Th.P-19. Collisional effects and dynamic aperture in high-intensity storage rings

We analyze the dynamic aperture in the presence of strong sextupolar errors for a high-intensity beam. The scaling laws for the short-term dynamic aperture are examined and its dependence on the perveance is discussed in a mean field approximation for a coasting beam. The collisional effects of Coulombian interaction are estimated for a linear lattice using a scaling law for the relaxation time. The collisional effects on the long-time dynamic aperture are discussed by comparing the results of full Hamiltonian integration with a mean field theory. An application to a storage ring with the HIDIF parameters is briefly outlined.