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Title	Studies of Space Charge Effects in the Proposed CERN PS2
Author(s)	Qiang, Ji (LBL, Berkeley) ; Ryne, Robert (LBL, Berkeley) ; De Maria, Riccardo (CERN) ; Macridin, Alexandru (Fermilab) ; Spentzouris, Panagiotis (Fermilab) ; Papaphilippou, Yannis (CERN) ; Wienands, Ulrich (SLAC)
Publication	2010
In:	1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 23 - 28 May 2010, pp.TUPD020
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	A new proton synchrotron, the PS2, is under design study to replace the current proton synchrotron at CERN for the LHC upgrade. Nonlinear space charge effects could cause significant beam emittance growth and particle losses and limit the performance of the PS2. In this paper, we report on studies of the potential spacecharge effects at the PS2 using three-dimensional selfconsistent macroparticle tracking codes, IMPACT, MaryLie/IMPACT, and Synergia. We will present initial benchmark results among these codes. Effects of spacecharge on the emittance growth, especially due to synchrotron coupling, aperture sizes, initial painted distribution, and RF ramping scheme will also be discussed
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