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Calculation of the intensity of Touschek electrons in the VEPP-4M storage ring

Formulas for calculating the intensity of intrabeam scattering of electrons in the Born approximation for the one- and two-dimensional collision models have been obtained for the nonrelativistic and relativistic cases. The Baier-Katkov-Strakhovenko two-dimensional relativistic model with Coulomb corrections has been analyzed. Formulas in the ultrarelativistic limit have been obtained using this model. Different models have been compared. The intensities of Touschek electrons and the polarization contribution have been calculated under the conditions of the detection of scattered particles at the VEPP-4M storage ring. The calculations have been compared to experimental data.

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Lessons Learned Study from the NSLS-II Storage Ring Magnet Procurement

This document was compiled in response to the suggestion made by the DOE SC Review of the NSLS-II Project on April 2012, and reiterated at the Review in July, 2013. The main contributors to this document are the SR magnet team A and other in-house participants in the Workshop B referred to below that took place on April 11 th and 12 th 2012 at BNL. The contributions also came from some external participants, including representatives of some of the suppliers who attended the workshop. Manufacturing of the magnets for the NSLS-II storage ring (~850 units of 15 types) took approximately 6 years from the beginning of the conceptual design to completion of manufacturing in October of 2012. The production in the early years did not go smoothly, and a DOE Review Committee expressed concerns in November of 2010 about the potential of significant delays in magnet deliveries. In response, the project undertook three major mitigation steps: 1) enhanced oversight by assignment of one technical representative for each of the seven suppliers, 2) appointment of a senior BNL scientist as the manager of the SR magnet production, and 3) streamlining the decision-making process. These steps led to a successful completion of magnet production and delivery with almost all magnets meeting their stringent specifications.

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6-D ELEMENT-BY-ELEMENT PARTICLE TRACKING WITH CRAB CAVITY PHASE NOISE AND WEAK-STRONG BEAM-BEAM INTERACTION FOR THE HADRON STORAGE RING OF THE ELECTRON-ION COLLIDER

The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) presently under construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory will collide polarized high energy electron beams with hadron beams with luminosities up to 10^34 cm?^2 s^?1 in center mass energy range of 20-140 GeV. Crab cavities are used to compensate the geometric luminosity due to a large crossing angle 25 mrad in the EIC. It was found that the phase noise in crab cavities will generate a significant emittance growth for the hadron beams. The phase noise tolerance from the analytical calculation is very small for the Hadron Storage Ring (HSR) of the EIC. In this article, we present our preliminary numerical simulation results with a 6-d symplectic particle tracking to determine the proton emittance growth rate with crab cavity phase noise and beam-beam interaction for the HSR.

Luo, Y.↗

Activation and residual dose rates in the NSLS-II storage ring

It is well known that components in high energy accelerators may get activated and expose workers during maintenance activities. While the potential for activation is higher in positive ion accelerators due to the prolific production of neutrons, certain regions and components in high energy electron accelerators too can be activated enough to create residual dose rates that require careful attention for ALARA compliance. In this report, the activation and residual dose rates from a few materials are studied from various beam loss scenarios ranging from chronic point losses to intermittent real loss scenarios obtained from the operational parameters of the NSLS-II storage ring. FLUKA Monte Carlo radiation transport code is used to model the geometry, the time profile of the beam losses and score the resulting time evolution of the remnant activity and the residual dose rates.

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Radiological Consequences of Beam Loss on Beamline Front End Collimator during Top-off Injection into the Storage Ring

The primary radiological safety concern for the top-off injection, with the beam line front end safety shutters open, is the scenario where electrons could be conveyed down to the beam line through the front end due to the erroneous combination of lattice magnetic field settings and beam energy. It is of paramount importance to ensure that such events are of remote possibility. Particle tracking simulations by the NSLS-II Accelerator Physicists have shown that by a set of interlocking requirements of the lattice magnetic fields and by the implementation of physical apertures, the errant electron beam can be confined to the front end components within the storage ring.

