Spin-depolarization mechanisms due to overlapping spin resonances in synchrotrons.

Abstract

We studied depolarization mechanisms of polarized-proton acceleration in high-energy accelerators with snakes and found that the perturbed spin tune due to the imperfection resonance plays an important role in beam depolarization at snake resonances. We also found that [ital even]-order snake resonances exist in the overlapping intrinsic and imperfection resonances. Due to the perturbed spin tune of imperfection resonances, each snake resonance splits into two. Thus the available betatron tune space becomes smaller. Some constraints on polarized-beam colliders were also examined.