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["Haj Tahar, Malek" <mhajtahar AT bnl.gov>]

I believe that the answer lies in the definition of the trace space emittance.
I found a nice paper comparing the development of the normalized emittance and the normalized trace space emittance.

http://journals.aps.org/prstab/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.6.034202

Best regards,

Malek

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From: Haj Tahar, Malek
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 2:11 PM
To: opal AT lists.psi.ch
Subject: normalized emittance OPAL

Dear all,

I have little experience with OPAL and I would like to know if anyone has already encountered this problem: I track a KV beam distribution in an injection line and compute the x-rms emittance which is expected to be constant (since this is a KV beam). Instead, I obtain a strange behavior: when space charge is off, the x-normalized emittance is constant, however, once space charge is on, I have an overshoot in certain locations, specifically at the entrance and exit of some quadrupoles (attached).

I wonder if anyone has an experience with this problem.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Malek Haj Tahar UJF/BNL
PhD student / ADS-R Group

Brookhaven National Laboratory
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