Measuring β^{*} in SuperKEKB with K modulation

• Main Authors: P. Thrane, R. Tomás, A. Koval, K. Ohmi, Y. Ohnishi, A. Wegscheider
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Physical Society 2020-01-01
• Series: Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
• Online Access: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.012803

SuperKEKB is an asymmetric energy electron positrion collider currently under commissioning in Japan. It aims to achieve a record high luminosity of 8×10^{35}  cm^{-2} s^{-1}, for which accurate control of β_{y}^{*} is needed. The advanced final focus system is also relevant for studies related to future linear colliders, which similarly need to achieve very small beam sizes. To work for SuperKEKB, the K modulation technique is generalized to allow known quadrupole fields between the modulated magnets and the interaction point. Initial measurements taken in HER agree with simulations, and show that K modulation is suitable for measuring the minimum of the β function at the interaction point within 1%, however it is too uncertain to be used for measuring the displacement of the beam waist away from the interaction point. In addition, tune shift equations for a modulated quadrupole are derived without assuming a thin lens perturbation, giving a simple method to calculate the tune shift to second order in the quadrupole strength modulation.