The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) project at Brookhaven National Laboratory aims to deliver groundbreaking insights into the fundamental structure of matter through high-energy collisions involving electrons, ions, protons, or helium-3 nuclei. Achieving the desired luminosity and maintaining stability in this complex accelerator environment pose significant challenges, particularly concerning...
Predicting, measuring, and mitigating collective instabilities in storage rings is important to maximize their performance. We will describe our efforts to theoretically compute and characterize collective effects during the design process, and how these continue during early operations. We then show how these predictions compare to measured collective effects at the APS-U, both with and...
Work at the SNS Beam Test Facility aims to characterize halo formation in the early stages of a high-power linac and to reproduce halo measurements with well-benchmarked particle-in-cell simulations. The BTF is equipped with advanced phase space diagnostics that enable detailed characterization of beam distributions at the beginning and end of a 2.5 MeV, 10 meter test beamline. Diagnostic...
