Bunch-by-Bunch Analyses of CESR Optics

Jim Crittenden/March 2007



The consequences of the beam-beam interaction at the parasitic crossings and at the IP have been calculated in the weak-strong approximation using BMAD-based CESR simulation software. The crossings are inserted as fixed elements into the ring simulating the effect of the strong beam (here the positron beam) on the weak beam (electrons). Since the parasitic crossing positions are electron-bunch specific, the ring must be regenerated for each electron bunch.

Full six-dimensional tracking including synchrotron oscillations has been implemented, as has custom tune setting and pretzel amplitude choice (PRZ1 and PRZ13).

The results listed below include tune shift and beam function dependence on positron bunch current, as well as changes in the closed orbit for each of electron bunches. Dynamic aperture calculations have also been performed.


As of October, 2004 it was realized that the BMAD closed-orbit calculation is appropriate only for positrons when synchrotron oscillations are included. In order to get the longitudinal oscillation correctly calculated for electrons, the ring elements must be reversed and electrons must be tracked in the forward direction. Prior to this realization, electron tracking had been done backwards in the un-reversed ring. Therefore, the results below are superceded by those above. The correct treatment of the electron energy evolution during one revolution in the CHESS and CESRc optics can be seen here.




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Jim Crittenden
Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory
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Last modified 30 March 2007