IBIC2013 - List of Authors (Payne, S.J.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPC28	Strip Line Monitor design for the ISIS Proton Synchrotron using the FEA program HFSS	435
	S.J. Payne STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	This paper reports the development of a strip line monitor for the ISIS accelerator main ring. The strip line is still in the design phase and the work reported here is the results of the FEA programme HFSS. The strip line will eventually form part of a beam instability feedback system and will be used to control instabilities both in the current ISIS machine and for all future ISIS upgrades where higher intensities and energies could be realised. The strip line consists of two pairs of 550mm by 160mm broad flat electrodes configured to allow damping in both the horizontal and vertical planes. The paper describes the efforts to achieve a bandwidth of >260MHz which will allow the feedback system deal with instabilities such as those caused by electron clouds. Design of the electrodes including matching of the feed throughs to the electrodes , concerns of materials for the electrode supports are considered. Also considered are methods used to improved inter-electrode decoupling (to better than -30db) . Results in the form of scattering parameters, smith charts, time domain reflectivity and shunt impedances will be presented.

WEPC25	Optimisation of a Split Plate Position Monitor for the ISIS Proton Synchrotron	739
	C.C. Wilcox, J.C. Medland, S.J. Payne, A. Pertica, M.A. Probert STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	A new Beam Position Monitor (BPM) has been designed for the ISIS proton accelerator facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. The new monitor, which will be installed in the beam line to Target 1, is of a ‘split plate’ design which utilises two pairs of electrodes to allow the beam position to be measured simultaneously in the horizontal and vertical planes. Simulations carried out using the CST low frequency solver have highlighted the inaccuracies in the measured beam position caused by strong inter-electrode coupling in such a monitor. This coupling, along with imbalanced electrode capacitances, leads to reduced sensitivity to changes in beam position as well as producing a positional offset error. This paper describes how the problems associated with inter-electrode coupling have been removed with the addition of grounded rings placed between each of the four electrodes. The design and positioning of the rings also ensured that the four electrode capacitances were matched. The results are presented both as CST simulations of ‘thin wire’ beam position measurements and results from bench measurements of a prototype dual plane BPM.

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Strip Line Monitor design for the ISIS Proton Synchrotron using the FEA program HFSS

435

S.J. Payne
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

This paper reports the development of a strip line monitor for the ISIS accelerator main ring. The strip line is still in the design phase and the work reported here is the results of the FEA programme HFSS. The strip line will eventually form part of a beam instability feedback system and will be used to control instabilities both in the current ISIS machine and for all future ISIS upgrades where higher intensities and energies could be realised. The strip line consists of two pairs of 550mm by 160mm broad flat electrodes configured to allow damping in both the horizontal and vertical planes. The paper describes the efforts to achieve a bandwidth of >260MHz which will allow the feedback system deal with instabilities such as those caused by electron clouds. Design of the electrodes including matching of the feed throughs to the electrodes , concerns of materials for the electrode supports are considered. Also considered are methods used to improved inter-electrode decoupling (to better than -30db) . Results in the form of scattering parameters, smith charts, time domain reflectivity and shunt impedances will be presented.

WEPC25

Optimisation of a Split Plate Position Monitor for the ISIS Proton Synchrotron

739

C.C. Wilcox, J.C. Medland, S.J. Payne, A. Pertica, M.A. Probert
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

A new Beam Position Monitor (BPM) has been designed for the ISIS proton accelerator facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. The new monitor, which will be installed in the beam line to Target 1, is of a ‘split plate’ design which utilises two pairs of electrodes to allow the beam position to be measured simultaneously in the horizontal and vertical planes. Simulations carried out using the CST low frequency solver have highlighted the inaccuracies in the measured beam position caused by strong inter-electrode coupling in such a monitor. This coupling, along with imbalanced electrode capacitances, leads to reduced sensitivity to changes in beam position as well as producing a positional offset error. This paper describes how the problems associated with inter-electrode coupling have been removed with the addition of grounded rings placed between each of the four electrodes. The design and positioning of the rings also ensured that the four electrode capacitances were matched. The results are presented both as CST simulations of ‘thin wire’ beam position measurements and results from bench measurements of a prototype dual plane BPM.