• B. Parker, M. Anerella, J. Escallier, P. He, A.K. Jain, A. Marone
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
• B. Bolzon, A. Jeremie
  IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
• P.A. Coe, D. Urner
  OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
• C. Hauviller
  CERN, Geneva
• A. Seryi
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• T. Tauchi, K. Tsuchiya, J. Urakawa
  KEK, Ibaraki

Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886.

The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF2) at KEK is a scaled down version of the final focus design proposed for the future linear colliders (LC) and aims to experimentally verify the final focus (FF) technology needed to obtain very small, stable beam spots at a LC interaction point. Initially the ATF2 FF is made using conventional (warm) quadrupole and sextupole magnets; however, we propose to upgrade the FF by replacing some of the conventional magnets with new superconducting magnets constructed with the same technology as those of the International Linear Collider baseline FF magnets*. With the superconducting magnet upgrade we can look to achieve smaller interaction point beta-functions and to study superconducting magnet vibration stability in an accelerator environment. Therefore for the ATF2 R&D magnet we endeavor to incorporate cryostat design features that facilitate monitoring of the cold mass movement via interferometric techniques. The design status of the ATF2 superconducting upgrade magnets is reported in this paper.

*International Linear Collider Reference Design Report, ILC-REPORT-2007-001, August 2007.

• A. Reichold, C. Uribe Estrada, D. Urner, S.Q. Yang
  OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
• P.J. Brockill, J. Dale, M. Jones, G.R. Moss, R. Wastie
  JAI, Oxford
• M. Schlösser
  DESY, Hamburg

Funding: work supported by STFC in the LC-ABD collaboration and by the Commission of the European Community, 6th Framework Programme, Structuring the European Research Area, contract number RIDS-011899

The Linear Collider Alignment and Survey group has completed experiments with a prototype robotic survey train for the ILC called the RTRS (Rapid Tunnel Reference Surveyor). Calibration of the RTRS is the most difficult part of data analysis, involving advanced mathematical methods to obtain constraint independent calibration parameters and errors. We show how sub-system data analysis provides input errors for the calibration process. We present the mathematical formalism used and results from the calibration of one of the three cars.

• N. Delerue, R. Bartolini, K.J. Peach, A. Reichold, R. Senanayake
  JAI, Oxford
• S.I. Bajlekov, L.S. Caballero-Bendixsen, T. Ibbotson
  University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford
• N. Bourgeois, P.A. Walker
  University of Oxford, Oxford
• B. Buonomo, G. Mazzitelli
  INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
• G. Doucas, S.M. Hooker, P. Lau, D. Urner
  OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
• C.A. Thomas
  Diamond, Oxfordshire

Funding: John Adams Institute, University of Oxford John Fell Fund, University of Oxford

We describe a method that uses a modified pepper-pot design to measure in a single shot the emittance of electron beams with energies above 100 MeV. Our setup consists of several thin layers of tantalum with spacers in between to leave slits through which the electron beam can be sampled. We report on a measurement done using this method at the DAΦNE BTF with a 508 MeV electron beam.

• K. Artoos, O. Capatina, C.G.R.L. Collette, M. Guinchard, C. Hauviller, F. Lackner, J. Pfingstner, H. Schmickler, M.V. Sylte
  CERN, Geneva
• B. Bolzon, L. Brunetti, G. Deleglise, N. Geffroy, A. Jeremie
  IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
• P.A. Coe, D. Urner
  OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
• M. Fontaine
  CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette

To reach the design luminosity of CLIC, the movements of the quadrupoles should be limited to the nanometer level in order to limit the beam size and emittance growth. Below 1 Hz, the movements of the main beam quadrupoles will be corrected by a beam-based feedback. But above 1 Hz, the quadrupoles should be mechanically stabilized. A collaboration effort is ongoing between several institutes to study the feasibility of the “nano-stabilization” of the CLIC quadrupoles. The study described in this paper covers the characterization of independent measuring techniques including optical methods to detect nanometer sized displacements and analyze the vibrations. Actuators and feedback algorithms for sub-nanometer movements of magnets with a mass of more than 400 kg are being developed and tested. Input is given to the design of the quadrupole magnets, the supports and alignment system in order to limit the amplification of the vibration sources at resonant frequencies. A full scale mock-up integrating all these features is presently under design. Finally, a series of experiments in accelerator environments should demonstrate the feasibility of the nanometer stabilization.