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| MOPLT124 | Control System of the Small Isochronous ring | damping, acceleration, vacuum, electron | 830 | ||
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The purpose of this paper is to describe the control system of the Small Isochronous Ring (SIR) developed and built at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University (MSU). SIR is a small-scale experiment that simulates the dynamics of intense beams in large accelerators. A 20 to 30 keV hydrogen or deuterium ion bunch is injected in the ring, extracted after a variable number of turns and its longitudinal profile is studied. Information about the electronics used and software written to control different injection line, ring and extraction line elements is included. Some of these elements are magnets, electrostatic quadrupoles, electric and magnetic correctors, scanning wires, emittance measurement system, chopper and a fast Faraday cup.
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| MOPLT136 | Reliability Simulations for a Linear Collider | luminosity, acceleration, dipole, beamloading | 857 | ||
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A new flexible tool for evaluating accelerator reliability was developed as part of the US Linear Collider Technology Comparison Study. The linear collider designs considered were based on the GLC/NLC X-band and TESLA Superconducting proposals, but modified to meet the US physics requirements. To better model some of the complexities of actual operation, a simulation program was written, which included details such as partial fixes or workarounds, hot-swappable repairs, multiple simultaneous repairs, cooldown periods before access, staged recovery from an outage, and both opportunistic and scheduled machine development. The main linacs and damping rings were modeled in detail with component counts taken from the designs, and using MTBFs and MTTRs from existing accelerator experience. Other regions were assigned a nominal overall failure rate. Variants such as a single tunnel or conventional positron source were also evaluated, and estimates made of the sensitivity to recovery or repair times. While neither design was predicted to be sufficiently reliable given present experience, the required improvements were estimated to increase the overall project cost by only a few percent.
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| MOPLT137 | Beam Delivery Layout for the Next Linear Collider | acceleration, dipole, beamloading, undulator | 860 | ||
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We present the latest design and layout of the NLC Beam Delivery System (BDS) for the first and second interaction region (IR). This includes the beam switchyard, skew correction and emittance diagnostics section, collimation system integrated with the final focus, the primary and post linac tune-up beam dumps, and arcs of the second interaction region beamline. The layout and optics are optimized to deliver the design luminosity in the entire energy range from 90GeV to 1.3TeV CM, with the first IR BDS also having the capabilities for multi-TeV extension.
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| MOPLT138 | Vibrational Stability of GLC/NLC Linear Collider: Status and R&D Plans | acceleration, dipole, beamloading, undulator | 863 | ||
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Luminosity stability of the X-band linear collider will be provided by beam-based train by train steering feedbacks in the linac and at the IP, optional active stabilization of the final doublet, being developed to counteract possible excessive vibration of the detector, and optional fast intratrain feedback that would allow delivering major part of the luminosity while other systems are being commissioned. Control and reduction of the beam jitter originating from vibration of collider components is part of our strategy described in this paper.
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| TUPLT036 | Optimization of Low Emittance Lattices for PETRA III | electron, focusing, beamloading, antiproton | 1225 | ||
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The reconstruction of the existing 2.3 km long storage ring PETRA II into a 3rd generation synchrotron light source (PETRA III) calls for an horizontal emittance of 1 nm rad. In addition the on- and off-momentum dynamic acceptance should be large to ensure sufficient injection efficiency and beam lifetime. We present three different types of lattices for the arcs of PETRA: a so-called TME lattice and a FODO lattice which both are newly designed to reach the specified emittance and the present FODO lattice with damping wigglers. The different lattice types have been compared through tracking calculations, including wiggler nonlinearities. Only the relaxed FODO lattice with damping wigglers meets the acceptance goals.
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| TUPLT037 | Dispersion Correction in HERA | electron, focusing, beamloading, antiproton | 1228 | ||
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The electron-proton collider HERA at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg has been in operation since 1991. After the luminosity upgrade of HERA in 2001 the control of the horizontal and vertical dispersion function of the positron beam became more important than before. Deviations from the design dispersion in the horizontal plane can change the emittance of the electron beam significantly thus leading to a reduction of the luminosity. For optimizing the polarization of the electron beam the reduction of vertical orbit and dispersion deviations is important. In this paper the combined dispersion and orbit correction in HERA is described and first results are reported.
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| TUPLT038 | Closed Orbit Correction and Orbit Stabilisation Scheme for the 6 GEV Synchrotron Light Source PETRA III | electron, focusing, beamloading, antiproton | 1231 | ||
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PETRA III is a 6 GeV synchrotron light source being reconstructed out of the existing storage ring PETRA II. It will have a horizontal beam emittance of 1nm.rad and a 1% emittance ratio. Since the vertical beam sizes are ~5?10 micron in the low gap undulators sections the beam position stability requirement in the vertical plane is between 0.5 and 1 micron whereas the stability requirement in the horizontal plane is more relaxed. In this paper determination of golden orbit in the presence of magnetic field errors and magnet misalignments and correction of vertical spurious dispersion is discussed. A scheme of slow and fast orbit correction using the SVD algorithm has been developed. The distribution of monitors and the location of slow and fast correctors are reported. Estimations of the parameters of the fast orbit feedback have been derived from present measurements on PETRA II.
