Author: Palmer, M.A.
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MOPWA072 MODELING FOR TIME-RESOLVED RETARDING FIELD ANALYZER MEASUREMENTS OF ELECTRON CLOUD BUILDUP AT CesrTA 846
 
  • J.A. Crittenden, Y. Li, X. Liu, M.A. Palmer, J.P. Sikora
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: US National Science Foundation PHY-0734867, PHY-1002467, and the U.S. Department of Energy DE-FC02-08ER41538
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring Test Accelerator program includes investigations into electron cloud buildup mitigation techniques using custom vacuum chambers. Multibunch electron and positron beams of energies between 2.1 and 5.3 GeV with bunch spacings from 4 to 98 ns and bunch populations ranging from 1010 to 16·1010 provide highly differentiated sensitivity to the processes contributing to cloud buildup such as photoelectron production, cloud space-charge dynamics, and secondary electron emission. Measurements of the time dependence of cloud buildup using BPM-style shielded pickups have been shown to provide tight constraints on cloud buildup models. Recently, time-resolving retarding-field analyzers have been designed, installed and commissioned. These novel detectors combine the time-resolving feature of the shielded pickups with the fine transverse segmentation and cloud electron energy sensitivity of the time-integrating retarding-field analyzers used previously. We report on progress in modeling these measurements and quantify their sensitivity to various parameters describing the underlying physical processes contributing to cloud buildup.
 
 
TUPWA062 Dependence of Beam Instabilities Caused by Electron Clouds at CesrTA on Variations in Bunch Spacing and Chromaticity 1844
 
  • M.G. Billing, K.R. Butler, G. Dugan, M.J. Forster, R.E. Meller, M.A. Palmer, G. Ramirez, N.T. Rider, K.G. Sonnad, H.A. Williams
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
  • R.F. Campbell, R. Holtzapple, M. Randazzo
    CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
  • J.W. Flanagan
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
 
  Funding: Work supported by DOE Award DE-FC02-08ER41538, NSF Award PHY-0734867 and the Lepton Collider R&D Coop Agreement: NSF Award PHY-1002467
Experiments have been performed at the Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring Test Accelerator (CesrTA) to probe the interaction of the electron cloud with a 2.1 Gev stored positron beam. The purpose of these experiments was to characterize the dependence of beam–electron cloud interactions on the bunch spacing and the vertical chromaticity. These experiments were performed on a 30-bunch positron train, at a fixed current of 0.75mA/bunch. The bunch spacing was varied between 4 and 28 ns at three different vertical chromaticity settings. The beam dynamics of the stored beam, in the presence of the electron cloud, was quantified using: 1) a gated Beam Position Monitor (BPM) and spectrum analyzer to measure the bunch-by-bunch frequency spectrum of the bunch trains; 2) an x-ray beam size monitor to record the bunch-by-bunch, turn-by-turn vertical size of each bunch within the trains. In this paper we report on the observations from these experiments and analyze the effects of the electron cloud on the stability of bunches within these different trains.
 
 
THPFI088 Electron Cloud Diagnostic Chambers with Various EC-suppression Coatings 3496
 
  • Y. Li, J.V. Conway, X. Liu, M.A. Palmer
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the US National Science Foundation PHY-0734867, PHY-1002467, and the U.S. Department of Energy DE-FC02-08ER41538
Suppression of electron cloud (EC) growth and density is critical for many high intensity accelerators of positively charged particles, such as positron rings for Super KEKB and ILC’s positron damping ring. Among various suppression techniques, passive coating with low secondary electron emission (SEY) coefficient is the most economic method. During CesrTA EC study program, we have created two dedicated short sections in the CESR vacuum system to study effectiveness of various SEY reduction coatings. During last 4 years, six one-meter-long EC study vacuum chambers were constructed, and rotated through these short sections. The EC chambers were not only equipped with EC diagnostics (including a RFA and RF-shield pickups), they were also installed in CESR with vacuum instrument, including a cold cathode ion gauge and a residual gas analyzer. With these EC study chambers, EC-suppression effectiveness of TiN, amorphous carbon and diamond-like carbon coatings were evaluated, relative to bare aluminum chamber. In this report, we will report vacuum properties of these coatings. In particular, the photon-induced desorption and beam conditioning histories are presented.
 
