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The behaviour of betatron oscillations in the vicinity of half-integral structure resonances

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6955657

In order to achieve a good luminosity in storage rings the beam--beam collisions take place in a small number of low-..beta.. insertions where the betatron functions are smaller than in the rest of the machine. As a consequence, the number of superperiods S which is assumed to be equal to the number of insertions becomes much smaller than in the first generation of alternating gradient synchrotrons. Structure resonances of order n occurs whenever n..nu.. = pS, where p is an integer. For small S, these resonances are not easy to avoid. In the following, the effects of a half-integral structure resonance (n =2) on the behavior of betatron oscillations shall be studied. It is assumed that the chromaticities xi/sub x/ and xi/sub y/ are made to vanish by an appropriate distribution of sextupoles. This should remove the linear variations of tunes and betatron functions with the momentum error but not the higher-order variations. It will be shown that these variations can be influenced by changing the driving term for the 2 ..nu.. = pS resonance for off-momentum particles, using SPEAR as an example. 6 refs., 5 figs., 3 tabs.

Research Organization:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
6955657
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PEP-NOTE-121; ON: DE88014849
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English