Tune shifts of bunch trains due to resistive vacuum chambers without circular symmetry

• Main Authors: Alexander Chao, Samuel Heifets, Bruno Zotter
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Physical Society 2002-11-01
• Series: Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
• Online Access: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.5.111001

We present an explanation for the opposite signs of the horizontal and vertical tune shifts of bunch trains which have been observed recently in several high-energy storage rings. This result can be understood in terms of the long-range quadrupolar wakes of noncircular vacuum chambers with finite resistivity. In vacuum chambers with circular cross section, the dominant transverse wake driven by a leading particle and seen by a trailing test particle is dipolar and is proportional only to the transverse offset of the driving particle. The contributions of preceding bunches or previous turns tend to cancel, as they add with oscillatory factors. On the other hand, quadrupolar wakes are independent of the offset of the driving particle, and thus the contributions of preceding bunches and turns are strictly additive. Since quadrupole fields are focusing in one plane and defocusing in the plane orthogonal to it, their effects on tune shifts in these planes have opposite signs. Their cumulative effect also explains the large values of the tune shifts measured in PEP-II, which exceeded estimates from other impedance sources by factors of 3 to 4. Our analysis also offers a connection to the familiar Laslett tune shift.