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Description
Physics routinely conspires to enlarge a beam's emittance. Storage ring designers and modellers, in order to provide realistic predictions, must remain aware of different sources (causes) of emittance. In this talk, I try to make the case for why diffusion processes, an often underappreciated lens with which to see electron dynamics, is likely the cause of emittance growth within your system. As such, perhaps as a community we should be taking more seriously the idea that the standard way of solving problems for electron systems may not always be best. Put simply, electrons are not protons!
The aim of this talk is to excite you about diffusion within beam dynamics and, crucially, convince you that the effects of randomness should be taken more seriously. By also featuring some of my own work and calculations, I hope to persuade you to try looking at the world with a pair of diffusion goggles.
