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TY - CONF AU - Zhang, H.D. AU - Welsch, C.P. ED - Liu, Lin ED - Byrd, John M. ED - Neuenschwander, Regis T. ED - Picoreti, Renan ED - Schaa, Volker R. W. TI - Simulation Study of Emittance Measurement Using a Genetic Algorithm for Space Charge Dominated Beams J2 - Proc. of IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 24-28 May 2021 CY - Campinas, SP, Brazil T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 12 LA - english AB - The quadrupole scan method is one of the traditional ways to measure beam emittance in an accelerator. The required devices are simple: several quadrupole magnets and a beam profile monitor. Beam sizes are measured from the beam profile monitor with different quadrupole settings to bring the beam through its waist and then fitted to a quadratic equation to determine the Twiss parameters. measured data from a quadrupole scan taking the beam through its waist is fitted to a quadratic equation and this allows determining the Twiss parameters. However, with increasing beam intensity, the transfer function becomes non-linear and this causes a deviation of the fitted emittance from its real value, making it no longer useful. In this contribution, a genetic algorithm is applied to find the optimum quadrupole scan fit in space-charge dominated electron beams. Results from simulations using different space charge levels are presented and scenarios identified where this method can be applied. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 935 EP - 938 KW - emittance KW - quadrupole KW - space-charge KW - simulation KW - lattice DA - 2021/08 PY - 2021 SN - 2673-5490 SN - 978-3-95450-214-1 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-MOPAB295 UR - https://jacow.org/ipac2021/papers/mopab295.pdf ER -