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On the (de)focusing nature of wall impedances for hadron beams in circular accelerators and storage rings

H Schamel and A Luque

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The hole theory (Schamel H 1997 Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 2811) of longitudinal solitary structures superimposed on coasting beams, as has been seen recently in experiments, is evaluated in the zero-resistance limit to get new insight into the (de)focusing properties of wall impedances. It is found that the standard picture on (de)focusing, according to which a space-charge-dominated impedance is defocusing if the beam is below transition energy, as an example, does not always hold. Namely, this property (and picture), which can already be obtained by a simple waterbag model, remains true only when \mathcal{L}<\mathcal{L}_c, where \mathcal{L} is the wall inductance per unit length and \mathcal{L}_c is given by \mathcal{L}_c=\mu_0/4\pi\beta^2\gamma^2. For \mathcal{L} \,{>}\, \mathcal{L}_c, however, just the opposite (de)focusing property holds. Responsible for this new feature for coasting beams are wake-fields which are taken into account in a next-order self-consistent perturbation theory. It is argued, furthermore, why for bunched beams a similar result might also be expected.


PACS

29.20.db Storage rings and colliders

29.20.-c Accelerators

29.27.Eg Beam handling; beam transport

Subjects

Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism

Nuclear physics

Instrumentation and measurement

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 1 (August 2004)

Received 14 June 2004

Published 26 August 2004



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