Measurements of Bunch Motion Due to the Longitudinal Dipole-Coupled Bunch Instability at the Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring

Abstract

In the past a longitudinal dipole-coupled bunch instability had limited high current operation at CESR and resulted in a degradation of luminosity performance. A longitudinal feedback system successfully damps this instability and the exchange of superconducting rf cavities for normal conducting rf cavities in CESR has further reduced the instability's strength. A description of the longitudinal dynamics with the instability present are described in this paper along with detailed measurements of the instability using a dual-axis synchroscan streak camera. The measurements were made on single trains of bunches, multiple trains, and colliding beams. These measurements give a characterization of the instability's degradation of luminosity, modes of oscillation, and bunch distribution changes.