Three-dimensional envelope instability model in periodic focusing channels

Abstract

The space-charge driven envelope instability can be of great danger in high intensity accelerators and was studied using a two-dimensional (2D) envelope model and three-dimensional (3D) macroparticle simulations before. In this paper, we propose a three-dimensional envelope instability model to study the instability for a bunched beam in a periodic solenoid and radio-frequency (RF) focusing channel and a periodic quadrupole and RF focusing channel. This study shows that when the transverse zero current phase advance is below $90$ degrees, the beam envelope can still become unstable if the longitudinal zero current phase advance is beyond $90$ degrees. For the transverse zero current phase advance beyond $90$ degrees, the instability stopband width becomes larger with the increase of the longitudinal focusing strength and even shows different structure from the 2D case when the longitudinal zero current phase advance is beyond $90$ degrees. Breaking the symmetry of two longitudinal focusing RF cavities and the symmetry between the horizontal focusing and the vertical focusing in the transverse plane in the periodic quadrupole and RF channel makes the instability stopband broader. This suggests that a more symmetric accelerator lattice design might help reduce the range of the envelope instability in parameter space.