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| TUPLT039 | An Electrostatic Quadrupole Doublet with an Integrated Steerer | electron, beamloading, antiproton, damping | 1234 | ||
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Electrostatic storage rings have proven to be a valuable tool for atomic and molecular physics Due to the mass independence of the fields in the bending and focusing elements, different kinds of ions with the same charge/energy ratio from light protons to very heavy biomolecules, can be stored with the same field setup. The transverse dimensions of the circulating beam are controlled by electrostatic quadrupole doublets or triplets. It is essential that the fields in these lenses can be adjusted independently one from another to allow an exact control of the stored ions. In this paper, first an overview of the principle of electrostatic lenses is given. After a short discussion of fringe field effects, the results of field calculations are presented and the final layout of an electrostatic quadrupole doublet with an integrated steerer as it will be used in future electrostatic storage rings in Frankfurt and Heidelberg is discussed.
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| TUPLT141 | The Effect of Extraction Geometry on the Measured ISIS H Minus Ion Source Beam | target, bunching, injection, beamloading | 1458 | ||
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Recent Finite Element Analysis (FEA) electromagnetic modelling of the extraction region of the ISIS H minus source has suggested that the present set up of extraction electrode and 90 degree sector magnet is sub-optimal, with the result that the beam profile is asymmetric, the beam is strongly divergent in the horizontal plane and there is severe aberration in the focusing in the vertical plane. The FEA model of the beam optics has demonstrated that relatively simple changes to the system should produce a dramatic improvement in performance. These changes have been incorporated on the Ion Source Development Rig (ISDR) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), and their effects on the H minus beam are presented here.
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| TUPLT142 | Status of Design of Muon Beamline for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment | target, bunching, injection, beamloading | 1461 | ||
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The MICE collaboration proposes to install a Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment at the ISIS facility, at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. This experiment will be the first demonstration of ionisation cooling as a means to reduce the large transverse emittance of the muon beam, produced during the early stages of a neutrino factory. In order to permit a realistic demonstration of cooling, a source of muons must be produced, possessing particular qualities, notably in emittance and momenta. This paper describes the present design for the muon beamline source, and the plans for its implementation at RAL.
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| TUPLT143 | Studies of Beam Loss Control on the ISIS Synchrotron | target, bunching, injection, beamloading | 1464 | ||
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The ISIS Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK produces intense neutron and muon beams for condensed matter research. The ISIS 800 MeV Proton Synchrotron presently provides up to 2.5·1013 protons per pulse at 50 Hz, corresponding to a mean power of 160 kW. A dual harmonic RF system upgrade is expected to increase the intensity and power by about 50%. The tighter constraints expected for higher intensity running are motivating a detailed study of beam loss distributions and the main factors affecting their control. Main aims are maximising the localisation of activation in the collector straight, and minimising risk of damage to machine components. The combination of experimental work, developments of the loss measurement systems, and simulation studies are summarised. Key factors considered include: the effects of primary collector geometry and material; the nature of the beam loss; and methods for experimentally determining spatial loss distributions.
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| TUPLT144 | Upgrade of the ISIS Main Magnet Power Supply | target, bunching, injection, beamloading | 1467 | ||
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ISIS, situated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is the world?s most powerful pulsed neutron source. At the heart of the ISIS accelerator is a proton synchrotron which uses a ring of magnets connected in series and configured as a ?White Circuit?. The magnets are connected in series with capacitor banks so that they form a resonant circuit with a fundamental frequency of 50 Hz. The circuit allows the magnets to be fed with an AC current superimposed on a DC current. The AC is currently provided by a 1MVA Motor-Alternator set and it is now proposed to replace this by a solid state UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) system. Tests on a smaller 80kVA unit have shown that it is possible to control the magnet current with a modified UPS system in such a way that both the frequency, phase and output voltage are under the direct influence of the control system. This paper discusses the issues surrounding the upgrading of AC supply to the main magnets with a view to improving the system reliability, improving magnet current stability and reducing the risk of mains failure.
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| TUPLT153 | Orbit Response Matrix Analysis Applied at PEP-II | electron, target, bunching, injection | 1488 | ||
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Beam-based techniques to study lattice properties have proven to be a very powerful tool to optimize the performance of storage rings. The analysis of orbit response matrices has been used very successfully to measure and correct the gradient and skew gradient distribution in many accelerators. The first applications were mostly in synchrotron light sources, but the technique is also used increasingly at colliders. It allows determination of an accurately calibrated model of the coupled machine lattice, which then can be used to calculate the corrections necessary to improve coupling, dynamic aperture and ultimately luminosity. At PEP-II, the Matlab version of LOCO has been used to analyze coupled response matrices for both the LER and the HER. The large number of elements in PEP-II and the very complicated interaction region present unique challenges to the data analysis. The orbit response matrix analysis will be presented in detail, as well as results of lattice corrections based on the calibrated machine model.
