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Title: Halo formation from mismatched beam-beam interactions

Journal Article ·
OSTI ID:842515

In this paper, we report on the halo formation and emittance growth driven by a parametric resonance during mismatched beam-beam collisions. In the regime of the weak-strong beam-beam interaction, if two beams have the same machine tunes, on-axis head-on collisions between a mismatched strong beam and a weak beam will not cause the formation of halo. However, if the two beams collide with an initial offset, the beam-beam force from the mismatched strong beam can cause halo formation and emittance growth in the weak beam. Meanwhile, if two beams have different machine tunes, for opposite charged colliding beams, when the machine tune of the weak beam is smaller than that of strong beam, there is emittance growth in the weak beam. When the machine tune of the weak beam is larger than that of the strong beam, there is little emittance growth. In the regime of strong-strong beam-beam interaction, halo is formed in both beams even when the two beams collide head-on on the axis with equal machine tunes. This puts a strong requirement for a good beam match during the injection to colliders in order to avoid the emittance growth.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Division of High Energy Physics, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
842515
Report Number(s):
LBNL-54354; R&D Project: 453401; TRN: US0503203
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Journal Publication Date: 2004
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English