CERN Accelerating science

Article
Title	Damping Transverse Instabilities in the Tevatron Using AC Chromaticity
Author(s)	Ranjbar, Vahid H
Affiliation	(Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois)
Publication	2005
In:	21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.3665
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	Several papers*,** have suggested possibility of using varying chromaticity to damp the head-tail instability. We test this by cycling the chromaticity sextupole magnets in the Tevatron near the synchrotron frequency to see if the head-tail stability threshold is increased. Further we compare the turn-by-turn evolution of a bunch slice in the presence of varying chromaticity to a model previously developed.