 
TUPFI056 A Muon Collider as a Higgs Factory 1472
 
  • D.V. Neuffer, Y.I. Alexahin, M.A. Palmer
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • C.M. Ankenbrandt
    Muons. Inc., USA
  • J.-P. Delahaye
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Because muons connect directly to a standard-model Higgs particle in s-channel production, a muon collider would be an ideal device for precision measurement of the mass and width of a Higgs-like particle, and for further exploration of its production and decay properties. The LHC has seen evidence for a 126 GeV Higgs particle, and a muon collider at that energy could be constructed. Parameters of a high-precision muon collider are presented and the necessary components and performance are described. An important advantage of the muon collider approach is that the spin precession of the muons will enable energy measurements at extremely high accuracy (E/E to 10-6 or better). Extension to a higher-energy higher-luminosity device is also discussed.  
 
TUPFI057 Muon Accelerators for the Next Generation of High Energy Physics Experiments 1475
 
  • M.A. Palmer, S. Brice, A.D. Bross, D.S. Denisov, E. Eichten, R.J. Lipton, D.V. Neuffer
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • C.M. Ankenbrandt
    Muons. Inc., USA
  • S.A. Bogacz
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • J.-P. Delahaye
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • P. Huber
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA
  • D.M. Kaplan, P. Snopok
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • H.G. Kirk, R.B. Palmer
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • R.D. Ryne
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Science Foundation
Muon accelerator technology offers a unique and very promising avenue to a facility capable of producing high intensity muon beams for neutrino factory and multi-TeV lepton collider applications. The goal of the US Muon Accelerator Program is to provide an assessment, within the next 6 years, of the physics potential and technical feasibility of such a facility. This talk will describe the physics opportunities that are envisioned, along with the R&D efforts that are being undertaken to address key accelerator physics and technology questions.
 
 
TUPWA061 Observation at CesrTA of the Reduction of the Vertical Beam Size of the Lead Bunch in a Train Due to the Presence of a Precursor Bunch 1841
 
  • M.G. Billing, K.R. Butler, G. Dugan, M.J. Forster, R.E. Meller, G. Ramirez, N.T. Rider, K.G. Sonnad, H.A. Williams
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
  • J.W. Flanagan
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • R. Holtzapple, M. Randazzo
    CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
  • M.A. Palmer
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by DOE Award DE-FC02-08ER41538, NSF Award PHY-0734867, PHY-1068662 and the Lepton Collider R&D Coop Agreement: NSF Award PHY-1002467.
Electron cloud-induced beam dynamics is being studied at CesrTA under various conditions. These measurements make use of instrumentation for the detection of the coherent self-excited spectrum for each bunch within the train and bunch-by-bunch vertical beam size. In the position spectrum coherent betatron dipole and head-tail motion is detectable for each individual bunch within the train. These techniques are utilized to study the electron cloud-related interactions, which cause the growth of coherent motion and beam size along the train. We report on the observations of the vertical enlargement of the first bunch(es) in 30 bunch-long trains. We also report that the addition of a precursor bunch following the train of bunches and before the start of the next train can counteract the vertical enlargement of the first bunch(es) in the train. Results from these observations will be presented.
 
 
WEPFI073 A Modular Cavity for Muon Ionization Cooling R&D 2860
 
  • D.L. Bowring, A.J. DeMello, A.R. Lambert, D. Li, S.P. Virostek, M.S. Zisman
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • C. Adolphsen, L. Ge, A.A. Haase, K.H. Lee, Z. Li, D.W. Martin
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • D.M. Kaplan
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • T.H. Luo, D.J. Summers
    UMiss, University, Mississippi, USA
  • A. Moretti, M.A. Palmer, R.J. Pasquinelli, Y. Torun
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • R.B. Palmer
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  The Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) collaboration is developing an ionization cooling channel for muon beams. Ionization cooling channel designs call for the operation of high-gradient, normal-conducting RF cavities in multi-Tesla solenoidal magnetic fields. However, strong magnetic fields have been shown to limit the maximum achievable gradient in RF cavities. This gradient limit is characterized by RF breakdown and damage to the cavity surface. To study this issue, we have developed an experimental program based on a modular pillbox cavity operating at 805 MHz. The modular cavity design allows for the evaluation of different cavity materials - such as beryllium - which may ameliorate or circumvent RF breakdown triggers. Modular cavity components may furthermore be prepared with different surface treatments, such as high-temperature baking or chemical polishing. This poster presents the design and experimental status of the modular cavity, as well as future plans for the experimental program.