Fast beam-ion instability simulations in the TESLA electron damping ring and the FEL beam transfer line

The fast beam-ion instability is considered potentially harmful in electron storage rings and linear colliders with short bunch spacing and high bunch charge, as it is the case in the proposed electron damping ring and the FEL beam transfer line of the future linear collider TESLA. This instability arises from interaction between a stored bunch and an ion cloud previously created by all heading bunches during a single pass. To study this effect and to determine the required vacuum conditions, a simulation code has been developed. The results of these simulation studies are presented in this paper.