HIT, Heidelberg
GSI, Darmstadt
MPI-K, Heidelberg
The use of hadron beams delivered by normal conducting synchrotrons is highly attractive in various fundamental research applications as well as in the field of particle therapy. These applications require fast synchrotron operation modes with pulse-to-pulse energy variation and magnetic field slopes up to 10 T/s. The aims are to optimize the duty-cycle or to minimize treatment times for the patients as well as to provide extremely stable properties of the extracted beams, i.e. position and spill structure. Studies performed at the SIS18 synchrotron at GSI showed that not only the dipoles but the quadrupoles as well significantly contribute to the underlying time constants of the slowly extracted beam. An attempt has been made to measure the magnetic fields in synchrotron magnets with high precision and speed comparable to the current measurement with a DCCT. Additional magnetic field monitoring includes the retarding effects into the current control feedback loop neglecting the unfavourable dynamic effects from hysteresis and eddy currents. The presentation describes this controls approach, the results obtained at the HIT synchrotron and the SIS18 at GSI will be discussed.
KEK, Ibaraki
KEKB linac is a 600 m long electron linac and is used to deliver beam to four rings, KEKB HER ring (electron, 8 GeV), KEKB LER ring (positron, 3.5 GeV),PF ring (electron, 2.5 GeV) and PF-AR ring (electron, 6.5 GeV). KEKB rings are operated under top-up injection mode and have occupied the current linac operation mostly. Simultaneous injection to three rings (KEKB HER and KEKB LER and PF) is required due to the top-up injection to PF ring is required recently. We have developed the pulsed bending magnet for this. This magnet produces 114 mrad deflection angle for 2.5 GeV PF beam. The fast switching between KEKB and PF can be performed up to 25 Hz. We will describe this magnet system in detail.
Fermilab, Batavia
Muons, Inc, Batavia
Voss Scientific, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Funding: Supported in part by USDOE STTR Grant DE-FG02-08ER86350 and and FRA DOE contract number DE-AC02-07CH11359
RF cavities pressurized with hydrogen gas may provide effective muon beam ionization cooling needed for muon colliders. Recent 805 MHz test cell studies reported below include the first use of SF6 dopant to reduce the effects of the electrons that will be produced by the ionization cooling process in hydrogen or helium. Measurements of maximum gradient in the Paschen region are compared to a simulation model for a 0.01% SF6 doping of hydrogen. The observed good agreement of the model with the measurements is a prerequisite to the investigation of other dopants.
FZJ, Jülich
CERN, Geneva
The COoler SYnchrotron COSY at the Forschungszentrum Jülich is operating now since 1992. Up to 5*1010 protons can be delivered over a momentum range of 600 MeV/c to 3.6 GeV/c. The prototype of the HESR barrier bucket cavity was installed into COSY and many measurements have been performed. Especially the co-operation of barrier bucket with stochastic cooling has been studied. During the measurements the internal WASA Pellet target was available which is similar to the PANDA target at the HESR. A 1.2m long cryo-tank has been designed and installed to measure the sensitivities of new pickup structures for the HESR stochastic cooling system. Tank design and structures arrangement correspond to the projected HESR stochastic cooling layout. The recent results will be presented.
KEK, Ibaraki
A cryomodule including three 2-cell sc cavities was designed for the ERL injector Linac, which is operated at the beam energy of 10 MeV and the beam current of 100 mA. A prototype 2-cell cavity with two input coupler ports and four HOM couplers was fabricated. The double input couplers is to reduce the power per coupler and to keep a symmetric filed configuration around the coupler port. Required rf power in the input couplers is about 200 kW in the cw operation. First vertical test of the 2-cell cavity will be carried out in March.
