KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
It is well known that the beam-beam interaction has a focusing effect and therefore causes a dynamical beating of beta function around the rings. This effect becomes greatly enhanced when a collider, such as KEKB, is operated near half integer. The beating makes it difficult to interpret the measurement of horizontal beam size. We derived two coupled nonlinear equations and solved them analytically to obtain the beam sizes at the interaction points, taking into account of dynamical beta and emittance. It has been demonstrated its effectiveness using actual measured data at the synchrotron light monitors. It is expected that it will be implemented in the control room.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Funding: This work was supported by the Director, Office of Science, U. S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Beam stability is one of the most important properties for the users of a synchrotron light source. Beam stability includes the stability of orbit, beamsize, current (lifetime), energy, and energy spread. As light sources are generating higher brightnesses, adding fast switching variable polarization devices, and and producing smaller source sizes, there is a necessity for continuous improvements in beam stability. In this talk an overview of the state of the art in beam stabilization and remaining challenges for beam stability are presented.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Funding: US DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences
The design and measurement of the NSLS-II ring quadrupoles prototypes are presented. These magnets are part of a larger prototype program described in [1]. Advances in software, hardware, and manufacturing have led to some new level of insight in the quest for the perfect magnet design. Three geometric features are used to minimize the first three allowed harmonics by way of optimization. Validations through measurement and confidence levels in calculations are established.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Funding: US DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences
The Sextupole magnets for the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II) have stringent performance requirements. These magnets have a faceted pole profile departing from the classic shape due to constraint imposed by the vacuum tube. Three different geometric features were used as parameters to minimize unallowed harmonics. Prototypes were measured and have confirmed the good field quality.
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
KEK is studying the design of the superconducting final focus quadrupoles for the Super KEKB. The system consists of quadrupole-doublet cooled at 1.9 K. The vertical focusing quadrupole has the maximum magnetic field more than 8 T in the superconducting coils. The field gradient at the magnet center is more than 80 T/m and the effective magnetic length is 0.25 m. The horizontal focusing quadrupole is designed with the field gradient of 9.5 T/m and the effective magnetic length of 1.0 m. These magnet parameters will be iterated in the process of optimizing the beam optics. In this paper, the conceptual design of final focusing system and magnets will be reported.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
Bending magnets, quadrupole magnets, and sextupole magnets are the most crucial magnetic elements in the synchrotron accelerator facility or high energy accelerator collider ring. Generally, separate bending magnets, quadrupoles or sextupoles magnets are utilized to perform separate functions. However, in the lattice design of accelerator ring or a compact ring in limited space, a single multifunction magnet is used to reduce the number of magnets and ensure that the entire device fits into the available space. This work presents an approach for designing the pole profiles of a combined-function bending magnet of the dipole, quadrupole, and sextupole components. The pole profile of a combined quadrupole magnet with gradient field and sextupole field components is also discussed.
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
Funding: * Work supported by Korean Ministry of Education Science and Technology
The magnets for a medical synchrotron were designed. The synchrotron is for cancer therapy with proton and carbon-iron beams. The magnets for the injection include a septum magnet and an electrostatic septum magnet. And the magnets for the extraction include a resonance sextupole magnet, an electrostatic septum magnet, a thin septum magnet, and a thick septum magnet. The design achieved good field uniformity and acceptable leakage field level. We used 3D code for the electromagnetic simulation and the optimization of magnetic structures. In this paper, the basic design process for the injection and extraction magnets will be presented.
Sigmaphi, Vannes
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
The paper presents the magnetic measurements of the 32 long dipoles and 8 short dipoles magnet manufactured by Sigmaphi for the ALBA synchrotron booster based in Spain. An extensive set of measurements based on search coils was made by Sigmaphi to characterize the magnetic field at different currents. This paper describes the magnetic measurements results. The measurements show the maximum field integral deviation between the magnets is within ± 3.10-3 as expected.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
HALS(Hefei Advanced Light Source) is the electron storage ring of ultra-low emittance in process of design. Under this design, the quadrupole magnet with sextupole component must be mounted on which the βη is much bigger, to use enough the effect of compersation chromaticity of sextupole magnet field and to use sparingly the space in the same time . So the combined quadrupole and sextupole magnet must be designed, and have more strong sextupole component and restrain the production of high harmonic field. In this paper, the chocie of design scheme is discussed, and the calculation of combined quadrupole and sextupole mangnet design is given.
BNG, Würzburg
GSI, Darmstadt
GSI had manufactured a prototype of a fast cycling superconducting dipole magnet at Babcock Noell GmbH. This is the first full size magnet for the SIS100 synchrotron at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt / Germany. In close collaboration with GSI, the magnet was technologically developed, manufactured and assembled by Babcock Noell. The system was successfully tested at GSI reaching the nominal cycling performance, including the high ramping rate of 4 T/s and the maximum field of 2.1 T. Especially the superconducting cable, the coils and the iron yoke are subject to strong mechanical and thermal stresses. Here we describe the details on the fabrication of these components and give an outlook on possible improvements of the manufacturing technologies, applicable to future prototypes and series magnets for SIS100.
GSI, Darmstadt
BNG, Würzburg
The 100 Tm synchrotron SIS 100 is the core component of the international Facility of Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) to be built in Darmstadt. An intensive R&D period was conducted to design 3m long 2T dipoles providing a stable ramp rate of 4 T/s within an usable aperture of 115mm x 60mm with minimum AC losses, high field quality and good long term operation stability. Three full size dipole - and one quadrupole magnets were built. Recently the first dipole magnet, produced by Babcock Noell, was intensively tested at the GSI cryogenic test facility. We present the measured characteristic parameters: training behaviour, the field quality along the load line for DC operation as well as on the ramp, AC losses, and the cryogenic operation limits. We compare them to the calculated results as well as to the requested design performance. Based on the obtained results we discuss adjustments for the final design.
ANL, Argonne
HSRC, Higashi-Hiroshima
Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
A request from the light source user community for insertion devices that provide only monochromatic light has led to development of quasi-periodic undulators (QPUs). These devices generate shifted harmonics in the photon energy spectrum, thus allowing suppression of higher harmonics by optical monochromator systems. Until now such undulators have been technically realized with pure permanent magnets or with hybrid structures. A concept for a superconducting quasi-periodic undulator (SCQPU) is suggested and described in this paper.
FZK, Karlsruhe
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
Max-Planck Institute for Metal Research, Stuttgart
Recent investigations with the cold bore superconducting undulator installed at ANKA indicate that the main contribution to the beam heat load is caused by electron bombardment. For a quantitative understanding of the problem a cold vacuum chamber for diagnostics has been designed. Among other important parameters (heat load, pressure, etc) this device shall monitor the spectrum of the low energy electrons bombarding the wall. In this contribution we report on the measurements of the spectrum of the low energy electrons bombarding the wall of the cold vacuum chamber in a room temperature region of the ANKA storage ring performed using a in house developed retarding field analyzer (RFA). The calibration of the RFA performed at the national laboratories of Frascati is also described.
