The coherent beam-beam interaction in the absence of Landau damping is studied with a computer simulation of four space-charge-compensated colliding beams. Results are presented for the modes, phase space structures, widths, and growth rates of coherent beam-beam resonances. These results are compared with solutions of the Vlasov equation, and with measurements made at the Dispositif de Collisions dans l’Igloo (DCI) storage ring in Orsay, France, which operated with space-charge-compensated colliding beams.

• Received 12 April 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.52.3066