Emittance Measurements

20 Nov 2025, 08:30
1h

Speaker

Gero Kube

Description

Transverse emittance is one of the central figures of merit for charged-particle beams because it connects the microscopic phase-space distribution to macroscopic accelerator performance. This report introduces the trace-space description of emittance, relates it to the Courant-Snyder formalism and the beam matrix, and then follows the experimental logic behind common diagnostics. Emphasis is placed on how profile measurements, masks, drifts, quadrupole scans, and transverse deflecting structures convert otherwise inaccessible angular or slice information into measurable beam sizes.

Author

Gero Kube

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