University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Erlangen
BNG, Würzburg
FZK, Karlsruhe
University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Erlangen
A new 15 mm period, 1.5 m long planar undulator is being fabricated by Babcock Noell GmbH (BNG) for the ANKA synchrotron light source. In order to qualify the production process and to optimize both the quench protection scheme and the magnetic field correction system, a short prototype has been fabricated. The prototype has been tested in vertical configuration and liquid helium at 4.2K in the CASPER facility at ANKA. The magnetic field has been measured along the beam axis direction by Hall probes with a positioning precision of 3 μm. We report here on the field shimming scheme and the resulting performance of the coils.
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
The vacuum system of CELLS is in the installation stage. The booster vacuum chambers have been assembled and baked out in a provisional laboratory ex-situ in the ALBA building and in less than two months (starting from February) all the booster vacuum system was installed inside the tunnel and under vacuum. All the storage ring vacuum chambers have been delivered and ready for installation, several chambers were tested at CELLS (tests include vacuum tests, dimensional check, magnetic permeability tests etc). All the tools needed for the assembly of the storage ring vacuum chambers have been delivered and tested at CELLS to validate the assembly procedure. Concerning the standard vacuum components; all the gauges and residual gas analyzers were delivered, all the ion pumps and controllers are at CELLS, the NEG pumps, leak detectors, roughing stations and the UHV valves were delivered too.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
Funding: Work supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and the Japan/US Cooperation Program
In concert with the ILC global design effort, the CESR is being converted into ILC Damping Ring Test Accelerator. The vacuum system is undergoing staged reconfigurations to support both the CesrTA physics goals and the CHESS X-ray sources. Six superconducting wigglers were moved to a sector with zero-dispersion. The sector is densely populated with beam instrumentation and diagnostic devices. A new photon stop chamber will be used to handle the high synchrotron radiation power generated from the SCWs at high positron beam energy. A 12-m long gate-valve isolated straight sector was created in a second location, where many electron-cloud diagnostic chambers will be installed and tested. We also configured two very short sections in the arcs, with additional gate valves, to provide flexibility of exchanging various meter-long test chambers with minimum impact to the operations. Many retarding field analyzers were integrated into the vacuum modifications in SCWs, dipoles, and drifts to study EC growth and suppression techniques. Creating environments where both local and collaborator provided equipment can be easily installed has been a major objective in the modifications.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) will build a new 3GeV, 400mA synchrotron accelerator machine. Several different IDs have been proposed and the corresponding front ends are designed. Beam lines of IU20, IU28, SW48 and EPU70 will be the phase I requirement. Due to different power load and density flux, fixed masks, photon absorber, slits, photon absorber and photon beam position monitor will all be customized to meet the beam line user requirements as well as the thermomechanical limits. Overall front end layout, analysis results of the high heat load components are illustrated; experiments of photon beam position monitor, front end pressure distribution due to thermal and photon stimulated desorption outgassing analysis, are also presented in this paper.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
Front End (FE) is the first area shapes radiation power to suit the need not only for protection but also for the beam line uses. About 14m long FE vacuum system will connect the ultra high vacuum (UHV) storage ring and beam line in Taiwan Photon Source (TPS). The Fixed mask (FM), photon absorber (PAB) and slit are the major high gas load components, especially in insertion Devices (ID) front ends, because of the synchrotron radiation. From the P(pressure)=Q(outgas)/S(pump) formula, there are some issues will be concerned to get lower vacuum pressure: The low outgassing rate of the vacuum chamber (Qthermal), the localization of the the pumps (IP and NEG) to pump down the outgassing of the photon simulated desorption(Qpsd), and the arrangement of the aperture and gas load . The basic pressure distribution of the bending magnet (BM) and ID front ends will be discussed.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
TiN coating has been widely applied in surface treatments of particle accelerator vacuum chambers because of its characteristics such as good electrical conductivity, stability of performance, ability to block hydrogen permeation, low SEY, etc. With DC sputtering, TiN film has been coated on the inner face of a stainless steel pipe vacuum chamber, 86 mm in diameter and 2300 mm in length. The vacuum performances testing of the coated chamber has also been done, including thermal outgassing rate measurement, PSD measurement, and SEY measurement of samples. Compared with those of uncoated stainless steel chamber, the results show that coating TiN film is a very effective method of the treatment of particle accelerator vacuum chamber.
Muons, Inc, Batavia
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
Funding: Supported in part by USDOE Contract No. DE-AC05-84-ER-40150.
Many user facilities such as synchrotron light sources and free electron lasers require accelerating structures that support electric fields of 10-100 MV/m, especially at the start of the accelerator chain where ceramic insulators are used for very high gradient DC guns. These insulators are difficult to manufacture, require long commissioning times, and have poor reliability, in part because energetic electrons bury themselves in the ceramic, creating a buildup of charge and causing eventual puncture. A novel ceramic manufacturing process is proposed. It will incorporate bulk resistivity in the region where it is needed to bleed off accumulated charge caused by highly energetic electrons. This process will be optimized to provide an appropriate gradient in bulk resistivity from the vacuum side to the air side of the HV standoff ceramic cylinder. A computer model will be used to determine the optimum cylinder dimensions and required resistivity gradient for an example RF gun application. A ceramic material example with resistivity gradient appropriate for use as a DC gun insulator will be fabricated by glazing using doping compounds and tested.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Funding: US DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences
This paper will describe the requirements, the design and the prototype test results of the magnets for the new synchrotron radiation source NSLS-II now under construction at BNL. Several innovations have been incorporated in the design, in manufacturing and in the alignment procedures of the magnets. Prototypes of these magnets have been built in industry. A dipole design has been developed with a maximized magnetic length which is longer than the mechanical length. The quadrupole and sextupole magnets of NSLS-II must be aligned and positioned to better than 30 microns, a level never achieved before in such accelerators. The paper will present a brief status of the progress made in the techniques developed to measure and achieve these demanding requirements. Another concern has been the distortion of field quality due to the small (150 mm) axial spacing between the iron-yoke of two adjacent magnets. Calculations (in 3-D) and the result of systematic measurements of the field quality in the presence of other magnets and other machine components in close proximity will be presented.
