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FR5PFP037 | Adiabatic Thermal Beam Equilibrium in an Alternating-Gradient Focusing Field | 4387 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the Department of Energy, Grant No. DE-FG02-95ER40919 and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Grant No. FA9550-06-1-0269. An adiabatic warm-fluid equilibrium theory for a thermal charged-particle beam in an alternating gradient (AG) focusing field is presented. Warm-fluid equilibrium equations are solved in the paraxial approximation and the rms beam envelope equations and the self-consistent Poisson equation, governing the beam density and potential distributions, are derived. The theory predicts that the 4D rms thermal emittance of the beam is conserved, but the 2D rms thermal emittances are not constant. Although the presented rms beam envelope equations have the same form as the previously known rms beam envelope equations, the evolution of the rms emittances in the present theory is given by analytical expressions. The beam density is calculated numerically, and it does not have the simplest elliptical symmetry, but the constant density contours are ellipses whose aspect ratio decreases as the density decreases along the transverse displacement from the beam axis. For high-intensity beams, the beam density profile is flat in the center of the beam and falls off rapidly within a few Debye lengths, and the rate at which the density falls is approximately isotropic in the transverse directions. |