DIPAC2011 - List of Authors (Rabiller, A.)

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A New Fast Acquisition Profile for the LHC and the SPS

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S. Burger, A. Boccardi, E. Bravin, A. Rabiller, R.S. Sautier
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The beam profile is an important parameter for the tuning of particle accelerators. These profiles are often obtained by imaging optical transition radiation from a radiator on a CCD camera. This technique works well for slow acquisitions, but in some cases it is necessary to acquire profiles with higher rates where such standard cameras are no longer suitable. In our case the aim is to sample the profiles on a turn-by-turn basis which, for the CERN-SPS, corresponds to ~44 kHz. For this reason we have developed a fast detector based on a recent Hamamatsu linear CCD and an optical system using cylindrical lenses. The readout electronics is based on CERN developed, radiation tolerant components and the digital data is transmitted to an acquisition board outside of the tunnel by mean of optical fibres. This contribution describes the system and shows the performance obtained on a test bench.

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Synchrotron Radiation Measurements at the CERN LHC

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F. Roncarolo, S. Bart Pedersen, A. Boccardi, E. Bravin, A. Guerrero, A. Jeff, T. Lefèvre, A. Rabiller
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
A.S. Fisher
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

The CERN LHC is equipped with two systems (one for each beam) designed to image the synchrotron radiation emitted by protons and heavy ions. After their commissioning in 2009, the detectors were extensively used and studied during the 2010 run. This allowed preliminary limits in terms of sensitivity, accuracy and resolution to be established. The upgrade to an intensified video camera capable of gating down to 25ns permitted the acquisition of single bunch profiles even with an LHC proton pilot bunch (~5·10⁹ protons) at 450 GeV or a single lead ion bunch (~10⁸ ions) from about 2 TeV. Plans for the optimization and upgrade of the system will be discussed. Since few months, part of the extracted light is deviated to the novel Longitudinal Density Monitor (LDM), consisting in an avalanche photo-diode detector providing a resolution better than 100 ps. The LDM system description will be complemented with the promising first measurement results.

Slides WEOA04 [6.398 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOPD59	A New Fast Acquisition Profile for the LHC and the SPS	182
	S. Burger, A. Boccardi, E. Bravin, A. Rabiller, R.S. Sautier CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The beam profile is an important parameter for the tuning of particle accelerators. These profiles are often obtained by imaging optical transition radiation from a radiator on a CCD camera. This technique works well for slow acquisitions, but in some cases it is necessary to acquire profiles with higher rates where such standard cameras are no longer suitable. In our case the aim is to sample the profiles on a turn-by-turn basis which, for the CERN-SPS, corresponds to ~44 kHz. For this reason we have developed a fast detector based on a recent Hamamatsu linear CCD and an optical system using cylindrical lenses. The readout electronics is based on CERN developed, radiation tolerant components and the digital data is transmitted to an acquisition board outside of the tunnel by mean of optical fibres. This contribution describes the system and shows the performance obtained on a test bench.

WEOA04	Synchrotron Radiation Measurements at the CERN LHC	550
	F. Roncarolo, S. Bart Pedersen, A. Boccardi, E. Bravin, A. Guerrero, A. Jeff, T. Lefèvre, A. Rabiller CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A.S. Fisher SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	The CERN LHC is equipped with two systems (one for each beam) designed to image the synchrotron radiation emitted by protons and heavy ions. After their commissioning in 2009, the detectors were extensively used and studied during the 2010 run. This allowed preliminary limits in terms of sensitivity, accuracy and resolution to be established. The upgrade to an intensified video camera capable of gating down to 25ns permitted the acquisition of single bunch profiles even with an LHC proton pilot bunch (~5·10⁹ protons) at 450 GeV or a single lead ion bunch (~10⁸ ions) from about 2 TeV. Plans for the optimization and upgrade of the system will be discussed. Since few months, part of the extracted light is deviated to the novel Longitudinal Density Monitor (LDM), consisting in an avalanche photo-diode detector providing a resolution better than 100 ps. The LDM system description will be complemented with the promising first measurement results.
	Slides WEOA04 [6.398 MB]