FZJ, Jülich
A possible solution to avoid the transition energy crossing is the lattice with a negative momentum compaction factor. The developed lattice is based on the resonantly correlated curvature and gradient modulations in arcs with integer tunes in horizontal or both planes, and it called the “resonant” lattice*. This method was adopted for the TRIUMF and Moscow Kaon Factories. It was then applied in the SSC Low Energy Booster, the CERN Neutrino Factory, and in the Main Ring of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex facility. For the superconducting option of High Energy Storage Ring lattice of the FAIR project, the same idea was also accepted, and at last it is one of the candidates for PS2 in CERN as well. Due to special features the idea of “resonant” lattice can be applied for the lattice with the stochastic cooling where the different arcs have the different mixing factors with conservation of the dynamic aperture for whole machine. The “resonant” lattice is appeared to be useful for electron machines where the minimum momentum-compaction factor and the minimum modulation of the dispersion function are both required simultaneously to have a small horizontal emittance.
*Yu. Senichev and A. Chechenin, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, 2007, v. {10}5, No. 6, p. 1141
GSI, Darmstadt
The effect of space charge on the transverse Schottky spectrum of coasting and bunched beams is studied using measurements and simulations together with analytic models. The measurements of transverse Schottky bands from heavy ion beams are performed in the SIS-18 synchrotron at GSI. In addition we analyze the noise spectrum from a particle tracking code with self-consistent space charge. Both results are compared to analytic models for coasting and for bunched beams with space charge. For coasting beams an analytic model based on the transverse dispersion relation with linear space and chromaticity reproduces the characteristic deformation of Schottky bands with increasing space charge, observed in both measurement and simulation. For bunched beams we find good agreement between the observed shifts of synchrotron satellites and a simplified model for head-tail modes with space charge. The relevance of the results for the analysis of transverse beam stability in the presence of space charge is emphasized.
GANIL, Caen
Solid state rf amplifiers are being considered for an increasing number of accelerator applications, both circular and linear. Their capabilities extend from a few kW to several hundred kW, and from less than 100 MHz to above 1 GHz, for operation both in the linear and saturated regime. This talk will review the state of the art and future prospects of rf power amplifiers for accelerator applications.
KEK, Ibaraki
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken
J-PARC is a unique accelerator, because magnetic alloy (MA) loaded cavities are employed for the first time in the rf systems of high intensity proton synchrotrons. High field gradients of more than 20 kV/m are achieved covering the frequency range from 0.9 MHz to 3.4 MHz. The peak voltage of 45 kV per cavity is obtained by driving with two 600 kW tetrodes in push-pull. The first high intensity beam acceleration was successfully initiated at J-PARC RCS. Although RCS beam commissioning started with 10 rf systems, instead of 11 as designed, RCS succeeded in the acceleration of an intense proton beam, which is equivalent to 300 kW when operated at 25 Hz. The longitudinal painting based on the simulation with superimposed second harmonics and with phase and momentum manipulations was the key of success. In December 2008, the J-PARC MR beam is scheduled for its first acceleration up to 30 GeV, and the Material and Life Science facilities start the user operations. During the development stage of the MA cavities, some serious problems such as electrical breakdown on core surfaces occurred. The problems were solved in a short term, and all rf systems were completed on schedule.
Muons, Inc, Batavia
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: Supported by STTR Grant DE-FG02-07ER86320 and FRA DOE contract number DE-AC02-07CH11359
Originally conceived as a solution for FFAG applications, a new compact RF cavity design that tunes rapidly over various frequency ranges can be used to upgrade existing machines. The design being developed uses orthogonally biased garnet cores for fast frequency tuning and liquid dielectric to adjust the frequency range and to control the core temperature. We describe measurements of candidate ferrite and dielectric materials. The first use of the new cavity concept will be for improvements to the 8 GeV Fermilab Booster synchrotron.
GSI, Darmstadt
To feed the production targets of FAIR with very short bunches (pulse durations of not more than 50 ns are envisaged) demanding rf-systems for bunch compression are required in SIS18 and SIS100. But also the opposite process, namely debunching, is required in the collector ring CR. Bunch compression as well as debunching will be done by fast bunch rotation. Due to space restrictions both rf-systems must be able to generate a very high field gradient of 50 kV/m at very low frequencies. Such high field gradients can be realised only using magnetic alloy (MA) cavities, since their saturation field strength is about ten times higher compared to NiZn-ferrites. For SIS18 a MA bunch compressor unit, which generates the required 50 kV/m at 800- and 1200 kHz, has already been realized as a forerunner for the required FAIR-systems.
KEK, Ibaraki
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
LPSC, Grenoble
This paper presents the RF systems of RACCAM FFAG for medical applications. Design of the RF system was updated to fit short and curved straight section of the spiral FFAG in view of preserving the compactness of the spiral lattice.
KEK, Ibaraki
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
GUAS, Kanagawa
J-PARC RCS accelerates a high intensity beam using 11 sets of Magnetic Alloy loaded cavities. It supplies the proton beam to the MLF (Material Life Science Facility) for the neutron and muon experiments. For very high resolution muon experiments, a short proton beam bunch of few ten ns is necessary. To reduce the bunch width to several ten ns, a bunch rotation scheme before extraction will be useful. For the bunch width of few ten ns, a much higher RF voltage is also required. Based on a new magnetic alloy core technology, a design of a new RF cavity to increase the maximum RF voltage by a factor of two will be described in this paper.
SESAME, Amman
Funding: SESAME (Synchrotron light-source for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle-East) Allan, Jordan
The SESAME (Synchrotron light source for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle-East) accelerator consists of a 22MeV Microtron, an 800MeV booster synchrotron and a 2.5GeV storage ring. Each accelerator has its own RF system. The Microtron RF frequency is 3GHz generated by a 2MW pulsed Magnetron while the booster and storage ring have a common 500MHz CW RF source. The Booster RF system consists of a DORIS cavity fed by a 2kW CW solid-state RF amplifier but the storage ring (SR) RF system has been designed based on four 500 MHz plants, each comprising a normal conducting (NC) single-cell cavity , powered with 140 kW (CW) by two combined 80kW IOTs to have maximum possible RF power in the cavity via a WR1800 waveguide line. In the initial phase, it has been decided to start with two ELETTRA type cavities and in final phase, four cavities will be accommodated in one straight section in the storage ring to have nominal energy and current in the machine. This paper presents status of installed Microtron RF system and modified booster RF system from BESSY I, as well as designed SESAME storage ring high power RF system and low level electronics.
BESSY GmbH, Berlin
PTB, Berlin
The Metrology Light Source (MLS)* is in user operation since April 1st, 2008. It is the first storage ring designed and built for operation in the low α mode, which relies on the control of higher order terms of the momentum compaction factor α with respect to the momentum deviation dp/p, α=a0+a1*dp/p+a2*(dp/p)**2. The a0 term is controlled by quadrupoles, a1 by 3 families of sextupoles for controlling the chromaticity in the transverse and longitudinal planes, the a2 term is controlled by an octupole family. The a0 value can be varied by more than a factor of {10}00. The low α mode is also called 'isochronous' operation, it is used for short bunch operation, where intense signals of coherent sub-THz radiation are produced. We report on operation experience of this scheme.
