Experimental Studies of Compensation of Beam-Beam Effects with Tevatron Electron Lenses
Abstract
Applying the space-charge forces of a low-energy electron beam can lead to a significant improvement of the beam-particle lifetime limit arising from the beam-beam interaction in a high-energy collider [1]. In this article we present the results of various beam experiments with electron lenses, novel instruments developed for the beam-beam compensation at the Tevatron, which collides 980-GeV proton and antiproton beams. We study the dependencies of the particle betatron tunes on the electron beam current, energy and position; we explore the effects of electron-beam imperfections and noises; and we quantify the improvements of the high-energy beam intensity and the collider luminosity lifetime obtained by the action of the Tevatron Electron Lenses.
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@article{arxiv.0802.0504,
title = {Experimental Studies of Compensation of Beam-Beam Effects with Tevatron Electron Lenses},
author = {V. Shiltsev and Yu. Alexahin and K. Bishofberger and V. Kamerdzhiev and V. Parkhomchuk and V. Reva and N. Solyak and D. Wildman and X. -L. Zhang and F. Zimmermann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0504},
year = {2009}
}
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submitted for publication in New Journal of Physics