FZJ, Jülich
CNS, Saitama
CERN, Geneva
The High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) of the future International Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at the GSI in Darmstadt will be built as an anti-proton cooler ring in the momentum range from 1.5 to 15 GeV/c. An important and challenging feature of the new facility is the combination of phase space cooled beams with internal targets. In addition to electron cooling transverse and longitudinal stochastic cooling are envisaged to accomplish these goals. A detailed numerical analysis of the Fokker-Planck equation for longitudinal filter and time-of-flight cooling including an internal target and intrabeam scattering has been carried out to demonstrate the stochastic cooling capability. Model predictions have been compared to experimental cooling results with internal targets at the COSY facility. Experimental results at COSY to compensate the large mean energy loss induced by an internal Pellet target similar to that being used by the PANDA experiment at the HESR with a barrier bucket cavity (BB) will be presented. Experimental tests of stochastic filter cooling with internal target and BB operation as well as expected cooling properties for the HESR are discussed.
CERN, Geneva
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Uppsala University, Uppsala
A fundamental element of the CLIC concept is two-beam acceleration, where rf power is extracted from a high-current and low-energy beam in order to accelerate the low-current main beam to high energy. The power extraction occurs in special X-band Power Extraction and Transfer Structures (PETS). The structures are large aperture, high-group velocity and overmoded periodic structures. Following the substantial changes of the CLIC baseline parameters in 2006, the PETS design has been thoroughly updated along with the fabrication methods and corresponding rf components. Two PETS prototypes have been fabricated and high power tested. Test results and future plans are presented.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
After the success of longitudinal stochastic cooling of bunched heavy ion beam in RHIC, transverse stochastic cooling was installed and commissioned with proton beam. The talk presents the status of this effort and gives an estimate, based on simulation, of the RHIC luminosity with stochastic cooling in all planes.
Fermilab, Batavia
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The production of an Electron Cloud poses stability issues for future high intensity running of the Fermilab Main Injector. Recent experiements have shown the presense of the electron cloud can be detected by the phase shift of a TE wave propagated along the beampipe. This technique has been employed to provide very sensitive measurements of the electron cloud development in the Fermilab Main Injector.
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
LBNL, Berkeley, California
ANL, Argonne
Muons, Inc, Batavia
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: Supported in part by USDOE STTR Grant DE-FG02-08ER86352 and FRA DOE contract number DE-AC02-07CH11359
Many present and future particle accelerators are limited by the maximum electric gradient and peak surface fields that can be realized in RF cavities. Despite considerable effort, a comprehensive theory of RF breakdown has not been achieved and mitigation techniques to improve practical maximum accelerating gradients have had only limited success. Recent studies have shown that high gradients can be achieved quickly in 805 MHz RF cavities pressurized with dense hydrogen gas without the need for long conditioning times, because the dense gas can dramatically reduce dark currents and multipacting. In this project we use this high pressure technique to suppress effects of residual vacuum and geometry found in evacuated cavities to isolate and study the role of the metallic surfaces in RF cavity breakdown as a function of magnetic field, frequency, and surface preparation. A 1.3-GHz RF test cell with replaceable electrodes (e.g. Mo, Cu, Be, W, and Nb) and pressure barrier capable of operating both at high pressure and in vacuum been designed and built, and preliminary testing has been completed. A series of detailed experiments is planned at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator.
PKU/IHIP, Beijing
Funding: Supported by National Basic Research Program(No. 2002CB713600) and NSFC(No. 10775010).
The 3.5-cell cavity for the PKU DCSC photoinjector requires the main coupler and the pickup be on the same side of the cavity, which will cause crosstalk between them. At room temperature, serious distortion of the RF response is caused. This paper applies a clear understanding of the RF signal; numerical and experimental study shows that the crosstalk will be negligible in superconducting (SC) status. Furthermore, a method to calculater resonant frequency and loaded quality factor from the crosstalk signal is provided
CIAE, Beijing
In the commissioning phase of CRM cyclotron, the RF cavity resonance frequency changes rapidly due to cavity thermal instability and electronics interference inside tuning loop. To solve the later issue, a set of cavity tuning control electronics has been re-designed, fabricated and tested in 2008. The new tuning control electronics and related experimental results will be described in this paper. A wide dynamic range phase detector with double balanced mixer were selected to detect the cavity detuning angle by comparing the phase difference between the cavity pickup signal and cavity driven signal. One analogue P.I. controller was utilized for loop regulation, taking advantage of shorter developing time. A current amplifier is also included to magnify the driven ability of the P.I. regulator for cavity fine tuning motors. A careful layout has been performed to avoid interference between RF part, DC small signal part and the current amplifier part. The desk experiment yields good phase detection sensitivity and acceptable stability after the mixer reaches natural thermal balance.
