets at 1.9 K, traveling focus scheme by using crab cavities, local chromaticity correction for the high energy ring, is presented.
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.
KEK, Ibaraki
The e+/e- injector LINAC in KEK usually successively injects into four rings, which are Low Energy Ring (LER) of KEKB (3.5GeV/e+), High Energy Ring (HER) of KEKB (8.0GeV/e-), Photon Factory (PF) (2.5GeV/e-) and Advanced Ring for pulse X-rays (PF-AR) (3.0GeV/e-). While LINAC continuously injects into LER and HER alternatively every about five minutes, keeping both of KEKB rings almost their full operating currents. It takes about one minute to switch beam mode of LINAC. PF and PF-AR are injected a few times in a day. Time for PF or PF-AR including mode-switch had taken about 20 minutes for each other. For PF injection, the switching time was shortened in 2005 and the occupancy time is about 5 minutes. In 2008, we succeeded to make the switching time shorter, 2 seconds for HER/LER, and Pulse-to-pulse alternatively injection for PF/HER using an event system. Especially for KEKB, the short switching time is contributed to provide high currents and to improve luminosity at which beam lives are too short to keep the high currents. In 2009, we have a plan to inject also for LER/HER pulse-to-pulse alternatively.