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| THPKF013 | Terahertz Diagnostics for the Femtosecond X-ray Source at BESSY | injection, undulator, wakefield, beamloading | 2281 | ||
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A longitudinal electron density modulation caused by femtoslicing in a storage ring is accompanied by a strong broad band coherent THz-light emission between 0.3 and 10 THz at certain synchrotron radiation emitting devices downstream of the interaction region. A technique to use the THz signal for the control of the overlap of laser and electron bunch using fast infrared bolometers is described. A new dedicated THz extraction port at a bending magnet as well as a spectroscopic setup based on a Martin Puplett spectrometer will be commissioned in May 2004 together with the new femtoslicing source at BESSY.
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* A. Zholentz, M. Zoloterev, PRL 76/1996, 912** H.-J. Baecker et al., these proceedings |
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| THPKF014 | Status of the BESSY II Femtosecond X-ray Source | injection, wakefield, beamloading, beamlosses | 2284 | ||
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At the BESSY II storage ring, work is in progress to produce X-ray pulses with 50 fs (fwhm) duration and tunable energy and polarization by "femtoslicing" [*].This work includes extensive alterations to the storage ring (one new and one modified undulator, both in the same straight section, three additional dipole magnets, a new IR beamline, and nine meters of new vacuum vessels) and to two beamlines (relocation and new optical designs), as well as the installation of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser system. Commissioning is planned for May 2004. This paper reviews the principles and technical implementation of the new femtosecond X-ray source, and reports the status of the project.
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* A. Zholentz, M. Zoloterev, Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996), 912 |
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| THPKF015 | Compressed Electron Bunches for THz-Generation - Operating BESSY II in a Dedicated Low Alpha Mode | injection, wakefield, beamloading, beamlosses | 2287 | ||
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For the first time an electron storage ring was operated during regular user shifts in a dedicated 'low alpha' mode, where electron bunches are compressed to 5 times shorter length for THz [*] and short X-ray pulses experiments. The 1 mm rms-long bunches emit powerfull, coherent THz waves, up to 107 times stronger than incoherent radiation. We report on machine set up and operating experience.
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* M. Abo-Bakr et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 254801 (2002) |
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| THPKF016 | The Metrology Light Source of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin-Adlershof | wakefield, beamloading, beamlosses, coupling | 2290 | ||
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PTB, the German National Metrology Institute, has gained approval for the construction of a low-energy electron storage ring in the close vicinity of BESSY II, where PTB operates a laboratory for X-ray radiometry. The new storage ring, named 'Metrology Light Source MLS' will be dedicated to metrology and technology development in the UV and EUV spectral range and so will fill the gap that is present since the shut down of BESSY I. The MLS is designed in close cooperation with BESSY and is located adjacent to the BESSY II facility. Construction will start 2004 and user operation is scheduled to begin in 2008. The MLS has a circumference of 48 m, injection will be from a 100 MeV microtron. The electrons energy is ramped to an eligible value in the range from 200 MeV to 600 MeV. The MLS will be equipped with all the instrumentation necessary to measure the storage ring parameters needed for the calculation of the spectral photon flux according to the Schwinger theory with low uncertainty, enabling PTB to operate the MLS as a primary source standard. Moreover, provision is taken to operated the MLS in a low alpha mode for the production of coherent synchrotron radiation in the far IR and THz region.
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| THPKF017 | Status of the Synchrotron Light Source DELTA | wakefield, beamloading, beamlosses, coupling | 2293 | ||
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Since 1999, the Dortmunder 1.5 GeV electron storage ring DELTA was continuously extended. The facility serves universities and industries as a source of synchrotron radiation on a regional level. The consolidation of the machine was finally completed in 2002. By now, DELTA, operated for 3000 hours per year, has reached a reliability comparable to other facilities in the world. Large improvements have been made in the installation of the beamlines. At present, two undulator beamlines and several dipole beamlines in the range of soft X-rays are in operation. The 5.3 T superconducting asymmetric wiggler (SAW) serves three beamlines in the hard X-ray regime with circular polarized light. Also the accelerator physics research program has been promoted. The vacuum system was revised during the last year to provide extra space for test sections and additional diagnostics. Substantial progress was achieved by SVD based orbit correction and LOCO based optics modelling as well as detailed CBM studies and a new method for fast tune measurements has been implemented. Future developments for machine improvements, such as DSP-based fast local orbit feedback and a frequent injection mode are in preparation.
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| THPKF018 | Study for a Frequent Injection Mode at Delta with Beam Shutters Open | injection, wakefield, synchrotron, beamloading | 2296 | ||
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The Dortmunder Electron Accelerator (DELTA) is a 1.5 GeV synchrotron light source. DELTA is now operated for 3000 h per year including 2000 h beam time for synchrotron radiation use. The maximum beam current is limited by rf power. To increase the average beam current a frequent injection scheme with beam shutters open is discussed for Delta. The peak current is not enlarged but the number of injections is increased to establish a quasi constant beam current. The quasi constant beam current has in addition the advantage of a constant synchrotron radiation heat-load on vacuum chambers and experiments. First tests at Delta have shown the gain in stability of the closed orbit during frequent injection. This article shows the possibility to install a frequent injection mode with beam shutters open during injection at DELTA. The results of measurements and simulations are presented.
