Author: Beaudoin, B.L.
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TUPPC094 Experimental Observations of Large-amplitude Solitary Waves in Electron Beams 1377
 
  • Y. Mo, B.L. Beaudoin, D.W. Feldman, I. Haber, R.A. Kishek, P.G. O'Shea
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
  • J.C.T. Thangaraj
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: Work funded by the US Dept. of Energy Offices of Fusion Energy Sciences and High Energy Physics and Fusion Energy Sciences, and by the Dept. of Defense Office of Naval Research.
The longitudinal dynamics of space charge dominated beams plays an important role in particle accelerators and other applications such as heavy ion fusion and free electron lasers (FELs). All beams are space-charge dominated near the source. Furthermore, the longitudinal profile is not necessarily an ideal mathematical function. By means of experiments on the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER), we studied how a perturbation to the line charge density could affect the beam propagation. By varying the initial amplitude of the perturbation, we access nonlinear space charge physics. When starting with large-amplitude perturbations, we have observed, for the first time in charged particle beams, solitary waves for which the nonlinear steepening exactly balances the wave dispersion, leading to persistent waves that preserves their shape over a long distance. This paper presents the results of the soliton experiments, including systematic studies of the dependence of the soliton propagation on beam current, perturbation level and width. The data is compared with theory and simulation.
 
 
WEPPR013 Design of an Electrostatic Extraction Section for the University of Maryland Electron Ring 2964
 
  • K.J. Ruisard
    Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
  • B.L. Beaudoin, I. Haber, R.A. Kishek, T.W. Koeth
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the US Dept. of Energy Office of High Energy Physics.
The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) is a 11.5 meter circumference, 10 keV, electron storage ring dedicated to the study of the physics space-charge-dominated beams transported over long path lengths. The intensity of the space charge in UMER can be varied by aperturing the injected beam current from 0.6 mA to 100 mA. Recently, the electron beam has been transported over one thousand turns. To fully characterize the transverse and longitudinal evolution of the beam on a turn-by-turn basis, extraction and transport to a diagnostic station is required. We present the design of a pulsed electric extraction system that satisfies the challenging constraint of fitting the hardware within the dense magnet lattice. The extraction system must universally accommodate the range beam intensities and minimize any disruption to the circulating beam
 
 
WEPPR014 Recovering Measured Dynamics from a DC Circulating Space-Charge-Dominated Storage Ring 2967
 
  • W.D. Stem, B.L. Beaudoin, I. Haber, T.W. Koeth
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
 
  Funding: This work is 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 Joint Technology Office.
Space-charge is increasingly significant at high beam intensities such as in FEL injectors and heavy ion inertial fusion drivers, where it dominates the beam dynamics. The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) is a high intensity circular machine that is dedicated to the study of long path length space-charge-dominated beam physics on a small scale. Over multiple turns, longitudinal space charge effects cause the tail and head of an electron bunch to expand and interpenetrate, eventually resulting in a “DC beam”. This leads to complications when trying to measure the beam with UMER’s AC coupled diagnostics. Three techniques are developed to recover the information within the beam. Two “knockout” techniques implement invasive pulsed electric kicks to the beam in combination with either a fluorescent imaging screen or a current monitor. A third technique based on integration of the wall-current signal provides a non-invasive method to study the DC beam dynamics. Experimental results from all three methods are compared. The DC beam profile can then be studied over long trajectories and the existence of any loss mechanisms can be determined.
 
 
THPPR013 Beam Transport in Alternative Lattices at the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) 3993
 
  • S. Bernal, B.L. Beaudoin, M. Cornacchia, R.A. Kishek, D.F. Sutter
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
 
  Funding: This work is funded by the US Dept. of Energy Offices of High Energy Physics and High Energy Density Physics, and by the US Dept. of Defense Office of Naval Research and Joint Technology Office.
We discuss the motivation, general procedure and results of first experiments of beam transport with two alternative focusing schemes at UMER, a low-energy (10 keV), high-current (1-100 mA) electron storage ring. The new ring optics simplifies injection and RMS envelope matching, and gives us a larger number of beam position monitors (BPMs) per (un-depressed) betatron wavelength, all of which are desirable conditions for better orbit control. Furthermore, one of the new optics schemes is more symmetrical than the standard one, facilitating e.g. the implementation of quadrupole scans for betatron resonance studies. The alternative lattices also allow us to expand significantly on the tune parameter space available for the study of space-charge dominated beam transport.