Nonlinear optics as a path to high-intensity circular machines
Abstract
What prevents us from building super-high intensity accelerators? The answer is case-specific, but it often points to one of the following phenomena: machine resonances, various tune shifts (and spreads), and instabilities. These three phenomena are interdependent in all present machines. In this paper we propose a path toward alleviating these phenomena by making accelerators nonlinear. This idea is not new: Orlov (1963) and McMillan (1967) have proposed initial ideas on nonlinear focusing systems for accelerators. However, practical implementations of such ideas proved elusive, until recently.
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@article{arxiv.1207.5529,
title = {Nonlinear optics as a path to high-intensity circular machines},
author = {Sergei Nagaitsev and A. Valishev and V. Danilov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5529},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pp. 46th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams HB2010, Sep 27 - Oct 1 2010. Morschach, Switzerland