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| THPKF020 | Improvements of the Orbit Stability at DORIS III | injection, wakefield, emittance, beamloading | 2302 | ||
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Running since 1974, the storage ring DORIS experienced a major modification in 1991 to run as a dedicated synchrotron radiation source since 1993. Since then the increasing requirements of the users on beam stability lead to a series of technical and operational measures to improve the beam conditions. The beam pipe has been mechanically isolated from the magnets, the cooling has been improved and this year a new orbit feedback came to operation which uses positron beam position monitors as well as photon monitors in the beam lines to stabilise the different photon beams. The different measures taken are presented.
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| THPKF021 | Beam Current Limitations in the Synchrotron Light Source PETRA III | injection, emittance, beamloading, beamlosses | 2305 | ||
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At DESY it is planned to rebuild the PETRA ring into a synchrotron radiation facility, called PETRA III, in 2007. Different operation modes with single bunch intensities of up-to 5 mA are been considered to serve the needs of the user communities. A first estimate of the impedance budget of PETRA III is given based on analytical models and numerical wakefield calculations of several vacuum chamber elements. The impedance model includes higher order modes (HOMs) of the cavities to cover also multi bunch aspects. The beam current limitations due to multi and single bunch instabilities are discussed. The build up of an electron cloud is also investigated for the option of using a positron beam to generate the synchrotron radiation.
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| THPKF022 | Energy Calibration of the ANKA Storage Ring | injection, emittance, beamloading, beamlosses | 2308 | ||
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The ANKA electron storage ring operates in the energy range from 0.5 to 2.5 GeV. An energy calibration using the method of resonant spin depolarisation yields the exact beam energy of ANKA. In addition this method allows to determine other parameters such as nonlinear momentum compaction factor and incoherent synchrotron tune with extraordinary precision. This paper discusses experimental set-up and energy measurements. The reproducibility of the ANKA beam energy is addressed as well as energy drifts caused by thermal expansion of the floor.
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| THPKF023 | Studies using Beam Loss Monitors at ANKA | emittance, beamloading, beamlosses, impedance | 2311 | ||
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ANKA is a synchrotron light source that operates in the energy range from 0.5 to 2.5 GeV. In order to investigate the electron beam losses, two kind of beam loss monitors have been installed: 24 Pin Diode from Bergoz distributed around the storage ring, and one Pb-glass calorimeter located in a high dispersion region. The Pin Diodes are used to obtain information about the distribution of the losses while the Pb-glass detector provides higher sensitivity. The Pin Diodes allow to locate and distinguish the regions of higher losses due to Touschek and Elastic scattering. Furthermore, regions of higher losses at injection have been identified. The Pb-glass detector has been used to determine the beam energy with the resonant spin depolarisation technique. A strong spin orbit resonance has been observed with both detectors.
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| THPKF024 | A STATE-OF-THE-ART 3 GEV BOOSTER FOR ASP | booster, beamloading, beamlosses, impedance | 2314 | ||
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DANFYSIK A/S will build the full-energy booster for the Australian Synchrotron Project. The Booster will accelerate the beam from the injection energy of 100 MeV to a maximum of 3.0 GeV. The Booster shall accelerate either a single bunch or a bunch train up to 150 ns. The current accelerated to 3 GeV will be in excess of 0.5 and 5 mA for the two modes, respectively. The circumference of the Booster is 130.2 m, and the lattice will have four-fold super-symmetry with four straight sections for RF, injection, special diagnostics and extraction. The lattice is designed to have many cells with combined-function magnets (dipole, quadrupole and sextupole fields) in order to reach a very small emittance of around 30 nmrad. A small emittance is beneficial, in particular for top-up operation. Details of the lattice design and beam dynamics of the booster will be presented.
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| THPKF025 | Commissioning Report of the CLS Booster Synchrotron | booster, beamloading, beamlosses, impedance | 2317 | ||
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A full energy booster is produced and taken into operation for the Canadian Light Source. The Booster accelerates the beam from the injection energy of 200 MeV to a maximum of 2.9GeV. The results of the commissioning and the characterized beam parameters are reported
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| THPKF027 | A Concept for the Spanish Light Source CELLS | beamloading, beamlosses, impedance, synchrotron | 2323 | ||
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In May of 2003 the Spanish and Catalan Governments established a public Consortium for the construction, equipment and exploitation of a third generation Synchrotron Light Source. The foundation was based upon a proposal from 1997 to build a 2.5 GeV, 12-fold symmetry machine with a circumference of around 260 m. At present a re-design is being considered, based upon the following decisions: 1.) Electron energy of 3 GeV, 2.) Circumference around 280 m, 3.) Emittance smaller than 5 nm.rad, 4.) 16-fold symmetry lattice 5.) Full energy injector, 6.) Topping-up injection mode foreseen and 7.) Booster synchrotron and Storage ring housed in the same tunnel. Lattice considerations are given in an accompanying paper. In the present one we will give a project overview and explain key design decisions and overall schedule. Five beamlines will be design and construct in a first phase to cover the needs of the Spanish community. The definition of these beamlines will take place during 2004 involving the users community. Planned beam commissioning will be in 2009.
