IBIC2012 - List of Authors (Palmer, M.A.)

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Operation of a Single Pass, Bunch-by-bunch x-ray Beam Size Monitor for the CESR Test Accelerator Research Program

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N.T. Rider, M.G. Billing, M. P. Ehrlichman, M.A. Palmer, D.P. Peterson, D. L. Rubin, J.P. Shanks, K.G. Sonnad
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
J.W. Flanagan
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan

Funding: This work is supported by the US National Science Foundation PHY-0734867, PHY-1002467, and the US Department of Energy DE-FC02-08ER41538, DE-SC0006505.
The CESR Test Accelerator (CesrTA) program targets the study of beam physics issues relevant to linear collider damping rings and other low emittance storage rings. This endeavor requires new instrumentation to study the beam dynamics along trains of ultra low emittance bunches. A key element of the program has been the design, commissioning and operation of an x-ray beam size monitor capable, on a turn by turn basis, of collecting single pass measurements of each individual bunch in a train over many thousands of turns. This new instrument utilizes custom, high bandwidth amplifiers and digitization hardware and firmware to collect signals from a linear InGaAs diode array. The instrument has been optimized to allow measurements with 3x10⁹ to 1x10¹¹ particles per bunch. This paper reports on the operational capabilities of this instrument, improvements for its performance, and the methods utilized in data analysis. Examples of key measurements which illustrate the instrument's performance are presented. This device demonstrates measurement capabilities applicable to future high energy physics accelerators and light sources.

Slides WECD01 [3.480 MB]

MOPB56

Electron Cloud Measurements using a Time Resolved Retarding Field Analyzer at CesrTA

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J.P. Sikora, M.G. Billing, J.V. Conway, J.A. Crittenden, Y. Li, X. Liu, D. L. Rubin, C.R. Strohman
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
K. Kanazawa
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
M.A. Palmer
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Funding: This work is supported by the US National Science Foundation PHY-0734867, PHY-1002467, the US Department of Energy DE-FC02-08ER41538, DE-SC0006505 and US-Japan funding.
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring has been reconfigured as a test accelerator (CesrTA) with positron or electron beam energies ranging from 2 GeV to 5 GeV. An area of research at CesrTA is the study of the growth, decay and mitigation of electron clouds in the storage ring. With a Retarding Field Analyzer (RFA), cloud electrons pass into the detector through an array of small holes in the wall of the beam-pipe. The electrons are captured by several collectors, so that the electron flux can be measured vs. horizontal position. Up to now, we have integrated the collector currents to provide DC measurements. We have recently constructed a new Time Resolved RFA, where the collector currents can be observed on the time scale of the bunch train in the storage ring. We present a summary of the design, construction and commissioning of this device, as well as initial beam measurements at CesrTA.

Paper	Title	Page
WECD01	Operation of a Single Pass, Bunch-by-bunch x-ray Beam Size Monitor for the CESR Test Accelerator Research Program	585
	N.T. Rider, M.G. Billing, M. P. Ehrlichman, M.A. Palmer, D.P. Peterson, D. L. Rubin, J.P. Shanks, K.G. Sonnad CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA J.W. Flanagan KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
	Funding: This work is supported by the US National Science Foundation PHY-0734867, PHY-1002467, and the US Department of Energy DE-FC02-08ER41538, DE-SC0006505. The CESR Test Accelerator (CesrTA) program targets the study of beam physics issues relevant to linear collider damping rings and other low emittance storage rings. This endeavor requires new instrumentation to study the beam dynamics along trains of ultra low emittance bunches. A key element of the program has been the design, commissioning and operation of an x-ray beam size monitor capable, on a turn by turn basis, of collecting single pass measurements of each individual bunch in a train over many thousands of turns. This new instrument utilizes custom, high bandwidth amplifiers and digitization hardware and firmware to collect signals from a linear InGaAs diode array. The instrument has been optimized to allow measurements with 3x10⁹ to 1x10¹¹ particles per bunch. This paper reports on the operational capabilities of this instrument, improvements for its performance, and the methods utilized in data analysis. Examples of key measurements which illustrate the instrument's performance are presented. This device demonstrates measurement capabilities applicable to future high energy physics accelerators and light sources.
	Slides WECD01 [3.480 MB]

MOPB56	Electron Cloud Measurements using a Time Resolved Retarding Field Analyzer at CesrTA	201
	J.P. Sikora, M.G. Billing, J.V. Conway, J.A. Crittenden, Y. Li, X. Liu, D. L. Rubin, C.R. Strohman CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA K. Kanazawa KEK, Ibaraki, Japan M.A. Palmer Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Funding: This work is supported by the US National Science Foundation PHY-0734867, PHY-1002467, the US Department of Energy DE-FC02-08ER41538, DE-SC0006505 and US-Japan funding. The Cornell Electron Storage Ring has been reconfigured as a test accelerator (CesrTA) with positron or electron beam energies ranging from 2 GeV to 5 GeV. An area of research at CesrTA is the study of the growth, decay and mitigation of electron clouds in the storage ring. With a Retarding Field Analyzer (RFA), cloud electrons pass into the detector through an array of small holes in the wall of the beam-pipe. The electrons are captured by several collectors, so that the electron flux can be measured vs. horizontal position. Up to now, we have integrated the collector currents to provide DC measurements. We have recently constructed a new Time Resolved RFA, where the collector currents can be observed on the time scale of the bunch train in the storage ring. We present a summary of the design, construction and commissioning of this device, as well as initial beam measurements at CesrTA.