Beam dynamics studies during commissioning of two undulators in Indus-2

Indus-2, a synchrotron light source facility at RRCAT, Indore is in continuous operation at 2.5 GeV, generating the synchrotron radiation from its bending magnets. For enhancing the intensity of synchrotron radiation, two planar undulators have been installed and successfully commissioned with the Indus-2 electron beam. Various beam dynamical challenges such as beam accumulation, beam energy ramping and storage at 2.5 GeV have been addressed to ensure the smooth commissioning of these devices. Moreover, due to interaction of the stored beam with magnetic field of undulators, various parameters of the electron beam get changed. In this paper, the beam dynamics studies to ensure the smooth commissioning of these devices and its measured effect on beam parameters have been presented. (author)