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| THPKF028 | Upgrade of the Cryomodule Prototype before its Implementation in SOLEIL | beamloading, damping, beamlosses, impedance | 2326 | ||
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In the Storage Ring (SR) of the Synchrotron SOLEIL light source, two cryomodules will provide the maximum power of 600 kW required at the nominal energy of 2.75 GeV with the full beam current of 500 mA. A cryomodule prototype, housing two 352 MHz superconducting single-cell cavities with strong damping of the Higher Order Modes has been built and successfully tested in the ESRF storage ring. Even though the achieved performance (3 MV and 380 kW) does meet the SOLEIL requirement for the 1st year of operation, the cryomodule prototype will be upgraded before its installation in the SR early 2005. Modifications will be made on the internal cryogenic system, and also on the power and dipolar HOM couplers. That requires a complete disassembling and reassembling of the cryomodule, which is being carried out at CERN in the framework of collaboration between SOLEIL, CEA and CERN. Additional 3D RF calculations have been performed on the full SOLEIL RF structure in order to get a more detailed description of the dipolar modes damping and of the dipolar HOM couplers tuning. A second cryomodule, similar to the modified prototype, will be built and installed in the SR about one year later.
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| THPKF068 | An Advanced Light Source Proposed for the South Eastern USA | target, vacuum, gun, emittance | 2418 | ||
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At this time CAMD, a 1.3 GeV second generation storage ring, is the only synchrotron radiation facility in the Southeastern USA. To cater for the increasing demand for synchrotron light in this region a study is being made for a new high performance source. In keeping with its role as a regional source, it must be economical to construct and operate yet provide high brightness beams from its Insertion Devices. These will need to span both the soft X-ray region (1-2 keV) and the X-ray region up to at least 13 keV. A high brightness 3rd generation source is described which exhibits a beam emittance less than 10 nm rads at an energy of 2.5 GeV. By using a lattice cell derived from the Theoretical Minimum Emittance type, this performance is achieved in a circumference of only approximately 160 m. The economical, yet flexible, lattice uses vertically focusing gradient in the dipoles. The lattice functions and other parameters are presented of both a 12 cell double bend design and a 10 cell triple bend. The 12 cell gives a horizontal emittance of 8.5 nm rads and the 10 cell 4.6 nm rads. The dynamical stability of both lattices is described together with the beam performance from the anticipated insertion devices. The current status of the proposal is explained.
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| THPKF069 | Improvements to, and Current Status of, the CAMD Light Source | target, vacuum, gun, emittance | 2421 | ||
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Throughout 2003 a sustained program of modifications and improvements has been applied to the CAMD light source. These affected the 7 Tesla wiggler, the RF system, the magnet power supplies, the control system, the diagnostics and the injector linac. These modifications and their impact on the storage ring performance are described, together with an analysis of where future improvements should be directed. The present performance and limitations of CAMD are described.
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| THPLT011 | Longitudinal Loss Distribution along the LHC | antiproton, laser, simulation, target | 2481 | ||
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For the design and calibration of the LHC beam loss monitoring system it is essential to have good predictions of the expected longitudinal loss distributions. For this purpose a complete and detailed aperture model of one LHC sector was compiled and included with the tracking code MAD. The positions of all beam pipe bellows are included in the model as well. Therefore, it allows investigating the loss pattern due to misalignment effects, in addition to steady beam losses (beam halo, beam-beam and beam-rest gas interactions) and orbit errors. Loss maps of halo particles originating from the betatron cleaning insertion have been created for proton and ion beams. The distribution of particle losses along the beam pipe is folded with the result of GEANT simulations of the shower development through the magnets and cold masses. They link the loss of a beam particle on the aperture to particle fluencies outside of the cryostats, where the beam loss monitors will be installed. These simulations determine the positioning of the loss monitors, the longitudinal distance one detector has to cover to achieve the required resolution as well as all calibration factors for the individual detectors. The model also serves to identify hot spots, which can limit the performance of the LHC.
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| THPLT012 | Design of the Beam Loss Monitoring System for the LHC Ring | antiproton, laser, simulation, target | 2484 | ||
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The beam loss monitoring (BLM) system of the LHC is one of the most critical elements for the protection of the LHC. It must prevent the super conducting magnets from quenches and the machine components from damages, caused by beam losses. It helps in the identification of the loss mechanism by measuring the loss pattern. Special detectors will be used for the setup and control of the collimators. Furthermore, it will be an important tool during machine setup and studies. The specification requirements of the BLM system include a very high reliability
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| THPLT013 | Simulation of Multi-bunch Multi-turn Instabilities in High Energy Proton Rings: Algorithms and Results | antiproton, laser, target, undulator | 2487 | ||
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A simulation code to study collective effects in multi-bunch proton machines has been developed and applied to the CERN SPS and LHC. The 3D simulation program allows the exploration of long-range effects due to resistive-wall and HOMs in circular, elliptic and rectangular vacuum chambers also for uneven filling schemes. The code has been benchmarked with measurements in the SPS. Results obtained for LHC, including beam stability and emittance growth, are presented and discussed.
