Constraints on plasma compensation of beam-beam effects in muon colliders.
We obtain necessary conditions for the plasma compensation to work in muon colliders. To this end, we analyze the suppression of beam fields by the plasma, collisional diffusion of the return plasma current, possible beam filamentation, and dynamics of plasma ions. We show that a good compensation requires very short beams and allows little freedom in choice of the plasma density.
Lotov
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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia.