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Revisiting the Longitudinal 90° Limit in High Intensity Linear Accelerators.

Ingo Hofmann¹, Oliver Boine-Frankenheim²

¹Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstrasse 8, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany and Goethe Universität, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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Area of Science:

Particle accelerator physics
High-intensity beam dynamics

Background:

The 90° phase advance per focusing period is a standard design limit in linear accelerators.
This limit is well-established for transverse beam stability.

Purpose of the Study:

To re-evaluate the 90° longitudinal phase advance limit in high intensity linear accelerators.
To investigate the impact of parametric resonances on beam stability.
To explore potential design relaxations for advanced accelerator concepts.

Main Methods:

Analysis of parametric envelope and sum envelope resonances.
Investigation of transverse-longitudinal coupling effects.
Derivation of a new sum instability rule.

Main Results:

The 90° longitudinal phase advance limit can be relaxed for lattices with multiple RF gaps.
A novel transverse-longitudinal parametric sum envelope instability imposes a new design constraint.
Exceeding 90° longitudinally is permissible if the transverse phase advance is correspondingly reduced.

Conclusions:

The traditional 90° longitudinal limit is not universally applicable.
A new instability rule offers design flexibility, potentially enabling higher accelerating gradients and reduced costs.
Advanced superconducting linear accelerator designs can benefit from this increased freedom, provided cavity technological limits are respected.