Beam injection and accumulation method in storage rings for heavy ion fusion

A combination of multiturn injection and rf stacking is proposed as an efficient beam injection method in storage rings for heavy ion fusion. Five turn injection in each transverse phase space and four rf stackings give a total of 100 stacking turns. This represents a compromise between the tolerable emittances and momentum spread in the ring. Space charge limitations and coherent beam instabilities are investigated. The most severe limit is found to be the transverse coherent instability, but this can be controlled by the use of sextupole and octupole magnetic fields. Assuming a charge exchange cross section of 1 x 10-15 cm2, the e-folding life time is estimated at 180 ms, while the stacking time is 40 ms