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MOPLT179 Beam Scrubbing for RHIC Polarized Proton Opearation gun, vacuum, ion, focusing 947
 
  • S.Y. Zhang, W. Fischer, H. Huang, T. Roser
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  One of the intensity limiting factor of RHIC polarized proton beam is the electron cloud induced pressure rise. During the 2003 polarized proton run, a beam scrubbing study was performed. Actual beam scrubbing time was much less than the planned 2 hours. However, a non-trivial beam scrubbing effect was observed not only in the locations with highest pressure rise, but also in most of the single beam straight sections. This not only confirmed that beam scrubbing is indeed a countermeasure to the electron cloud, but also showed the feasibility of applying beam scrubbing in RHIC proton beam operation to allow for higher beam intensities. In this article, the results will be reported.  
 
TUXLH03 RHIC Performance and Plans Towards Higher Luminosity and Higher Polarization gun, positron, focusing, plasma 98
 
  • T. Satogata
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  RHIC is the first hadron collider consisting of two independent rings. It is designed to operate over a wide range of beam energies and species, including polarized protons, heavy ions, and asymmetric beam collisions. RHIC has produced physics data at four experiments since 1999 in runs that include gold-on-gold collisions at design beam energy (100 GeV/u), high-energy polarized proton-proton collisions (100 GeV on 100 GeV), and deuteron-gold collisions (100 GeV/u). Recent machine performance will be reviewed for high-luminosity gold-gold operations and polarized proton operations, including causes and solutions for known operational limits. Plans and progress for luminosity and polarization improvements, electron cooling, and the electron-ion collider eRHIC will be discussed.  
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TUYLH01 Proton and Ion Sources for High Intensity Accelerators gun, positron, focusing, plasma 103
 
  • R. Scrivens
    CERN, Geneva
  Future high intensity ion accelerators, including SNS, European Spallation Source, SPL etc, will require high current and high duty factor sources for protons, negative hydrogen and heavier ions. In order to achieve these goals, a comparison of the Electron Cyclotron Resonance, radio-frequency and Penning ion sources, among others, will be made. For each of these source types, the present operational sources will be compared to the state-of-the-art research devices with special attention given to reliability and availability. Finally, the future research and development aims will be discussed.  
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TUPLT077 R&D Status of the Fast Extraction Kicker Magnets for the KEK/JAERI 50 GeV Synchrotron sextupole, extraction, injection, booster 1333
 
  • Y. Shirakabe, Y. Arakaki, T. Kawakubo, Y. Mori, S. Murasugi, E. Nakamura, I. Sakai, M. Tomizawa
    KEK, Ibaraki
  The 50 GeV proton synchrotron composes the final stage of the high intensity proton accelerator complex now on construction at JAERI/Tokai site as a joint project by KEK and JAERI. In this ring, the proton beam is accelerated from 3 GeV to 50 GeV, and delivered to the experimental facilities through the fast and slow extraction lines. The distinctive feature of the fast extraction line is that the bipolar extraction function will be provided. In normal operations, the beam is extracted toward the inner side of the ring and transported to the facility for the long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using the Super-Kamiokande detector. In case of emergency, for example, quenches of the superconducting magnets of the neutrino line or malfunctioning of the ring RF systems, the beam is extracted toward the outer side of the ring and sent directly to the abort line with a beam dump at the end. In the current kicker design, the bipolar function will be achieved by the Symmetric Blumlein PFN (SBPFN) system with two switches on both ends. The designed parameters of the fast extraction kicker magnets and the recent hardware R&D status will be described in this paper.  
 
TUPLT090 Combined Beam Dynamics Study of the RFQ and DTL for PEFP septum, sextupole, gun, booster 1366
 
  • J.-H. Jang, Y.-S. Cho, H.-J. Kwon
    KAERI, Daejon
  One of the goals of the Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP) is to get 20 MeV proton beams of 20 mA through a 3 MeV RFQ and a 20 MeV DTL. This work is related to the combined beam dynamics study of the low energy proton accelerators in order to test the validity of the connection of the independently designed structures as well as to study the MEBT for beam transportation.  
 
TUPLT092 Optics and Magnet Design for Proton Beam Transport Line at PEFP septum, sextupole, gun, booster 1372
 
  • H.-S. Kang, H.S. Han, S.H. Jeong, Y.G. Jung, D.E. Kim, M. Kim, H.G. Lee, T.-Y. Lee, H.S. Suh
    PAL, Pohang
  The PEFP proton linac is designed to have two proton beam extraction lines at the 20-MeV and 100-MeV end, respectively. Each extraction line has 5 to 6 beamlines for proton beam users. The proton beam transport system for users? experiments will be prepared for this purpose. At the beginning, the beam optics for the proton beam transport system is designed with the TRACE code. The optics should be designed so as to meet the users? various requirements which might be to control the beam size and intensity at the beam target, and the timing of the proton beam. The magnet to distribute the proton beam to many beamlines is an AC magnet which has an AC frequency of 15 Hz, and is powered with a programmable AC power supply. In this paper, the result of the optics design will be presented and the magnet design will be described.  
 
TUPLT093 Tune Survey of Dynamic Apertures for High-brilliance Optics of the Pohang Light Source septum, sextupole, gun, booster 1375
 
  • E.-S. Kim
    PAL, Pohang
  The PLS storage ring is a 2.5 GeV light source and the dynamic apertures in a lattice for the low emittance in the ring have been investigated by a simulation method. The dynamic apertures that include effects of machine errors and insertion devices were obtained by a tune survey in the simulation. It was also shown that how large are the dynamic aperture compensated after corrections of a CODs. The betatron tune for the operation of the high-brilliance lattice are investigated based on the view point of dynamic apertures obtained from a tune survey.  
 
TUPLT095 Precision Field Mapping System for Cyclotron Magnet septum, sextupole, gun, booster 1378
 
  • K.-H. Park, Y.G. Jung, D.E. Kim, L.W.W. Lee
    PAL, Pohang
  • J.-S. Chai, Y.S. Kim
    KIRAMS, Seoul
  • B.-K. Kang, S.H. Shin, M. Yoon
    POSTECH, Pohang
  A 13 MeV cyclotron has been developed by KIRAMS for radio-isotopes production such as F-18 and O-15 for positron emission tomography(PET). To characterize the cyclotron magnet precisely, a Hall probe mapping system with very high precise positioning mechanism in the Cartesian coordinate has been developed. Hall probe assembly was translated in two dimensions by two stepping motors at both sides of the Hall-probe-carrier to keep synchronously rotation sharing one step-pulse source for x-axis and one motor for y-axis. The data acquisition time had reduced to 60 minutes in full mapping by 'flying' mode. The accuracy of the measurement system is better than during the entire mapping process. In this paper the magnetic field measurement system for the cyclotron magnet is described, and measurement results are presented.  
 