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Self-Polarization in Storage Rings

The possibility of electrons becoming polarized in an uniform field was predicted in the early 60s by Loskutov, Korovina, Sokolov and Ternov (Sokolov-Ternov effect of radiative polarization). The very first experimental observation of beam self-polarization followed in 1968 at ACO in Orsay and therefore this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of that event. In particular at high energy, $e^{\pm}$ polarization is not really for free and in addition experiments are mainly interested in longitudinal polarization. This is obtained through spin rotators which may lead to depolarization. The $p/e^{\pm}$ high energy collider HERA in Hamburg was the first, and until now the only one, designed for delivering longitudinal $e^{\pm}$ polarization to the experiments. In this paper, after a historical overview of the theory of radiative polarization in storage rings and its first observations, the unique case of HERAe will be highlighted. Measures needed for fostering high polarization will be illustrated with examples from HERAe operation.

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Combined function magnets in the RHIC electron storage ring

The maximum electron beam intensity, and therefore the luminosity, of the electron-ion collider eRHIC is limited by the available RF power, which has been chosen as 10 MW. To maximize the beam intensity in the presence of this limitation the bending radius needs to be chosen as large as possible. While this is generally accomplished by a FODO lattice in the arcs due to its high dipole packing factor, the quadrupoles in a separated-function lattice do not contribute to bending. The use of combined-function magnets instead of regular quadrupoles would allow the quadrupoles to contribute to the bending as well, which increases the actual bending radius of the machine. However, this measure also affects the damping distribution in the machine, and may even result in anti-damping, making the lattice not suitable as a storage ring. In the following we demonstrate how to convert a separated-function lattice to a combined-function lattice while simultaneously preserving the damping distribution.

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Main and Fringe Field Computations for the Electrostatic Quadrupoles of the Muon g-2 Experiment Storage Ring

We consider semi-infinite electrostatic deflectors with plates of different thickness, including plates with rounded edges, and we calculate their electrostatic potential and field using conformal mappings. To validate the calculations, we compare the fringe fields of these electrostatic deflectors with fringe fields of finite electrostatic capacitors, and we extend the study to fringe fields of adjacent electrostatic deflectors with consideration of electrostatic induction, where field falloffs of semi-infinite electrostatic deflectors are slower than exponential and thus behave differently from most magnetic fringe fields. Building on the success with electrostatic deflectors, we develop a highly accurate and fully Maxwellian conformal mappings method for calculation of main fields of electrostatic particle optical elements. A remarkable advantage of this method is the possibility of rapid recalculations with geometric asymmetries and mispowered plates. We use this conformal mappings method to calculate the multipole terms of the high voltage quadrupole used in the storage ring of the Muon g-2 Experiment (FNALE- 0989). Completing the methodological framework, we present a method for extracting multipole strength falloffs of a particle optical element from a set of Fourier mode falloffs. We calculate the quadrupole strength falloff and its effective field boundary (EFB) for the Muon g-2 quadrupole, which has explained the experimentally measured tunes, while simple estimates based on a linear model exhibited discrepancies up to 2%.

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BPM Offset of NSLS-II Storage Ring Based on BBA Measurement

Beam based alignment (BBA) is the final calibration of the Beam position monitor (BPM) readings based on the quadrupole centers and it becomes essential process for the modern synchrotron light sources. For the convenient BBA implementation, usually BPMs are placed close to the quadrupoles and the beam is adjusted to pass the center of the quadrupoles. Therefore, measured BPM BBAs are, in fact, the BPM offsets relative to the quadrupole centers, and by observing their variations, we can estimate the relative movements of the BPMs. In NSLS-II, the BPM BBAs are measured whenever the beam-time allows and the variations are being observed. However, because changing BBAs in the BPM readings has direct and significant impact on the machine operation as well as the user experiments, they are not applied instantly. Instead, in NSLS-II, the official BBA values are managed by the snapshot archiving and retrieving system, called MASAR (MAchine Snapshot Archiving and Retrieve), so that they are well organized and can be easily set to any stored set of BBAs values. NSLS-II is implementing MASAR as a part of EPICS control system for the convenient and mistake-free machine operation. Each snapshot is a group of key-value pairs where keys are EPICS Process Variables (PVs). The snapshots are organized by configurations where each configuration has specific PV sets. And each configuration saves snapshots with titles corresponding their purposes such as normal user operations or specific beam studies. Anyone with control system account can save snapshots and they can be restored whenever needed. One of the configurations is “SR_BPM_BBAS" and the configuration includes the set of EPICS PVs for the storage ring BPM BBA values. This configuration also includes the BBAs of the in the straight sections, called ID (insertion device) BPMs playing important roles in user experiments. The ID BPM BBAs are also directly engaged in the active interlock (AI) machine protection system, which prevents the mechanical damage from the ID radiation. However, in estimating ID BPM BBAs, because there is no quadrupoles around them, interpolations from the surrounding sector BPM BBAs are used. This note focuses on the BPM offset variations based on the BBA measurement data and does not discuss about the ID BPM BBAs because they are not the direct measures of the offsets.

