Compensation of detector solenoid effects on the beam size in a linear collider

In this paper, we discuss the optics effects of the realistic detector solenoid field on beam size at the interaction point (IP) of a future linear collider and their compensation. It is shown that most of the adverse effects on the IP beam size arise only from the part of the solenoid field which overlaps and extends beyond the final focusing quadrupoles. It is demonstrated that the most efficient and local compensation can be achieved using the novel method of weak antisolenoids near the IP, while a correction scheme which employs only skew quadrupoles is less efficient, and compensation with strong antisolenoids is not appropriate. One of the advantages of the proposed antisolenoid scheme is that this compensation works well over a large range of the beam energy. © 2005 The American Physical Society