TUPLT106 New Developments of a Laser Ion Source for Ion Synchrotrons electron, gun, booster, optics 1402
 
  • S. Kondrashev, A. Balabaev, K. Konukov, B.Y. Sharkov, A. Shumshurov
    ITEP, Moscow
  • O. Camut, J. Chamings, H. Kugler, R. Scrivens
    CERN, Geneva
  • A. Charushin, K. Makarov, Y. Satov, Y. Smakovskii
    SRC RF TRINITI, Moscow region
  Laser Ion Sources (LIS) are well suited to filling synchrotron rings with highly charged ions of almost any element in a single turn injection mode. We report the first measurements of the LIS output parameters for Pb27+ ions generated by the new 100 J/1 Hz Master Oscillator - Power Amplifier CO2-laser system. A new LIS has been designed, built and tested at CERN, as an ion source for ITEP-TWAC accelerator/accumulator facility, and as a possible future source for an upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) injector chain. The use of the LIS based on 100 J/1 Hz CO2-laser together with the new ion LINAC, as injector for ITEP-TWAC project is discussed.  
 
WEPLT009 Dynamics of the Electron Pinch and Incoherent Tune Shift Induced by Electron Cloud focusing, bunching, site, quadrupole 1834
 
  • E. Benedetto, F. Zimmermann
    CERN, Geneva
  When a proton bunch passes through an electron cloud, the cloud electrons are attracted by the beam electric field; their density strongly increases near the beam centre. This gives rise to an incoherent proton tune shift, which depends on the longitudinal and radial position within the bunch. We present an analytical description of the 'electron pinch' and the resulting proton tune shift, for a circular symmetry and a Gaussian cloud. Benchmarking and extending the results by computer simulations, we explore the effects of different longitudinal beam profiles and of the nonlinear transverse force.  
 
WEPLT010 Design and Fabrication of Superfluid Helium Heat Exchanger Tubes for the LHC Superconducting Magnets focusing, bunching, beamloading, beamlosses 1837
 
  • F.F. Bertinelli, G. Favre, L.M.A. Ferreira, S.J. Mathot, L. Rossi, F. Savary
    CERN, Geneva
  • E. Boter
    CELLS, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
  The dipole and quadrupole cold masses of the LHC machine require about 1700 heat exchanger tubes (HET). In operation the HET carries a two-phase flow of superfluid helium at sub-atmospheric pressure. The HET consists of an oxygen-free, seamless copper tube equipped with stainless steel ends. After an evaluation of different design alternatives, a design based on the technologies of vacuum brazing and electron beam welding has been adopted. Presence of these multiple technologies at CERN and synergies with the cleaning, handling and transport of other 15-metre components for LHC, motivated CERN to undertake this series fabrication on site. The raw copper tubes are procured in Industry, presenting challenging issues of geometric precision. Organisation of the HET fabrication includes cryomeasurements to validate cleaning procedures, characterization of welding procedures, buckling design by FEA and experimental verification, quality control during series production. The series fabrication of these long, multi-technological components is continuing successfully, respecting the project?s tight budgetary and planning constraints.  
 
WEPLT011 Transport and Handling of LHC Components: a Permanent Challenge focusing, bunching, beamloading, beamlosses 1840
 
  • C. Bertone, I. Ruehl
    CERN, Geneva
  The LHC project, collider and experiments, is an assembly of thousands of elements, large or small, heavy or light, fragile. Every one of those has own transport requirements that constituting for us a real challenge to handle. The manoeuvres could be simple, but the complex environment and narrow underground spaces may lead to difficulties in integration, routing and execution. Examples of transport and handling of typical LHC elements will be detailed: the 17m long, 35t heavy but fragile cryomagnets from the surface to the final destination in the tunnel, the delicate cryogenic cold-boxes down to pits and detector components. This challenge did not only require a lot of imagination but also the close cooperation between all involved parties, in particular with colleagues from safety, cryogenics, civil engineering, integration and logistics.  
 
WEPLT107 Nonlinear field Effects in the JPARC Main Ring radiation, sextupole, antiproton, plasma 2098
 
  • A.Y. Molodojentsev, S. Machida, Y. Mori
    KEK, Ibaraki
  Main Ring (MR) of the Japanese Particle Accelerator Research Complex (JPARC) should provide acceleration of the high-intensity proton beam from the energy of 3GeV to 50 GeV. The expected beam intensity is 3.3·1014 ppp and the repetition rate is about 0.3 Hz. The imaginary transition lattice of the ring was adopted, which has the natural linear chromaticity about (-30) for both transverse phase planes. The expected momentum spread of the captured particles before the acceleration is less than 0.007. Two independent families of the chromatic sextupole magnets are use to eliminate the linear chromatic tune shift. This chromatic sextupole field nonlinearity will excite the normal 'octupole' resonances and will lead to the amplitude dependent tune shifts in both transverse phase planes. Additional sextupole magnets are planed to excite the third-order horizontal resonance, which will be used for the slow extraction. Incoherent tune shift of the low-energy proton beam is about (-0.16) so that some particles could cross nearest low-order resonances. Optimization of the 'bare' working point of MR at the injection energy has been performed to minimize the influence of the linear coupling and high-order coupling resonances. Excitation of the linear coupling resonance has been introduced by the realistic misalignment errors adopted for MR. The 'bare' working point during the slow extraction has been analyzed. The influence of the normal sextupole resonances on the large amplitude particle behavior at the scraper location has been studied including random sextupole field component of the MR bending magnets. Realistic distortion of the ideal ring super-periodicity by the injection kicker magnets has been included in the tracking procedure for the on- and off-momentum particles. Finally, correction schemes have been considered for most dangerous resonances around the optimized 'bare' working point. The space-charge effects of the proton beam have not been included in this study.  
 
WEPLT108 Diffusion caused by Beam-beam Interactions with Couplings radiation, sextupole, antiproton, plasma 2101
 
  • K. Ohmi, S. Kamada, K. Oide, M. Tawada
    KEK, Ibaraki
  A system of colliding two beams is strong nonlinear in multi-dimension. In such a system, a symplectic diffusion called Arnold diffusion occurs, with the result that the beams are enlarged and the luminosity is degraded in circular colliders. We discuss the diffusion seen in beam-beam inetraction at a circular accelerator, especially finite crossing angle and/or x-y coupling errors enhance the diffusion.  
 
WEPLT151 Using the PBO LAB(TM) Optimization and Transport Modules to Gain an Improved Understanding of the LLUMC Proton Therapy Beamlines sextupole, optics, linac, laser 2188
 
  • G.H. Gillespie, O.V. Voronkova
    G.H. Gillespie Associates, Inc., Del Mar, California
  • G. Coutrakon, J. Hubbard, E. Sanders
    LLU/MC, Loma Linda, California
  The Particle Beam Optics Laboratory (PBO Lab) has an advanced Optimization Module that works in concert with beam optics codes (also modules in PBO Lab) to solve optimization and fitting problems that are difficult or impossible to address with optics code alone. The PBO Lab Optimization Module has been used in conjunction with the TRANSPORT Module to study the beamlines of the proton therapy center at the Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC). The primary goal of the study was to establish a fast, efficient and reliable procedure for determining the parameters of the beam extracted from the synchrotron accelerator that best fit the extensive wire scanner profile data used to monitor the LLUMC proton therapy beamlines. This paper summarizes how the PBO Lab Optimization Module is applied to this problem and presents selected results from the LLUMC proton therapy beamline study.  
 
