Beam Phase and Energy Tolerances in the CLIC RTML

Tight beam phase and energy constraints are imposed on the CLIC ring to main linac transport (RTML) to achieve the demanded performance of the following main linac and at the interaction point. A major issue will be energy jitter which is converted by the bunch compressor chicanes into beam phase jitter. Constraints on the two bunch compression stages, the booster linac and the incoming beam are evaluated. As an alternative to the current second stage of bunch compression a beam line is studied which inherently prevents incoming energy jitter from becoming beam phase jitter while preserving the required bunch compression.