Abstract
A resistive transverse damper is often needed in particle accelerators operating with many bunches and it is usually very efficient as it can considerably reduce the necessary amount of nonlinearities needed to reach beam stability through Landau damping. In the CERN LHC for instance, the required current in the Landau octupoles is predicted to be reduced by an order of magnitude for zero chromaticity (for the beam and machine parameters used during the last year of Run 2, in 2018, this corresponded to $\ensuremath{\sim}2000\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{A}$ without damper and $\ensuremath{\sim}200\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{A}$ with damper, knowing that the maximum current available in the Landau octupoles is $\ensuremath{\sim}550\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{A}$). However, a resistive transverse damper also destabilizes the single-bunch motion below the transverse mode coupling instability intensity threshold (for zero chromaticity), introducing a new kind of instability, which has been called ITSR instability (for imaginary tune split and repulsion). Until now, only one type of impedance-driven transverse coherent instability has been explained for a single bunch in a circular particle accelerator, at zero chromaticity and without a multiturn wake: the transverse mode coupling instability. A transverse mode coupling instability can also be observed in the presence of Landau damping, beam-beam, electron cloud or space charge. However, the ITSR instability exhibits a different mechanism, which is not due to mode coupling. The purpose of this article is to explain in detail both this new instability mechanism and its mitigation using a simplified analytical model, which has been carefully benchmarked, using the pyheadtail macroparticle tracking code, by Oeftiger (one of the code's developers).
Highlights
AND MOTIVATIONA resistive transverse damper (TD) is needed, for instance, for multi-bunch operation in a machine like the CERN Large hadron collider (LHC) [1,2,3] and it has been working very well over the past decade, helping to reach twice the design peak luminosity
The ITSR instability is an additional instability mechanism which should be added to the list of the other transverse coherent instabilities already explained in the past: (i) the head-tail instability, which is usually mitigated with Landau damping [1]; (ii) the transverse mode coupling instability (TMCI), which is usually not mitigated with Landau damping as it requires a huge tune spread [1]
A new single-bunch instability mechanism is revealed for zero chromaticity in the presence of a resistive transverse damper, which is clearly not a consequence of mode coupling
Summary
CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland (Received 22 January 2021; accepted 5 April 2021; published 21 April 2021). A resistive transverse damper is often needed in particle accelerators operating with many bunches and it is usually very efficient as it can considerably reduce the necessary amount of nonlinearities needed to reach beam stability through Landau damping. A resistive transverse damper destabilizes the single-bunch motion below the transverse mode coupling instability intensity threshold (for zero chromaticity), introducing a new kind of instability, which has been called ITSR instability (for imaginary tune split and repulsion). Only one type of impedance-driven transverse coherent instability has been explained for a single bunch in a circular particle accelerator, at zero chromaticity and without a multiturn wake: the transverse mode coupling instability. The purpose of this article is to explain in detail both this new instability mechanism and its mitigation using a simplified analytical model, which has been carefully benchmarked, using the PyHEADTAIL macroparticle tracking code, by Oeftiger (one of the code’s developers)
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