CERN, Geneva
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
Hardware commissioning of the LHC RF system was successfully completed in time for first beams in LHC in September 2008. All cavities ware conditioned to nominal field, power systems tested and all Low level synchronization systems, cavity controllers and beam control electronics were tested and calibrated. Beam was successfully captured in ring 2, cavities phased, and a number of initial measurements made. These results are presented and tests and preparation for colliding beams in 2009 are outlined.
CERN, Geneva
Since 1999 the PS has been operated without active transverse damping thanks to an increase of the coupling between the transverse planes and the reduction of injection steering errors. Although the LHC requirements are met by these means, a new transverse feedback system has been commissioned to reinforce the robustness of operation and avoid the blow-up generated by residual injection steering errors. This system could also allow the reduction of the chromaticity and reduce the slow incoherent losses during the long PS injection plateau. It could also stabilize the high energy instabilities that appear occasionally with the LHC nominal beam and may be a limiting factor for ultimate LHC beam. Highlights include a signal processing with an automatic delay adapting itself to the varying revolution frequency, a programmable betatron phase adjustment along the cycle, pick-ups that have been re-furbished with electronics covering the very low frequency of the first betatron line and a compact wideband high-power solid state amplifier that drives the strip-line kicker via an impedance matching transformer. The overall system is described together with experimental results.
CERN, Geneva
In the framework of the LHC project the concept has been developed of a global digital signal processing unit (DSPU) that implements in numerical form the architecture of low-level RF systems [1]. The approach, using an FPGA as core for the low-level system, is very flexible and allows the upgrade of the signal processing by modification of the original firmware [2]. The achieved performances of the LHC 1-Turn delay Feedback are compared with project requirements. The PS Transverse Damper DSPU, with automatic loop delay compensation adapting to the beam’s time of flight and Hilbert Filter for single pick-up betatron phase adjustment, is presented. A modified DSPU with digital inputs for the LHC Transverse Damper is also presented.
[1] V. Rossi, CERN SL-2002-047-HRF, CERN, Geneva, July 2002.
[2] V. Rossi, CERN BE-2009-009, CERN, Geneva, January 2009.
KEK, Ibaraki
NETS, Fuchu-shi
Vector-sum control of 4 superconducting cavities is examined at STF in KEK. The digital llrf control is carried out and the stabilities of rf fields are obtained. Various studies such as feedback margin necessary for enough field regulation, effects of perturbations of cavity detuning or klystron HV and so on. Performance degradation by elimination of circulators is also studied from the viewpoint of llrf system.
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359
A novel high voltage modulator had been under development for 1.5 years. It was completed tested on the bench and became a part of the TEL2 system in October 2008. The modulator is used to drive the electron gun anode. We provide technical details on the stacked transformer modulator, analyze its performance and discuss the design challenges. The results of the beam studies made possible by the new high voltage modulator are reported.
Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio
ANL, Argonne
Funding: This work is supported by the US Department of Energy
Beam breakup (BBU) effects resulting from parasitic wakefields provide a potentially serious limitation to the performance of dielectric structure based accelerators. We report here on comprehensive numerical studies and planned experimental investigations of BBU and its mitigation in dielectric wakefield accelerators. An experimental program is planned at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator facility that will focus on BBU measurements in a number of high gradient and high transformer ratio wakefield devices. New pickup-based beam diagnostics will provide methods for studying parasitic wakefields that are currently unavailable at the AWA. The numerical part of this research is based on a particle-Green’s function beam dynamics code (BBU-3000) that we are developing. The code allows rapid, efficient simulation of beam breakup effects in advanced linear accelerators. The goal of this work is to compare the results of detailed experimental measurements with accurate numerical results and ultimately to study the use of external FODO channels for control of the beam in the presence of strong transverse wakefields.