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Study of Quadrupole Fringe Fields in the Interaction Region of the Hadron Storage Ring of the Electron Ion Collider

Fringe fields in quadrupole magnets are usually neglected in studies of beam dynamics at accelerators. However, the extreme optical parameters present in the final focus of a collider such as the Electron–Ion Collider (EIC) may give rise to effects that should not be overlooked. The calculation of quadrupole fringe fields presented in this study follows the procedure outlined in Ref. [1], specialized to the case of a straight reference orbit (i.e., with no dipole field component). A right-handed Cartesian coordinate system is employed, with the $z$-axis aligned with the quadrupole axis and $x$ and $y$ denoting the horizontal and vertical transverse coordinates, respectively. The magnetic quadrupole field gradient, $G = \partial B_y / \partial x$, transitions from its peak value inside the quadrupole—where it is nearly independent of the longitudinal coordinate $z$—to zero at some distance beyond the magnet edge. Consequently, $G$ is treated as a function of $z$. The region over which this variation occurs is defined as the quadrupole fringe field region. The study begins with the development of a description of the magnetic field in the fringe region using a power-series expansion in the transverse coordinates $x$and $y$, consistent with the longitudinally varying gradient. A model for the $z$-dependence of the gradient is then proposed and adjusted to reproduce magnetic field data obtained from three-dimensional field calculations. To evaluate the impact of the fringe fields on beam dynamics, the corresponding vector potential is derived and incorporated into a Hamiltonian formulation of particle motion. The significance of the fringe fields is quantified by calculating the amplitude-dependent tune shift from the Hamiltonian. Using linear beam optics parameters of the Hadron Storage Ring (HSR) of the EIC, the tune shift due to the fringe fields of all quadrupole magnets in the IR-6 interaction region is evaluated. Finally, the resulting tune shifts are compared with those arising from other nonlinear field components present in the HSR.

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Polarization Studies for the eRHIC Electron Storage Ring

A hadron/lepton collider with polarized beams has been under consideration by the scientific community since some years, in the U.S. and Europe. Among the various proposals, those by JLAB and BNL with polarized electron and proton beams are currently under closer study in the U.S. Experimenters call for the simultaneous storage of electron bunches with both spin helicity. In the BNL based Ring-Ring design, electrons are stored at top energy in a ring to be accommodated in the existing RHIC tunnel. The transversely polarized electron beam is injected into the storage ring at variable energies, between 5 and 18 GeV. Polarization is brought into the longitudinal direction at the IP by a couple of spin rotators. In this paper results of first studies of the attainable beam polarization level and lifetime in the storage ring at 18 GeV are presented.

Gianfelice-Wendt, Eliana↗

Dual Energy Storage Ring Project

The overall goals of the project were to evaluate the possibility of an electron cooler based on the novel two-energy ring idea, by designing a suitable ring, and by simulating actual ring performance characteristics with the accelerator physics and design program ELEGANT. Ring parameters were first chosen to be consistent with Jefferson Lab’s EIC design. About mid-way through the project, parameters were adjusted to be consistent with a cooler design for the new EIC project at Brookhaven National Lab.

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