Luminosity and beam-beam tune shifts with crossing angle and hourglass effects in e+-e- colliders
Abstract
We develop theoretical expressions for the luminosity and beam-beam tune shifts in the presence of both a crossing angle and hourglass effects for the present and next generation of symmetric e+-e- colliders. The theory is applied to the design of the Fermilab site filler Higgs factory and to the FCC-ee collider.
1 Introduction
Introducing a crossing angle reduces both the luminosity and beam-beam tune shifts if no optics changes are made. The lowered beam-beam tune shifts however allow the possibility of further reducing the beta functions at the IP to increase the luminosity while keeping the beam-beam tune shifts within allowed limits. Specifically, in an e+-e- collider where , a crossing angle in the horizontal plane allows a scheme where is reduced sufficiently to increase the luminosity beyond values without a crossing angle. This has been investigated in recent designs of colliders such as Super KEKB [1], FCC-ee [2] etc. We include both the crossing angle and the hourglass effects on the luminosity and the beam-beam tune shifts. Analytic expressions for the combined effects do not appear to be available in the literature; instead they are approximated as acting independently. The only assumption in our treatment below is that of symmetric interaction region optics for the electrons and positrons so that the bunch sizes in all three dimensions are the same in both beams. After developing exact general expressions, we consider several limiting cases and show that they reduce to known forms where applicable. The purpose of this paper is to find appropriate combinations of the crossing angle and which maximize the luminosity while restricting the beam-beam tune shifts to tolerable values.
We first apply the theory to the very preliminary design of a Higgs factory at Fermilab, called a site filler, and find parameters that increase the luminosity with a non-zero crossing angle. Next we apply the theory to the FCC-ee collider whose design is considerably more mature. We find that the luminosity in this design can also be increased with changes in the crossing angle and .
2 Luminosity change with a crossing angle and hourglass effect
The relativistically invariant luminosity per bunch and unit time is [3]
(2.1) |
(), () are the (bunch intensities, three dimensional densities) of the electrons and positrons respectively and is a kinematic factor
(2.2) |
We assume that the electrons move along the positive direction and the positrons in the opposite direction. When the beams cross in the horizontal plane at a full angle of , the coordinates in the two beam frames are
(2.3) |
where are the coordinates in the laboratory frame, . The transverse velocities are orders of magnitude smaller than the longitudinal velocity (), so the only velocity components are the projections of the longitudinal velocity,
where are unit vectors. Hence the kinematic factor is
(2.4) |
The normalized density of the electron and positron bunches are
(2.5) | |||||
(2.6) |
We assume that the bunches are symmetric at the IP so that the beam sizes in all 3 dimensions are matched, i.e.
(2.7) |
This assumption is true for equal high energy colliders that we consider but could be dropped to consider the more general case of asymmetric colliders. We ignore perturbative effects such as a non-zero dispersion or transverse offsets at the IP.
The beta functions depend only on the longitudinal coordinate in the lab frame, they do not depend on the coordinates in the beam frames. Thus
(2.8) | |||||
(2.9) |
Putting all the factors for the luminosity
The integrations over are straightforward. The last integration over is
where we defined
(2.10) |
Thus the general expression for the luminosity per bunch is
and the general correction factor is
Limiting cases
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No crossing angle or hourglass
Setting and , we have
(2.13) the standard expression for the nominal luminosity.
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Only the hourglass effect, no crossing angle
(2.14) Hence the luminosity correction factor is
(2.15) which agrees with the expression Eq.(2.7) in [4].
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Only the crossing angle, no hourglass effect
In the limit that , there is very little variation in the transverse sizes across the bunch length. In this limit . The dominant contributions to the integral come from the regions close to because of the exponential factor. In this limit we can assume and the luminosity is
(2.16) Hence the luminosity correction factor is
(2.17) This is the standard correction factor for the crossing angle.
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Flat bunch
In this limit, . Since the equilibrium emittances obey , this is easily satisfied if , which typically is the case. In this limit we drop all terms with from Eq.(LABEL:eq:_hg_cross)
(2.18) The luminosity correction factor is
(2.19) (2.20) where
(2.21) and is a Bessel function. There is a similar expression Eq. (2) in [5].
In the absence of a crossing angle so that , we have and Eq, 2.20 is the same as Eq. (2.12) in Furman.
3 Beam-beam tune shifts
The beam-beam potential for electrons interacting with a positron bunch which has a longitudinally Gaussian density is
(3.1) | |||||
where the parameters are those of the positron bunch. The potential for electrons interacting with positrons at a full crossing angle can be found by replacing
(3.2) |
The amplitude dependent beam-beam tune shifts can be obtained from the second derivatives of the potential as
(3.3) |
The beam-beam tune shift parameters are the values of the tune shifts at the origin, i.e.