CERN, Geneva
To understand one contribution to the intensity limitations of the CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) in view of its operation with beams from Linac 4, the impedance of the machine has been characterized. Measurements of tune shift as a function of the intensity have been carried out in order to estimate the low frequency imaginary part of the impedance. Since the PSB is a low energy machine, these measurements have been done at two different energies,so as to enable us to disentangle the effect of the indirect space charge and resistive wall from the contribution of the machine impedance. An estimation of the possible resonant peaks in the impedance spectrum has been made by measuring a fast instability in Ring 4.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Three-dimensional electromagnetic simulations have suggested a variety of measures to mitigate the problem of button BPM trapped mode heating. A test fixture, using a combination of commercial-off-the-shelf and custom machined components, was assembled to validate the simulations. We present details of the fixture design, measurement results, and a comparison of the results with the simulations.
LNLS, Campinas
As part of our efforts to improve beam stability in LNLS light source, we developed a system for automating tune measurements in the storage ring. This system is based on a commercial spectrum analyzer controlled via a GPIB port fed by a difference signal from a stripline pickup. Following a tandem-like approach, the software is divided in two parts: one inside the main operation software in the control system, which sends commands, and another one designed for receiving these commands and to suitably manage the analyzer The system is capable of setting the analyzer for optimal measurements for almost all operating conditions of the machine. This is achieved through feedback algorithms and triggered events. This tool improves machine diagnostics during failure conditions such as undesired magnet changes and is fast enough to enable tune tracking during particular events, such as ID movements and energy ramps.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
The thermal distortion resulting from BPM button trapped mode heating is potentially problematic for achieving the high precision beam position measurement needed to provide the sub-micron beam position stability required by light source users. We present a button design that has been thermo-mechanically optimized via material selection and component geometry to minimize this thermal distortion. Detailed electromagnetic analysis of the button geometry is presented elsewhere in these proceedings.
CIAE, Beijing
The beam phase monitor was designed to address phase slide issue, which can lead to significant beam loss inside 100MeV cyclotron. The measured phase information can be used to direct cyclotron magnetic field fine tuning. The system describes in this paper consists of the following part: 10 sets of beam phase pickup, a phase detector, a set of RF multiplexer and a phase shifter to compensate different phase offset generated by cables, connectors etc. The last one is a computer interface consisting of two 16 bits AD converters, one ARM 7 processor was included in this module to support RS232 connection and perform necessary signal process. All parts except the probe were located in one 3U VME standard crate, 8 slots were occupied and one user defined backplane was developed to carry necessary power supply lines and inter-connections. Preliminary tests for the electronic system has been performed, and a good result was obtained in the procedure. Yet the leakage from RF cavity in the 100MeV cyclotron is still an undermined limitation for this application.
CERN, Geneva
Diagnostic techniques based on the Schottky spectrum of the peak detected signal have been used at CERN for a long time to study the behaviour of bunched beams. In this paper it is shown how the measured spectrum is related to the particle distribution in synchrotron frequency. The experimental set-up used and its limitations are also presented together with examples of beam measurements in the SPS and LHC.
CERN, Geneva
CIEMAT, Madrid
In the framework of EUROTeV, a Precision Beam Position Monitor (PBPM) has been designed, manufactured and tested. The new PBPM, based on the inductive BPM presently used in the CERN Clic Test Facility (CTF3), aims to achieve a resolution of 100 nm and an accuracy of 10μm in a 6 mm aperture. A dedicated test bench has been designed and constructed to fully characterize and optimize the PBPM. This paper describes the final design, present the test bench results and reports on the beam tests carried out in the CERN CTF3 Linac.
FSU Jena, Jena
HIT, Heidelberg
GSI, Darmstadt
Funding: This work was supported in part by the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung Darmstadt, Germany.
