Tomography as a diagnostic tool for phase space mapping of intense particle beams

A technique is described for the tomographic mapping of transverse phase space in beams with space charge. Most prior studies where performed at high energy where space charge was negligible and therefore not considered in the analysis. The tomographic reconstruction process is compared with results of simulations using the particle-in-cell code WARP. The new tomographic technique is tested for beams with different intensities (both emittance and space-charge dominated), and with different initial distributions. Effects of various errors in the data collection process on the reconstructed phase space are discussed. It is shown that the crucial factor is not necessarily the number of projections but the range of angles over which the projections are taken. This study also includes a number of experimental results on tomographic phase space mapping performed on the University of Maryland Electron Ring.