Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
Kyungpook National University, Daegu
KEK, Ibaraki
UCL, London
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Fermilab, Batavia
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
The ATF2 international collaboration is intending to demonstrate nanometre beam sizes required for the future Linear Colliders. An essential part of the beam diagnostics needed to achieve that goal is the high resolution cavity beam position monitors (BPMs). In this paper we report on the C-band system consisting of 32 BPMs spread over the whole length of the new ATF2 extraction beamline. We discuss the design of the BPMs and electronics, main features of the DAQ system, and the first operational experience with these BPMs.
UCL, London
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
Kyungpook National University, Daegu
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Fermilab, Batavia
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
The ATF2 international collaboration is intending to demonstrate nanometre beam sizes required for the future Linear Colliders. An essential part of the beam diagnostics needed to achieve this goal is the high resolution cavity beam position monitors (BPMs). In this paper we report on the S-band system installed in the final focus region of the new ATF2 extraction beamline. It only includes 4 BPMs, but they are mounted on the most critical final focus magnets squeezing the beam down to 35 nm. We discuss both the design and the first operational experience with the system.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
JAI, Oxford
KEK, Ibaraki
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
LAL, Orsay
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
ATOMKI, Debrecen
CERN, Geneva
DESY, Hamburg
Fermilab, Batavia
Kyungpook National University, Daegu
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto
ICEPP, Tokyo
University of Tokyo, Tokyo
UCL, London
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai
UMAN, Manchester
Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
ATF2 is a final-focus test beam line that attempts to focus the low-emittance beam from the ATF damping ring to a beam size of about 37 nm, and at the same time to demonstrate nm beam stability, using numerous advanced beam diagnostics and feedback tools. The construction is well advanced and beam commissioning of ATF2 has started in the second half of 2008. ATF2 is constructed and commissioned by ATF international collaborations with strong US, Asian and European participation.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Funding: Work supported by the DOE under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Facilities for Accelerator Science and Experimental Test Beams (FACET) is a proposed facility at SLAC that would use the initial two-thirds of the linac to transport e+ and e- beams to an experimental region. A principal use of this facility is to identify the optimum method for accelerating positrons in a beam driven plasma wakefield accelerator. To study this, a positron bunch, followed ½ an rf cycle later by an electron bunch, will be accelerated to an asymmetric chicane designed to move the positrons behind the electrons, and then on to the plasma wakefield test stand. A major focus of study was the coupling of jitter of the positron bunch to the electron bunch via linac wakes. Lucretia is a Matlab toolbox for the simulation of electron beam transport systems, capable of multi-bunch tracking and wakefield calculations. With the exception of the lack of support for tracking of electrons and positrons within a single bunch train, it was well suited to the jitter coupling studies. This paper describes the jitter studies, including modifications made to Lucretia to correctly simulate tracking of mixed-species bunch trains through a lattice of magnetic elements and em wakes.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LAL, Orsay
The Flight Simulator is a tool used for international collaboration in the writing and deployment of online beam dynamics algorithms. Written as an add-on to the Lucretia tracking software, it allows simulation of a beamline in a control system environment identical to that in the control room. This allows the testing and development of monitoring and correction tools by an international collaboration by making the control system transparent to the user. The native beamline representation are those adopted by Lucretia, so, in order to allow third party software, to interface with this system, it was necessary to develop functionality to convert the lattice to a universal representation. Accelerator Markup Language (AML), and its associated Universal Accelerator Parser (UAP), were used for this purpose. This paper describes the use of the UAP to convert the internal beamline representation to AML, and the testing of this conversion routine using the lattice description of the ATF2 final focus experiment at KEK, Japan. Also described are the inclusion of PLACET and SAD based algorithms using appropriate converters, and tests of these on the ATF2 extraction line.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The Flight Simulator is a Matlab middleware layer which uses the Lucretia beam tracking engine and a lower level EPICS control system to allow the development of beam control and monitoring algorithms in a simulation environment that appears identical to the that of the control room. The goal of ATF2 is to test a novel compact final final focus optics design intended for use in future linear colliders. The newly designed extraction line and final focus system will be used to produce a 37nm vertical waist from the extracted beam. Alignment of the magnetic elements is of vital importance for this goal and it is expected that beam-based alignment (BBA) techniques will be necessary to achieve the necessary tolerances. This paper describes a package for the beam-based alignment of quadrupole and sextupole magnets in the ATF2 damping ring, extraction line, and final focus system. It brings together several common techniques for the alignment of magnetic elements, and has been implemented as a GUI-based tool that may be used on its own, or integrated with other routines. The design of this package is described, and simulation and beam results are shown.
Kyungpook National University, Daegu
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
KEK, Ibaraki
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
UCL, London
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Fermilab, Batavia
CHEP, Daegu
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
The ATF2 international collaboration is intending to demonstrate nanometer beam sizes required for the future Linear Colliders. The position of the electron beam focused down at the end of the ATF2 extraction line to a size as small as 35 nm has to be measured with nanometer resolution. For that purpose a special Interaction Point(IP) beam position monitor (BPM) was designed. In this paper we report on the features of the BPM and electronics design providing the required resolution. We also consider the results obtained with BPM triplet which was installed in the ATF beamline and the first data from ATF2 commissioning runs.