• T.J. Ma, C. Li, W.B. Li, P. Lu, B. Sun, L.L. Tang, Y.L. Yang
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

A new beam current monitor (BCM) has been implemented on Hefei Light Source (HLS) recently. It has been used for bunch-by-bunch beam current measurement, which is useful for filling control and longitudinal feedback, etc. The BCM consists of three parts: the front-end circuit, a high sampling rate oscilloscope for beam current signal acquisition and the data processing system. The signals from the beam position monitor of the storage ring are manipulated by the front-end circuit first, then sampled by the Agilent MSO7104 oscilloscope and transported into the control computer for data processing. The sampling rate of the oscilloscope is up to 4GHz and the trigger rate is 4.533 MHz. The data processing program is supported by the LabVIEW. The measurement of beam current in multi-bunch operation mode is described. Some important results are summarized.