*R. Klein et al., 'Operation of the Metrology Light Source as a primary radiation source standard',
PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS - ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS 11, 110701 (2008).
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Cultural noise generated within or in the proximity of a light source facility aiming to achieve stability levels of just tens of nanometers in the electron beam and extremely small photon beams in special experimental lines could be a limiting factor towards achieving the performance goals. While operating systems within the facility are more readily identifiable as sources of vibration and cause of instabilities and they tend to be of deterministic nature so appropriate action can be taken to minimize their impact, moving-type loads such as traffic in the general vicinity or within the bounds of the accelerator facility are more of a stochastic nature and require a different approach in assessing its impact on the synchrotron facility. In this study the effect of such loads which poses both stochastic elements and a complex spectrum on the stability performance goals of the NSLS II synchrotron and its vibration-sensitive experimental lines is addressed prior to the construction of the facility. This is achieved through the synergy of a comprehensive numerical model and an array of recorded field data.
CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) is produced when short bunch lengths are set up in the Canadian Light Source storage ring. To achieve short bunches large negative dispersion is introduced into the straight regions of the lattice such that the momentum compaction can be made to approach zero. In this way CSR has been observed using a few single bunches with currents up to 10 mA per bunch at the nominal operating energy of 2.9 GeV. Attempts produce CSR with low bunch currents in many bunches were unsuccessful at 2.9 GeV. At 1.5 GeV, however, it is possible to achieve CSR with a total of 5 mA stored in over 70 bunches. CSR production is enhanced by operating at a horizontal tune where the chromaticity can be kept near zero. Tracking simulations in longitudinal phase space indicate enhanced stability at tunes lower than the nominal tune. The optimum tune does not depend on the fractional tune but rather there is a tune "window" at the center of which stable longitudinal motion can be maximized.
DELTA, Dortmund
DELTA is a 1.5-GeV synchrotron radiation source at the TU Dortmund University (Germany) comprising a superconducting wiggler and a storage-ring FEL. Among other activities, it is planned to generate ultrashort and coherent VUV pulses by seeding the FEL in an optical-clystron configuration with femtosecond laser pulses and by producing higher harmonics. In addition to enabling laser-pump/VUV-probe experiments in material sciences with unprecedented time resolution, the seeding process gives rise to coherent and short radiation pulses in the THz regime. The paper reviews the status of DELTA and describes its new projects.
FZK, Karlsruhe
CAP Konstanz, Konstanz
Max-Planck Institute for Metal Research, Stuttgart
In a synchrotron radiation source coherent synchrotron radiation is emitted when the bunch length is comparable to the wavelength of the emitted radiation. To generate coherent THz (far IR) radiation, the ANKA storage ring is operated regularly with a dedicated low-alpha optics. Typical effective pulse lengths are of the order of 1 ps and below. In order to characterize the THz emission and beam oscillations in this mode a femtosecond laser system has been set up. This allows resolving the Terahertz electrical field by electro-optical sampling in a ZnTe crystal. The laser system consists of a 500 MHz repetition rate oscillator that can be phase locked to the repetition rate of the synchrotron. First results are presented. In contrast to previous approaches the high repetition rate is used in conjunction with a high frequency detection scheme in order to significantly increase the sensitivity of the detection. The discussion will concentrate on the limits in synchronization by locking the laser to either the bunch clock, a stripline signal in the ring or the visible light emission co-propagating with the THz radiation. The observations are compared to calculated pulse shapes.
FZK, Karlsruhe
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum
KIT, Karlsruhe
HZB, Berlin
DLR, Berlin
PTB, Berlin
BESSY GmbH, Berlin
Funding: This work has partly been supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under contract number VH-NG-320.
In synchrotron radiation sources coherent radiation is emitted when the bunch length is comparable to or shorter than the wavelength of the emitted radiation. A detector system based on a superconducting NbN ultra-fast bolometer with an intrinsic response time of about 100 ps jointly developed by the University of Karlsruhe (Institute of micro- and nanoelectronic systems) and German Aerospace Center (Berlin) was used to resolve the radiation emitted from single bunches. This paper reports the observations made during measurements at the MLS and ANKA storage rings.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
SES, Hyogo-pref.
We have developed a kicker magnet system including a compact power supply to generate short pulse synchrotron radiation in the SPring-8 storage ring. One method to generate the short pulse synchrotron radiation is cutting out a synchrotron radiation coming from an tilted electron bunch with a slit. For this purpose, we induced a head-tail oscillation of an electron bunch due to non-zero vertical chromaticity excited by using a pulsed magnetic field. By using this scheme, the required specification to the magnet system is relaxed which leads to reduction of construction cost. Developed kicker magnet system can generate a short pulsed vertical field of about 3.6 mT within the 3 us to an electron bunch at 1 Hz repeat. With the kicker magnet system, we successfully observed a bunch profile which leans about 2 mm between head and tail position by a streak camera. We will report the detail setup of the kicker magnet system including compact power supply and the measurement system of beam profile, then discuss the comparisons between real beam motion and simulation results.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Funding: Supported by DOE BES contract DE-AC03-76SF00098.
Several years ago experiments at the APS demonstrated the possibility of creating crabbed beam through vertically kicking the beam and letting it oscillate for a half of a synchrotron period. Such a crabbed beam would allow the possibility of creating a few ps xrays. At the ALS we have repeated these experiments. In this paper we will present the results obtained and compare them to theoretical predictions.
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
Argonne National Laboratory, Office of Naval Research Project, Argonne
Monash University, Faculty of Science, Victoria
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
This paper describes the implementation of a neural network hybrid controller for energy stabilization at the Australian Synchrotron Linac. The structure of the controller consists of a neural network (NNET) feed forward control, augmented by a conventional Proportional-Integral (PI) feedback controller to ensure stability of the system. The system is provided with past states of the machine in order to predict its future state, and therefore apply appropriate feed forward control. The NNET is able to cancel multiple frequency jitter in real-time. When it is not performing optimally due to jitter changes, the system can successfully be augmented by the PI controller to attenuate the remaining perturbations.
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
We develop some considerations allowing the possibility of deriving the conditions under which laser heater devices may suppress the Coherent Synchrotron Instability (CSRI) without creating any prejudice to the use of the beam for FEL SASE or FEL oscillator operation. We discuss the problem using either numerical and analytical methods. The analytical part is aimed at evaluating the amount of laser power, necessary to suppress the instability. We use methods already developed within the context of FEL-storage rings beam dynamics, with particular reference to the interplay between FEL and Saw Tooth Instability. The numerical method employs a procedure based on the integration of the Liouville equation, describing the coupled interaction between e-beam and wake-fields, producing the instability, and the laser producing the heating. Particular attention is devoted to the competition between instability and heating. The comparison between numerical and analytical results is discussed too and the agreement is found to be satisfactory.
