CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
Manifestation of intrabeam scattering (IBS) in an electron/positron storage ring depends on the radiation damping time in two ways. First, the beam size is the equilibrium of the IBS growth rate in each of the three degrees of freedom and corresponding damping rates. Second, scattering events that occur less frequently than order once per damping time contribute to non-Gaussian tails that are invisible to our beam size monitors. The tail cut procedure excludes these relatively rare events in the calculation of equilibrium beam size. In machines with short damping times, the tail cut significantly reduces the effective IBS growth rate. At CesrTA, we measure the dependence of beam size on bunch charge in IBS-dominated beams. We vary the vertical emittance using a closed optics bump that increases the vertical dispersion and transverse coupling in the wiggler regions. Measurements are taken at both 2.1 and 2.3 GeV. Here we report the results of these experiments and compare those results to theory.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
In storage rings, the presence of horizontal dispersion in the RF cavities introduces x-z coupling. The result is that the beam is skewed in the horizontal-longitudinal plane. The skew angle is proportional to the V15 term of the 6X6 coupling matrix which is proportional to the RF cavity voltage and the horizontal dispersion in the cavity. Here we report experiments at CesrTA where x-z coupling was explored using three distinct lattice configurations with different V15 coupling terms. We explore x-z coupling for each of these lattices by measuring the horizontal projection of the beam with a beam size monitor, as the RF voltage is varied. The first lattice has about 1 m dispersion in the RF cavities, resulting in a V15 term at the beam size monitor source point corresponding to 16 mrad x-z tilt. In the second, the V15 generated in one pair of cavities is compensated at the second pair by adjusting the horizontal betatron phase advance between the cavity pairs. In the third, the optics are adjusted so that the RF cavity region is dispersion-free, eliminating the coupling entirely. Additionally, intra-beam scattering is evident in our measurements of beam size vs. RF voltage.
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
Experiments have been performed on the Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring Test Accelerator (CesrTA) to probe the interaction of the electron cloud with a 2-Gev stored positron beam. The purpose of these experiments was to characterize the beam–electron cloud interactions by varying the vertical chromaticity and bunch spacing. These experiments were performed on a 30-bunch positron train, at a fixed current of 0.75mA/bunch, where the bunch spacing was varied between 4 and 28ns at three different vertical chromaticity settings. The vertical beam dynamics of the stored beam, in the presence of the electron cloud, was quantified using the x-ray beam size monitor (xBSM) that is used to measure the bunch-by-bunch, turn-by-turn vertical beam size of the bunch trains. In this paper, we report the results from these experiments and discuss the effects of the electron cloud on the CesrTA beam dynamics.