No abstract available

[en] This paper will review some of the recent developments in the area of high-brightness electron beams. Most of the paper will be devoted to emittance compensation concepts relating to high-brightness beam production in photoinjectors. Recent interpretation of emittance compensation and the residual emittance after compensation in terms of wave breaking has provided valuable insights into the process. Wave breaking also appears to have an influence on emittance growth and halo production in transport lines, which we will briefly discuss. There has been advances in understanding the emittance growth of bunches in circular motion, particularly related to the cancellation of longitudinal and transverse energy-independent forces. Finally, some non-intercepting bunch length and emittance diagnostic approaches will be reviewed

[en] The electron beam analyser has an array of conductors that can be positioned in the field of the sweeping beam, an electronic signal treatment system for the analysis of the signals generated in the conductors by the incident electrons and a display for the different characteristics of the electron beam

[en] A novel method of a very fast kicker based on beam-beam forces is suggested. The method assumes impact of a high pulse current, low energy beam on the bunches which circulate in a storage ring. The kicker allows to handle separately the bunches spaced by only a few tens of centimeters. The article is devoted to the technical consideration of the kicker construction, its ultimate possibilities and the choice of its' parameters. Two schemes with head-on and perpendicular crossing are considered. The possible applications of the beam-beam kicker as an injector/extractor for the TESLA damping ring and as a diagnostic tool at multibunch storage rings are discussed. (orig.)

[en] The plans for increases in the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider luminosity in the near future (Run II) and the more distant future (TeV33) are described. While there are many important issues, the fundamental requirement is to produce more antiprotons and to use them more efficiently

No abstract available

[en] A survey of beam instruments used at SLAC in the SLC machine is presented. The basic utility and operation of each device is briefly described. The various beam instruments used at the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC), can be classified by the function they perform. Beam intensity, position and size are typical of the parameters of beam which are measured. Each type of parameter is important for adjusting or tuning the machine in order to achieve optimum performance. 39 refs

[en] An interaction region with head-on collisions is considered an alternative to the baseline configuration of the International Linear Collider which includes 2 interaction regions with finite crossing-angles (2 and 20 mrad). Although more challenging from the point of view of the beam extraction, the head-on scheme is favoured by the experiments because it allows an easier optimization of the detector configuration, particularly in the forward region. The optics of the head-on extraction is revisited, as compared to the TESLA-TDR, by separating e⁺ and e^- beams horizontally, first by electrostatic separators operated at their LEP nominal field and then using a defocusing quadrupole of the final focus line. In this way the septum magnet is protected from the Bremsstrahlung power. The influence of parasitic collisions is shown to lead to a region of stable collision parameters. (authors)

[en] Electro-optic detection of the Coulomb field of electron bunches is a promising technique for single-shot measurements of the bunch length and shape in the sub-picosecond time domain. This technique has been applied to the measurement of 50 MeV electron bunches in the FELIX free electron laser, showing the longitudinal profile of single bunches of around 650 fs FWHM. The method is non-destructive and real-time, and therefore ideal for online monitoring of the longitudinal shape of single electron bunches. At FELIX we have used it for real-time optimization of sub-picosecond electron bunches. Electro-optic detection has also been used to measure the electric field profiles of far-infrared (or tera-hertz) radiation generated by the relativistic electrons. We have characterized the far-infrared output of the free electron laser, and more recently, we have measured the temporal profile of tera-hertz coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) generated at one of the bending magnets. (authors)

[en] The Interaction Region Group addressed the basic questions of how to collide the SLC beams, how to maximize and monitor the luminosity, and how to minimize the detector backgrounds at the interaction region. In practice, five subgroups evolved to study these questions. The final focus group provided three alternative designs to acheive the 1 to 2 micron beam spot size required by the SLC, as well as studying other problems including: eta, eta' matching from the collider arcs, the implementation of soft bends near the interaction region, beam emittance growth, and magnet tolerances in the final focus. The beam position monitor group proposed two devices, a strip line monitor, and a beamstrahlung monitor, to bring the beams into collision. The luminosity monitor group reviewed the possible QED processes that would be insensitive to weak interaction (Z⁰) effects. The beam dumping group proposed locations for kicker and septum magnets in the final focus that would achieve a high dumping efficiency and would meet the desired beam tolerances at the Moller scattering target in the beam dump line. Working with the Polarization Group, the Moller experiment was designed into the beam dump beam line. A beam dump was proposed that would maintain radiation backgrounds (penetrating muons) at acceptible levels. The detector backgrounds group proposed soft-bend and masking configurations to shield the detector from synchrotron radiation from the hard/soft bends and from the final focus quadrupoles and evaluated the effectiveness of these designs for the three final focus optics designs. Backgrounds were also estimated from: large angle synchrotron radiation, local and distant beam-gas interactions, 2-photon interactions, and from neutrons and backscattered photons from the beamstrahlung dump