Hitachi, Ltd., Energy and Environmental Systems laboratory, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki-ken
Hitachi Ltd., Power & Industrial Systems, 1-1, Saiwai-cho, 3-chome
Hitachi, Ltd., Energy and Environmental System Laboratory, Hitachi-shi
Slow cycle synchrotron system for cancer therapy is presented to realize the pencil beam scanning with carbon and proton. The designed synchrotron’s circumference is 60m and the maximum beam energies are 480MeV/u for carbon and 250MeV for proton. These energies correspond to the beam range of 35cm in water. In the treatment system with the present synchrotron, the discrete spot scanning scheme for lateral irradiation is employed using fast beam ON/OFF that is characteristic of the RF driven slow beam extraction from the synchrotron. Distal dose distribution is controlled with energy stacking technique, which is superimposing various bragg peaks which are controlled with the energy of the beam accelerated by the synchrotron. Furthermore, respiratory-gated operation with high throughput will be realized by the variable flat top length and timing for the beam extraction.
Siemens Med, Erlangen
Siemens DK, Jyllinge
Siemens has earned two contracts to deliver Particle Therapy* systems to be operated in Marburg and Kiel, both in Germany. The accelerator consists of an injector (7 MeV/u protons and light ions) and a compact synchrotron able to accelerate proton beams up to 250 MeV and carbon ions up to 430 MeV/u. These beams can be slowly extracted and delivered to a choice of fixed-angle horizontal, semi-vertical and vertical beam-ports. An overview of the design will be given. At the time of PAC09 installation of the first system will be nearing completion and commissioning will have started. Performance of some of the components and the status of the projects will be presented.
*Particle Therapy is a work in progress and requires country-specific regulatory approval prior to clinical use.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
A low run-out rotating sample stage is under development to realize a precise resolution within 30 nm on the horizontal plane for the end-station of transmission X-ray microscope (TXM) at NSRRC. The main assembly consists of a commercial rotation stage with run-out less than 1 μm, six capacitive sensors, one master ball, one flat and a horizontal adjusting stage. Error sources (including the profile of the master ball, run-out of the master ball in horizontal and vertical directions, flat plate) are separated from stage and the sensor readings can be down to the nanometer level. A feedback method is proposed to compensate the systematic errors and keeps the samples with little run-out and axial motion in the level of several tens nanometer. The details and tests of the rotation stage are presented in this paper.
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield
UMAN, Manchester
PSI, Villigen
CEA, Grenoble
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The current paper discusses possible designs for a high intensity stand alone muon source for muSR studies of condensed matter. In particular we shall focus upon the potential implementation of a new generation of high power but relatively compact and cost effective proton drivers based on non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient (ns-FFAG) accelerator technology. The technical issues which must be addressed are also considered.
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is a high power proton accelerator-based facility. Uncontrolled beam loss is a major concern in designing the high power proton accelerators to control the radio-activation level. For the Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) of the CSNS, the repetition frequency is too high for the longitudinal motion to be fully adiabatic. Significant beam loss happens during the RF capture and initial acceleration. To reduce the longitudinal beam loss, phase space painting is used in the RCS injection. This paper presents detailed simulation studies on the longitudinal motion in the RCS by using the ORBIT code, which include different beam chopping factors, momentum offsets, injection times and RF voltage patterns. With a trade-off between the longitudinal beam loss and transverse incoherent tune shift that will also result in beam losses, optimized longitudinal painting schemes are obtained.
CERN, Geneva
TU Vienna, Wien
Minimization of direct space charge tune shift at injection into the PS2 is important for the reduction of beam losses. A determining parameter for the tune shift is the bunching factor, defined as mean current over peak current for one RF period. Various longitudinal painting schemes for PS2 injection, all based on synchrotron motion, have been studied with respect to the resulting bunching factors. In particular, schemes using the SPL high-frequency chopper and different energy-spreads and offsets of the incoming beam as well as SPL beam energy modulations on have been simulated with the ESME code.
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: Work supported by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Project-X is a leading candidate of the next major accelerator construction project at Fermilab. The mission need of Project-X is to establish an intensity frontier for particle physics research, or more precisely, to build a multi-MW proton source for neutrino and other particle studies. Coupled with an upgraded Main Injector (MI) and Recycler, an 8 GeV superconducting RF (SRF) H linac meets this need. However, a more cost effective approach would be a hybrid design, namely, a combination of a 2 GeV SRF linac and an 8 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) in lieu of an 8 GeV SRF linac. This alternative design also meets the mission need but at a lower cost since a synchrotron is cheaper than a SRF linac. It retains the ability to use a 2 GeV SRF linac for ILC technology development. It reuses the existing Debuncher enclosure and Booster RF. The transport line of 2 GeV H particles is shorter than the present 8 GeV design. The requirement of a cryogenic beam screen can be eliminated. The efficiency of stripping foil is higher and injection loss (kJ) will be lower.
*W. Chou, “A Simple Transition-Free Lattice of an 8 GeV Proton Synchrotron,” this conference.
Fermilab, Batavia
Muons, Inc, Batavia
Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
The use of existing Fermilab facilities to provide beams for two muon experiments –- the Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment (Mu2e) and the Muon g-2 Experiment –- is under consideration. Plans are being pursued to be able to perform these experiments following the completion of the Tevatron Collider Run II with no impact to the on-going Main Injector neutrino program by using spare Booster cycles to provide 8.9 GeV/c protons on target. Utilizing the beam lines and storage rings used today for antiproton accumulation, beams can be prepared for these experiments with minimal disruption, reconfiguration or expansion of the Fermilab accelerator infrastructure. The proposed operational scenarios and required alterations to the complex are described.
Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok
TIT, Yokohama
KEK, Ibaraki
The KEK digital accelerator (KEKDA), which is an injector-free induction synchrotron capable of accelerating any ions with their possible charge state, is under construction*. This machine is an interesting device as a driver to explore a Warm Dense Matter (WDM) state. The irradiation onto a target at a small focal spot (< a few mm) with a short pulse duration (< 100 nsec) is required to create an interesting WDM state. The target temperature based on an equation-of-state fitted from SESAME table data is estimated as a function of the focal spot size and the ion number per bunch. Final focusing of an ion beam bunch extracted from KEKDA is realized through a half mini-beta system. For this purpose, the beamline has been carefully designed. Beam parameters, such as Twiss parameter, and the guiding magnet parameters will be given together with the drawing of the beamline.
*T. Adachi et al., “Modification of the KEK PS-Booster as a Digital Accelerator”, in this conference.
