23–28 Aug 2026
Li Ka Shing Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Microbunching Damping as a Fast Dispersion Diagnostic for Lattice Tuning

TUP12
25 Aug 2026, 16:00
1h 30m
Packard Building Atrium

Packard Building Atrium

350 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Poster Presentation Session 10: Electron Diagnostics, Timing, Synchronization, and Controls Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Sergei Kladov (University of Chicago)

Description

Microbunching damping in relativistic electron beams is strongly influenced by
the inverse dispersion terms of the transport map, which couple the transverse
phase-space coordinates to the longitudinal displacement. In this work, we use
microbunching damping as a diagnostic and as an optimization objective for
lattice tuning in linear accelerators: the residual dispersion is minimized by
maximizing the observed microbunching amplification. Experimental measurements
are compared with numerical particle tracking and with analytical predictions.
The results show that microbunching-based dispersion characterization is a
faster alternative to conventional dispersion measurements and therefore enables
more efficient lattice optimization.

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Author

Sergei Kladov (University of Chicago)

Co-authors

Claudio Emma (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Zhirong Huang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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