Threshold studies of the microwave instability in electron storage rings

We use a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck program and a linearized Vlasov solver to study the microwave instability threshold of impedance models: (1) a Q=1 resonator and (2) shielded coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR), and find the results of the two programs agree well. For shielded CSR we show that only tw...

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Published in:Physical review special topics. PRST-AB. Accelerators and beams 2010-10, Vol.13 (10), p.104402, Article 104402
Main Authors: Bane, K. L. F., Cai, Y., Stupakov, G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accelerators,ACCPHY
APERTURES
DAMPING
ELECTRONS
IMPEDANCE
INSTABILITY
Parameters
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
Radiation shielding
RESONATORS
SHIELDING
Stability
STORAGE RINGS
Storage rings (particle accelerators)
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
Synchrotrons
THRESHOLD CURRENT
Threshold currents
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Summary:We use a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck program and a linearized Vlasov solver to study the microwave instability threshold of impedance models: (1) a Q=1 resonator and (2) shielded coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR), and find the results of the two programs agree well. For shielded CSR we show that only two dimensionless parameters, the shielding parameter Π and the strength parameter Scsr , are needed to describe the system. We further show that there is a strong instability associated with CSR, and that the threshold, to good approximation, is given by (Scsr)th=0.5+0.12Π . In particular, this means that shielding has little effect in stabilizing the beam for Π≲2 ; for larger Π it is effective, with threshold current depending on shielding aperture as h−3/2 . We, in addition, find another instability in the vicinity of Π=0.7 with a lower threshold, (Scsr)th≈0.2 . We find that the threshold to this instability depends strongly on damping time, (Scsr)th∼τp−1/2 , and that the tune spread at threshold is small—both hallmarks of a weak instability.
ISSN:1098-4402
1098-4402
2469-9888
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.13.104402