Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford / 2018 / S19 / 1 / a

For geometrically similar FODO optics at fixed beam energy and damping partition, the natural horizontal emittance scales approximately as the cube of the bending angle per cell, ${\epsilon }_{x0}\propto {\gamma }^2{\theta }_b^3$. This follows from the radiation-integral expression ${\epsilon }_{x0}=C_q{\gamma }^2{I}_5/(J_x{I}_2)$: at fixed optical phase advance the dispersion-invariant scaling makes the ratio proportional to the cube of the cell bend.

Doubling the number of cells around a fixed circumference halves the bending angle per cell, givingThis estimate assumes the redesigned magnets actually preserve the relevant dimensionless optical structure, the same energy and circumference, and no dominant insertion-device emittance contribution. Merely counting twice as many quadrupoles without specifying the lattice would not guarantee the cubic improvement.