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| THPLT014 | Coupler Structures for the LHC Beam-pipe Waveguide Mode Reflectometer | antiproton, laser, target, undulator | 2490 | ||
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The LHC reflectometer will be used to detect and localize obstacles and other kinds of discontinuities in the LHC beam screen. An important part of this device is the RF coupler element, which provides the interface between the circular beam screen and the measurement equipment. Two different scenarios of operation are considered. The first option consists in carrying out measurements during assembly by directly branching a coupler to the end of the beam screen. The other one is a permanent installation to be used in situ requiring a different kind of coupler to keep the aperture free. The goal is to achieve a reasonably well-matched spurious mode-free excitation over a 25% bandwidth for the TM01 and the T·1011 mode, respectively. The fulfillment of the required features is severely complicated by space and material restrictions arising mainly from vacuum and installation constraints.
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| THPLT015 | Accuracy of Profile Monitors and LHC Emittance Measurements | antiproton, laser, target, undulator | 2493 | ||
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The monitoring and controlling of the beam transverse emittance is essential to allow high luminosity performances in a collider operation. The profile monitors in the LHC injection chain are exploited to determine their precision. A fit strategy was developed to reduce the fitting procedure error and make it negligible compared to instrumentation errors. The method proved to be robust against non-Gaussian tails and can estimate the fraction of non-Gaussian distributed beam intensity. The procedure was applied to the 2003 SPS Wire Scanner measurements with different kind of LHC type beams. The reproducibility of the six available monitors was determined by choosing one as a reference and making synchronized measurements. Several instrumental errors were discovered and corrected to the one per cent level. The demanding small LHC transverse emittances were determined under different beam conditions in terms of intensity, bunch spacing and length in the PS Booster, PS and SPS.
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| THPLT016 | LHC Orbit Feedback Tests at the SPS | feedback, antiproton, laser, target | 2496 | ||
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The real-time orbit feedback system foreseen for the LHC will be an essential component for reliable and safe machine operation. A test setup including a number of beam position monitors equipped with the LHC acquisition and readout system have been installed in the SPS ring to perform prototyping work on such an orbit feedback. A closed loop digital feedback was implemented and tested with LHC beams on the SPS during the 2003 machine run. The feedback loop was tested successfully at up to 100 Hz. The performance of the feedback loop and of its constituents will be described.
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| THPLT017 | Review and Comparison of Simulation Codes Modeling Electron-Cloud Build Up and Instabilities | feedback, antiproton, laser, target | 2499 | ||
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Several computer codes written at various laboratories are employed for modelling the generation and the consequences of an electron cloud. We review the most popular of these programs, which simulate either the build of an electron cloud or the instabilities it produces, and we compare simulation results for identical, or similar, input parameters obtained from the various codes.
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| THPLT019 | Commissioning Results of the Multi Bunch Feedback System at SLS | antiproton, gun, electron, target | 2505 | ||
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Within the frame of the project for a multi bunch feedback system for the Swiss Light Source (SLS), a new family of 500 MS/s analog to digital and digital to analog conversion boards with an 8 bit resolution has been developed, containing on board MUX and DEMUX circuitry to reduce data rates to approximately 20 MS/s using up to ten Front Panel Data Port (FPDP) ports. Using six quad processor DSP boards, full bandwidth bunch by bunch feedbacks in the transverse and longitudinal planes are set up to provide bunch by bunch correction kicks with a 2 nsec resolution. We report on the hardware setup and properties as well as feedback performance in the SLS storage ring.
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| THPLT022 | The Generic VME PMC Carrier Board: A Common Digital Hardware Platform for Beam Diagnostics and Feedbacks at PSI | antiproton, gun, target, undulator | 2514 | ||
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Rapid progress in digital electronics allows digitization of monitor signals at a very early stage of the signal processing chain, providing optimum performance and maximum flexibility for today's accelerator instrumentation. While the analog front-ends of such systems are usually specific for each monitor type, the subsequent digital part of the processing chain can be unified for many different measurement tasks. The "VME generic PMC Carrier board" (VPC) was developed to achieve this unification at the PSI electron and proton accelerator diagnostics and fast data acquisition and feedback systems. The core of the VME64x board consists of two Virtex2Pro FPGAs with two PowerPCs each, a floating point DSP and RAM. The FPGAs can acquire and process measurement data from the VMEbus P0/P2 connectors or from two application-dependent PMC mezzanine modules. Two 2 GBaud fibre optics transceivers may also be used to aquire or distribute measurement data. Envisaged applications include digital beam position (DBPM) and current monitors for proton beams, data processing for a muon decay experiment, and general beam diagnostics as well as global feedbacks at SLS accelerators and beamlines.
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| THPLT023 | The Use of Photon Monitors at the Swiss Light Source | antiproton, photon, gun, target | 2517 | ||
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The photon beam position monitors (PBPM) in a synchrotron radiation facility are important tools for beam-line and machine diagnostics since they deliver position and angle information directly from the radiation source point. In the last two years a number of PBPMs have been installed and commissioned at the Swiss Light Source (SLS). Their readouts have been systematically studied and the results have been correlated with data from the digital beam position monitor (DBPM) system. It turns out that the PBPMs help understanding the influence of insertion device gap changes on photon beam position and thus on photon flux and/or energy resolution near the beam-line experimental stations. In addition to the global fast orbit feedback (FOFB), a local slow feedback based on PBPM data has been implemented to remove the remaining systematic effects of the DBPM system and to stabilize the photon beam to a micron level at the experimental station.
