Monte Carlo Mean Field Treatment of Microbunching Instability in the FERMI@Elettra First Bunch Compressor
Bunch compressors, designed to increase the peak current, can lead to a microbunching instability with detrimental effects on the beam quality. This is a major concern for free electron lasers (FELs) where very bright electron beams are required, i.e. beams with low emittance and energy spread. In this paper, we apply our self-consistent, parallel solver to study the microbunching instability in the first bunch compressor system of FERMI{at}Elettra. Our basic model is a 2D Vlasov-Maxwell system. We treat the beam evolution through a bunch compressor using our Monte Carlo mean field approximation. We randomly generate N points from an initial phase space density. We then calculate the charge density using a smooth density estimation procedure, from statistics, based on Fourier series. The electric and magnetic fields are calculated from the smooth charge/current density using a novel field formula that avoids singularities by using the retarded time as a variable of integration. The points are then moved forward in small time steps using the beam frame equations of motion, with the fields frozen during a time step, and a new charge density is determined using our density estimation procedure. We try to choose N large enough so that the charge density is a good approximation to the density that would be obtained from solving the 2D Vlasov-Maxwell system exactly. We call this method the Monte Carlo Particle (MCP) method.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 952994
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-13599; TRN: US0902642
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Invited talk at Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC 09), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 4-8 May 2009
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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