June 21, Friday: Beam manipulations

Longitudinal Stability and Beam Manipulations

Longitudinal Stability

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rftrack.py

BucketXform.mov, Transition.mov, Accel1.mov, Accel2.mov, AdiabCap.mov

  • The linac and the synchrotron
  • The harmonic number h = L/(beta*lambda)
  • Difference equations and matrix solution for stable motion
  • Longitudinal (synchrotron) oscillations; synchrotron tune
  • Longitudinal emittance and adiabatic damping of phase oscillations
  • Transition energy and transition crossing
  • The inherent nonlinearity of longitudinal motion
  • Buckets, bunches, batches and trains

Glass Optics and transfer matrices

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