Alignment Tolerances for the CLIC Decelerator

This note aims to quantify the alignment tolerances for the CLIC decelerator lattice elements by investigating the effects of wake fields and component misalignment. The tolerances comes from the requirements of transporting the entire beam through the lattice, while extracting the required amount of energy. First, we briefly discuss the beam energy spread and its effect on the beam envelope. Then, we analyze the effects of the PETS dipole wakes for a perfect machine. Finally, the effect of lattice element misalignment is studied. Beam based alignment schemes for quadrupole correction will be presented, including modifications of the schemes needed for the CLIC decelerating station. Simulations have been performed with the tracking code PLACET . The results indicate, for an energy extraction efficiency of 85%, that it would be possible to transport the entire decelerator beam through the lattice, if PETS misalignment are not larger than ~100 um and if beam based alignment methods are used for quadrupole correction

Beam-Based Alignment for the CLIC Decelerator

The CLIC Drive Beam decelerator requires the beam to be transported with very small losses. Beam-based alignment is necessary in order to achieve this, and various beam-based alignment schemes have been tested for the decelerator lattice. The decelerator beam has an energy spread of up to 90%, which impacts the performance of the alignment schemes. We have shown that Dispersion-Free-Steering works well for the decelerator lattice. However, because of the transverse focusing approach, modifications of the normal DFS schemes must be applied. Tune-up scenarios for the CLIC decelerator using beam-based alignment are also discussed

A study of Failure Modes in the CLIC Decelerator

The CLIC Drive Beam decelerator is responsible for producing the RF power for the main linacs, using Power Extraction and Transfer Structures (PETS). To provide uniform power production, the beam must be transported with very small losses. In this paper failure modes for the operation of the decelerator are investigated, and the impact on beam stability and loss levels is presented. Quadrupole failure, PETS inhibition and PETS RF break down scenarios are being considered

A Beam Driven Plasma-Wakefield Linear Collider: From Higgs Factory to Multi-TeV

Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) holds much promise for advancing the energy frontier because it can potentially provide a 1000-fold or more increase in acceleration gradient with excellent power efficiency in respect with standard technologies. Most of the advances in beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration were obtained by a UCLA/USC/SLAC collaboration working at the SLAC FFTB[ ]. These experiments have shown that plasmas can accelerate and focus both electron and positron high energy beams, and an accelerating gradient in excess of 50 GeV/m can be sustained in an 85 cm-long plasma. The FFTB experiments were essentially proof-of-principle experiments that showed the great potential of plasma accelerators. The FACET[ ] test facility at SLAC will in the period 2012-2016 further study several issues that are directly related to the applicability of PWFA to a high-energy collider, in particular two-beam acceleration where the witness beam experiences high beam loading (required for high efficiency), small energy spread and small emittance dilution (required to achieve luminosity). The PWFA-LC concept presented in this document is an attempt to find the best design that takes advantage of the PWFA, identify the critical parameters to be achieved and eventually the necessary R&D to address their feasibility. It best benefits from the extensive R&D that has been performed for conventional rf linear colliders during the last twenty years, especially ILC[ ] and CLIC[ ], with a potential for a comparably lower power consumption and cost.Comment: Submitted to the proceedings of the Snowmass Process CSS2013. Work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-76SF0051

Positron Acceleration in Plasma Wakefields

Plasma acceleration has emerged as a promising technology for future particle accelerators, particularly linear colliders. Significant progress has been made in recent decades toward high-efficiency and high-quality acceleration of electrons in plasmas. However, this progress does not generalize to acceleration of positrons, as plasmas are inherently charge asymmetric. Here, we present a comprehensive review of historical and current efforts to accelerate positrons using plasma wakefields. Proposed schemes that aim to increase the energy efficiency and beam quality are summarised and quantitatively compared. A dimensionless metric that scales with the luminosity-per-beam power is introduced, indicating that positron-acceleration schemes are currently below the ultimate requirement for colliders. The primary issue is electron motion; the high mobility of plasma electrons compared to plasma ions, which leads to non-uniform accelerating and focusing fields that degrade the beam quality of the positron bunch, particularly for high efficiency acceleration. Finally, we discuss possible mitigation strategies and directions for future research.Comment: 24 pages (30 pages with references), 22 figure