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form of beam breakup not only occurs transversely, but can also develop longitudi-<br />

nally through the beam’s interactions with longitudinal HOMs [63]. The threshold<br />

currents for longitudinal BBU, however, are an order of magnitude larger than the<br />

thresholds for transverse BBU [64]. Therefore, only transverse BBU is considered<br />

throughout the remainder of this work.<br />

Consider the time and frequency domain behavior of beam breakup depicted<br />

in Fig. 4.1. The bottom plot shows the beam displacement as a function of time.<br />

This represents the usual output for a particle tracking BBU simulation program,<br />

and when the displacement is neither growing nor damping, is used to define the<br />

threshold current. In this example the threshold current has clearly been exceeded as<br />

the beam motion is beginning to grow exponentially. The system simulated consists<br />

of a single cavity with two HOMs and a single recirculation. To see how the picture<br />

of beam breakup evolves in the frequency domain, Fast-Fourier Transformations<br />

(FFTs) were performed on several “slices” of the time-domain data. The FFT plots<br />

reveal that initially the frequency of both HOMs are present in the beam but as time<br />

progresses the amplitude of one mode gradually decreases until the breakup develops.<br />

At this point only a single mode remains, which deflects the beam displacement with<br />

its own frequency.<br />

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce a model of BBU and to derive the<br />

threshold current for stability. Two different approaches to deriving the threshold<br />

current are given in Section 4.2 and Section 4.4. With a basic understanding of<br />

how BBU develops, a brief survey of the three BBU simulation codes developed at<br />

Jefferson Laboratory is given in Section 4.3 and Section 4.5. Section 4.6 describes<br />

experiments to measure the properties of dipole HOMs. From these measurements<br />

it is shown in Section 4.7 that the threshold current formula is applicable to the FEL<br />

Upgrade Driver. Finally, the results of simulations performed for the FEL Upgrade<br />

are presented in Section 4.8.<br />

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