Beam Instabilities in Hadron Synchrotrons

• Published in: IEEE transactions on nuclear science Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 1001 - 1050
• Main Authors: Metral, E., Argyropoulos, T., Bartosik, H., Biancacci, N., Buffat, X., Esteban Muller, J. F., Herr, W., Iadarola, G., Lasheen, A., Li, K., Oeftiger, A., Pieloni, T., Quartullo, D., Rumolo, G., Salvant, B., Schenk, M., Shaposhnikova, E., Tambasco, C., Timko, H., Zannini, C., Burov, A., Banfi, D., Barranco, J., Mounet, N., Boine-Frankenheim, O., Niedermayer, U., Kornilov, V., White, S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Subjects: Accelerator Physics; Beam coupling impedance; beam-beam; chromaticity; coherent instability; Electromagnetics; electron cloud; Force; Impedance; Landau damping; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetomechanical effects; octupoles; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; Particle beams; Physics; Space charge; stability diagram; transverse damper/feedback; wake field; Magnetomechanical effects; Force; Space charge; hadron synchrotrons; stability diagram; Electromagnetics; wake field; particle accelerators; synchrotron; beam instability simulation; chromaticity; electron cloud; activity report; hadron; beam instability theory; coherent instability; octupoles; Particle beams; synchrotrons; beam-beam; numerical calculations; beam dynamics; particle beam diagnostics; beam instabilities; machine performance; beam instability; Beam coupling impedance; Landau damping; performance; Magnetic resonance imaging; transverse damper/feedback; Impedance
• ISSN: 0018-9499; 1558-1578
• DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2015.2513752

Beam instabilities cover a wide range of effects in particle accelerators and they have been the subjects of intense research for several decades. As the machines performance was pushed new mechanisms were revealed and nowadays the challenge consists in studying the interplays between all these intricate phenomena, as it is very often not possible to treat the different effects separately. The aim of this paper is to review the main mechanisms, discussing in particular the recent developments of beam instability theories and simulations.