Author: Timmins, M.A.
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WEPF28 Longitudinal Beam Diagnostic from a Distributed Electrostatic Pick-Up in CERN’s ELENA Ring 883
 
  • M.E. Angoletta, F. Caspers, S. Federmann, J.C. Molendijk, P.J. Pascal Jean, F. Pedersen, J. Sanchez-Quesada, L. Søby, M.A. Timmins
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  The CERN Extra Low EN­ergy An­tipro­ton (ELENA) Ring is a new syn­chro­tron that will be com­mis­sioned in 2016 to fur­ther de­cel­er­ate the an­tipro­tons com­ing from CERN’s An­tipro­ton De­cel­er­a­tor (AD). Re­quired lon­gi­tu­di­nal di­ag­nos­tics in­clude the in­ten­sity mea­sure­ment for bunched and de­bunched beam and the mea­sure­ment of Dp/p for a de­bunched beam to as­sess the elec­tron cool­ing per­for­mance. A novel method for the cal­cu­la­tion of these pa­ra­me­ters is pro­posed for ELENA, where sig­nals from the twenty elec­tro­sta­tic pick-ups (PU) used for orbit mea­sure­ments will be com­bined to im­prove the sig­nal-to-noise ratio. This re­quires that the sig­nals be dig­i­tally down-con­verted, ro­tated and dig­i­tally summed so that the many elec­tro­sta­tic PUs will func­tion as a sin­gle, dis­trib­uted PU from to the pro­cess­ing sys­tem view­point. This method in­cludes some chal­lenges and will not be used as the base­line lon­gi­tu­di­nal di­ag­nos­tics for the ini­tial ELENA op­er­a­tion. This paper gives an overview of the hard­ware and dig­i­tal sig­nal pro­cess­ing in­volved, as well as of the chal­lenges that will have to be faced.