A COMPUTER SIMULATION OF LONGITUDINAL SINGLE-BUNCH EFFECTS IN ELECTRON-POSITRON STORAGE RINGS*

The computer code TRACK simulates longitudinal single-bunch effects in an electron-positron storage ring. The program tracks the turn-by-turn energy and phase deviations of N superparticles, where N is 100-1000. In addition to the usual RF and lattice param-eters, an input to the program is the wake potential function for the ring vacuum chamber. The program has been applied to compute bunch lengthening in SPEAR as a function of charge per bunch. Although the computed results are in qualitative agreement with measurements, there are discrepancies in some details. Possible reasons for these discrepancies are discussed