Periodic solution for transport of intense and coupled coasting beams through quadrupole channels

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new method for achieving matched transport of intense, coupled particle beams in quadrupole channels, extending the concept of periodicity to coupled beam moments and validated through simulations.

Contribution

It presents a novel procedure for matched transport of coupled beams in periodic lattices, extending existing methods from uncoupled to coupled beam dynamics.

Findings

Successfully benchmarked the method with simulations.

Extended periodic transport concept to coupled beam moments.

Enhanced stability of intense beams through proper matching.

Abstract

Imposing defined spinning to a particle beam increases its stability against perturbations from space charge~[Y.-L.~Cheon et al., Effects of beam spinning on the fourth-order particle resonance of 3D bunched beams in high-intensity linear accelerators, Phys. Rev. Accel. \& Beams {\bf 25}, 064002 (2022)]. In order to fully explore this potential, proper matching of intense coupled beams along regular lattices is mandatory. Herein, a novel procedure assuring matched transport is described and benchmarked through simulations. The concept of matched transport along periodic lattices has been extended from uncoupled beams to those with considerable coupling between the two transverse degrees of freedom. For coupled beams, matching means extension of cell-to-cell periodicity from just transverse envelopes to the coupled beam moments and to quantities being derived from these.