(3.4) |
Substituting the rotated forms in Eq.(3.2) into the potential, taking the derivatives, evaluating the terms at the origin and leads to
(3.5) | |||||
(3.6) |
The different integrations over cannot all be done analytically, so the 2D integrations have to be done numerically. Transform to dimensionless variables and define other dimensionless variables
(3.7) | |||||
(3.8) | |||||
(3.9) | |||||
(3.10) | |||||
(3.11) |
The Jacobian of the transformation is . Carrying out the transformation leads to the equations for the general case
(3.12) | |||||
(3.13) | |||||
These expressions involve a finite range of integration (from ) over compared to the infinite range over in Eq.(3.5) and (3.6). In those equations, the convergence rate is poor and evaluate slowly while the double integrals evaluate quickly in the set Eq.(3.12) and (3.13) above. We note that the second set of terms in Eq.(3.12) proportional to are typically very small in the collider applications considered below and can be ignored.
Limiting cases
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No crossing angle or hourglass effect
In this case , so
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Only a crossing angle
We use the expressions Eq.(3.12) and (3.13), let and do the integration over first. Define shorthand variables
(3.16) We use the integration results in Eqs. (A.5) - (A.7) to obtain
(3.17) (3.18) These expressions can be obtained from the equations (3.14), (3.15) by replacing the transverse beam size in the crossing plane by the effective beam size and including the factors in , in which are for typical crossing angles.
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Only the hourglass, no crossing angle
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Flat beams
Here we consider the limit in the general expressions in Eqs (3.12), (3.13). Interchanging the integrations and we drop the second set of terms in that are negligibly small(3.21) (3.22) The integrations over can be done and expressed in terms of confluent hypergeometric function and the Bessel function . Using integration results in the Appendix and identifying the coefficients in the equations (7) and (A.9)
leads to the expressions for the tune shifts in the flat beam limit as
(3.25) This in principle, leaves the integration over to be evaluated numerically. While the integrations over the hypergeometric function in both converge rapidly for typical parameter values, the integration over the Bessel function in is poorly convergent. We found it more convenient to use the double integration in Eq.(3.21) to evaluate and the single integration in Eq.(LABEL:eq:_xiy_fl_2) to evaluate . In the following sections, we have used the exact expressions for the luminosity and the beam-beam tune shifts for both the Fermi site filler and the FCC-ee but in both cases, the flat beam expressions are very good approximations.
4 Higgs Factory Site Filler
Beam energy [GeV] | 120 |
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Circumference [km] | 16.0 |
Bunch intensity | 8.34 |
Number of bunches | 2 |
Emittance x [nm] / y [pm] | 0. / |
[m] | 0.2 / 0.001 |
[mm] | 2.9 |
Nominal crossing angle [mrad] | 0 |
Table 1 shows the parameters in the very preliminary design of a Higgs factory based at Fermilab [6]. The bunch length in the table above is the equilibrium value with only synchrotron radiation emitted in the arcs and does not include the beamsstrahlung effect that would increase the bunch length. Hence, the hourglass effects for the site filler are a slight underestimate of the exact values. Table 2 shows the luminosity and the beam-beam tune shifts with and without the hourglass effect.
Without hourglass | With hourglass | |
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Luminosity [cm-2-s-1] | 1.56 | 9.5 |
Beam-beam tune shift | 0.00849 / 0.1197 | 0.00845 / 0.0614 |





The first plot in Fig.2 show the luminosity as a function of the so called Piwinski angle parameter for four values of . This shows that the luminosity is relatively flat upto which corresponds to mrad or 69 times the beam divergence, a relatively large value. The second plot shows the luminosity as function of and over the ranges and respectively. This plot shows that the luminosity varies slowly as a function of over , more rapidly from and then is relatively flat over . Decreasing from 0.2 m to 0.01 m increases the luminosity to nearly cm-2 s-1 for . However, the vertical tune shift at these parameters is very large at , as the next figure shows.
The top plot in Fig. 2 shows the vertical tune shift as a function of at constant for different cases showing the relative impact of the crossing angle and hourglass effects. It is clear that the hourglass effect is dominant in determining the vertical tune shift. The bottom plots in this figure show the horizontal and vertical tune shifts as functions of and with both effects included. The horizontal tune shift varies more strongly with the crossing angle and is mostly independent of . The vertical tune shift on the other hand, varies strongly with and slowly with . Assuming that tune shifts of are dynamically sustainable and the increased chromaticity can be corrected, this suggests that could be lowered to values in the range m with m. These would increase luminosity to the range cm-2s-1.


We can be more aggressive by lowering further. The plots in Fig. 3 show that with m, , the vertical beam-beam tune shift and the luminosity increases to cm-2s-1. The major challenge at these parameters will be to control the linear and non-linear IR chromaticities at these values of .
5 FCC-ee collider
We apply the theory developed above to the FCC e+-e- collider. The required parameters are shown in Table 4 taken from [2].
