TY - BOOK ID - 14225572 TI - Touschek Lifetime Studies and Optimization of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility : Present and Upgrade Lattice PY - 2016 SN - 3319257978 3319257986 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Nuclear Physics KW - Physics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Synchrotrons. KW - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. KW - Synchrotron KW - ESRF KW - Installation européenne de rayonnement synchrotron KW - Europäische Synchrotron-Strahlungsquelle (Research institute) KW - Particle accelerators KW - Particle acceleration. KW - Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics. KW - Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. KW - Lasers. KW - Photonics. KW - Particles (Nuclear physics) KW - Acceleration (Mechanics) KW - Nuclear physics KW - New optics KW - Optics KW - Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation KW - Masers, Optical KW - Optical masers KW - Light amplifiers KW - Light sources KW - Optoelectronic devices KW - Nonlinear optics KW - Optical parametric oscillators KW - Acceleration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14225572 AB - This thesis describes the experimental and theoretical basics of free electron laser science, serving as an excellent introduction for newcomers to this young field. Beyond that, it addresses electron-beam lifetimes in third-generation synchrotron light sources, in particular with a view to optimizing them in the forthcoming ESRF upgrade. The lifetime of the electron beam in a storage ring is a measure of how fast electrons are being lost, and is thus an essential parameter determining the required injection frequency, which in turn affects beam stability and power consumption. The main limitation on the beam lifetime in these synchrotron light sources is the Touschek effect, i.e. the single scattering between two electrons in a bunch. In this thesis a model able to predict the Touschek lifetime is presented. The model is successfully tested against measurements and used to study the influence of other parameters such as current and size of vacuum chamber. Not least, it enables the settings of sextupole magnets to be optimized. ER -