June 19, Wednesday: Transverse motion

Transverse Motion

Guiding Particles Toward the Ideal Trajectory (J. Kunz)

[slides]

  • The ideal trajectory and motion relative to it
  • Comments on time scales, adiabatic changes and separation of motion
  • Tracing particle trajectories through a focusing system
    • Drift space
    • Thin lens quadrupole
  • Hill's equation
  • Intro to simple "optical" matrix representation

Whiteboard time

Phase Space Distributions and Ellipses (T. Mohayai)

[slides]

  • Particle distributions and transverse phase space
  • Phase space area – emittance
    • phase space distributions and second moments
    • general equation/properties of phase space ellipse
    • invariance of the emittance in linear system
  • Courant-Snyder parameters and emittance
  • Matrix formalism of ellipses and of particle motion
  • Propagation of ellipse parameters through elements
  • The development of a “beam envelope”

Courant-Snyder Parameterization

[slides]

  • Hill’s equation and analytical treatment of transverse motion
  • Envelope function and phase advance
  • Single-particle vs. “beam” emittance
  • Correspondence between analytical, matrix forms
  • Adiabatic damping and normalized emittance

See also:

Lecture notes by Linda Spentzouris:

  • Transverse dynamics: magnetic fields, equations for transverse motion, machine tune and the Twiss parameters, transfer maps
  • Emittance: particle distributions, phase space, high energy beams, transverse emittance from Hill's equation, normalized emittance