Author: Roy, P.
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MOPS048 Microbunching Instability Studies at SOLEIL 709
 
  • C. Evain, J. Barros, J.B. Brubach, L. Cassinari, M.-E. Couprie, G. Creff, M. Labat, A. Loulergue, L. Manceron, R. Nagaoka, P. Roy, M.-A. Tordeux
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 
  Microbunching instability arises in storage rings when the number of electrons in a bunch exceeds a threshold value. Its signature, i.e. a strong and irregular emission of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) in the Terahertz (THz) domain, is studied at SOLEIL on the AILES infrared beamline, with the storage ring tuned in a low-alpha configuration (used to get shorter electron bunch). The comparison of this observed THz CSR with numerical simulations of the longitudinal electron bunch dynamics, permits to put in evidence that during the instability a modulation appears and drifts in the longitudinal profile of the electron bunch. The understanding of this instability is important as it limits some operation of the storage rings. Indeed the induced fluctuations prevent the use of THz on the far IR beamline at high current per bunch. And in normal alpha operation this instability may spoil the electron/laser interaction effects used to get femtosecond and/or coherent pulse in storage rings (with slicing, Coherent Harmonic Generation or EEHG schemes on storage ring).