Volume 19, Issue 2

February 2016

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pulse-by-pulse multi-beam-line operation for x-ray free-electron lasers

Toru Hara, Kenji Fukami, Takahiro Inagaki, Hideaki Kawaguchi, Ryota Kinjo, Chikara Kondo, Yuji Otake, Yasuyuki Tajiri, Hideki Takebe, Kazuaki Togawa, Tatsuya Yoshino, Hitoshi Tanaka, and Tetsuya Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 020703 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

Measurements of coherent synchrotron radiation effects in multibeamline operation are reported.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Longitudinal bunch dynamics study with coherent synchrotron radiation

B. E. Billinghurst, J. C. Bergstrom, C. Baribeau, T. Batten, T. E. May, J. M. Vogt, and W. A. Wurtz

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 020704 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Measurements of the onset of the longitudinal instability of a single bunch reveal a relationship between the threshold current and the bunch length, which is energy independent.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-resolved measurement of quadrupole wakefields in corrugated structures

Chao Lu, Feichao Fu, Tao Jiang, Shengguang Liu, Libin Shi, Rui Wang, Lingrong Zhao, Pengfei Zhu, Zhen Zhang, and Dao Xiang

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 020706 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

Measured quadrupole wakefields in planar corrugated structures on the sliced transverse beam distribution agree with theoretical prediction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-consistent simulations and analysis of the coupled-bunch instability for arbitrary multibunch configurations

Gabriele Bassi, Alexei Blednykh, and Victor Smaluk

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 024401 (2016) - Published 24 February, 2016

A parallel tracking code with a Fokker-Planck solver and perturbation theory are used to study transverse coupled bunch instabilities with nonuniform filling pattern.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Target studies for surface muon production

F. Berg, L. Desorgher, A. Fuchs, W. Hajdas, Z. Hodge, P.-R. Kettle, A. Knecht, R. Lüscher, A. Papa, G. Rutar, and M. Wohlmuther

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 024701 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

Optimizing the target of a sub-GeV proton facility increases the surface-muon production rate by about 50%.

ARTICLES

Synchrotron Radiation and Free-Electron Lasers

Modeling and designing of variable-period and variable-pole-number undulator

I. Davidyuk, O. A. Shevchenko, V. G. Tcheskidov, and N. A. Vinokurov

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 020701 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016

Narrow-band GeV photons generated from an x-ray free-electron laser oscillator

Ryoichi Hajima and Mamoru Fujiwara

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 020702 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pulse-by-pulse multi-beam-line operation for x-ray free-electron lasers

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 020703 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

Measurements of coherent synchrotron radiation effects in multibeamline operation are reported.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Longitudinal bunch dynamics study with coherent synchrotron radiation

B. E. Billinghurst, J. C. Bergstrom, C. Baribeau, T. Batten, T. E. May, J. M. Vogt, and W. A. Wurtz

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 020704 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Measurements of the onset of the longitudinal instability of a single bunch reveal a relationship between the threshold current and the bunch length, which is energy independent.

High efficiency, multiterawatt x-ray free electron lasers

C. Emma, K. Fang, J. Wu, and C. Pellegrini

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 020705 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-resolved measurement of quadrupole wakefields in corrugated structures

Chao Lu, Feichao Fu, Tao Jiang, Shengguang Liu, Libin Shi, Rui Wang, Lingrong Zhao, Pengfei Zhu, Zhen Zhang, and Dao Xiang

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 020706 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

Measured quadrupole wakefields in planar corrugated structures on the sliced transverse beam distribution agree with theoretical prediction.

High-Energy Accelerators and Colliders

Analysis and modeling of proton beam loss and emittance growth in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Y. Luo, W. Fischer, and S. White

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 021001 (2016) - Published 4 February, 2016

Beam focusing limitation from synchrotron radiation in two dimensions

O. R. Blanco, R. Tomás, and P. Bambade

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 021002 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

Triangle and concave pentagon electrodes for an improved broadband frequency response of stripline beam position monitors

Yoshihiro Shobuda, Yong Ho Chin, Koji Takata, Takeshi Toyama, and Keigo Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 021003 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

New Acceleration Techniques

High-energy-density electron beam from interaction of two successive laser pulses with subcritical-density plasma

J. W. Wang, W. Yu, M. Y. Yu, H. Xu, J. J. Ju, S. X. Luan, M. Murakami, M. Zepf, and S. Rykovanov

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 021301 (2016) - Published 4 February, 2016

Concept of a laser-plasma-based electron source for sub-10-fs electron diffraction

J. Faure, B. van der Geer, B. Beaurepaire, G. Gallé, A. Vernier, and A. Lifschitz

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 021302 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

Direct longitudinal laser acceleration of electrons in free space

Sergio Carbajo, Emilio A. Nanni, Liang Jie Wong, Gustavo Moriena, Phillip D. Keathley, Guillaume Laurent, R. J. Dwayne Miller, and Franz X. Kärtner

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 021303 (2016) - Published 24 February, 2016

Temporal profile measurements of relativistic electron bunch based on wakefield generation

S. Bettoni, P. Craievich, A. A. Lutman, and M. Pedrozzi

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 021304 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Ultrashort laser pulse driven inverse free electron laser accelerator experiment

J. T. Moody, S. G. Anderson, G. Anderson, S. Betts, S. Fisher, A. Tremaine, and P. Musumeci

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 021305 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

Radio Frequency Calculations and Technology

Timing and low-level rf system for an x-ray laser

Yuji Otake, Hirokazu Maesaka, Shinich Matsubara, Naoyasu Hosoda, and Takashi Ohshima

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 022001 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

Conceptual design of a sapphire loaded coupler for superconducting radio-frequency 1.3 GHz cavities

Chen Xu and Sami Tantawi

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 022002 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Particle-Beam Sources

Two-photon photoemission from a copper cathode in an $X$ -band photoinjector

H. Li, C. Limborg-Deprey, C. Adolphsen, D. McCormick, M. Dunning, K. Jobe, T. Raubenheimer, A. Vrielink, T. Vecchione, F. Wang, and S. Weathersby

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 023401 (2016) - Published 24 February, 2016

Single-Particle Dynamics

Coupled beam motion in a storage ring with crab cavities

Xiaobiao Huang

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 024001 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

Low-Energy, Multiple-Particle Dynamics

New beam-tracking simulation code using bulk-to-point calculation technique for space charge fields

A. Mizuno

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 024201 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

Relativistic, Multiple-Particle Dynamics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-consistent simulations and analysis of the coupled-bunch instability for arbitrary multibunch configurations

Gabriele Bassi, Alexei Blednykh, and Victor Smaluk

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 024401 (2016) - Published 24 February, 2016

A parallel tracking code with a Fokker-Planck solver and perturbation theory are used to study transverse coupled bunch instabilities with nonuniform filling pattern.

Applications

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Target studies for surface muon production

F. Berg, L. Desorgher, A. Fuchs, W. Hajdas, Z. Hodge, P.-R. Kettle, A. Knecht, R. Lüscher, A. Papa, G. Rutar, and M. Wohlmuther

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 024701 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

Optimizing the target of a sub-GeV proton facility increases the surface-muon production rate by about 50%.