Quadrupole shifts beam phase?

[hendrik.haehnel]

Dear Didier,
we found some weird behaviour in TraceWIn. This arbitrary example only has a drift section, a triplet and two buncher gaps.

Somehow, the beam center phase is shifted in the Quadrupole. Is this just some numerical error for this edge case (not a realistic case)? Or is there some bug?

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DRIFT 15 50
DRIFT 25 50
QUAD 8 100 18
DRIFT 5 18
QUAD 10 -100 18
DRIFT 5 18
QUAD 8 100 18
DRIFT 5 15
DRIFT 5 15
GAP 400 -90 15
DRIFT 28 15
GAP 400 -90 15
DRIFT 5 15
END

Image of the envelope (phase shifted in Quadrupole)

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Project file attached below.

Best regards,
Hendrik

[Didier]

Dear Hendry,

Considring your very low beam energy, the transverse dispersion becomes non-negligible. Try with a very small transverse emittance to see that the effect disappears.

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Regards,

Didier

[hendrik.haehnel]

Tank you, you are absolutely correct. I should have thought of that.

Best regards,
Hendrik