LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Electron clouds impose limitations on current accelerators that may be more severe for future machines, unless adequate measures of mitigation are taken. The simulation package WARP-POSINST was recently upgraded for handling multiple bunches and modeling concurrently the electron cloud buildup and its effect on the beam, allowing for direct self-consistent simulation of bunch trains generating, and interacting with, electron clouds. We have used the WARP-POSINST package on massively parallel supercomputers to study the buildup and interaction of electron clouds with a proton bunch train in the CERN SPS accelerator. Results suggest that a positive feedback mechanism exists between the electron buildup and the e-cloud driven transverse instability, leading to a net increase in predicted electron density.
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CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
ANL, Argonne, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
We report modeling results for electron cloud buildup in the ILC damping ring lattice design. Updated optics, wiggler magnet, and vacuum chamber designs have recently been developed for the 5-GeV, 3.2-km racetrack layout. An analysis of the synchrotron radiation profile around the ring has been performed, including the effect of photon scattering on the interior of the vacuum chamber. Operational implications of the resulting electron cloud buildup will be discussed.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
CMU, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Electron clouds can adversely affect the performance of accelerators, and are of particular concern for the design of future low emittance damping rings. Studies of the impact of electron clouds on the dynamics of bunch trains in CESR have been a major focus of the CESR Test Accelerator program. In this paper, we report measurements of coherent tune shifts, emittance growth, and coherent instabilities carried out using a variety of bunch currents, train configurations, beam energies, and transverse emittances, similar to the design values for the ILC damping rings. We also compare the measurements with simulations which model the effects of electron clouds on beam dynamics, to extract simulation model parameters and to quantify the validity of the simulation codes.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Over the course of the CESRTA program at Cornell, Retarding Field Analyzers (RFAs) have been installed in drift, dipole, quadrupole, and wiggler field regions of the CESR storage ring. RFAs are used to measure the local electron cloud flux on the vacuum chamber wall. Through the use of a retarding grid and segmented collectors, they also provide information on the energy and transverse distribution of the cloud. Understanding these measurements on a quantitative level requires the use of cloud buildup simulation codes, adapted to include a detailed model of the structure of the RFA and its interaction with the cloud. The nature of this interaction depends strongly on the strength of the local magnetic field. We have developed models for RFAs in drift and dipole regions. The drift model has been cross-checked with bench measurements, and we have compared the RFA-adapted cloud buildup simulations with data. These comparisons have then been used to obtain best fit values for the photo-emission and secondary electron emission characteristics of some of the vacuum chamber materials and cloud mitigating coatings employed at CESRTA.