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THEORY OF R.F. ACCELERATION IN FIXED FIELD CIRCULAR ACCELERATORS. Consequences of the Energy Oscillations of Phase Instable Particles. The Occurrence of Buckets in Multiple Gap Accelerators

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4334915
Report No. 5 of Studty Programme on Beam Stacking Processes. The concept of moving buckets containlng those trajectories on the 14, gamma ) phase cylinder that are representative of particles which are phase stable with respect to some specific subharmonic of the accelerating gap voltage is discussed. If the buckets are to be used for stacking particles at a given energy level in the accelerator, then the phase unstable trajectories outside the bucket become as important as the phase stable ones inside. The reason is that the already stacked particles will find themselves outside the oncoming buckets, and will be influenced in such a way as to increase the energy spread among the stacked particles in proportion to the number of buckets used in the stacking process. In certain unfavorable cases one may even expect heavy losses of stacked particles as a consequence of a resonance between their betatron oscillations and the oscillations which are executed due to the presence of a nearby bucket (r-f knockout). Even the phase stable particles trapped inside a certain bucket may simultaneously be affected also by these. The order of magnitude of this effect, which is actually the error introduced by the approximations involved in the basic equations, may be calculated. This allows a statement on the limit of applicability of the Bucket Theory to be made. (M.H.R.)
Research Organization:
European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva
NSA Number:
NSA-12-012801
OSTI ID:
4334915
Report Number(s):
CERN-58-9
Country of Publication:
Switzerland
Language:
English