Effects of quadrupole fringe fields in final focus systems for linear colliders

Abstract

Quadrupole fringe fields in the final focus system can be a source of aberrations in the interaction point transverse beam sizes. This paper investigates the fringe field impact on the transverse beam size in the ATF2, ILC, and CLIC lattices in the linear and non-linear regimes. The linear effects are studied by replacing the hard-edge quadrupolar field by the more realistic gradient fall-off. To address the nonlinear effects, the fringe fields are represented as high order kicks added to both sides of the hard-edge magnets. It will be shown that the linear fringe fields effects can be easily cured by tuning the quadrupole strengths. On the other hand, mitigation of the nonlinear fringe fields effects is more difficult and requires use of octupole magnets or, alternatively, increasing the value of interaction point horizontal beta function βx∗.