WEPLT152 Experimental Results of the Small Isochronous Ring sextupole, optics, linac, laser 2191
 
  • J.A. Rodriguez, F. Marti, R.C. York
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan
  • E. Pozdeyev
    Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
  The Small Isochronous Ring (SIR) has been in operation since December 2003. The main purpose of this ring, developed and built at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University (MSU), is to simulate the dynamics of intense beams in large accelerators. To observe the same effects, the beam power needed in SIR is orders of magnitude lower and the time scale is much longer than in the full scale machines. These differences simplify the design and operation of the accelerator. The ring measurements can be used to validate the results of space charge codes. After a variable number of turns, the injected hydrogen bunch (with energies up to 30 keV) is extracted and its longitudinal profile is measured using a fast Faraday cup. We present a summary of the design, the results of the first six months of operation and the comparison with selected space charge codes.  
 
WEPLT153 Multi-pass Beam-breakup: Theory and Calculation sextupole, optics, laser, resonance 2194
 
  • I. Bazarov
    Cornell University, Department of Physics, Ithaca, New York
  • G. Hoffstaetter
    Cornell University, Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Ithaca, New York
  Multi-pass, multi-bunch beam-breakup (BBU) has been long known to be a potential limiting factor for the current in linac-based recirculating accelerators. New understanding of theoretical and computational aspects of the phenomenon are presented here. We also describe a detailed simulation study of BBU in the proposed 5 GeV Energy Recovery Linac light source at Cornell University which is presented in a separate contribution to this conference.  
 
WEPLT154 UAL Implementation of String Space Charge Formalism sextupole, optics, laser, resonance 2197
 
  • R.M. Talman
    Cornell University, Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Ithaca, New York
  • N. Malitsky
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  By reformulating the force between point charges as the force on a point charge due to a co-moving line charge (or "string",) space charge calculations can be reformulated as intrabeam scattering, with no intermediate, particle-in-cell step required.[*] This approach is expected to be especially useful for calculating emittance dilution of ultrashort bunches in magnetic fields, where coherent radiative effects are important. This paper describes the partial implementation of this approach within UAL (Unified Accelerator Libraries.) The interparticle force is calculated and applied to the dynamics of a bunch represented by just two superparticles in an idealized lattice, with emphasis on the head-tail effect. Gridding of the interparticle force, as needed for realistic multiparticle simulation, is also described.

* R. Talman, "String Formulation of Space Charge Forces in a Deflected Bunch". Submitted to PRSTAB, January, 2004

 
 
WEPLT155 Effect of Dark Currents on the Accelerated Beam in an X-band Linac sextupole, optics, laser, resonance 2200
 
  • V.A. Dolgashev
    SLAC/ARDA, Menlo Park, California
  • K.L.F. Bane, G.V. Stupakov, J. Wu
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • T.O. Raubenheimer
    SLAC/NLC, Menlo Park, California
  X-band accelerating structures operate at surface gradients up to 120-180 MV/m. At these gradients, electron currents are emitted spontaneously from the structure walls ("dark currents") and generate additional electromagnetic fields inside the structure. We estimate the effect of these fields on the accelerated beam in a linac using two methods: a particle-in-cell simulation code MAGIC and a particle tracking code. We use the Fowler-Nordheim dependence of the emitted current on surface electric field with field enhancement factor beta. In simulations we consider geometries of traveling wave structures that have actually been built for the Next Linear Collider project.  
 
WEPLT156 Suppression of Microbunching Instability in the Linac Coherent Light Source sextupole, electron, optics, resonance 2203
 
  • Z. Huang, P. Emma, C. Limborg-Deprey, G.V. Stupakov, J.J. Welch, J. Wu
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • M. Borland
    ANL/APS, Argonne, Illinois
  A microbunching instability driven by longitudinal space charge, coherent synchrotron radiation and linac wakefields is studied for the linac coherent light source (LCLS) accelerator system. Since the uncorrelated (local) energy spread of electron beams generated from a photocathode rf gun is very small, the microbunching gain may be large enough to significantly amplify shot noise fluctuations of the electron beam. The uncorrelated energy spread can be increased by an order of magnitude without degrading the free-electron laser performance to provide strong Landau damping against the instability. We study different damping options in the LCLS and discuss an effective laser heater to minimize the impacts of the instability on the quality of the electron beam.  
 
WEPLT157 Single-bunch Electron Cloud Effects in the GLC/NLC, US-cold and TESLA Low Emittance Transport Lines electron, sextupole, optics, resonance 2206
 
  • M.T.F. Pivi, D. Bates, A. Chang, D. Chen, T.O. Raubenheimer
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  In the beam pipe of the Beam Delivery System (BDS) and Bunch Compressor system (BCS) of a linear collider, ionization of residual gasses and secondary emission may lead to amplification of an initial electron signal during the bunch train passage and ultimately give rise to an electron-cloud. A positron beam passing through the linear collider beam delivery may experience unwanted additional focusing due to interaction with the electron cloud. This typically leads to an increase in the beam size at the interaction point (IP) when the cloud density is high. Interaction with the electron cloud in the bunch compressor could also potentially cause an instability. This paper examines the severity of the electron cloud effects in the BCS and BDS of both the GLC/NLC and US-Cold linear collider design through the use of specially developed simulation codes. An estimate of the critical cloud density is given for the BDS and BCS of both designs.  
 
WEPLT158 Direct Measurement of the Resistive Wakefield in Tapered Collimators electron, sextupole, optics, wakefield 2209
 
  • P. Tenenbaum
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • D. Onoprienko
    Brunel University, Middlesex
  The transverse wakefield component arising from surface resistivity is expected to play a major role in the beam dynamics of future linear colliders. We report on a series of experiments in which the resistive wakefield was measured in a series of tapered collimators, using the Collimator Wakefield beam test facility at SLAC. In order to separate the contributions of geometric and resistive wakefields, two sets of collimators with identical geometries but different resistivities were measured. The results are in agreement with the theoretical prediction for the high-resistivity (titanium) collimators, but in the case of low-resistivity (copper) collimators the resistive deflections appear to be substantially larger than predicted.  
 
WEPLT159 Linear Vlasov Analysis for Stability of a Bunched Beam electron, sextupole, optics, wakefield 2212
 
  • R.L. Warnock, G.V. Stupakov
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • J.A. Ellison
    UNM, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • M. Venturini
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  We study the linearized Vlasov equation for a bunched beam subject to an arbitrary wake function. Following Oide and Yokoya, the equation is reduced to an integral equation expressed in angle-action coordinates of the distorted potential well. Numerical solution of the equation as a formal eigenvalue problem leads to difficulties, because of singular eigenmodes from the incoherent spectrum. We rephrase the equation so that it becomes non-singular in the sense of operator theory, and has only regular solutions for coherent modes. We report on a code that finds thresholds of instability by detecting zeros of the determinant of the system as they enter the upper-half frequency plane, upon increase of current. Results are compared with a time-domain integration of the nonlinear Vlasov equation, and with experiment, for a realistic wake function for the SLC damping rings.  
 
