• J.C. Dooling, W. Berg, B.X. Yang
  ANL, Argonne
• A.S. Fisher, H.-D. Nuhn, M. Santana-Leitner
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California

A large-solid-angle Cherenkov detector beam loss monitor has been built and tested as part of the Linac Coherent Light Source machine protection system (MPS). The MPS is used to protect the undulator magnets from high-energy electron beam loss that can lead to demagnetization. Lost primaries create a shower of secondary electrons that transit through the radiator medium. The radiator consists of an Al-coated plate of high-purity, fused silica, formed into a tuning fork geometry that envelopes the beam pipe preceding each undulator. The radiator transports Cherenkov photons via internal reflection through a tapered neck into a compact photomultiplier tube (PMT). A simple model based on line sources summed across image planes is used to calculate the radiator optical coupling efficiency eta_c as a function of the electron's transverse position. The results are compared for the case of normally incident electrons with a more detailed Monte Carlo random-walk simulation called RIBO. Both analytical and numerical models show eta_c to be relatively uniform over the full range of transverse positions in the radiator and to be a strong function of surface reflectivity.