Beam energy [GeV] | 120 |
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Circumference [km] | 97.75 |
Bunch intensity | 1.8 |
Number of bunches | 328 |
Emittance x [nm] / y [pm] | 0.63 / 1.3 |
[m] | 0.3 / 0.001 |
[mm] | 5.3 |
Crossing angle (mrad) / Piwinski angle | 30 / 5.8 |
No Cr or Hg | Hg only | Cr only | Hg and Cr | FCC study | |
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[ cm-2s-1] | 52 | 23 | 8.9 | 7.8 | 8.5 |
0.544 / 0.692 | 0.539 / 0.253 | 0.0158 / 0.118 | 0.0159 / 0.096 | 0.016 / 0.118 |
The bunch length in Table 4 has been calculated with beamsstrahlung effects included, according to reference [2].
Table 4 shows the luminosity and beam-beam tuneshifts calculated with different conditions in the several columns: (a) No crossing angle or hourglass, (b) hourglass only, (c) crossing angle only, (d) both hourglass and crossing angle. These are compared with the values found in the FCC study [2]. We find that our results with only the crossing angle are close to the FCC study values but our values with both effects are lower, especially the vertical beam-beam tune shift which is more than 20% lower. This is expected since while .



The left plot in Fig. 4 shows the luminosity correction factor from Eq. (LABEL:eq:_RL_gen) as a function of the Piwinski angle at nominal values of for the cases with only the hourglass factor, only the crossing angle and with both effects included. For the FCC parameters, the reduction due to the crossing angle exceeds the reduction due to the hourglass factor when . The right plot shows the luminosity as a function of for different values of . We observe, for example, that the luminosity at say m is in the range [ cm-2 s-1] while the range at the nominal m is [ cm-2 s-1] . The increase in luminosity at lower decreases at larger crossing angles.






The top plots in Fig. 5 show as a function of with or without the two effects (left) and for different values of . The left plot shows that at and at zero crossing angle, and 0.22 without and with the hourglass effect respectively. This value drops to 0.096 at the nominal crossing angle. The hourglass effect therefore significantly reduces the vertical beam-beam tuneshift. The right plot shows, among other observations, that is more sensitive to the value of at smaller than at larger . The bottom plots in Fig. 5 show as functions of . As expected, is insensitive to and falls sharply with increasing . The right plot shows intersected with a planar surface (in blue) at , assumed to be a target value. The intersection of the the surfaces is a curve as a function of along which . The left plot in Fig. 6 shows this curve explicitly, calculated numerically. Assuming that the bunch intensity is kept constant, this curve can be used to find the values of that maximize the luminosity while keeping constant. The right plot in this figure shows the luminosity (in black) is cm-2 s-1 over the range with the corresponding found from the left plot. Compared to the luminosity cm-2 s-1, this represents a 26% increase in luminosity. This is comparable to the 25% luminosity increase achievable by increasing the bunch intensity to increase from 0.096 to 0.12 at the nominal and . However the first method increases from 0.3 to 0.5 and lowers the crossing angle from 30 mrad to mrad. This has additional benefits of keeping the synchrotron radiation power constant, lowering the IR chromaticity and reducing aperture restrictions, and other effects from the smaller crossing angle and avoids potential problems at higher currents.
6 Conclusions
We developed exact expressions for the luminosity and beam-beam tuneshifts with both crossing angle and hourglass effects. We showed that the expressions reduce to known expressions in the limit that one or the other effect is absent.
As mentioned earlier, the Fermi site filler design is very preliminary and detailed studies of the dynamics with beam-beam interactions need to be done. The nominal design has one Interaction Point, a zero crossing angle and achieves a peak luminosity cm-2 s-1. We find that with a crossing angle around 21 mrad, m would increase luminosity to the range cm-2s-1 with nearly constant at 0.12. Since there is only one IP, it is possible that could be increased from this value with an accompanying increase in the luminosity.
The FCC-ee design is considerably more advanced. Applying the theory developed in this report, we have the following observations:
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The crossing angle and the hourglass effect together reduce the luminosity and vertical beam-beam tuneshift compared to the values with the crossing angle alone. With both effects, the luminosity is cm-2 s-1 compared to cm-2 s-1 with only the crossing angle. The values with only the crossing angle are close to those obtained in the FCC study. More significantly, the values of under the same conditions are 0.096 and 0.118 respectively.
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Assuming a target value of , this suggests that the luminosity can be increased from the present value.
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We find the luminosity can be increased by to cm-2 s-1 by simultaneously decreasing the crossing angle to mrad and increasing to 0.5 m while keeping the vertical tuneshift at 0.12. This would be better than the alternative method of increasing the bunch intensity while keeping the nominal values mrad and m .
Acknowledgments
Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance LLC under DOE contract No. DE-AC02CH11359.
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7 Appendix: Integration results
The integrations for the tune shift without crossing angle or hourglass effects use
(A.1) | |||||
(A.2) |
The integrations for the tune shifts with crossing angle only use the results below
(A.3) | |||||
(A.4) |
Using these results, the integrals over for yield
(A.5) | |||||
(A.6) | |||||
(A.7) |
Beam-beam tune shifts for flat beams
(A.9) |
where is the confluent geometric function which, to leading order, decays as .