WEPLT167 A Cure for Multipass Beam Breakup in Recirculating Linacs electron, sextupole, optics, wakefield 2215
 
  • B.C. Yunn
    Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
  We investigate a method to control the multipass dipole beam breakup instability in a recirculating linac including energy recovery. Effectiveness of an external feedback system for such a goal is shown clearly in a simplified model. We also verify the theoretical result with a simulation study.  
 
WEPLT168 ORBIT Benchmark of Space-charge-induced Emittance Growth in the CERN PS electron, sextupole, optics, wakefield 2218
 
  • S.M. Cousineau, J.A. Holmes
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • E. Métral
    CERN, Geneva
  Particle tracking codes provide an invaluable tool in the design and operation of high intensity machines. An important task in the development of these codes is the validation of the space charge models through benchmark with experimental data. Presented here are benchmarks of the ORBIT particle tracking code with recent measurements of space-charge-induced transverse emittance growth in the CERN PS machine. Benchmarks of two experimental data sets are performed: Integer resonance crossing, and Montague resonance crossing.  
 
THPLT129 Ion Chambers for Monitoring the NuMI Beam at FNAL plasma, gun, antiproton, polarization 2765
 
  • S.E. Kopp, D. Indurthy, R. Keisler, S. Mendoza, Z. Pavlovich, M. Proga, R.M. Zwaska
    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
  • M. Diwan, B. Viren
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • A.R. Erwin, H.P. Ping, C.V. Velisaris
    UW-Madison/PD, Madison
  • D. Harris, A. Marchionni, J. Morfin
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  • J. McDonald, D. Naples, D. Northacker
    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  We summarize selected instrumentation under construction for the NuMI neutrino beam facility at Fermilab. An array of foil secondary emission monitors (SEM's) will measure the 120GeV proton beam position, profile and halo at 10 stations along the transport to the NuMI target. The final two foil SEM's align the proton beam to within 50 microns on target. These are capable of withstanding the 400kW proton beam and causing <5·10-6 beam loss. Further instrumentation includes four stations of ionization chambers located downstream of the decay volume, one upstream and three downstream of the beam dump. The latter three monitor the tertiary muon beam, the first monitors the remnant hadron beam. The ion chamber arrays align the proton beam to 14microRadian and the neutrino beam to within 50 microRadian, as well as monitoring flux to better than 1%. The ion chambers are designed to withstand the ~1GRad doses and 109 particle/cm2/spill fluxes anticipated during NuMI beam operations. Beam tests and R&D efforts are discussed.  
 
THPLT130 Synchronization of the Fermilab Booster and Main Injector for Multiple Batch Injection plasma, gun, polarization, electron 2768
 
  • R.M. Zwaska, S.E. Kopp
    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
  • W. Pellico, R.C. Webber
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  To date, the 120 GeV Fermilab Main Injector accelerator has accelerated a single batch of protons from the 8 GeV rapid-cycling Booster synchrotron for production of antiprotons for Run II. In the future, the Main Injector must accelerate 6 or more Booster batches simultaneously; the first will be extracted to the antiproton source, while the remaining are extracted for the NuMI/MINOS neutrino experiment. Performing this multi-batch operation while avoiding unacceptable radioactivation of the beamlines requires a previously unnecessary synchronization between the accelerators. We describe a mechanism and present results of advancing or retarding the longitudinal progress of the Booster beam by active feedback radial manipulation of the beam during the acceleration period.  
 
THPLT133 Simulation of RF Control of a Superconducting Linac for Relativistic Particles plasma, gun, polarization, electron 2771
 
  • M. Huening, P. Bauer, G.W. Foster
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  We present a code to simulate the rf field and field control in a superconducting linac for relativistic heavy particles. In such a linac the field stability is strongly influenced by the longitudinal beam dynamics. So the code has to simulate both the field and the beam dynamics with the resulting varying beam loading. Other effects included in the simulation are Microphonics and Lorentz force. The code can simulate both single cavity and vector sum control.  
 
THPLT135 Experience with the 1.7 GHz Schottky Pick-ups in the Tevatron plasma, gun, polarization, electron 2774
 
  • A. Jansson, P. Lebrun, R. Pasquinelli
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  During a 2003 shutdown, new high-frequency Schottky pick-ups were installed in the Tevatron. These devices operate at 1.7 GHz (harmonic ~36000 of the revolution frequency) and can in principle be used to measure tunes, chromaticities, momentum spread and transverse emittances of individual bunches. Only the transverse signal is used, as the longitudinal is dominated by coherent signal. The default mode of operation during a store is to sequentially acquire and analyze frequency data from different sets of bunches in the machine. This function is performed by an open access client written in Java/C++, running in the background. The resulting fit parameters are datalogged and can also be plotted in "real time" during the store. With an alternative setup, data from select bunches can be acquired continuously during the entire ramp (and squeeze), for analysis off-line. This paper describes the evolution, current status and performance of the acquisition and analysis software, and presents measurements with comparison to predictions and other measurement techniques. One example of such a measurement is the variation of beam-beam tune shift as a function of intensity and bunch position within a train.  
 
THPLT137 Commissioning of the Head-tail Monitoring Application for the Tevatron plasma, gun, polarization, electron 2777
 
  • V.H. Ranjbar, V. Lebedev, E. Lorman, A. Xiao
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  A head-tail beam monitoring application has recently been developed for use in the Tevatron. With this application beam dynamics problems including head-tail instabilities can be monitored. In addition it can be use to perform chromaticity measurements using the head-tail technique developed at CERN. This application speeds up chromaticity measurements in the Tevatron especially during the acceleration ramp and low beta squeeze, which previously required three separate ramps using uncoalesced protons  
 
THPLT140 Commissioning of BL 7.2, the New Diagnostic Beamline at the ALS plasma, gun, polarization, booster 2780
 
  • F. Sannibale, D. Baum, A. Biocca, N. Kelez, T. Nishimura, T. Scarvie, E. Williams
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  • K. Holldack
    BESSY GmbH, Berlin
  BL 7.2 is a new beamline at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) dedicated to electron beam diagnostics. The system, which is basically a hard x-ray pinhole camera, was installed on the storage ring in August 2003 and the commissioning with the ALS electron beam followed immediately after. In this paper, the commissioning results are presented together with the description of the relevant measurements performed for the beamline characterization.  
 
