• M. Micheler, G.A. Blair, G.E. Boorman, V. Karataev, K. Lekomtsev
  JAI, Egham, Surrey
• R. Corsini, A.E. Dabrowski, T. Lefèvre
  CERN, Geneva
• S. Molloy
  Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey

A setup for the investigation of Coherent Diffraction Radiation (CDR) from a conducting screen as a tool for non-invasive longitudinal electron beam profile diagnostics has been designed and installed in the Combiner Ring Measurement (CRM) line of the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3, CERN). In this report the status of the monitor development and results on the interferometric measurements of CDR spectra are presented. The CDR signal correlation with an RF pickup and a streak camera is reported. The future plans for the system improvements are also discussed.

• S. Molloy, S.T. Boogert
  Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey

Serpentine is a Python library, written for the purpose of simulating charged particle accelerators. It has been written to allow for the simulation of both rings and single-shot machines in a light-weight way (i.e. without requiring significant computational resources for typical calculations, such as the determination of transfer matrices, or matching of Twiss parameters), and has been structured to be highly modular (i.e. allowing extension of the simulations to include effects not already included in the base installation). Through the use of the Universal Accelerator Parser (UAP), Serpentine has no need for a new lattice representation, and allows access to any lattice format understood by UAP. The operation of this code on several complex accelerator designs is demonstrated.

• F. Stulle, D. Schulte, J. Snuverink
  CERN, Geneva
• A. Latina
  Fermilab, Batavia
• S. Molloy
  Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey

Over the last months the general layout of the CLIC main beam RTML has stabilized and most important lattices are existing. This allowed us to perform detailed studies of tolerances on magnetic stray fields and on magnet misalignment. Additionally, beam lines could be improved in terms of performance and flexibility. We discuss the overall layout as will be described in the CLIC conceptual design report, highlight the improvements which have been made and show results of tolerance studies.

• S. Molloy
  Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
• R. Calaga
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York

The Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL) is part of the proposed upgrade of the LHC injection chain, intended to significantly improve the characteristics of the beam circulating in the collider. SPL will rely on two classes of superconducting cavities; beta=0.65 and beta=1; each containing 5-cells resonant at 704 MHz. Presented here are the results of some initial simulations of the beta=1 design, performed at the NERSC supercomputing facility with the highly-parallelised ACE3P codes released by the Advanced Computations Department at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The HOM spectrum in the baseline design has been calculated, and dangerous modes identified by their high R/Q value. In addition, perturbations due to the location of the various couplers, and the structure of the beampipes have been investigated, and are presented here.

• S.T. Boogert, G.E. Boorman, C. Swinson
  JAI, Oxford
• R. Ainsworth, S. Molloy
  Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
• A.S. Aryshev, Y. Honda, T. Tauchi, N. Terunuma, J. Urakawa
  KEK, Ibaraki
• J.C. Frisch, J. May, D.J. McCormick, J. Nelson, T.J. Smith, G.R. White, M. Woodley
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• A. Heo, E.-S. Kim, H.-S. Kim, Y.I. Kim
  Kyungpook National University, Daegu
• A. Lyapin
  UCL, London
• H.K. Park
  KNU, Deagu
• M.C. Ross
  Fermilab, Batavia
• S. Shin
  PLS, Pohang

The Accelerator Test Facility 2 (ATF2) in KEK, Japan, is a prototype scaled demonstrator system for the final focus required for a lepton linear collider. The ATF2 beam-line is instrumented with a total of 38 C and S band resonant cavity beam position monitors (BPM) with associated mixer electronics and digitizers. The current status of the BPM system is described, with a focus on operational techniques and performance.