• A.W. Molvik, J.J. Barnard, R.H. Cohen, A. Friedman, M. Kireeff Covo, S.M. Lund
  LLNL, Livermore, California
• D. Baca, F.M. Bieniosek, C.M. Celata, P.A. Seidl, J.-L. Vay, W. Waldron
  LBNL, Berkeley, California
• J.L. Vujic
  UCB, Berkeley, California

Electron clouds and gas pressure rise limit the performance of many major accelerator rings. We are studying these issues experimentally with ~1 MeV heavy-ion beams, coordinated with significant efforts in self-consistent simulation and theory.* The experiments use multiple diagnostics, within and between quadrupole magnets, to measure the sources and accumulation of electrons and gas. In support of these studies, we have measured gas desorption and electron emission coefficients for potassium ions impinging on stainless steel targets at angles near grazing incidence.** Our goal is to measure the electron particle balance for each source – ionization of gas, emission from beam tubes, and emission from an end wall – determine the electron effects on the ion beam and apply the increased understanding to mitigation.

*J-L. Vay, Invited paper, session TICP; R. H. Cohen et al., PRST-AB 7, 124201 (2004). **M. Kireeff Covo, this conference; A. W. Molvik et al., PRST-AB 7, 093202 (2004).

• P.A. Seidl, D. Baca, F.M. Bieniosek, J.-L. Vay
  LBNL, Berkeley, California
• R.H. Cohen, A. Friedman, D.P. Grote, M. Kireeff Covo, S.M. Lund, A.W. Molvik
  LLNL, Livermore, California

Accelerators for inertial fusion energy, high-energy density physics and other high intensity applications have an economic incentive to minimize the clearance between the beam edge and the aperture wall. This increases the risk from electron clouds and gas desorbed from walls. Using the High Current Experiment at LBNL, we have measured the beam (0.18 A, 1 MeV K+ ) distribution upstream and downstream of a short lattice of magnetic quadrupoles where the 2·rms beam size is =50% of the quadrupole aperture, and the generalized perveance is ˜10-3. Between magnets, the transverse beam distribution is also imaged. The beam potential is 1-2 kV, large enough to trap electrons produced by, for example, K+ - gas collisions. Gas and electron effects are intentionally induced by varying gas pressure and the bias of e^- controlling electrodes.* The measurements are compared to WARP PIC simulations that include the self-consistent tracking of electrons and ions.**

*A. W. Molvik et al., this conference. **J-L Vay et al., this conference.

• M. Kireeff Covo, J.J. Barnard, R.H. Cohen, A. Friedman, D.P. Grote, S.M. Lund, A.W. Molvik, G.A. Westenskow
  LLNL, Livermore, California
• D. Baca, F.M. Bieniosek, C.M. Celata, J.W. Kwan, P.A. Seidl, J.-L. Vay
  LBNL, Berkeley, California
• J.L. Vujic
  UCB, Berkeley, California

The cost of accelerators for heavy-ion inertial fusion energy (HIF) can be reduced by using the smallest possible clearance between the beam and the wall from the beamline. This increases beam loss to the walls, generating ion-induced electrons that could be trapped by beam space charge potential into an "electron cloud," which can cause degradation or loss of the ion beam. In order to understand the physical mechanism of production of ion-induced electrons we have measured impact of K+ ions with energies up to 400 KeV on stainless steel surfaces near grazing incidence, using the ion source test stand (STS-500) at LLNL. The electron yield will be discussed and compared with experimental measurements from 1 MeV K+ ions in the High-Current Experiment at LBNL.*

*A.W. Molvik et al., PRST-AB 7, 093202 (2004).

• S.M. Lund
  LLNL, Livermore, California
• S. R. Chawla
  UCB, Berkeley, California

It has been observed in both experiment and particle in cell simulations that space-charge-dominated beams suffer strong emittance growth in alternating gradient quadrupole transport channels when the undepressed phase advance σ0 increases beyond about 80 degrees per lattice period. Transport systems have long been designed to respect this phase advance limit but no theory has been proposed to date to explain the the cause of the limit. Here we propose a mechanism to parametrically explain the transport limit as being due to classes of halo particle orbits moving close to the beam edge in phase-space when σ0 increases beyond 80 degrees. A finite beam edge and/or perturbation acting on an edge particle can then act to move edge particles to large amplitude and lead to large increases in beam phase space area, lost particles, and degraded transport. A core particle model for a uniform density elliptical beam in a periodic focusing lattice was written and is applied to parametrically analyze this process for both periodic alternating gradient quadrupole and solenoidal transport lattices. Self-consistent particle in cell simulations are also carried out to support results.