THPLT141 Operational Experience Integrating Slow and Fast Orbit Feedbacks at the ALS plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2783
 
  • C. Steier, E.E. Domning, T. Scarvie, E. Williams
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  A fast global orbit feedback system has been implemented at the ALS and is being used during user operation since this year. The system has two main purposes. The first is to meet the demands of some users for even improved (submicron) short term orbit stability. The second is to enable the use of more sophisticated insertion device compensation schemes (e.g. tune, beta-beating, coupling) for fast moving insertion devices like elliptically polarizing undulators, without deteriorating the orbit stability. The experience of routine user operation with the fast orbit feedback will be presented, as well as the overall feedback performance and how the integration issues with the already existing slow orbit feedback were solved.  
 
THPLT142 A Laser-Based Longitudinal Density Monitor for the Large Hadron Collider plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2786
 
  • S. De Santis, J.F. Beche, J.M. Byrd, P. Datte, M. Placidi, V. Riot, R.W. Schoenlein, W.C. Turner, M.S. Zolotorev
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  We report on the development of an instrument for the measurement of the longitudinal beam profile in the Large Hadron Collider. The technique used, which has been successfully demonstrated at the Advanced Light Source, mixes the synchrotron radiation with the light from a mode-locked solid state laser oscillator in a non-linear crystal. The up-converted radiation is then detected with a photomultiplier and processed to extract, store and display the required information. A 40 MHz laser, phase-locked to the ring radiofrequency system, with a 50 ps pulse length, would be suitable for measuring the dynamics of the core of each of the LHC 2808 bunches in a time span much shorter then the synchrotron period. The same instrument could also monitor the evolution of the bunch tails, the presence of untrapped particles and their diffusion into nominally empty RF buckets ("ghost bunches") as required by the CERN specifications. We also specify the required characteristics of the diagnostic light port in the LHC where our instrument would be installed.

* Presently at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

 
 
THPLT143 Development of an Abort Gap Monitor for the Large Hadron Collider plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2789
 
  • S. De Santis, J.F. Beche, J.M. Byrd, M. Placidi, W.C. Turner, M.S. Zolotorev
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  The Large Hadron Collider, presently under construction at CERN, requires a monitor of the parasitic charge in the 3.3 ?s long gap in the machine fill structure, referred to as the abort gap, which corresponds to the raise time of the abort kickers. Any circulating particle present in the abort gap at the time of the kickers firing is lost inside the ring, rather than in the beam dump, and can potentially damage a number of the LHC components. CERN specifications indicate a linear density of 6x106 protons over a 100 ns interval as the maximum charge safely allowed in the abort gap at 7 TeV. We present a study of an abort gap monitor, based on a photomultiplier with a gated microchannel plate, which would allow for detecting such low charge densities by monitoring the synchrotron radiation emitted in the superconducting undulator dedicated to the measurement of the longitudinal beam properties. We show results of beam test experiments at the Advanced Light Source using an Hamamatsu 5916U MCP-PMT which indicate that such an instrument has the required sensitivity to meet LHC specifications.  
 
THPLT145 Automated High-power Conditioning of Medical Accelerators plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2792
 
  • S.M. Hanna, S. Storms
    Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Oncology Care Systems Group, Concord
  Medical accelerators require arc-free operation. Due to high-field emission, arcing and outgasing can occur in high-power accelerators. Therefore, the accelerator?s inner surfaces have to be conditioned before its use at high gradient levels in Radiation Therapy machine. At Siemens, we have developed a techniqu·101 to automatically condition an accelerator waveguide structure by continually inspecting the accelerator running conditions (arcing and vacuum) and stepping up the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) and RF power until reaching maximum power rating. The program implemented also reads, displays, and archives the data it collects along the full process of conditioning.  
 
THPLT146 Beam Diagnostics of the Small Isochronous Ring plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2795
 
  • J.A. Rodriguez, F. Marti
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan
  • E. Pozdeyev
    Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
  The purpose of this paper is to describe the beam diagnostic systems in 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. Some of the diagnostic tools available in SIR include an emittance measurement system in the injection line, scanning wires in different sections of the ring, phosphor screens at the injection and extraction points and a fast Faraday cup in the extraction line. The design of these systems and the kind of beam information they provide are discussed in detail.  
 
THPLT147 Beam Halo Monitoring on the CLIC Test Facility 3 plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2798
 
  • T. Lefevre
    NU, Evanston
  • H.-H. Braun, E. Bravin, R. Corsini, A.-L. Perrot, D. Schulte
    CERN, Geneva
  In high intensity accelerators, the knowledge of the beam halo distribution and its generation mechanisms are important issues. In order to study these phenomena, dedicated beam diagnostics must be foreseen. In circular machines, beam halo was monitored by using scrapers and beam loss detectors. In the framework of the CLIC project, beam halo monitoring is currently under development. The proposed device is based on an imaging system and a masking technique, which suppresses the core of the beam to allow direct observation of the beam halo. A first test was performed on the CLIC test facility 3 in 2003. We discuss the performances and the limitations of this technique pointing out our plans for future developments.  
 
THPLT148 Beam Loss Monitoring on the CLIC Test Facility 3 plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2801
 
  • T. Lefevre, M. Velasco, M. Wood
    NU, Evanston
  • H.-H. Braun, R. Corsini, M. Gasior
    CERN, Geneva
  The CLIC test facility 3 (CTF3) provides a 3.5A, 1.5s electron beam pulse of 150MeV at the end of the linac. The average beam power is 4 kW. Beam loss will be monitored all along the linac in order to keep the radiation level as low as possible. The heavy beam loading of the linac can lead to time transients of beam position and size along the pulse. To compensate these transients effectively a beam loss monitor (BLM) technology has to be chosen with a time response faster than a few nanoseconds. In this context, two different tests have been performed in 2003 on the already existing part of the CTF3 accelerator. Several detectors based on different technologies were first tested in parallel to determine which one was the most appropriate. A second test, in which the beam was intentionally lost in well defined conditions, was then made with the aim of comparing the measurements with simulation results. We present here the results of these tests and our conclusion for the new system to be developed.  
 
THPLT150 Results from Orbit and Optics Improvement by Evaluating the Nonlinear Beam Position Monitor Response in CESR plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2804
 
  • R.W. Helms, G. Hoffstaetter
    Cornell University, Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Ithaca, New York
  In the Cornell Electron/positron Storage Ring (CESR), pretzel orbits with large horizontal oscillations are used to keep electron and positron beams out of collision except at the interaction point. Since a beam position monitor's (BPM's) response is only linear near the center of the beam pipe, the assumption of linearity does not allow for accurate orbit and phase measurements under colliding beam conditions. Using a numerical model of the BPMs' response to large offsets of the beam position, and an enhanced algorithm for real-time inversion of this nonlinear response function, we have extended our orbit and betatron phase measurements to beams with large pretzel amplitudes. Several measurements demonstrate the applicability, accuracy, and usefulness of this method.  
 
