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LINAC 4 is a normal conducting H- linac which aims to intensify the proton flux available for the CERN accelerator complex. This injector is designed to accelerate a 65 mA beam up to 180 MeV. The linac consists of 4 different types of accelerating structures: the 352 MHz IPHI-RFQ, a 352 MHz 3-tank Drift Tube Linac, a 352 MHz Coupled Cavity Drift Tube Linac, and a 704.4 MHz Side Coupled Linac to boost the beam up to the final energy. As LINAC 4 is also designed as a pre-injector for a high power superconducting linac (3.5 GeV, 4 MW) the requirements on acceptable beam emittance growth, halo formation and particle loss are extremely tight. In order to determine the tolerances on the linac components, we examined the sensitivity of the structure to errors on the accelerating field and on the focusing quadrupoles. Simulations were performed between 3 and 180 MeV with the transport code TRACEWIN to evaluate the emittance growth, energy and phase jitter, halo formation of the transported beam and the amount of lost particles. We will present results on individual sensitivities to a single error, as well as the global impact of simultaneous errors on the beam quality. We will mention a f
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