Demonstration of beam-beam compensation with electron lenses in the Tevatron V. Kamerdzhiev, Yu. Alexahin, G. Kuznetsov, V. Shiltsev, X.L. Zhang

Introduction

TEL2 BBCompensation results

The beam-beam effects have been the dominating sources of beam loss and lifetime limitations in the Tevatron in Collider Run II (2001 - present). Electron lenses were originally proposed as compensators of electromagnetic long-range and head-on beam-beam interactions of proton and antiproton beams. In our recent experiments, electron lenses were applied to high intensity proton beam at 980 GeV.

In the TEL a low energy electron beam is guided onto the Tevatron orbit by a longitudinal magnetic field. After interacting with high energy protons or antiprotons electrons are extracted and dumped into the collector. The TEL can operate in dc or pulsed mode. The latter allows introducing tune shifts on a bunch-by-bunch basis. TEL1 is designed for horizontal beam-beam compensation. TEL2 works in vertical plane. It was quickly realized that TELs are capable of removing unwanted particles from the beam abort gaps. So one of the TELs is still routinely used for abort gap cleaning.

TEL1 BBCompensation results

Summary & plans

Bunch-by-bunch tune measurements

Reduction of proton losses

Improvement of proton lifetime

Lifetime improvement up to 100% for last bunches in the train

Reliable operation using solid state Marx generator (radiation shielding installed)

Lifetime improvement up to 60% for the first bunches in the train

Reliable operation using RF tube based modulator

40th Fermilab Users' Meeting June 6-7, 2007

Acknowledgements

K. Bishofberger, R. Hively, J. Fitzgerald, A. Klebaner, S. Kozub, M. Kufer, A. Martinez, M. Olson, H. Pfeffer, G. Saewert, V. Scarpine, A. Semenov, V. Sytnik, M. Tiunov, L. Tkachenko, D. Wildman, D. Wolff.

Reduction of proton loss rate

Improvement of proton lifetime

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