Beam-based alignment techniques for the FCC-ee

The Future electron-positron Circular Collider (FCC-ee) is a proposed lepton collider for high-energy particle physics succeeding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its ambitious design goals demand excellent orbit and optics control and, therefore, set strict limits on alignment tolerances. One approach to relax the mechanical alignment tolerances is Beam-Based Alignment (BBA), where the offset between magnet and position measurement is determined and can later be used to steer the beam towards the magnetic centre using corrector magnets. One of the key challenges of the FCC-ee is developing an accurate and fast BBA strategy for quadrupoles and sextupoles. A parallel BBA technique is evaluated and compared in simulations for the baseline and an alternative lattice for FCC-ee using Xsuite and is presented in this paper.