2011 Particle Accelerator Conference - List of Authors (Williams, H.A.)

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WEP194	Measurement Techniques to Characterize Instabilities Caused by Electron Clouds	1852
	M.G. Billing, G. Dugan, M.J. Forster, R.E. Meller, M.A. Palmer, G. Ramirez, J.P. Sikora, H.A. Williams CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA R. Holtzapple CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA K.G. Sonnad Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
	Funding: Work is supported by NSF (PHY-0734867) and DOE (DE-FC02-08ER41538) grants. The study of electron cloud-related instabilities for the CESR-TA project has required the development of new measurement techniques. The dynamics of the interaction of electron clouds with trains of bunches has been undertaken employing three basic observations. Measurements of tune shifts of bunches along a train has been used extensively with the most recent observations permitting the excitation of single bunches within the train to avoid collective train motion from driving the ensemble of bunches. Another technique has been developed to detect the coherent self-excited spectrum for each of the bunches within a train. This method is particularly useful when beam conditions are near the onset of an instability. The third method was designed to study bunches within the train in conditions below the onset of unstable motion. This is accomplished by separately driving each bunch within the train for several hundred turns and then observing the damping of its coherent motion. These last two techniques have been applied to study both transverse dipole (centroid) and head-tail motion. We will report on the observation methods and give examples of typical results.

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Measurement Techniques to Characterize Instabilities Caused by Electron Clouds

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M.G. Billing, G. Dugan, M.J. Forster, R.E. Meller, M.A. Palmer, G. Ramirez, J.P. Sikora, H.A. Williams
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
R. Holtzapple
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
K.G. Sonnad
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Funding: Work is supported by NSF (PHY-0734867) and DOE (DE-FC02-08ER41538) grants.
The study of electron cloud-related instabilities for the CESR-TA project has required the development of new measurement techniques. The dynamics of the interaction of electron clouds with trains of bunches has been undertaken employing three basic observations. Measurements of tune shifts of bunches along a train has been used extensively with the most recent observations permitting the excitation of single bunches within the train to avoid collective train motion from driving the ensemble of bunches. Another technique has been developed to detect the coherent self-excited spectrum for each of the bunches within a train. This method is particularly useful when beam conditions are near the onset of an instability. The third method was designed to study bunches within the train in conditions below the onset of unstable motion. This is accomplished by separately driving each bunch within the train for several hundred turns and then observing the damping of its coherent motion. These last two techniques have been applied to study both transverse dipole (centroid) and head-tail motion. We will report on the observation methods and give examples of typical results.