The Stanford Linear Collider
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I. 1994-95 RUN SUMMARY
- The system has been remarkably reliable with <2% unscheduled downtime.
- The electron damping time is more critical.
- In the past, effort has been devoted to correcting transverse emittance dilution in the SLC bunch compressors [10-11].
IV. MAIN LINAC
- The main linac challenge is in high current emittance preservation and stabilization of both the e-and e+ bunches in the presence of the inevitable quadrupole and accelerating structure misalignments.
- The requirements for vertical linac emittance control have become even more challenging with the advent of flat beam operation in 1993 where the linac entrance emittance at 1.2 GeV is now: y~~ = 2-3 mm-mrad,.
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- This linac lattice modification successfully reduced evertical trajectory jitter from -GO% of the nominal rms beam size (observed in the final focus) to -40%.
- In response, magnet pitch wedges were installed for -2/3 of the linac quadrupoles.
- At the start of the run the emittance increase through the arcs was found to be independent of both beam current and initial emittance.
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VI. FEEDBACK, CONTROLS AND DIAGNOSTICS
- There are approximately 28 different microprocessor controlled fast trajectory feedback loops, as well as several special function loops, in simultaneous operation around the SLC [37] .
- Furthermore, the loops are 'adaptive' meaning they are able to learn the transport mapthe accelerator transfer coefficients-between loops.
- An added benefit of adaptive-cascaded feedback is the continual measurement of the phase advance between points in the accelerator.
- The beginnings of significant progress in machine wide emittance control can be traced to the development and installation of beam profile wire-scanners in the main linac in 1990-91 [17] .
- The difference between 'design' and 1995 intensities alone, including associated loss in enhancement, accounts for a factor of -8 in luminosity.
VII. PRESENT PERFORMANCE LIMJTATIONS AND FUTURE PLANS Table
- The present peak performance parameten: are, however, not always maintainable.
- Some variations remain unexplained and are possibly due to an undiagnosed high current dilution mechanism within the collimation, arc or final focus systems.
- This appears to be current dependent and will be the main focus of attention in subsequent collider runs.
- Many smaller projects are in progress which address reliability issues and beam transmission limitations in the various transport lines.
Vm. ACKNOWLEDCMENTS
- The continuing progress in the performance of the SLC is in a large pIm due to the persistence of the operations staff who have leCmed and developed many new ways to deal with the full spectrum of problems encountered in daily operations.
- Further acknowledgments are extended to the SLC physicists, the engineering groups ' and the maintenance staff.
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