[en] The results of the correction of the first harmonic of the U400M cyclotron magnetic field and the calculation of the accelerating beam dynamics in the cyclotron central region are presented. The results of the first experiments have shown the acceleration coefficient to increase by a factor of 4. (author)

[en] This paper reports on the results of investigation of possible fast transverse instabilities in the NSNS Accumulator Ring. The instability may be caused by the presence of stripline devices like kicker magnets, the active damper system, and by the RF cavities, and the sharp steps of the vacuum pipe. The instability can be overcome by adopting aluminum as the material of the vacuum pipe.Still the growth time of the instability remains short especially for the mode in proximity of the betatron tune

[en] In the recent polarized proton runs in the AGS, a 5% partial snake was used successfully to overcome the imperfection depolarizing resonances. Polarized proton beam was accelerated up to the required RHIC injection energy of 25 GeV. However, significant amount of polarization was lost at 0+ν_y, 12+ν_y and 36+ν_y, which is believed to be partially due to the coupling resonances. To overcome the coupling resonance, an energy-jump was generated by rapidly changing the beam circumference using the powerful AGS rf system. It clearly demonstrates that the novel energy-jump method can successfully overcome coupling resonances and weak intrinsic resonances

[en] The author discusses the important and diverse role of the phase space area - the emittance - in the advanced techniques involving interaction of particle and radiation beams. For undulator radiation from unbunched beams, the radiation phase space is diluted from the coherent phase space of the single electron radiation. When the undulator radiation is used as a light source, it is important to minimize the dilution by decreasing the beam emittance and matching the phase space distributions of the particle and the radiation beams. For optical stochastic cooling, on the other hand, the phase space should be maximally mismatched for efficient cooling. In the case particles are bunched to a length much shorter than the radiation wavelength, the emittance appears as an intensity enhancement factor. In the operation of free electron lasers, the phase space matching becomes doubly important, once as the dilution factor in the initial stage of energy modulation and then as the radiation efficiency factor at the end where the beam is density modulated. The author then discusses some of the beam cooling techniques producing smaller emittances, especially the recent suggestions for relativistic heavy ions in storage rings or electron beams in linacs. These are based on the radiative cooling that occurs when particle beams backscatter powerful laser beams

[en] A brief review of the Zlib development is given. Emphasized is the Zlib nerve system which uses the One-Step Index Pointers (OSIPs) for efficient computation and flexible use of the Truncated Power Series Algebra (TPSA). Also emphasized is the treatment of parameterized maps with an object-oriented language (e.g. C++). A parameterized map can be a Vector Power Series (Vps) or a Lie generator represented by an exponent of a Truncated Power Series (Tps) of which each coefficient is an object of truncated power series

[en] In this work, we present a formalism by considering the perturbations in the moments of a bunched beam for the equivalent circuit model to include all harmonics of the synchroton oscillation in a beam-cavity interaction system. The linear coupling among all longitudinal modes under the influence of narrow-band impedance can be naturally incorporated in this new approach. We used this method to re-examine the coupling between the dipole and the quadrupole modes. The dispersion relation obtained by this new method was compared with that derived from the linearized Vlasov equation up to the second harmonic of the synchrotron motion. We found excellent qualitative agreements between two approaches

[en] The beam coupling impedances of small obstacles protruding inside the vacuum chamber of an accelerator are calculated analytically at frequencies for which the wavelength is large compared to a typical size of the obstacle. Simple formulas for a few important particular cases, including both essentially three-dimensional objects like a post or a mask and axisymmetric irises, are presented. The analytical results are compared and agree with three-dimensional computer simulations. These results allow simple practical estimates of the broad-band impedance contributions from such discontinuities

[en] Beam stability and halo formation in high-intensity axisymmetric 2D beams in a uniform focusing channel are analyzed using particle-in-cell simulations. The tune depression-mismatch space is explored for the uniform (KV) distribution of the particle transverse-phase-space density, as well as for more realistic ones (in particular, the water-bag distribution), to determine the stability limits and halo parameters. The numerical results show an agreement with predictions of the analytical model for halo formation

[en] There are not many theories to explain a normal bunch lengthening from first principles. Widely used is the analogy from Laslett-Neil-Sessler criterion for coasting beams, e.g., A. Hofmann, LEP-70714. He derives the scaling law for SPEAR II from LNS criterion which is in good agreement with the experimental results. A source of mechanism for bunch lengthening is needed: (1) single bunch instability; (2) fast growth rate; and (3) broad-band impedance. Scharer proposed a mode-coupling instability model (CERN/PS/ER/77l-5). Since then Chao and Gareyte proposed the water bag model and Chin, Satok, Sazuki proposed the Gaussian distribution. If the estimate of SPEAR II impedance is OK, the mode coupling model gives too large threshold current. Then another mechanism of instability is needed. If the reproduction of the wiggle by the model-coupling method is not coincidence, the estimate of impedance or the impedance model should be reconsidered

[en] Published in summary form only