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| MOPD023 | Parametric Study of a Novel Coaxial Bunched Beam Space-charge Limit | 493 |
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Recently, a non-trivial space-charge limit for off-axis bunched electron beams in a coaxial conducting structure was derived theoretically*. The space-charge limit describes the minimum strength of an external solenoidal focusing field which is needed to stabilize the beam’s center-of-mass motion in the presence of induced surface charges on the coaxial structure. In this paper, we perform a parametric study of the space-charge limit to numerically determine its dependency on the conducting structure geometry, i.e., the ratio of the inner and outer conductor radii, as well as its’ dependency on the transverse and longitudinal bunch distributions. As an application, we show how this parametric study can be important for the design of high-power microwave sources, such as the UC-Davis/SLAC 2.8 GHz coaxial ubitron oscillator**.
*M. Hess, accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. (2008). |
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| THPC083 | Simulation Studies of Space-charge Effects in the LENS Nonlinear Transport Lines | 3179 |
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| The upgraded IUCF LENS beamline is designed to deliver a square shaped 13 MeV proton beam at 25 mA with a relatively uniform density using two octupole magnets for nonlinear focusing in both transverse directions. The space-charge effects in the LENS beamline (without nonlinear focusing) can vary the beam profile by roughly 8%-13% compared to a zero current beam. In this paper, we show the results of simulation studies of the LENS beamline which incorporate the effects of space-charge, as well as, nonlinear focusing from the octupole magnets. The simulations utilize self-consistent methods for computing the space-charge fields, since the beam density distribution can be nonlinear. We also show simulation results for beam currents in excess of 25 mA, which may be useful for future upgrades of LENS. | ||
| THPC084 | Studies of Electromagnetic Space-charge Fields in RF Photocathode Guns | 3182 |
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In high-brightness rf photocathode guns, the effects of space-charge can be important. In an effort to accurately simulate the effects of these space-charge fields without the presence of numerical grid dispersion, a Green’s function based code called IRPSS (Indiana Rf Photocathode Source Simulator) was developed*. In this paper, we show the results of numerical simulations of the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator photocathode gun using IRPSS, and compare them with the results of an electrostatic based simulation code. In addition, we show how electromagnetic space-charge fields can affect the designs of photocathode gun magnetic focusing schemes, such as emittance compensation. We will also show how a multipole moment method can be effectively utilized to compute the reflections of electromagnetic space-charge fields due to irises in photocathode guns.
*M. Hess, C. S. Park, and D. Bolton. Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 10, 054201 (2007). |