Extracting chromatic properties of electron beams from spectral analysis of turn-by-turn beam position data

Abstract: A method to estimate linear chromaticity, RMS energy spread, and chromatic beta-beating, directly from turn-by-turn beam position data in a circular electron accelerator, is presented. This technique is based on frequency analysis of a transversely excited beam, in the presence of finite chromaticity. Due to the turn-by-turn chromatic modulation of the beam's envelope, betatron sidebands appear around the main frequency of the Fourier spectra. By determining the amplitude of both sidebands, chromatic properties of the beam can be estimated. In this paper, analytical derivations justifying the proposed method are given, along with results from tracking simulations. To this end, results from practical applications of this technique at the KARA electron ring are demonstrated.