Development of physics models of the ISIS head-tail instability

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Title	Development of physics models of the ISIS head-tail instability
Contributors	Mr RE Williamson (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.) (Pr.Au.), Mr CM Warsop (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), Mr B Jones (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
Abstract	ISIS is the pulsed spallation neutron and muon source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. Operation centres on a rapid cycling proton synchrotron which accelerates 3E13 protons per pulse from 70 MeV to 800 MeV at 50 Hz, delivering a mean beam power of 0.2 MW. As a high intensity, loss-limited machine, research and development at ISIS is focused on understanding loss mechanisms with a view to improving operational performance and guiding possible upgrade routes. The head-tail instability observed on ISIS is of particular interest as it is currently a main limitation on beam intensity. Good models of impedance are essential for understanding instabilities and to this end, recent beam-based measurements of the effective transverse impedance of the ISIS synchrotron are presented. This paper also presents developments of a new, in-house code to simulate the head-tail instability and includes benchmarks against theory and comparisons with experimental results.
Organisation	ISIS , ISIS-ACCEL , STFC
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Language	English (EN)

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Paper In Conference Proceedings	In 57th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High-Intensity, High Brightness and High Power Hadron Beams (HB2016), Malmo, Sweden, 3-8 Jul 2016, (2016).		MOPR031.pdf	2016