Author: Ankenbrandt, C.M.
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TUPS105 Beam Brightness Booster with Self-Stabilization of Electron-Proton Instability 1789
 
  • V.G. Dudnikov, C.M. Ankenbrandt
    Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
 
  The brightness and intensity of a circulating proton beam now can be increased up to the space charge tune shift limit by means of charge exchange injection or by electron cooling but cannot be increased above this limit. Significantly higher brightness can be produced by means of charge exchange injection with space charge compensation*. The brightness of the space charge compensated beam is limited at low level by an electron-proton (e-p) instability. Fortunately, the e-p instability can be self-stabilized at a high beam density. The “cesiation effect” significantly increases negative ion emission from gas discharges, and surface-plasma sources for intense high brightness negative ion beam production have been developed. These developments make it possible to produce stable “superintense” circulating beams with intensity and brightness far above the space charge limit. A beam brightness booster (BBB) for significant increases of accumulated beam brightness is discussed. Superintense beam production can be simplified by developing a nonlinear nearly-integrable focusing system with broad betatron tune spread and a broadband feedback system for e-p instability suppression.
* M. Reiser, “Theory and Design of Charged Particle Beam”, second edition, p. 565-570, Wiley-VCH, (2006).