Author: Feldman, D.W.
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WEO1C05 Longitudinal Space Charge Phenomena in an Intense Beam in a Ring 447
 
  • R.A. Kishek, B.L. Beaudoin, D.W. Feldman, I. Haber, T.W. Koeth, Y. Mo
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
 
  Funding: Supported by the US Dept. of Energy, Offices of High Energy Physics and Fusion Energy Sciences, and by the US Dept. of Defense, Office of Naval Research and the Joint Technology Office.
The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) uses nonrelativistic, high-current electron beams to access the intense space charge dynamics applicable to hadron beams. The UMER beam parameters correspond to space charge incoherent tune shifts, at injection, in the range of 1-5.5 integers. Longitudinal induction focusing is used to counteract the space charge force at the edges of a long rectangular bunch, confining the beam for 100s of turns. We report on two recent findings: (1) The formation and propagation of solitons from large amplitude longitudinal perturbations, observed experimentally and reproduced in WARP* simulations. (2) The evolution of a longitudinal multi-streaming instability when the space-charge force is allowed to lengthen the bunch ends. The expanding bunch ends fill the ring, interpenetrate, and wrap repeatedly, forming multiple streams at any one location, each with its unique velocity. The resulting multi-stream instability is investigated over a wide range of beam currents and initial pulse lengths, and experimental observations are in good agreement with WARP simulations and an analytical theory that successfully predicts the onset of the instability.
* D.P. Grote, A. Friedman, I. Haber, S. Yu, Fus. Eng. & Des. 32-33, 193-200 (1996).
 
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