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| THPLT024 | Commissioning and Operation of the SLS Fast Orbit Feedback | antiproton, photon, gun, target | 2520 | ||
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The SLS Fast Orbit Feedback (FOFB) was successfully commissioned in 2003. Since November 2003 it runs during user operation of the accelerator. Taking into account 72 Digital Beam Position Monitors (DBPMs), the FOFB applies SVD-based global orbit corrections for 72 horizontal (x) and 72 vertical (y) correctors at a rate of 4 kHz, compared to ~0.5 Hz for the Slow Orbit Feedback (SOFB) that was used so far. While the SOFB was important for the elimination of orbit drifts due to temperature changes and slowly moving insertion device (ID) gaps, the FOFB is also able to damp orbit oscillations that are caused by fast changes of ID gaps or magnets, by ground and girder vibrations, 3 Hz booster crosstalk and power supply noise. This report presents experience from commissioning and user operation of the FOFB.
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| THPLT025 | Using Visible Synchrotron Radiation at the SLS Diagnostics Beamline | antiproton, gun, target, undulator | 2523 | ||
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A diagnostics beamline has been set-up at the BX05 bending magnet of the SLS storage ring. It is equipped with a standard bending magnet front end, including two photon beam position monitors (PBPM) for determination of photon beam angle and position as well as a pinhole array monitor for online monitoring of beam size. The visual part of the dipole radiation is transported to an optical lab, where the temporal profile of the storage ring bunches can be measured with a minimal time resolution of 2 ps using a dual sweep, synchrocan streak camera. Simultaneously, beam size and coupling can be measured at 1.8 keV radiation energy with a zome plate monitor overcoming diffraction limitations. This paper describes the beamline design and summarizes the first experimental results.
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| THPLT027 | Optical Transition Radiation Based Beam Diagnostics at the BESSY Synchrotron Radiation Source and FEL Accelerators | antiproton, positron, gun, target | 2529 | ||
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Optical Transition Radiation (OTR) based diagnostics tools are widely used in linear accelerators to measure beam parameters like transverse beam size and emittance. Design ideas for OTR stations in the linac section of the BESSY FEL facility are presented. Several key components will be tested in the transfer lines of the BESSY storage ring. Furthermore a novel type of OTR monitor is introduced which enables the measurement of the transverse overlap of seed laser and electron beam in the undulator sections of the linac based FEL facility. Here a special radiator screen will be used allowing simultaneous imaging of both beams in the same optical readout channel.
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| THPLT028 | High Precision Cavity Beam Position Monitor | antiproton, positron, gun, target | 2532 | ||
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A cavity beam position monitor is proposed for measuring the beam deflection in the TESLA energy spectrometer. The precision of the measurement has to be better than 1 micrometer. A slotted cavity is chosen as pick-up in order to reject the background signals and enhance the precision and the dynamic range of the monitor. The paper gives the design overview for two prototypes with operating frequencies of 1.5 GHz and 5.5 GHz, respectively. The results obtained on the test bench with direct conversion electronics are presented. A resolution of about 100 nm was achieved.
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| THPLT029 | Parallel Particle in Cell Computations with GdfidL | antiproton, positron, gun, target | 2535 | ||
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The electromagnetic field solver GdfidL has been extended to compute with free moving charges. For computing in parallel, GdfidL partitions the computational volume in many small subvolumes. Each processor computes the electromagnetic field in its part of the whole volume. In addition to the normal field update equations, the movement of the particles must be computed from the Lorentz-force, and the convection current due to the moving charges must be computed and be used to change the electric field near the particle. For each particle, these computations are performed by the processor which is responsible for the volume where the particle is in. Details of the parallel implementation of the used algorithm, Particle in Cell, are given.
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| THPLT030 | A Novel Device for Non-intersecting Bunch Shape Measurement at the High Current GSI-Linac | antiproton, positron, gun, target | 2538 | ||
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Due to the high current of heavy ions accelerated at the UNILAC at GSI, non-intersecting beam diagnostics are mandatory. For bunch length and bunch structure determination in the range of 0.3 to 5 ns a novel device has been realized. It uses the time spectrum of secondary electrons created by atomic collisions between beam ions and residual gas molecules. These electrons are accelerated by an electric field of 400 V/mm toward an electro-static energy analyzer. The analyzer is used to restrict of the effective source region. Then the electrons are deflected by an rf-resonator running in phase with the acceleration frequency (36 or 108 MHz) to transform the time spectrum into spatial separation. The detection is done with a multi-channel plate equipped with a phosphor screen and observed by a digital CCD camera. The achieved time resolution is at least 50 ps, corresponding to 2 degree of rf frequency. The general layout of the device and first results will be presented.
