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This study examines how different particle beam distributions (K-V, waterbag, parabolic, conical, and Gaussian) behave in periodic magnetic quadrupole channels through particle simulations. Gaussian distributions show significantly better stability and lower emittance growth compared to K-V distributions when subjected to third-order instabilities over many periods. However, all non-K-V distributions experience rapid initial emittance growth within the first period at high beam intensities, which the authors attribute to space-charge density homogenization and provide analytical formulae to estimate.
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Understanding beam stability in particle accelerators is crucial for optimizing accelerator design and performance. These findings suggest that Gaussian beam distributions may be preferable for maintaining beam quality in high-intensity applications, which has direct implications for particle physics experiments, medical accelerators, and other beam-based technologies.
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Abstract: The behavior of K-V, waterbag, parabolic, conical and Gaussian distributions in periodic quadrupole channels is studied by particle simulations. In the parameter range studied, the response associated with the K-V instabilities becomes progressively less pronounced toward the Gaussian distribution. For the third-order instability studied here, the emittance growth factor of an initially Gaussian beam after a large number of periods is considerably lower than that of an equivalent K-V distribution.newlineindent In addition, the non-K-V distributions exhibit a rapid initial emittance growth within approximately one period of the channel, which becomes very significant at high beam intensities. This growth is attributed to the homogenization of the space-charge density, resulting in a conversion of electric-field energy into transverse kinetic and potential energy. Two simple analytical formulae based on different energy-partition assumptions are derived as estimates for this effect and are compared with the results obtained from particle simulations. They are not rigorous lower and upper bounds for arbitrary beam evolution. \[6pt] Revised version of: Particle Accelerators {bf 15}, 47–65 (1984)}