THPLT151 Evaluation of Beam Position Monitors in the Nonlinear Regime plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2807
 
  • R.W. Helms, G. Hoffstaetter
    Cornell University, Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Ithaca, New York
  Here we present a new algorithm for processing BPM signals and extracting orbit and phase data for very large beam excursion where the BPM response function changes nonlinearly with the beam position. Using two dimensional models of each BPM geometry, we calculate the button response using numerical solution of Laplace's equation and Green's reciprocity theorem. The difference between the calculated signals and the measured signals is minimized in real time to calculate the beam position and measurement errors. Using the derivatives of the response functions, we model the effect of beam shaking, and from it, calculate the betatron phase.  
 
THPLT152 Operation of the Position Measurements for the Isotope Production Facility plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2810
 
  • J.D. Gilpatrick, D.S. Barr, L.J. Bitteker, M.S. Gulley, D.M. Kerstiens, D. Martinez, J.F. O'Hara, C. Pillai, R.B. Shurter
    LANL/LANSCE, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  The Isotope Production Facility (IPF) will provide isotopes for medical purposes by using a 100-MeV H+-beam spur beam line from the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) facility. Beam position measurements for IPF use a standard micro-stripline beam position monitor (BPM) with both an approximate 50-mm and 75-mm radius. The associated cable plant is unique in that it unambiguously provides a method of verifying the operation of the complete position measurement. The processing electronics module uses a log ratio technique with an error correcting software algorithm so that each the overall position measurement is periodically calibrated over a dynamic range of > 86 dB with errors less than 0.1 dB within this range. A National Instruments LabVIEW virtual instrument performs automatic periodic calibration and verification, and serves the data via the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) channel access protocol. In order to report the data to the LANSCE facility operators and accelerator physicists, the served data are displayed and archived. This paper will describe the measurement system, commissioning and initial operating experiences.  
 
THPLT153 Commissioning and Initial Operation of the Isotope Production Facility at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2813
 
  • K.F. Johnson, H.W. Alvestad, W.C. Barkley, D.B. Barlow, D.S. Barr, G.A. Bennett, L.J. Bitteker, E. Bjorklund, W. Boedeker, M.J. Borden, R.A. Cardon, G. Carr, J.L. Casados, S. Cohen, J.F. Cordova, J.A. Faucett, M. Fresquez, F.R. Gallegos, J.D. Gilpatrick, F. Gonzales, F.W. Gorman, M.S. Gulley, M.J. Hall, D.J. Hayden, R.C. Heaton, D. Henderson, D.B. Ireland, G. Jacobson, G.D. Johns, D.M. Kerstiens, A.J. Maestas, A.R. Martinez, D. Martinez, G.C. Martinez, J. Martinez, M.P. Martinez, R. Merl, J.B. Merrill, J. Meyer, M.L. Milder, E.A. Morgan, F.M. Nortier, J.F. O'Hara, F.R. Olovas, M.A. Oothoudt, T.D. Pence, E.M. Perez, C. Pillai, F.P. Romero, C. Rose, L. Rybarcyk, G. Sanchez, J.B. Sandoval, S. Schaller, F.E. Shelley, R.B. Shurter, W. Sommer, M.W. Stettler, J.L. Stockton, J. Sturrock, T.L. Tomei, V.P. Vigil, P.L. Walstrom, P.M. Wanco, J. Wilmarth
    LANL/LANSCE, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • R.E. Meyer, E.J. Peterson, F.O. Valdez
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  The recently completed 100-MeV H+ Isotope Production Facility (IPF) at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) will provide radioisotopes for medical research and diagnosis, for basic research and for commercial applications. A change to the LANSCE accelerator facility allowed for the installation of the IPF. Three components make up the LANSCE accelerator: an injector that accelerates the H+ beam to 750-KeV, a drift-tube linac (DTL) that increases the beam energy to 100-MeV, and a side-coupled cavity linac (SCCL) that accelerates the beam to 800-MeV. The transition region, a space between the DTL and the SCCL, was modified to permit the insertion of a kicker magnet (23o kick angle) for the purpose of extracting a portion of the 100-MeV H+ beam. A new beam line was installed to transport the extracted H+ beam to the radioisotope production target chamber. This paper will describe the commissioning and initial operating experiences of IPF.  
 
THPLT154 Design of an X-ray Imaging System for the Low-Energy Ring of PEP-II plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2816
 
  • A.S. Fisher, D. Arnett, H. De Staebler, S. Debarger, R.K. Jobe, D. Kharakh, D.J. McCormick, M. Petree, M.C. Ross, J. Seeman, B. Smith
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • J. Albert, D. Hitlin
    CALTECH, Pasadena, California
  • J. Button-Shafer, J.A. Kadyk
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  An x-ray beam-size monitor for positrons in the low-energy ring (LER) of the PEP-II B Factory at SLAC is being designed to accommodate the present 2-A, 3.1-GeV beam and anticipated currents of up to 4.7 A. The final photon stop of an arc will be rebuilt to pass dipole radiation through cooled apertures to optics 17 m from the source. Zone-plate imaging there can achieve a resolution of 6 microns, compared to 35 for a pinhole camera. Two multilayer x-ray mirrors precede the zone plate, limiting the bandwidth to 1%, in order to avoid chromatic blurring and protect the zone plate. Despite the narrow bandwidth, the zone plate?s larger diameter compared to a pinhole camera allows for a comparable photon flux. We will image all 1700 LER bunches and also measure them individually, searching for variations along the train due to electron-cloud and beam-beam effects, using a scanning detector conceptually derived from a wire scanner. A mask with three narrow slots at different orientations will scan the image to obtain three projections. In one passage, signals from a fast scintillator and photomultiplier will be rapidly digitized and sorted to profile each bunch.  
 
THPLT155 Development and Testing of a Low Group-delay Woofer Channel for PEP-II plasma, gun, polarization, booster 2819
 
  • J.D. Fox, L. Beckman, D. Teytelman, D. Van Winkle, A. Young
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  The PEP-II HER and LER require active longitudinal feedback to control coupled-bunch instabilities. The PEP-II RF systems use direct and comb loop feedback to reduce the cavity fundamental impedance, though the remaining low-mode impedance is providing the fastest growing unstable modes in both rings. Since commissioning the longitudinal feedback systems have used a dedicated "woofer" channel to apply the low-frequency correction kick via the RF system. The performance of this original controller is limited by the maximum gain that can be supported due to the processing delay (group delay), as well as the difficulty in configuring a common correction controller that acts via two correction paths. A dedicated low-mode signal processing system has been developed to allow higher damping rates. It is a digital processing channel, operating at a 10 MHz sampling rate, and implementing flexible 5 to 10 tap FIR control filters. The design of the channel and initial control filters is presented, as are initial machine experiments quantifying the damping and noise floor of this low group delay woofer system.  
 
