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BiBTeX citation export for THXA01: Beyond RMS: Understanding the Evolution of Beam Distributions in High Intensity Linacs

@inproceedings{ruisard:ipac2021-thxa01,
  author       = {K.J. Ruisard and A.V. Aleksandrov and S.M. Cousineau and A.P. Shishlo and A.P. Zhukov},
  title        = {{Beyond RMS: Understanding the Evolution of Beam Distributions in High Intensity Linacs}},
  booktitle    = {Proc. IPAC'21},
  pages        = {3681--3685},
  eid          = {THXA01},
  language     = {english},
  keywords     = {simulation, rfq, quadrupole, MEBT, space-charge},
  venue        = {Campinas, SP, Brazil},
  series       = {International Particle Accelerator Conference},
  number       = {12},
  publisher    = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
  month        = {08},
  year         = {2021},
  issn         = {2673-5490},
  isbn         = {978-3-95450-214-1},
  doi          = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-THXA01},
  url          = {https://jacow.org/ipac2021/papers/thxa01.pdf},
  note         = {https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-THXA01},
  abstract     = {{Understanding the evolution of beams with space charge is crucial to design and operation of high intensity linacs. While the community holds a broad understanding of the mechanisms leading to emittance growth and halo formation, there is outstanding discrepancy between measurements and beam evolution models that precludes prediction of halo losses. This may be due in part to insufficient information of the initial beam distribution. This talk will describe work at the SNS Beam Test Facility to directly measure the 6D beam distribution. Full-and-direct 6D measurement has revealed hidden but physically significant dependence between the longitudinal distribution and transverse coordinates. This nonlinear correlation is driven by space charge and reproduced by self-consistent simulation of the RFQ. Omission of this interplane correlation, common when bunches are reconstructed from lower-dimensional measurements, degrades downstream predictions. This talk will also describe the novel diagnostics supporting this work. This includes ongoing improvements to efficiency of the 6D phase space measurement as well as recent achievement of six orders of dynamic range in 2D phase space.}},
}