Emittance optimisation in the Drive Beam Recombination Complex at CTF3

According to the Conceptual Design Report, the power to accelerate the main colliding beams of CLIC is taken from parallel high intensity (100 A), low energy (2.37 GeV) beams. These beams are generated by long trains, accelerated by conventional klystrons and then time-compressed in the so called Drive-Beam Recombination Complex (DBRC). A scaled version of the DBRC has been built at the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) at CERN in order to prove its principle and study any arising feasibility issues. One of the main constraints is the emittance control during the recombination process. This work presents an overview of the studies ongoing at CTF3, keeping in view possible improvements of the nominal CLIC design. In particular, a generic feedback algorithm to solve (quasi-)linear systems has been implemented and used in order to optimize the process by tuning the energy of the beam and steer the orbits in the different lines, as well matching the design dispersion. Current results and possible room for further optimization will be shown.