We describe an LTS SQUID-based high precision measurement tool for nuclear physics. This device makes use of the Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) principle and is able to measure e.g. the absolute intensity of a high energy ion beam extracted from a particle accelerator or the so-called dark current, generated by superconductive RF accelerator cavities at high voltage gradients. The CCC mainly consists of a high performance LTS-DC SQUID system, a special toroidal pick-up coil, and a meander-shaped superconductive magnetic ring structure. The design of the CCC requires a thorough knowledge of several noise contributions to achieve a high current resolution. As the SQUID and the pick-up coil are extremely sensitive to external magnetic fields it is necessary to shield both sufficiently against any disturbing field sources. Theoretical investigations showed that with strong attenuation of external noise sources an improvement of the sensor performance is dependent on the ferromagnetic core material imbedded in the pick-up coil. Several materials were investigated and the temperature- and the frequency dependence measured. The current results will be presented and discussed.
IFIC, Valencia
Funding: FPA 2007-31124-E (MICINN)
A set of two Inductive Pick-Up (IPU) prototypes with its associated electronics for Beam Position Monitoring in Test Beam Line (TBL) in the 3rd CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) at CERN were designed, constructed, characterized and tested by the IFIC. One of these two prototypes is already mounted in the first module of the TBL line for testing with beam. In the first part of this paper we described the first tests performed with beam in the prototype. The second part of this paper is dedicated to the description of the construction, performance characterization and installation of a series of 15 units, including its respective mechanical supports in the complete TBL line in spring 2009.
I-Tech, Solkan
ELETTRA, Basovizza
Libera Brilliance is a standard device for beam position monitoring on circular synchrotron light sources. Initially, the idea of optimizing its signal processing for the single bunch measurement came from the users community. This was afterwards followed by the idea of using it on transfer lines on the same 3rd generation light sources as well as on injector system for the FELs. The device can be used on pickup buttons and on striplines. The single pass functionality is contained in newest Libera Brilliance software Release 2.0, no hardware changes are needed. The measurement principles and first measurements with results are presented.
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
Funding: SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy.
A transverse phase space emittance scanner is proposed and under development for the 1-GeV H- SNS linac, using a laser beam as a slit. For a 1 GeV H- beam, it is difficult to build a slit because the stopping distance is more than 50 cm in copper. We propose to use a laser beam as an effective slit by stripping off the outer electron of the H- (making it neutral) upstream of a bend magnet and measuring the stripped component downstream of the bend magnet. The design and modeling of the system will be discussed. We are expecting to make a preliminary measurement in 2009.
FZK, Karlsruhe
CERN, Geneva
KIT, Karlsruhe
Max-Planck Institute for Metal Research, Stuttgart
Funding: This work has partly been supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under contract number VH-NG-320
The status of longitudinal and transverse Schottky observation systems for the synchrotron light source ANKA is presented. ANKA regularly operates in a dedicated low alpha mode with short bunches for the generation of coherent THz radiation. The Schottky measurement results are shown and compared with theoretical predictions for the regular as well as the different stages of the low alpha mode of operation. Special care had to be taken to control and mitigate the impact from strong coherent lines of the short bunches on the signal processing chain. The system setup is shown, expected and unexpected observations as well as applications are discussed.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Funding: work supported by the Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC03-76SF00515 and DE-AC05
Fields induced by a beam and penetrated outside the beam pipe can be used for a beam diagnostic. Wires placed in longitudinal slots in the outside wall of the beam pipe can work as a beam pickup. This has a very small beam-coupling impedance and avoids complications of having a feed-through. The signal can be reasonably high at low frequencies. We calculate the beam-coupling impedance due to a long longitudinal slot in the resistive wall and the signal induced in a wire placed in such a slot and shielded by a thin screen from the beam. We present a field waveform at the outer side of a beam pipe, obtained as a result of calculations and measurements. Such kind of diagnostic can be used in storage rings, synchrotron light sources, and free electron lasers, like LINAC coherent light source.
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
MPI-K, Heidelberg
Funding: Work supported by the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers (HGF) under contract number VH-NG-328 and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH.
