FERMI@Elettra beam-based alignment simulations

In this report we present various simulations of the FERMI@Elettra linear accelerator performance with ideal and non-ideal element alignment, showing that a non-ideal machine’s emittance may be over 15 times its ideal counterpart. We then apply beam-based alignment techniques in order to correct this emittance growth, concluding that, under these conditions, dispersion-free steering is enough to reduce the emittance to within 30% of the beam’s original emittance.