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THPME134 | Experimental Results of a Gas Jet Based Beam Profile Monitor | 3559 |
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Funding: Work supported by the EU under grant agreement 215080, HGF and GSI under contract number VH-NG-328, the STFC Cockcroft Institute Core Grant Mo.ST/G008248/1, and a RIKEN-Liverpool studentship. A novel, least invasive beam profile monitor based on a supersonic gas jet has been developed by the QUASAR Group at the Cockcroft Institute, UK. It allows the measurement of beam profiles for various particle beams across a range of energies and vacuum levels to be made. A finely collimated neutral gas jet, produced by a nozzle and several skimmers, is injected into a vacuum chamber perpendicular to the main particle beam. Ionization by the primary beam produces ions which are extracted from the interaction region and directed towards an imaging detector. This contribution presents the design of the monitor and first experimental results obtained with a low energy electron beam. It also discusses solutions of previous alignment problems and challenges in the realization of a versatile control and data acquisition system |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-THPME134 | |
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THPME135 | Simulations of the Ion Spatial Distribution in a Gas-Curtain Based Beam Profile Monitor | 3563 |
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Funding: Work supported by the EU under grant agreement 215080 and 289485, HGF and GSI under contract VH-HG-328, the STFC Cockcroft Institute Core Grant No. ST/G008248/1, and a RIKEN-Liverpool studentship. A gas-jet monitor has been developed and commissioned by the QUASAR Group at the Cockcroft Institute, UK. It is designed to measure the transverse profile of a beam by crossing it with a neutral supersonic gas-jet. An array of high voltage electrodes is used to extract ions from the region where the beam and gas-jet interact. These ions first hit a micro-channel plate (MCP) and are then imaged through a phosphor screen and a CCD camera. It is important to understand and characterise the measured ion distribution in order to extract the beam profile. Therefore, numerical investigations using the commercial COMSOL and OPERA codes were carried out benchmarking profile measurements obtained from a low energy electron beam. This paper presents results from these studies. It compares measurements based on the interaction of the primary beam with the residual gas or the ultra-cold gas curtain, and discusses the comparisons of simulated profiles and extraction field configurations on the measured profile. |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-THPME135 | |
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