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Wootton, C.J.

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FR5PFP008 A Statistical Study of Beam Centroid Oscillations in a Solenoid Transport Channel 4323
 
  • S.M. Lund, J.E. Coleman, S.M. Lidia, P.A. Seidl, C.J. Wootton
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
 
 

Funding: This research was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DOE at the Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories under Contracts No. DE-AC52-07NA27344 and No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.


A recent theory in Ref. * analyzes small-amplitude oscillations of the transverse beam centroid (center of mass) in solenoidal transport channels. This theory employs a transformation to a rotating Larmor frame to simply express the centroid response to mechanical misalignments (transverse center displacements and tilts about the of the longitudinal axis of symmetry) of the solenoid and initial centroid errors. The centroid evolution is expressed in terms of a superposition of the centroid evolving in the ideal aligned system plus an expansion in terms of "alignment functions" that are functions of only the ideal lattice with corresponding amplitudes set by the solenoid misalignment parameters. This formulation is applied to analyze statistical properties of beam centroid oscillations induced by solenoid misalignments. Results are compared to experiments at the NDCX experiment at the LBNL. It is found that contributions to oscillation amplitudes from tilts are significantly larger than contributions from offsets for expected parameters. Use of the formulation to optimally steer the centroid back on-axis with limited diagnostic measurements is also discussed.


* S.M. Lund, C.J. Wootton, and E.P. Lee, "Transverse centroid oscillations in solenoidally focused beam transport lattices," accepted for publication, Nuc. Inst. Meth. A.