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Intense Beam Dynamics In Arbitrary Structures, Anthony Gee

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Particle accelerators are ubiquitous in science and society and their use is still growing globally. Beam physics, the physics underlying accelerator science, is focusing in part on studies and applications where intense charged particle beams become essential. The high-intensity may cause new collective instabilities and phenomena which are difficult to be modeled by conventional means. New numerical methods must be developed to efficiently and reliably model, simulate and optimize such high currents. The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) and the Fermilab Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) are dedicated test rings to study the high intensity regimes. A 3-D symplectic …