• F. Marteau, P. Berteaud, F. Bouvet, L. Chapuis, M.-E. Couprie, J.P. Daguerre, J.-M. Filhol, A. Mary, K. Tavakoli
  SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette

A new electromagnetic/permanent magnets helical undulator, with a 65 mm magnetic period is under development at SOLEIL for providing a rapid switching of the photon polarization required to perform dichroïsm experiments. The vertical field will be produced by coils fed by a fast switching power supply, with a maximum current of 350 A and a polarity switching time shorter than 100ms. The coils consist of copper sheets cut by water jet method. 26 layers of copper will be stacked together while 10 of them will be water cooled. The current-regulated power supply should be able to operate in the 4 quadrants with a 50 ppm current resolution over the full scale. The design of this home made power supply will be described. The horizontal field will be generated by NdFeB permanent magnets. The design vertical and horizontal peak field values in the helical configuration are 0.24 T at the minimum 15.5 mm gap. The magnetic design and the correction scheme will be described. A prototype was built to characterise and validate the technical choices, and the results will be discussed. The efficiency of the cooling system and the results of the magnetic measurements will be presented.

• L.S. Nadolski, L. Cassinari, J.P. Daguerre, J.-C. Denard, J.-M. Filhol, N. Hubert, N. Leclercq, A. Nadji
  SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette

SOLEIL is the French 2.75 GeV high brilliance third generation synchrotron light source delivering photons to beam-lines since January 2007. Reaching micrometer to sub-micrometer level stability for the photon beams is then necessary but very challenging. Since September 2008, a fast orbit feedback has been running in daily operation. The performances of the system will be presented together with comparison with the ones previously achieved with the slow orbit feedback system. Status of the interaction of both feedback systems will be discussed. Moreover new X-BPMs have been installed on dipole and undulator based beam-lines; a total number of 9 vibration sensors (velocimeters) are now installed in the storage ring tunnel, on the experimental slab and outside the building in order to help to locate the different noise sources. Detailed results will be presented and debated.