DIPAC2011 - List of Authors (Caspers, F.)

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Capabilities and Performance of the LHC Schottky Monitors

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M. Favier, T.B. Bogey, F. Caspers, O.R. Jones
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Cai, E.S.M. McCrory, R.J. Pasquinelli
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
A. Jansson
ESS, Lund, Sweden

The LHC Schottky system has been under commissioning since summer 2010. This non destructive observation relies on a slotted waveguide structure resonating at 4.8GHz. Four monitors, one for each plane of the two counter-rotating LHC beams, are used to measure the transverse Schottky sidebands Electronic gating allows selective bunch-by-bunch measurements, while a triple down-mixing scheme combined with heavy filtering gives an instantaneous dynamic range of over 100dB within a 20kHz bandwidth. Observations of both proton and lead ion Schottky spectra will be discussed along with a comparison of predicted and measured performance.

Poster MOPD06 [3.484 MB]

TUPD39

Observation of Synchrotron Radiation Using Low Noise Block (LNB) at ANKA

389

V. Judin, N. Hiller, A. Hofmann, E. Huttel, B. Kehrer, M. Klein, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, N.J. Smale
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
F. Caspers
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Funding: Work supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under contact number VH-NG-320
Generally Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) is emitted for wavelengths longer than or equal the bunch length, so for CSR in the THz-range short bunches are required. There are two types of detectors in this range of the spectrum: slow detectors like a golay cell or pyrometric detectors (used for e.g. imaging, spectroscopy) and fast detectors like superconducting bolometer detector systems and Schottky Barrier diodes (used for e.g. the investigation of dynamic processes in accelerator physics). The hot electron bolometer (HEB) detector system is a member of second group. It is very fast and has broad spectral characteristics, but unfortunately very expensive and have to be cooled using liquid helium. If the broad spectral response is not important, it will be suitably to use a Schottky Barrier diode instead. These detectors are massively cheaper but also slower. As an alternative to a Schottky diode a LNB (Low Noise Block) can be also used. It is usually used in standard TV-SAT-receivers. Due to mass production LNBs became very cheap, moreover they are optimized to detect very low intensity "noise-like" signals. In this paper we present our experience with a LNB at ANKA.

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MOPD06	Capabilities and Performance of the LHC Schottky Monitors	44
	M. Favier, T.B. Bogey, F. Caspers, O.R. Jones CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Cai, E.S.M. McCrory, R.J. Pasquinelli Fermilab, Batavia, USA A. Jansson ESS, Lund, Sweden
	The LHC Schottky system has been under commissioning since summer 2010. This non destructive observation relies on a slotted waveguide structure resonating at 4.8GHz. Four monitors, one for each plane of the two counter-rotating LHC beams, are used to measure the transverse Schottky sidebands Electronic gating allows selective bunch-by-bunch measurements, while a triple down-mixing scheme combined with heavy filtering gives an instantaneous dynamic range of over 100dB within a 20kHz bandwidth. Observations of both proton and lead ion Schottky spectra will be discussed along with a comparison of predicted and measured performance.
	Poster MOPD06 [3.484 MB]

TUPD39	Observation of Synchrotron Radiation Using Low Noise Block (LNB) at ANKA	389
	V. Judin, N. Hiller, A. Hofmann, E. Huttel, B. Kehrer, M. Klein, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, N.J. Smale KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany F. Caspers CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Funding: Work supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under contact number VH-NG-320 Generally Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) is emitted for wavelengths longer than or equal the bunch length, so for CSR in the THz-range short bunches are required. There are two types of detectors in this range of the spectrum: slow detectors like a golay cell or pyrometric detectors (used for e.g. imaging, spectroscopy) and fast detectors like superconducting bolometer detector systems and Schottky Barrier diodes (used for e.g. the investigation of dynamic processes in accelerator physics). The hot electron bolometer (HEB) detector system is a member of second group. It is very fast and has broad spectral characteristics, but unfortunately very expensive and have to be cooled using liquid helium. If the broad spectral response is not important, it will be suitably to use a Schottky Barrier diode instead. These detectors are massively cheaper but also slower. As an alternative to a Schottky diode a LNB (Low Noise Block) can be also used. It is usually used in standard TV-SAT-receivers. Due to mass production LNBs became very cheap, moreover they are optimized to detect very low intensity "noise-like" signals. In this paper we present our experience with a LNB at ANKA.