LLNL, Livermore, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
UCB, Berkeley, California
Beam interaction with background gas and walls produces ubiquitous clouds of stray electrons that frequently limit the performance of particle accelerator and storage rings. Counterintuitively we obtained the electron cloud accumulation by measuring the expelled ions that are originated from the beam-background gas interaction, rather than by measuring electrons that reach the walls. The kinetic ion energy measured with a retarding field analyzer (RFA) maps the depressed beam space-charge potential and provides the dynamic electron cloud density. Clearing electrode current measurements give the static electron cloud background that complements and corroborates with the RFA measurements, providing an absolute measurement of electron cloud density during a 5 us duration beam pulse in a drift region of the magnetic transport section of the High-Current Experiment (HCX) at LBNL.*
* M. Kireeff Covo, A. W. Molvik, A. Friedman, J.-L. Vay, P. A. Seidl, G. Logan, D. Baca, and J. L. Vujic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 054801 (2006).
LBNL, Berkeley, California
LLNL, Livermore, California
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado
We present recent advances in the modeling of beam-electron-cloud dynamics, including surface effects such as secondary electron emission, gas desorption, etc, and volumetric effects such as ionization of residual gas and charge-exchange reactions. Simulations for the HCX facility with the code WARP/POSINST will be described and their validity demonstrated by benchmarks against measurements. The code models a wide range of physical processes and uses a number of novel techniques, including a large-timestep electron mover that smoothly interpolates between direct orbit calculation and guiding-center drift equations, and a new computational technique, based on a Lorentz transformation to a moving frame, that allows the cost of a fully 3D simulation to be reduced to that of a quasi-static approximation.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
LLNL, Livermore, California
Due to copious synchrotron radiation from the beam, electron cloud effects are predicted to be important in the wiggler sections of the ILC positron damping ring. In this area of the ring, the physics is inherently 3D. Moreover, a self-consistent calculation of the physics of the electron cloud/beam system is necessary for examining such phenomena as emittance growth in the beam. We present the first calculations of this system with the self-consistent 3D particle-in-cell code WARP/POSINST. The code includes self-consistent space charge for both species, mesh refinement, and detailed models of primary and secondary electron production. Interaction with electrons is assumed to occur only in the wigglers in this model– the beam is moved using maps between wiggler sections.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Electron cloud build-up and related beam instabilities are a serious concern for the positron damping ring of the International Linear Collider (ILC). To mitigate the effect use of grooved vacuum-chamber walls is being actively investigated in addition to more conventional techniques like surface coating, scrubbing, and/or conditioning. Experimental and simulation studies have characterized the effectiveness of the grooved surface by means of an effective secondary emission yield (SEY), which has been measured to be significantly lower than the SEY of a smooth surface of the same material. However, some inconsistencies of the results, and the need to model the experimental testing of the grooved surface concept in more detail, have motivated us to simulate the grooved surfaces directly. Specifically, we have augmented the code POSINST by adding the option to simulate the electron-cloud build-up in the presence of a grooved surface geometry. By computing the accumulated e-cloud density and comparing it with the same quantity computed for a smooth surface, we infer an effective SEY, and we thereby make contact with the effective SEY estimates obtained from previous studies.
LLNL, Livermore, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
UMD, College Park, Maryland
Contamination from electrons is a concern for solenoid-focused ion accelerators being developed for experiments in high-energy-density physics (HEDP). These electrons, produced directly by beam ions hitting lattice elements or indirectly by ionization of desorbed neutral gas, can potentially alter the beam dynamics, leading to a time-varying focal spot, increased emittance, halo, and possibly electron-ion instabilities. The electrostatic particle-in-cell code WARP is used to simulate electron-cloud studies on the solenoid-transport experiment (STX) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. We present self-consistent simulations of several STX configurations to show the evolution of the electron and ion-beam distributions first in idealized 2-D solenoid fields and then in the 3-D field values obtained from probes. Comparisons are made with experimental data, and several techniques to mitigate electron effects are demonstrated numerically.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The Fermilab main injector (MI) is being considered for an upgrade as part of the high intensity neutrino source (HINS) effort. This upgrade will involve a significant increasing of the bunch intensity relative to its present value. Such an increase will place the MI in a regime in which electron-cloud effects are expected to become important. We have used the electrostatic particle-in-cell code WARP, recently augmented with new modeling capabilities and simulation techniques, to study the dynamics of beam-electron cloud interaction. This study involves a systematic assesment of beam instabilities due to the presence of electron clouds.
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
GSI, Darmstadt
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
UMD, College Park, Maryland
LLNL, Livermore, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
One of the areas fundamental beam physics that serve as the rationale for recent research on UMER is the study of generation and evolution of beam halos. This physics can be accessed on a scaled basis in UMER at a small fraction of the cost of similar experiments on a much larger machine. Recent experiments and simulations have identified imperfections in the source geometry, particularly in the region near the emitter edge, as a potentially significant source of halo particles. The edge-generated halo particles, both in the experiments and the simulations are found to pass through the center of the beam in the vicinity of the anode plane. Understanding the detailed evolution of these particle orbits is therefore important to designing any aperture to remove the beam halo. Both experimental data and simulations will be presented to illustrate the details of this mechanism for halo formation.