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CHAPTER 4<br />

Theory and Simulation of<br />

Multipass BBU<br />

The term “beam breakup”, as used in this dissertation, refers to a type of<br />

regenerative instability that can develop in recirculating linacs. In energy recovering<br />

linacs (a specific type of recirculating linac), the maximum current can be limited<br />

by the multipass, multibunch beam breakup which occurs when the electron beam<br />

interacts with the HOMs of an RF cavity on the accelerating pass and again on the<br />

energy recovering pass. The feedback loop that is generated between the beam and<br />

the RF cavity is what distinguishes regenerative-type beam instabilities from the<br />

so-called cumulative instabilities. In the latter, interactions between several cavities<br />

act to amplify the off-axis beam displacements, but there is no closure of a feedback<br />

loop between the beam and the cavity that provided the initial kick.<br />

The BBU instability is of particular concern in the design and operation of<br />

high average current energy recovery accelerators utilizing SRF technology, where<br />

dipole modes with very high quality factors, if not sufficiently damped, can cause<br />

BBU at currents well below the design operating current. In fact, this particular<br />

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