THPLT156 Simulations of IP Feedback and Stabilization in the NLC plasma, gun, polarization, booster 2822
 
  • L. Hendrickson, J.C. Frisch, T.M. Himel, T.O. Raubenheimer, A. Seryi, M. Woodley
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • G.R. White
    Queen Mary University of London, London
  Keeping nanometer-sized beams in collision is an essential component in achieving design luminosity in a linear collider. The NLC stabilization strategy is conservative by including enough redundancy so that if some piece doesn't work to specification or the incoming beam motion is worse than expected, the beams will still be kept in collision. We show simulation results with both realistic and pessimistic assumptions about the response of the ground motion, inertial stabilization, interbunch and intertrain feedback systems. By providing backup systems, and by assuming that some systems may perform more poorly than expected, we can achieve a high level of confidence in our ability to successfully stabilize the beams.  
 
THPLT157 Beam-based Feedback for the NLC Linac plasma, gun, polarization, booster 2825
 
  • L. Hendrickson, N. Phinney, A. Seryi, P. Tenenbaum, M. Woodley
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  The NLC linac train-by-train feedback system is designed to stabilize the beam trajectory, but is also a valuable element in the strategy for emittance preservation. New simulations employ improved strategies [*], allowing beam steering to be performed significantly less often than without the feedback system. Additional simulations indicate that the linac feedback can contribute towards successful operation at noisier sites.

* Beam-based Feedback Simulations for the NLC Linac, L. Hendrickson et al., LINAC, Monterey, California (2000)

 
 
THPLT159 Instability Thresholds and Generation of the Electron-cloud in the GLC/NLC and Tesla Damping Rings plasma, gun, polarization, electron 2828
 
  • M.T.F. Pivi, T.O. Raubenheimer
    SLAC/NLC, Menlo Park, California
  In the beam pipe of the Damping Ring (DR) of a linear collider, an electron cloud may be produced by ionization of residual gas and secondary emission. This electron cloud can reach equilibrium after the passage of only a few bunches. We present recent computer simulation results for the main features of the electron cloud generation in the GLC/NLC main DR and for the TESLA DR. Single and multi-bunch instability thresholds are also calculated for the NLC main DR. The results are obtained by the computer simulation codes HEAD-TAIL and POSINST, which were developed to study the electron cloud effect in particle accelerators.  
 
THPLT160 Measurements of Transverse Coupled-bunch Instabilities in PEP-II plasma, gun, feedback, polarization 2831
 
  • D. Teytelman, R. Akre, J.D. Fox, S.A. Heifets, A. Krasnykh, D. Van Winkle, U. Wienands
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  At the design currents the PEP-II High and Low Energy Rings operate above the coupled-bunch instability thresholds in horizontal and vertical planes. Both machines have used analog bunch-by-bunch feedback systems to stabilize the beams since commissioning. Here we present a measurement technique that uses the capabilities of the PEP-II programmable digital longitudinal feedback system to provide transient diagnostics in X or Y directions. This technique allows one to measure instability growth or damping rates as well as oscillation frequencies in both open-loop and closed-loop conditions. Based on these measurements the configuration of the relevant transverse feedback channel can be optimized. The technique will be illustrated with instability measurements and feedback optimization examples. Comparisons of the measured modal patterns and growth rates to the theoretical predictions will be presented.  
 
THPLT161 Compton X-ray Source plasma, feedback, polarization, booster 2834
 
  • A.E. Vlieks, G. Caryotakis, D.W. Martin
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • C.A. DeStefano, W.J. Frederick, J.P. Heritage, N.C. Luhmann Jr.
    UCD, Davis, California
  In an effort to develop a monochromatic, tunable source of X-rays in the 20-85 KeV energy range, a 5.5 cell X-band RF gun has been designed and tested. Together with a 1.05 m high gradient accelerating structure (an NLC Collider component), this system generates and accelerates a beam of electrons to energies greater than 60 MeV. Monochromatic X-rays are generated, via the Compton Effect, through a head-on collision of this beam with a multi-terawatt laser beam.We are currently measuring and analyzing the performance of the complete system, including the energy, monochromaticity and emittance of the electron beam, the laser system performance and the X-ray flux from the beam-laser interaction. A tunable, monochromatic X-ray source has important medical applications.We will report on the latest results as well as describe the experimental setup, components and diagnostics.  
 
THPLT162 Diagnosis of Coupling and Beta Function Errors in the PEP-II B-Factory plasma, feedback, polarization, booster 2837
 
  • M.H. Donald, T.M. Himel, S. Zelazny
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  The SLAC Control program has an automatic phase measuring system whereby the beta functions of the two storage rings are measured. This facility has recently been extended to measure coupling between the horizontal and vertical motion and to fit the measured values to their modes of propagation. This facility aids the diagnosis and correction of coupling and focusing errors.  
 
THPLT163 High-temperature Kicker Electrodes for High-beam-current Operation of PEP-II plasma, polarization, booster, laser 2840
 
  • U. Wienands, R. Akre, D.E. Anderson, S. Debarger, K. Fant, D. Kharakh, R.E. Kirby, A. Krasnykh, A. Kulikov, J. Langton
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  The strip line electrodes of the kickers used in the transverse bunch-by-bunch feedback systems see significant power deposition by beam and HOM-induced currents. This leads to elevated temperatures of the aluminum electrodes and will ultimately become a limit for the beam current in the Low Energy Ring. Heat is transported to the environment primarily by radiation from the blackened surface of the electrodes. In order to extend the beam-current range of these kickers, new electrodes have been fabricated from molybdenum which are able to run at significantly higher temperature, thus greatly increasing the efficiency of the radiative cooling of the electrodes. Blackening of the electrodes is achieved by oxidation in air at 1000°F using a recipe first applied in aviation research for supersonic aircraft. Emissivity was measured on coupons and a whole electrode to be about 0.6. In addition, the match at the terminations of the electrodes is improved following field calculations and measurements on a model of the kicker.  
 
THPLT165 Synchrotron Light Interferometry at JEFFERSON Lab plasma, polarization, booster, laser 2843
 
  • A. Freyberger, P. Chevtsov, T. Day, R. Hicks
    Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
  • J-C. Denard
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
  The hyper-nuclear physics program at JLAB requires an upper limit on the RMS momentum spread of dp/p<3e-5. The momentum spread is determined by measuring the beam width at a dispersive location (D~4m) in the transport line to the experimental halls. Ignoring the epsilon-beta contribution to the intrinsic beam size, this momentum spread corresponds to an upper bound on the beam width of σ_beam<120um. Typical techniques to measure and monitor the beam size are either invasive or do not have the resolution to measure such small beam sizes. Using interferometry of the synchrotron light produced in the dispersive bend, the resolution of the optical system can be made very small. The non-invasive nature of this measurement allows continuous monitoring of the momentum spread. Two synchrotron light interferometers have been built and installed at JLAB, one each in the Hall-A and Hall-C transport lines. The devices operate over a beam current range from 1uA to 100uA and have a spatial resolution of 10um. The structure of the interferometers, the experience gained during its installation, beam measurements and momentum spread stability are presented. The dependence of the measured momentum spread on beam current will be presented.  
 