The novel electrostatic Ultra-low energy Storage Ring (USR), planned to be installed at the future Facility for Low-energy Antiproton and Ion Research (FLAIR), will slow down antiprotons and possibly highly charged ions down to 20 keV/q. This multipurpose machine puts challenging demands on the necessary beam instrumentation. Ultra-short bunches (1-2 ns) on the one hand and a quasi-DC beam structure on the other, together with a variable very low beam energies (20-300 keV/q), ultra-low currents (down to 1 nA or even less for a non-circulating beam) and few particles (< 2x107), require the development of new diagnostic devices as most of the standard techniques are not suitable. Several solutions, like resonant capacitive pick-ups, beam profile monitors, Faraday cups or cryogenic current comparators, are under consideration. This contribution presents the beam instrumentation foreseen for the USR.
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
RUBYTRON, Rye Brook, New York
In-air test fixtures for beamline elements typically utilize an X-Y positioning stage, and a wire antenna excited by an RF source. In most cases, the antenna contains a standing wave, and is useful only for coarse alignment measurements in CW mode. A surface-wave (SW) based transmission line permits RF energy to be launched on the wire, travel through the beamline component, and then be absorbed in a load. Since SW transmission lines employ traveling waves, the RF energy can be made to resemble the electron beam, limited only by ohmic losses and dispersion. Although lossy coaxial systems are also a consideration, the diameter of the coax introduces large uncertainties in centroid location. A SW wire is easily constructed out of 200 micron magnet wire, which more accurately approximates the physical profile of the electron beam. Benefits of this test fixture include accurate field mapping, absolute calibration for given beam currents, Z-axis independence, and temporal response measurements of sub-nanosecond pulse structures. Descriptions of the surface wave launching technique, transmission line, and receiver electronics are presented, along with measurement data.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
The strip-line beam position monitor can be used as a non-intercepting emittance measurement monitor. The most important part of emittance measurement is to pick up the quadrupole component. To improve the accuracy of measurement, the response of the strip-line BPM pickups will be mapped before it’s installed in the HLS LINAC. This paper introduce the calibration system of the BPM, which consists of a movable antenna and a RF signal source, simulating the beam , a BPM moving bench with its control system, and an electronics system. When the position calibration is done first, the offset between electronic center and mechanical one of the BPM and the position sensitivity are gotten. There are two methods for quadrupole component calibration: one is indirect evaluation method that estimates the sensitivity of quadrupole component by the factor of position second moment; the other is direct method by simulation of a Gaussian beam through together many Gaussian weighted grid points. The results of two methods are given and compared. The effect of antenna’s diameter upon the fitting size of simulate beam has also been analyzed.
UW-Madison/SRC, Madison, Wisconsin
The betatron tunes of an electron storage ring may be measured by driving transverse oscillations with an excitation electrode and measuring the resonant beam response with a pickup electrode. We model the damping of coherent betatron oscillations from the tune spread and radiation damping, finding that the tune signal is proportional to the square root of the product of the betatron functions at the excitation and pickup locations. The signal is independent of the betatron phase advance between the two locations. Our results are applied to the Aladdin 800-MeV electron storage ring.
ANL, Argonne
Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
The Advanced Photon Source storage ring has several bunch fill patterns for user operation. In some fill patterns the single-bunch beam charge is as high as 16 mA. We installed a bunch-to-bunch feedback system that aims to overcome high-charge beam instability and reduce the required chromatic correction. Due to the drive strength limitation, we decided to first commission the feedback system in the vertical plane. We present our preliminary results, some of the issues that we have experienced and resolved, and our plan to expand the system to the horizontal plane.
LNLS, Campinas
The main facility of the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory is a 1.37 GeV Synchrotron Light Source. The accelerator ring can be filled with up to 148 electron bunches and the initial current of 250 mA decreases down to 150 mA at the end of the user’s shifts. The beam energy is ramped down to 500 MeV, the current is refilled and the energy is ramped up again to 1.37 GeV for a new shift. Coupled-bunch instabilities excited by different sources can negatively impact the light source performance either lowering the brilliance of the beam or causing beam losses in the energy ramps. The upcoming new insertion devices and beamlines are pushing up the beam stability requirements even more. We present the current status of a digital feedback system that is being designed for controlling transversal and longitudinal beam instabilities.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
Funding: Work supported by Department of Energy contract DE–AC03–76SF00515 and the US LARP program.
