Proposed Feed Forward Correction for the CLIC Ring-To-Main-Linac Transfer Lines

To achieve the design luminosity for the CLIC main beam an unprecedented degree of machine stability is required. Extremely stringent tolerances are placed on the damping ring extraction system in order to limit emittance growth along the ring-to-main-linac transfer line; particularly through the pre-linac betatron collimation system. In this paper we propose feed forward systems situated across the central arcs and turnaround loops of the transfer lines as an elegant solution to relax the damping ring extraction requirements as well as to significantly reduce emittance growth through the betatron collimation system. The optics for the beam position monitor and kicker regions are presented and the results of tracking simulations shown to verify the performance of the feed forward systems.