THPLT166 Development of Injection and Optics Control Applications for the SNS Accumulator Ring plasma, polarization, booster, laser 2846
 
  • S.M. Cousineau, C. Chu, J. Galambos, S. Henderson, T. Pelaia, M. Plum
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • A.L. Leahman
    WSSU, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  A large suite of physics software applications is being developed to facilitate beam measurement and control in the SNS accumulator ring. Two such applications are an injection control and measurement application, and a ring optics control application. The injection application will handle measurement and control of the linac beam position and angle at the stripper foil, and will be used to measure the twiss parameters of the linac beam at the foil. The optics control application will provide knobs for machine working point, chromaticity, arc phase advance, and harmonic correction. Both applications are written within the standard in-house XAL framework. Presented here are first versions of the applications, along with plans for future development and testing.  
 
THPLT167 SNS Laser Profile Monitor Progress plasma, laser, polarization, booster 2849
 
  • W. Blokland, A.V. Aleksandrov, S. Assadi, C. Deibele, W. Grice, S. Henderson, T. Hunter, P. Ladd, G.R. Murdoch, J. Pogge, K. Potter, T.J. Shea, D. Stout
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • V. Alexandrov
    BINP SB RAS, Protvino, Moscow Region
  SNS will use a Nd:YAG laser to measure transverse profiles in the 186-1000 MeV super-conducting LINAC (SCL) and Ti:Sapphire modelock laser to measure longitudinal profiles in the 2.5 MeV Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT). The laser beam is scanned across the H- beam to photo-neutralize narrow slices. The liberated electrons are collected to provide a direct measurement of the transverse or longitudinal beam profile. We have successfully measured the transverse profile with a prototype system on the MEBT beam. The final SCL system uses an optical transport line that is installed alongside the 300 meter super-conducting LINAC to deliver laser light at 8 locations. Possible vibrations in the optical transport system can lead to inaccuracies in the profile measurement. We will use an active feedback system on a mirror to correct any vibration up to 2 KHz. In this paper we describe our vibration studies and vibration cancellation system as well as the progress in the design, installation and testing of various subsystems for both the transverse and the longitudinal profiles.  
 
THPLT168 XAL - The SNS Application Programming Infrastructure plasma, laser, polarization, booster 2852
 
  • J. Galambos, C. Chu, S.M. Cousineau, T. Pelaia, A. Shishlo
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • C. Allen, C. McChesney
    LANL/LANSCE, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • W.-D. Klotz
    ESRF, Grenoble
  • I. Kriznar, A. Zupanc
    Cosylab, Ljubljana
  A Java programming infrastructure for high level applications has been developed and is being used for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). The framework provides a hierarchal view of the accelerator and hides much of the underlying control system details. The hierarchy is database configured, facilitating sharing of applications across different beamlines, shielding the programmer from detailed knowledge of signal names, and allowing wholesale updating of applications. An important aspect of the framework is an online model, which can be run for design values, live machine values or user selected tuning values. Sample applications will be shown.  
 
THPLT170 Finding the Circular Magnet Aperture which Encloses an Arbitrary Number of Midplane-centered Beam Ellipses plasma, laser, polarization, booster 2855
 
  • J.S. Berg
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  In specifying the magnets for an accelerator, one must be able to determine the aperture required by the beam. In some machines, in particular FFAGs, there is a significant variation in the closed orbit and beta functions over the energy range of the machine. In addition, the closed orbit and beta functions may vary with the longitudinal position in the magnet. It is necessary to determine a magnet aperture which encloses the beam ellipses at all energies and all positions in the magnet. This paper describes a method of determining the smallest circular aperture enclosing an arbitrary number of midplane-centered ellipses.  
 
THPLT171 Stochastic Cooling Studies in RHIC, II plasma, laser, polarization, booster 2858
 
  • M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, J. Wei
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  Intra-beam scattering is unavoidable for highly charged heavy ions and causes emittance growth during the store for collision physics. A longitudinal bunched beam stochastic cooling system will confine the bunch within the RF bucket increasing the useful luminosity. A single bunch, Palmer cooling system is under investigation. We present data and compare them with theory.  
 
THPLT172 Self-adaptive Feed Forward Scheme for the SNS Ring RF System plasma, laser, polarization, booster 2861
 
  • M. Blaskiewicz, K. Smith
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  During one millisecond of injection stacking, the RF beam current varies from 0 to 50 Amperes. The control loops of the RF system are operative throughout this process. Acceptable setpoints will be found during commissioning, but as vacuum tubes age and beam currents increase these setpoints will become less optimal. A scheme by which the system can optimize itself is presented.  
 
THPLT173 RHIC BPM Performance: Comparison of Run 2003 and 2004 plasma, laser, polarization, booster 2864
 
  • R. Calaga, R. Tomas
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  Identification of malfunctioning BPMs plays an important role in any orbit or turn-by-turn analysis. Singular value decomposition (SVD)and Fourier transform methods were recently employed to identify malfunctioning BPMs at RHIC. A detailed statistical comparison between the two methods for Run 2003 was in good agreement and proved to be a robust method to identify faulty BPMs. We evaluate detailed BPM performance for different versions of BPM low-level software in 2003 and 2004.  
 
THPLT177 Maps for Fast Electron Cloud Simulations at RHIC plasma, laser, polarization, booster 2867
 
  • U. Iriso, S. Peggs
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  Luminosity in several colliders, including RHIC, is limited by the electron cloud effect. A careful re-distribution of the bunch pattern around the azimuth of a ring can decrease the average electron density for a fixed total bunch current, allowing the luminosity to be increased. In the search for a bunch pattern that maximizes the luminosity, a fast computer simulation is a key requirement. We discuss the use of fast polynomial maps to simulate the bunch to bunch evolution of the electron density at RHIC. Such maps are empirically derived from existing conventional slow simulation codes.  
 
THPLT179 MADX-UAL Suite for Off-line Accelerator Design and Simulation plasma, laser, polarization, booster 2870
 
  • N. Malitsky, R.P. Fliller III, F.C. Pilat, V. Ptitsyn, S. Tepikian, J. Wei
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • F. Schmidt
    CERN, Geneva
  • R.M. Talman
    Cornell University, Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Ithaca, New York
  We present here an accelerator modeling suite that integrates the capability of MADX and UAL packages, based on the Standard eXchange Format (SXF) interface. The resulting environment introduces a one-stop collection of accelerator applications ranging from the lattice design to complex beam dynamics studies. The extended capabilities of the MADX-UAL integrated approach have been tested and effectively used in two accelerator projects: RHIC, where direct comparison of operational and simulated data is possible, and the SNS Accumulator Ring, still in its design phase.  
 
THPLT181 A Tomographic Technique for Magnetized Beam Matching plasma, laser, polarization, booster 2873
 
  • C. Montag, I. Ben-Zvi, J. Kewisch
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  To maintain low electron beam temperatures in the proposed RHIC electron cooler, careful matching of the magnetized beam from the source to the cooler solenoid is mandatory. We propose a tomographic technique to diagnose matching conditions. First simulation results will be presented.