Simulation of accelerating structures with large staggered tuning

One idea for controlling multibunch beam breakup in future linear colliders is to use accelerating structures that have a large ( approximately 10%) staggered tuning, that is, a large cell-to-cell spread in frequencies of the transverse dipole modes. Simulations of such structures using the programs TBCI and LINACBBU are compared. Issues relevant to the design and optimization of such structures, such as choice of cell frequency distribution and role of cell-to-cell coupling are discussed.<
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