Published October 17, 2001 | Version v1
Journal article

Transverse mode coupling instabilities

  • 1. CERN SL Division, 1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Description

Transverse mode coupling instabilities (TMCI) emerged between 1974 and 1980 as the main limitation of dense bunches in electron synchrotrons and storage rings. A two-particle model allows one to calculate the beam break-up (BBU) instability in linacs. Extending this to synchrotrons shows that the BBU instability is suppressed below a threshold intensity by synchrotron oscillations. The classical theory of head-tail modes, together with the general properties of coupling impedances, is used to show how single bunches become unstable when head-tail modes couple together: this is the TMCI threshold. Above threshold, observations in both proton and electron synchrotrons can be described by BBU theory

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
592
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 260-278
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
Joint US-CERN-Japan-Russia accelerator school on high quality beams
Dates
1-14 Jul 2001
Place
St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)

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Notes
(c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.