Fermilab, Batavia
Fermilab is in the process of upgrading its Booster Correction Element System to include full field correction element magnets to correct position and chromaticity throughout the booster cycle. This upgrade requires power supplies with maximum outputs of ±180V/±65A, with current bandwidths of 5kHz and with slew rates of min to max current in 1ms. For seamless operation around zero current and voltage, we use continuous switching on both sides of the bridge. Although the straightforward way of coordinating the switching on both sides of the bridge can be accomplished with one triangle timing wave and one voltage reference, we have found that using two triangle waves yields a switching coordination that effectively doubles the frequency of the differential ripple on the load and allows for better and cheaper filtering of the output ripple.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
Corrector magnets of TLS storage ring are served with linear power supplies (corrector magnet power supplies), with some modifications the long-term output current stability and ripple of these linear power supplies were improved from 500 ppm to 50 ppm. But these linear power supplies are very low efficiency、low power factor and about 20Hz low frequency response bandwidth that waste power、noisy and unable to serve fast orbit correction. MCOR30 is a modular switching power converter with smaller volume、high efficiency and above 100Hz frequency response bandwidth, replacing these linear power supplies with MCOR30s that could save power and increasing orbit correction response.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
Bending Magnet, linear undulator, elliptical polarized undulator and wiggler are all regular synchrotron radiation power profile that accelerator engineers would encounter while they are designing the high heat load components. Due to their characteristic type of power distribution, some temperature solutions are available and can be used as a parametric study, as well as optimized tool applicable on the thermomechanical design such as mask absorber, photon absorber, mirror or other heat load subsystems. The analytical solutions and some interrelation studies are also presented in this paper.
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
China Spallation Neutron Source is a high intensity beam facility planed to build in future in China. It is composed of Linac, RCS and target station. Two sets of pulsed painting bump magnets, 4 magnets in each set , will be used in CSNS RCS to create a dynamic orbit bump for injection process. The design of these 8 bump magnets has been completed. One prototype bump magnet has been assembled and tested. In this paper, the magnetic field analysis, the eddy current and thermal consideration in the end plates of the prototype bump magnet are presented, and issues of the magnet development, construction and test are discussed.
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
The main circuit of the switching power supplies for the injection bump system is composed of multiple-connection of the IGBT assemblies. The element of the IGBT assembly, which is the power supply of the shift bump-magnets, is a type of 3300V-1200A and 6 kHz in elementary frequency. The power supply has the output performance of 20 kA / 6.6 kV. The synthetic frequency of the multiple-connection assemblies is over 48 kHz and the tracking error less than 1 % is proved. The beam commissioning test of long-term operation for about three-week was performed. The deviation of the exciting current from the programmed current pattern has been confirmed less than 1%. The peculiar characteristic of the pulse power supply has been obtained by the analysis on the frequency response of the exciting current and the magnetic field. In the FFT analytical result of the magnetic field, the peaks of 48 kHz and its higher harmonics that are related to the switching frequency was observed. The ground loop current and the voltage were also measured.
Tsukuba University, Ibaraki
A new concept of a fast magnetic kicker system - the bridged-T network lumped kicker - is proposed. The rise time is as fast as that of a transmission line kicker, while the input-impedance can be matched with a characteristic impedance of the pulse power supply. The proposed scheme is compared with several conventional schemes. The demonstration of this proposed scheme is also performed. The results show expected performances.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
Funding: Work supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10175062 & 10575100).
The light pulse interval adjustment at Hefei Light Source (HLS) can be realized by using pulsed orbit bump technique, which requires for high-frequency repetitive, high magnetic flux density, short pulse kicker magnet system of which the power supply modulator should be specially designed. The technique of solid state modulator based on MOSFET is being developed in National synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL). In this paper, the design of a prototype of solid-state modulator with 20 MOSFETs in parallel is introduced, including triggering system, drive circuit, transformer configuration. The oscillation induced by parasitic capacitance and inductance is discussed. This prototype with four stage adder can achieve 100ns width power pulse output with 112A, 2.4 kV to the kicker.
Fermilab, Batavia
Head-tail modes are described when the space charge tune shift significantly exceeds the synchrotron tune. Spatial shape of the modes, their frequencies, coherent growth rates and Landau damping rates are found.
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura
KEK, Ibaraki
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken
J-PARC consists of a 181 MeV linac, a 3GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) and a 50 GeV Synchrotron (MR). The RCS is designed to accelerate a high intensity proton beam. One of the key issues of the RCS RF system is how to achieve the very high accelerating field gradient of more than 20kV/m. This is impossible with conventional ferrite-loaded cavities. We reach this goal by the development of Magnetic Alloy (MA) core loaded RF cavities. We installed 10 RF cavities in the RCS tunnel on May 2007. The RCS beam commissioning was started on September 2007 and we successfully accelerated a proton beam up to 3GeV on October 2007. We also employed MA cores for MR RF cavities and use a cut core configuration to adjust the Q-value. The MR beam commissioning was started on May 2008. We didn't have any trouble caused by the MA cores during operation. We measured the impedance of the RF cavities several times at the shutdown periods. We show the results of impedance measurements. From these results, we can make an assumption about the core condition.
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura
KEK, Ibaraki
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken
The J-PARC Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) uses broadband magnetic alloy loaded cavities to create the acceleration voltages needed for rapid cycling at 25 Hz rate. Besides the desired second harmonic of the acceleration frequency, which is employed in the painting process of RCS injection, also unwanted harmonics can be found at the acceleration gaps of the cavities. Here, the effect of the vector sums of undesired harmonics during the acceleration process is estimated.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Funding: US DOE
The National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II) is a new ultra-bright 3GeV 3rd generation synchrotron radiation light source. The performance goals require operation with a beam current of 500mA and a bunch current of at least 0.5mA. The position and timing specifications of the ultra-bright photon beam imposes a set of stringent requirements on the radio Frequency (RF) control, among which, for example, is the 0.14 degree phase stability, and the flexibility of handling varying beam conditions. To meet these requirements, a digital implementation of the LLRF is chosen in order to be able to take the advantage of the power of precision signal processing and control that only DSP technology can provide. The initial design of NSLS II LLRF control solution is comprised of a FPGA-based basic field controller, a dual ASIC DSP co-processor directly coupled to the FPGA controller, as well as a local CPU which monitors the operation, stores the data, and facilitates the tests and development. The prototype of the basic FPGA field controller hardware has been designed. The first sample has been fabricated, and is currently being tested.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
The direct RF feedback has been adopted in storage ring to reduce the beam loading effect for maximizing the stored beam current. Its performance in reducing beam loading is determined by the operational parameters, including the feedback gain, RF phase shift and the loop delay time. This paper presents a mathematical method, based on the Pedersen model, to study the effects of the direct RF feedback on beam loading. Through an example, the influences of different operational parameters on the performance of the direct RF feedback is analyzed by examining the characteristic equation of the feedback loop. The Nyquist criterion is applied for the determination of system stability.