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| THPLT031 | Comparison of Rate Equation Models for Equilibrium Beam Parameters | antiproton, positron, gun, wiggler | 2541 | ||
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We calculate equilibrium beam parameters from the counteraction of intrabeam scattering (IBS), electron cooling (EC) and target interaction for typical beams in the GSI cooler storge ring ESR and in the proposed HESR. This work is complementary to kinetic modeling efforts at GSI. We developed an easy to use simulation tool that includes various models for the EC rates and the IBS rates, averaged of the detailed ring lattices. The obtained scaling of the equilibrium parameters with beam current and energy are compared with existing experimental data from the ESR and with kinetic simulation results for the HESR.
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| THPLT032 | Computer Controlled Beam Diagnostics for the HICAT Facility | antiproton, positron, gun, wiggler | 2544 | ||
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A set of 93 diagnostic devices for beam diagnostics in the heavy ion cancer therapy facility (HICAT) at the university hospital in Heidelberg is currently under development at GSI. For the HICAT facility that is presently under construction, all beam diagnostic devices are fully computer controlled and allow an automated detection of all relevant beam parameters. The HICAT rasterscan method with active variation of intensity, energy and beam size requires the exact knowledge of the time resolved and spatial structure of the ion beam. An overview of the integrated devices is presented and the intensity measurement of both, the DC and AC beam in the different parts of the accelerator facility are reviewed. Additionally, the timing and control of the diagnostic devices are described.
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| THPLT033 | The Heavy Ion Gantry of the HICAT-facility | antiproton, ion, positron, gun | 2547 | ||
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The Heavy Ion Cancer Therapy Project HICAT at the University Hospital of Heidelberg is under construction. One unique feature of the treatment facility is the first heavy ion gantry in the world. The Gantry will allow the patient treatment with different ion species up to 430 MeV/u with full geometrical flexibility. This functionality has to be maintained for up to 300 000 rotations over the envisaged life cycle of 15 years. GSI has taken the responsibility to coordinate the design and construction of all the different required components. At the time of the conference the design will be finished and the construction started. The contribution will report on challenging construction items like the survey and alignment strategy, safety aspects, flexibility of the ion optics. In order to gain confidence on the principle a test bench with the last part of the gantry was already mounted in a fixed manner at GSI and beam measurements were performed. The results of these tests will also be reported.
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| THPLT034 | Implementation of Higher Order Moments for Beam Dynamics Simulation with the V-Code | antiproton, ion, positron, gun | 2550 | ||
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Based on the moment approach V-Code is implemented to simulate charged particle beam dynamics in linear accelerators. Its main aim is to perform elementary studies in those cases when the beam can be considered as a whole and thus making the motion of individual particles negligible in the overall view. Therefore an ensemble of particles can be well described by the moments of its phase-space distribution and the regarded order influences naturally the achievable accuracy as well as the computational effort. Since the well known moment equations generally are not closed, a technique to limit the number of involved moments has to be applied. So far all moments up to the second order have been considered whereas higher order moments are truncated. As a further step towards higher accuracy the influence of higher order moments has to be investigated. For this reason additional third-order equations are implemented into the V-Code and the achieved results are compared with previous second-order-based ones as well as with higher order approximations.
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| THPLT041 | Beam Test Stand of the RFQ-drifttube-combination for the Therapy Center in Heidelberg | antiproton, positron, synchrotron, simulation | 2568 | ||
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A beam test stand for the Heidelberg medicine RFQ has been installed at the IAP in Frankfurt. The installation consists of a 8 keV/u H+ duoplasmatron ion source, the 400 keV/u RFQ itself and several diagnostic elements comprising a slit-grid emittance measurement system for scanning the transverse beam profile and a bending magnet for measuring the longitudinal beam properties. The test installation will be described in detail, first measurements will be presented and compared to corresponding beam dynamic simulations.
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| THPLT042 | Automated Orbit Control for the HERA ep Collider | antiproton, positron, synchrotron, simulation | 2571 | ||
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Successful operation of the HERA electron-proton collider requires maintaining stable orbits during the typically 12 hour luminosity runs, as well as during the fill and acceleration procedures. The primary sources of orbit errors for the electron ring are the interaction region magnets, whose support structures are integrated with the experimental detectors and susceptible to thermal and magnetic effects. The orbit correction algorithms are designed to correct these effects locally, while operating with somewhat reduced sensitivity on error sources in the rest of the ring. We describe the correction system and our operating experience.
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| THPLT043 | Development of a New Orbit Measurement System | antiproton, positron, synchrotron, simulation | 2574 | ||
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Since DORIS III became a dedicated source for synchrotron radiation in 1993, the demands of the synchrotron-light-users concerning the beam position stability have permanently increased.In order to improve this stability, different measures have been adopted, all with success. The vacuum chambers have been renewed, since they were the source of quadrupole movement, which caused strong horizontal orbit distortion. In 2003 a new orbit position control was implemented, based on the ?Singular Value Decomposition? method. The position information comes from synchrotron light monitors, installed in the beam-lines, and from the orbit measurement system, which operates with a maximal measurement rate of 5Hz and a spatial resolution not less than 20μm. To satisfy the requirements for beam-position stability, the orbit measurement system has been further developed. The test stage is nearly finished and the new system will be installed soon. The orbit measurement rate will exceed 250Hz und the spatial resolution will be less than 2μm. In addition beam oscillations of up to 20Hz can be damped.
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