35 research outputs found
Overview of the Micro-bunching Instability in Electron Storage Rings and evolving diagnostics
The micro-bunching instability is a longitudinal instability that leads to dynamical deformations of the charge distribution in the longitudinal phase space. It affects the longitudinal charge distribution, and thus the emitted coherent synchrotron radiation spectra, as well as the energy distribution of the electron bunch. Not only the threshold in the bunch current above which the instability occurs, but also the dynamics above the instability threshold strongly depends on machine parameters, e.g., natural bunch length, accelerating voltage, momentum compaction factor, and beam energy.
All this makes the understanding and potential mitigation or control of the micro-bunching instability an important topic for the next generation of light sources and circular e+/e- colliders.
This presentation will give a review on the micro-bunching instability and discuss how technological advances in the turn-by-turn and bunch-by-bunch diagnostics are leading to a deeper understanding of this intriguing phenomenon
Overview of the Micro-bunching Instability in Electron Storage Rings and Evolving Diagnostics
The micro-bunching instability is a longitudinal instability that leads to dynamical deformations of the charge distribution in the longitudinal phase space. It affects the longitudinal charge distribution, and thus the emitted coherent synchrotron radiation spectra, as well as the energy distribution of the electron bunch. Not only the threshold in the bunch current above which the instability occurs, but also the dynamics above the instability threshold strongly depends on machine parameters, e.g. accelerating voltage, momentum compaction factor, and beam energy. All this makes the understanding and potential mitigation or control of the micro-bunching instability an important topic for the next generation of light sources and circular e+e− colliders. This contribution will give an overview of the micro-bunching instability and discuss how technological advances in the turn-by-turn and bunch-by-bunch diagnostics are leading to a deeper understanding of this intriguing phenomenon
Influence of Different Beam Energies on the Micro-Bunching Instability
During the operation of an electron synchrotron with short electron bunches, the beam dynamics are influenced by the occurrence of the micro-bunching instability. This collective instability is caused by the self-interaction of a short electron bunch with its own emitted coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR). Above a certain threshold bunch current dynamic micro-structures start to occur on the longitudinal phase space density. The resulting dynamics depend on various parameters and were previously investigated in relation to, amongst others, the momentum compaction factor and the acceleration voltage. In this contribution, the influence of the energy of the electrons on the dynamics of the micro-bunching instability is studied based on measurements at the KIT storage ring KARA (Karlsruhe Research Accelerator)
Impedance studies of a corrugated pipe for KARA
It is planned to install an impedance manipulation struc-ture in a versatile chamber at the KIT storage ring KARA(KArlsruhe Research Accelerator) to study and eventuallycontrol the influence of an additional impedance on the beamdynamics and the emitted coherent synchrotron radiation.For this purpose the impedance of a corrugated pipe is underinvestigation. In this contribution we present first results ofsimulations showing the impact of different structure param-eters on its impedance and wake potential
Continuous bunch-by-bunch spectroscopic investigation of the micro-bunching instability
Electron accelerators and synchrotrons can be operated to provide short
emission pulses due to longitudinally compressed or sub-structured electron
bunches. Above a threshold current, the high charge density leads to the
micro-bunching instability and the formation of sub-structures on the bunch
shape. These time-varying sub-structures on bunches of picoseconds-long
duration lead to bursts of coherent synchrotron radiation in the terahertz
frequency range. Therefore, the spectral information in this range contains
valuable information about the bunch length, shape and sub-structures. Based on
the KAPTURE readout system, a 4-channel single-shot THz spectrometer capable of
recording 500 million spectra per second and streaming readout is presented.
First measurements of time-resolved spectra are compared to simulation results
of the Inovesa Vlasov-Fokker-Planck solver. The presented results lead to a
better understanding of the bursting dynamics especially above the
micro-bunching instability threshold.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure
On the Perturbation of Synchrotron Motion in the Micro-Bunching Instability
The self-interaction of short electron bunches with their own radiation field
can have a significant impact on the longitudinal beam dynamics in a storage
ring. While higher bunch currents increase the power of the emitted CSR which
can be provided to dedicated experiments, it simultaneously amplifies the
strength of the self-interaction. Eventually, this leads to the formation of
dynamically changing micro-structures within the bunch and thus fluctuating CSR
emission, a phenomenon that is generally known as micro-bunching or micro-wave
instability. The underlying longitudinal dynamics can be simulated by solving
the VFP equation, where the CSR self-interaction can be added as a perturbation
to the Hamiltonian. In this contribution, we focus on the perturbation of the
synchrotron motion that is caused by introducing this additional wake field.
Therefore, we adopt the perspective of a single particle and eventually comment
on its implications for collective motion. We explicitly show how the shape of
the parallel plates CSR wake potential breaks homogeneity in the longitudinal
phase space and propose a quadrupole-like mode as potential seeding mechanism
of the micro-bunching instability. Moreover, we consider synchrotron motion
above the instability threshold and thereby motivate an approach to control of
the occurring micro-bunching dynamics. Using dynamically adjusted RF amplitude
modulations we can directly address the continuous CSR-induced perturbation at
the timescale of its occurrence, which allows for substantial control over the
longitudinal charge distribution. While the approach is not limited to this
particular application, we demonstrate how this can significantly mitigate the
micro-bunching dynamics directly above the instability threshold. The gained
insights are supported and verified using the VFP solver Inovesa and put into
context with measurements at KARA
Status of Operation With Negative Momentum Compaction at KARA
For future synchrotron light source development novel operation modes are under investigation. At the Karlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA) an optics with negative momentum compaction has been proposed, which is currently under commissioning. In this context, the collective effects expected in this regime are studied with an initial focus on the head-tail instability and the micro-bunching instability resulting from CSR self-interaction. In this contribution, we will present the proposed optics and the status of implementation for operation in the negative momentum compaction regime as well as a preliminary discussion of expected collective effects
Increasing the Single-Bunch Instability Threshold by Bunch Splitting Due to RF Phase Modulation
RF phase modulation at twice the synchrotron frequency can be used to split a stored electron bunch into two or more bunchlets orbiting each other. We report on time-resolved measurements at the KArlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA), where this bunch splitting was used to increase the threshold current of the microbunching instability, happening in the short-bunch operation mode. Switching the modulation on and off, reproducibly influences the sawtooth behaviour of the emitted coherent synchrotron radiation