Minutes of the CLIC Meeting - 3 November 2006
Agenda: |
Update on Beam Based Alignment methods for the CLIC Main Linac |
Speaker: |
Andrea Latina |
Misalignments in the CLIC main linac cause the electron
and positron beams to be steered off-center and to produce wakefields
whose effects would dramatically limit the CLIC performances. To align
the linac and therefore mitigate these effects, beam-based alignment
methods, such as Dispersion Free Steering, must be used. Dispersion
Free Steering, which already proved to be effective in similar cases,
exploits a combination of a nominal beam and one or more off-energy
beams to correct the alignment of the machine. Although DFS is already
well known, how to produce these off-energy beams in CLIC is still
argument of discussion. In this talk we present the idea of exploiting
the CLIC Bunch Compressor Stage 2 in order to do that.
The case of a laser-straight main linac is examined in some details,
whereas the case of a linac which follows the Earth's curvature is
mentioned and briefly commented. Moreover, the experience gained from
similar studies carried out for the ILC main linac is also summarized
and some parallels between the two cases are drawn.
copy of Andrea's transparencies (pdf format)