The SPS at high intensities exhibits transverse single-bunch instabilities with signatures consistent with an Ecloud driven instability. While the SPS has a coupled-bunch transverse feedback system, control of Ecloud-driven motion requires a much wider control bandwidth capable of sensing and controlling motion within each bunched beam. This paper draws beam dynamics data from the measurements and simulations of this SPS instability, and develops initial performance requirements for a feedback system with 2-4 GS/sec sampling rates to damp Ecloud-driven transverse motion in the SPS at intensities desired for high-current LHC operation. Requirements for pickups, kickers and signal processing architectures are presented. Initial lab measurements of proof-of-principle lab model prototypes are presented for the wideband kicker driver signal functions.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
A bunch-by-bunch analogue transverse feedback system at the Hefei Light Source (HLS) is to cure the resistive wall instability and the transverse coupled bunch instabilities. The kicker of the feedback system has four 21-cm-long electrodes of stripline type mounted in a skew 45°. Calculation and Simulation of the transverse kicker are shown.
UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Funding: *Work performed under the auspices of ORNL/SNS, ORNL/SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725
An electron-proton (e-p) instability is observed with increased beam intensity at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) in Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This paper presents a wide-band, mixed-signal system for active damping of the e-p instability. It describes techniques used for feedback damping, data acquisition, and analysis. The paper also describes analysis strategies to monitor system performance. The mixed-signal feedback damper system includes anti-aliasing low-pass filters, power amplifiers (PAs), analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), reconfigurable field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware and digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The system will provide feedback damping, system monitoring, and offline analysis capabilities. The digital portion of the system features programmable gains and delays, and equalizers that are implemented using parallel comb filters and finite impulse response (FIR) filters. These components perform timing adjustments, compensate for gain mismatches, correct for ring harmonics, and equalize magnitude and phase dispersions from cables and amplifiers.
EPFL, Lausanne
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
The upgrade of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would require a four- to fivefold increase of the single bunch intensity presently obtained in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Operating at such high single bunch intensities requires a detailed knowledge of the sources of SPS beam coupling impedance, so that longitudinal and transverse impedance reduction campaigns can be planned and performed effectively if needed. In this paper, the transverse impedance of the SPS is studied by injecting a single long bunch into the SPS, and observing its decay without RF. This particular setup enhances the resolution of the frequency analysis of the longitudinal and transverse bunch signals acquired with strip line couplers connected to a fast data acquisition. It also gives access to the frequency content of the transverse impedance. Results from measurements with short and long bunches in the SPS performed in 2008 are compared with simulations and theoretical predictions.
CERN, Geneva
Wendel GmbH, Dillenburg
During the 2007 run with the nominal LHC proton beam, electron cloud has been clearly identified and characterized in the PS using a dedicated setup with shielded button-type pickups. Efficient electron cloud suppression could be achieved with a stainless steel stripline-type electrode biased to negative and positive voltages up to ± 1 kV. For the 2008 run, a second setup was installed in straight section 84 of the PS where the stainless steel was replaced by a stripline composed of an enamel insulator with a resistive coating. In contrast to ordinary stripline electrodes this setup presents a very low beam coupling impedance and could thus be envisaged for long sections of high-intensity machines. Here, we present first comparative measurements with this new type of enamel clearing electrode using the nominal LHC beam with 72 bunches and 25 ns bunch spacing.
Commanding Communications Academy, Wuhan
CIAE, Beijing
Under the influence of applications using virtual reality in accelerator R&D, this paper discusses the complete process of developing Communication Equipment Operation Simulation (CEOS) based on Creator/Vega Visual Scenery Simulation Technology, operation rules modeling and solutions to its key problem. The virtual scene model for communication equipment is designed with 3D modeling software MultiGen Creator, especially its DOF technology and Switch node. The basic graphs such as wires are drawn through OpenGL call-back functions. By the virtual scene drive Vega, the application of CEOS comes true. Its simulation example shows greatest traits on building similar simulation system e.g. cyclotron virtual prototyping system as well as virtual cyclotron control system.