Fast instability caused by electron cloud in combined function magnets
Abstract
One of the factors which may limit the intensity in the Fermilab Recycler is a fast transverse instability. It develops within a hundred turns and, in certain conditions, may lead to a beam loss. The high rate of the instability suggest that its cause is electron cloud. Here, we studied the phenomena by observing the dynamics of stable and unstable beam, simulating numerically the build-up of the electron cloud, and developed an analytical model of an electron cloud driven instability with the electrons trapped in combined function di-poles. We also found that beam motion can be stabilized by a clearing bunch, which confirms the electron cloud nature of the instability. The clearing suggest electron cloud trapping in Recycler combined function mag-nets. Numerical simulations show that up to 1% of the particles can be trapped by the magnetic field. Since the process of electron cloud build-up is exponential, once trapped this amount of electrons significantly increases the density of the cloud on the next revolution. Furthermore, in a Recycler combined function dipole this multi-turn accumulation allows the electron cloud reaching final intensities orders of magnitude greater than in a pure dipole. The estimated resulting instability growth rate of about 30 revolutionsmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1351037
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1342212
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1612.03967; FERMILAB-PUB-16-612-AD
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9888; PRABCJ; 044401
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Accelerators and Beams Journal Volume: 20 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9888
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
Citation Formats
Antipov, S. A., Adamson, P., Burov, A., Nagaitsev, S., and Yang, M. -J. Fast instability caused by electron cloud in combined function magnets. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.044401.
Antipov, S. A., Adamson, P., Burov, A., Nagaitsev, S., & Yang, M. -J. Fast instability caused by electron cloud in combined function magnets. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.044401
Antipov, S. A., Adamson, P., Burov, A., Nagaitsev, S., and Yang, M. -J. Mon .
"Fast instability caused by electron cloud in combined function magnets". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.044401.
@article{osti_1351037,
title = {Fast instability caused by electron cloud in combined function magnets},
author = {Antipov, S. A. and Adamson, P. and Burov, A. and Nagaitsev, S. and Yang, M. -J.},
abstractNote = {One of the factors which may limit the intensity in the Fermilab Recycler is a fast transverse instability. It develops within a hundred turns and, in certain conditions, may lead to a beam loss. The high rate of the instability suggest that its cause is electron cloud. Here, we studied the phenomena by observing the dynamics of stable and unstable beam, simulating numerically the build-up of the electron cloud, and developed an analytical model of an electron cloud driven instability with the electrons trapped in combined function di-poles. We also found that beam motion can be stabilized by a clearing bunch, which confirms the electron cloud nature of the instability. The clearing suggest electron cloud trapping in Recycler combined function mag-nets. Numerical simulations show that up to 1% of the particles can be trapped by the magnetic field. Since the process of electron cloud build-up is exponential, once trapped this amount of electrons significantly increases the density of the cloud on the next revolution. Furthermore, in a Recycler combined function dipole this multi-turn accumulation allows the electron cloud reaching final intensities orders of magnitude greater than in a pure dipole. The estimated resulting instability growth rate of about 30 revolutions and the mode fre-quency of 0.4 MHz are consistent with experimental observations and agree with the simulation in the PEI code. The created instability model allows investigating the beam stability for the future intensity upgrades.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.044401},
journal = {Physical Review Accelerators and Beams},
number = 4,
volume = 20,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {4}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.044401