Life on the edge: squirrel-cage fringe fields and their effects in the MBE-4 combiner experiment
The MBE-4 combiner experiment employs an electrostatic combined-function focusing/bending element, the so-called ``squirrel-cage`` just before the actual merging region. There has been concern that non-linear fields, primarily in the fringe regions at the beginning and end of the cage, may be strong enough to lead to significant emittance degradation. This note present the results of numerical calculations which determined the anharmonic, non-linear components of the 3D fields in the cage and the resultant, orbit-integrated effects upon the MBE-4 beamlets. We find that while the anharmonic effects are small compared to the dipole deflection, the resultant transverse emittance growth is significant when compared to the expected value of the initial emittance of the individual beamlets.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 221053
- Report Number(s):
- LBL--38399; HIFAN--803; ON: DE96009144
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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