• J. Fang, P. Lu, Q. Luo, B. Sun, X.H. Wang
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

The energy spread measurement by use the energy spectrum analysis system at HLS LINAC now is an intercepting measurement which can't measure the real injection beam. To achieve the non-intercepting measurement, a new Beam position monitor (BPM) with eight stripline electrodes in four-axis symmetry is designed, which can measure the energy spread at HLS LINAC in real time. This paper has introduced the physical structure of this new BPM which include eight 20 degree opening angle, 1/4 wavelength (26.2mm) length Stripline electrodes in detail, analyzed and calculated the electrode response and picking up the quadrupole component, and got the theoretical sensitivities of different methods. The BPM is simulated and calculated by CST Microwave Studio Program. The results shows the parameters such as characteristic impedance, electrode coupling degree, time-domain response and frequency-domain response etc are all meet the requirement of HLS LINAC and transfer line.

• Q. Luo, J. Fang, D.H. He, B. Sun
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

An s-band re-entrant cavity BPM system is designed for new high brightness injector at HLS. A prototype cavity BPM system was manufactured for off-line test, which is also called cold test. According to the results of computer simulation, wire scanning off-line test method can be used to calibrate the BPM and estimate the performance of the on-line BPM system. Cross-talk problem was detected during the cold test. Ignoring nonlinear effect, transformation matrix is a way to correct cross-talk. Analysis of cold test results showed that position resolution of prototype BPM is better than 3 μm.

• T.J. Ma, C. Li, W.B. Li, P. Lu, B. Sun, L.L. Tang, Y.L. Yang
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

A new beam current monitor (BCM) has been implemented on Hefei Light Source (HLS) recently. It has been used for bunch-by-bunch beam current measurement, which is useful for filling control and longitudinal feedback, etc. The BCM consists of three parts: the front-end circuit, a high sampling rate oscilloscope for beam current signal acquisition and the data processing system. The signals from the beam position monitor of the storage ring are manipulated by the front-end circuit first, then sampled by the Agilent MSO7104 oscilloscope and transported into the control computer for data processing. The sampling rate of the oscilloscope is up to 4GHz and the trigger rate is 4.533 MHz. The data processing program is supported by the LabVIEW. The measurement of beam current in multi-bunch operation mode is described. Some important results are summarized.

• L.L. Tang, L.M. Gu, P. Lu, T.J. Ma, B. Sun, J.G. Wang, X.H. Wang
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

GigE Vision (Gigabit Ethernet vision standard) is a new interface standard for the latest vision of cameras with higher performance compared to analogue vision standard and other digital vision standard. In recent years, the market of industrial vision components is evolving towards GigE Vision. This paper presents applications of digital camera comply with GigE Vision standard for the measurement of beam profile and emittance at the storage ring of HLS (Hefei Light Source). These cameras provide low distortion for image transmission over long distance with high image rate. Using the image of beam profile transmitted by GigE Vision digital camera, we calculated the horizontal and vertical center positions, and then we calibrated these center positions by BPM (Beam Position Monitor) system. According to the result of calibration and the pixel size of CCD sensor, transverse sizes of beam profile were calculated, further more the transverse emittance and coupling factor were calculated as well.

• J.Q. Lan, B. Sun, Y.C. Sun, H. Xu
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

A brief, but clear, review of beam polarization theory is given in the paper. Particularly, the algorithm of spin linear transfer matrix (SLIM) is applied to remark the situation of beam in storage ring, specific to HLS (Hefei Light Source). Theoretical analysis indicates that the beam in HLS, working at 800MeV and 2.58/3.58 transverse tunes, could keep away from a variety of spin resonances, and should be able to build up high polarization.