PSI, Villigen
CANDLE, Yerevan
Recently tentative top-up operation of the Swiss Light Source (SLS) storage ring at low momentum compaction factor has been started. We will present an analysis of the longitudinal dynamics and simulations of the injection process, and explain our method to ensure closed orbit stability. First experimental results will be shown and compared to the model predictions.
PTB, Berlin
HZB, Berlin
The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the German national metrology institute is operating the low-energy electron storage ring Metrology Light Source (MLS) in Berlin-Adlershof in close cooperation with the BESSY GmbH. The MLS is designed and prepared for a special machine optics mode (low-alpha operation mode) based on a sextupole and octupole correction scheme, for the production of coherent synchrotron radiation in the FIR and THz region. At the MLS two bending magnet beamlines dedicated to the use of IR and THz synchrotron radiation were built. An IR beamline optimized for the MIR to FIR is now in operation. First measurements at this beamline showed the potential of the MLS as a source of THz radiation*. However, the propagation of sub-terahertz electromagnetic waves from the source point to the experiment through such a typical IR beamline is strongly affected by diffraction. This is why we decided to build a dedicated THz beamline with larger extraction optics. We present first results from the commissioning of the dedicated THz beamline.
*R. Müller et al., Proc. of EPAC08, 2058 (2008)
SAGA, Tosu
SAGA Light Source (SAGA-LS) is a 1.4 GeV synchrotron light source consisting of an injector linac and a storage ring of 75.6 m circumference. The SAGA-LS has been routinely operated with low emittance of 25 nm-rad since its official opening in February 2006. Machine improvements, including upgrades on the control system and grid pulsar for the injector linac, construction of a new septum magnet and beam monitor systems, and current increase from 100 to 200 mA, have been made in the past years. Along with the accelerator improvements, installation and development of new insertion devices have started. The SAGA-LS ring has six 2.5-m long straight sections available for insertion devices. A planar type undulator of Saga University is in operation. In addition, an APPLE-2 type undulator producing variably polarized light has been installed during the winter shutdown of 2008. In order to address user demand for high flux hard x-rays, design of a superconducting wiggler is under discussion. Construction of an experimental setup to produce MeV photons by the laser Compton scattering is in progress, preparing for precise beam energy measurement and user experiments in future.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Funding: Work sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy Contract DE-AC03-76SF00515 and Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences.
Recent experimental results and advances in the theory of short-bunch dynamics have lead to an improved understanding of the parameters and limitations of short-bunch operation in storage rings. In this paper the measurement and analysis of short bunches under a variety of operational parameters is reported for SPEAR3.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
A preliminary plan for an infrared or terahertz beamline at SSRL is studied. Using chicane in a straight section allows us to redesign a section of the vacuum chamber and extract infrared/terahertz beam with a large acceptance. Under the low alpha operational mode, the terahertz beam power can be greatly enhanced by the coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) effect. Calculations of photon beam flux and brightness and the shielding and CSR effects are presented.
Tohoku University, School of Scinece, Sendai
To develop a coherent Terahertz (THz) light sources, producing very short electron bunch has been progressed at Laboratory of Nuclear Science, Tohoku University. We have developed an independently-tunable-cells (ITC) RF gun consisted with two cavities and thermionic cathode in order to produce bunch length around a hundred femto-second. Possibility of pre-bunched FEL is investigated by numerical simulations. In case of the bunch length shorter than wavelength, the FEL interaction seems to be different from conventional way. High intensity and short FEL pulse is possibly obtained *. In a broad band regime, coherent spontaneous THz radiation has been developed. A ring type source consisted with isochronous arcs can provide the coherent THz pulses from every bending magnets. The project has aimed multi-user facility **. In addition, a compact DC gun is also under development. Measured normalized emittance is less than 1μrad for a beam energy of 50 keV and a beam current of 300 mA. This low emittance beam is quite suitable for driving Smith-Purcell Backward Wave Oscillator FEL in THz region. Detail of the DC gun and prospect will be presented ***.
*M. Yasuda et al., Proc. FEL08, (2008) in press.
**H. Hama et al., New J. Phys. 8 (2006) 292.
***K. Kasamsook et al., Proc. FEL07, (2007) 417 - 420.
BNG, Würzburg
KIT, Karlsruhe
FZK, Karlsruhe
University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen
Superconducting insertion devices (IDs) are very attractive for synchrotron light sources since they allow increasing the flux and/or the photon energy with respect to permanent magnet IDs. Babcock Noell GmbH (BNG) is completing the fabrication of a 1.5 m long unit for ANKA at FZK. The period length of the device is 15 mm for a total of 100.5 full periods plus an additional matching period at each end. The key specifications of the system are: a K value higher than 2 and the capability of withstanding a 4 W beam heat load and a phase error of 3.5 degrees. In addition, during the injection phase of the machine, the nominal gap of 5 mm can be increased up to 25 mm. The magnets have been tested with liquid helium in a vertical dewar and are now being installed in the cryostat. This paper describes the technical design concepts of the device and the status of the assembly process.
BNG, Würzburg
DESY, Hamburg
Babcock Noell GmbH manufactured for DESY 11 identical planar permanent magnet-undulators (8 for the PETRA III upgrade and 3 for FLASH). The positioning accuracy and the movement reproducibility of the two girders, defining the magnetic gap of an undulator, are of vital importance for the quality of the synchrotron light. To reach the desired performance a high quality standard was kept during the choice and procurement of the components, during the high precision machining of the parts and during the assembly phase. After the alignment, laser tracker-measurements were made and evaluated for all the 11 systems. Both, the means by which the accuracy and reproducibility were achieved, and the results of the measurements will be presented here.
FZK, Karlsruhe
KIT, Karlsruhe
ESRF, Grenoble
ELETTRA, Basovizza
University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Erlangen
MAX-lab, Lund
Within the framework of a joint research activity of the European project IA-SFS (RII3-CT2004-506008) four synchrotron facilities have jointly developed diagnostic systems for superconducting undulators. Four work packages have been successfully completed: Design and construction of a test cryostat for field measurements; design and construction of a mock-up coil; field measurement and field error compensation; diagnostics and measurement of the spectrum of low energy electrons responsible for beam heat load in a superconducting undulator. The development advanced the knowledge of magnetic field error compensation considerably and might be of help in understanding the different beam heat load sources. Based on the development a second generation planar superconducting undulator with 15 mm period length for the synchrotron light source ANKA has been specified and procured.
HSRC, Higashi-Hiroshima
After the first demonstration of original quasi-periodic undulator (QPU) at the NIJI-IV*, there have been many modifications for QPU structures. One of the first most productive improvements was introducing the quasi-periodicity by modifying the magnetic field in a periodic undulator instead of modifying the period length**. In addition to this practical improvement, a slight modification of creation theory of one-dimensional quasi-periodicity gave another advantage for building this type of device. As the result, many different types of QPUs for generating both linearly and elliptically polarized radiations have been installed in the synchrotron radiation (SR) facilities worldwide. Furthermore, some more SR facilities are considering to building such devices in order to improve their performance. In the presentation, we will discuss about limitations and possible improvements of performance of QPU on the basis of synchrotron radiation physics and mathematics of quasi-periodicity.
*Kawai, et al, Proc. EPAC96, p.2549.
**Diviacco, Walker, ELETTRA Technical Note ST/M-TN-97/11, 1997, Chavanne, et al, Proc. EPAC98, p.2213, Diviacco, et al, ibid., p.2216.
Kyoto IAE, Kyoto
UVSOR, Okazaki
A short period undulator with strong magnetic field will play an important role in future light source. We proposed a new type of staggered array undulator by use of bulk high-Tc superconductor*. We have constructed a prototype of the undulator using DyBaCuO bulk superconductors and a normal conducting solenoid. In the conference, we will present results of the magnetic field measurement and discuss on the feasibility of the new type bulk high-Tc staggered array undulator.
*R. Kinjo et al., Proceedings of the FEL2008, in press.
RadiaBeam, Marina del Rey
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Funding: DOE
A High Temperature Superconducting Dysprosium Pole Undulator (HTS-DPU) is proposed to achieve an ultra-high peak field in a very short period undulator structure. This design utilizes the unique ferromagnetic properties of dysprosium (Dy) at liquid nitrogen temperature. The fabrication of textured Dy fabricated via economic and highly reproducible process is studied experimentally with the goal to achieve sufficient magnetic anisotropy and desired field saturation level at a practical cost. In addition, utilizing the latest capabilities of the 2G HTS wire is investigated. The practical implementation of HTS-DPU would enable the development of short period insertion devices with superior performance.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
For planar undulator, the expression of electron trajectory including harmonic motion has been deduced. It were shown that the electrons oscillate at odd harmonics in the transverse direction, and at even harmonics in the axial direction; the amplitude of nth harmonic oscillation is proportional to the nth power of ratio of undulator deflection parameter to the electron energy.
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Funding: DOE grant DE-FG02-06ER41405.
A conceptual design is presented for a 100 TeV proton-antiproton collider consisting of a single storage ring based upon 16.5 T dipoles, installed in the 83 km circumference SSC tunnel, fed using a proportionately expanded antiproton source. Provisions have been designed to intercept synchrotron light on room-temperature photon stops and to suppress electron cloud effect using a continuous clearing electrode running throughout the collider. Beams would be separated using split dipoles so that 20 ns bunch spacing should be attainable. Synchrotron damping time of half-hour would help to stabilize against mechanisms for slow emittance growth. It is reasonable to project the potential for a luminosity of 1035/cm2/s.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Funding: Work performed under the auspices of the US DOE.
A staged approach towards the development of a high energy RHIC-based electron-ion collider has been proposed in BNL*. In the first stage, a medium-energy electron-ion collider (MEeIC) would be constructed. It would utilize a high energy ion beam, accelerated in one of the two existing rings of the RHIC facility, colliding with a medium energy (4GeV) electron beam, generated by a proposed energy-recovery linac. As a part of the design and investigation of the interaction region, it is necessary to estimate the level of background radiation in the physics experiment detector. The primary radiation distribution can be readily calculated by employing electromagnetic theory. However, the secondary radiation is due to a diffuse scattering of soft X-ray off rough surfaces. In this paper, we first calculate the primary radiation spectrum and apply the kinematic Born approximation deduced from the scattering dynamics. Next, the diffuse scattering cross section is calculated as a function of the material and surface properties of the MEeIC vacuum system. Finally, the minimization of the radiation background level by the choices of the material and surface properties is discussed.
*V. Ptitsyn et al., “MEeIC - staging approach to eRHIC”, these proceedings.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
As first step in a staged approach towards a RHIC-based electron-ion collider, installation of a 4 GeV energy-recovery linac in one of the RHIC interaction regions is currently under investigation. To minimize costs, the interaction region of this collider has to utilize the present RHIC magnets for focussing of the high-energy ion beam. Meanwhile, electron low-beta focussing needs to be added in the limited space available between the existing separator dipoles. We discuss the challenges we are facing and present the current design status of this e-A interaction region.
Muons, Inc, Batavia
Fermilab, Batavia
Intense muon beams have many potential applications. However, muons originate from a tertiary process that produces a diffuse swarm. To make useful beams, the swarm must be rapidly collected and cooled before the muons decay. A promising new concept for the collection and cooling of muon beams to increase their intensity and reduce their emittances is investigated: the use of a nearly isochronous helical cooling channel (HCC) to facilitate capture of the muons into a few RF bunches. Such a distribution could be cooled quickly and then coalesced efficiently into a single bunch to optimize the luminosity of a muon collider. An analytical description of the method is presented followed by simulation and optimization studies. Practical design constraints and integration into a collider, neutrino factory or intense beam scenario are discussed and plans for further studies are addressed.
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
EPFL, Lausanne
The grazing function g is introduced – a synchrobetatron optical quantity that parametrizes the rate of change of total angle with respect to synchrotron amplitude for particles grazing a collimator or aperture. The grazing function is particularly important for crystal collimators, which have limited acceptance angles. The implications for RHIC, SPS, Tevatron and LHC crystal implementations are discussed. An analytic approximation is derived for the maximum value of g in a matched FODO cell, and is shown to be in good agreement with a realistic numerical example. The grazing function scales linearly with FODO cell bend angle, but to is independent of FODO cell length.
DESY, Hamburg
The European XFEL has started the construction of the underground buildings. Now, the detailed design of the technical infrastructure has to be completed, covering HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning), MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing), communication, transportation and safety. The design process is centered around the XFEL Roombook: The XFEL Roombook contains a complete catalog of XFEL buildings, floors and rooms. Future user groups specify requirements on their rooms, which are collected in a central database (Requirements Management System, RMS). Engineers create floor plans and design drawings based on the requirements. Project members can access room information, requirements and floor plans through the Web interface of the XFEL Roombook. The XFEL Roombook is in production since summer 2009 and has become a well accepted information platform for infrastructure design. The paper describes the planning process, the supporting tools and lessons learned.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
To cope with increasing power cost and to confront huge power consumption of the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) in the future, we have been conducting several power saving schemes since 2006 in the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC). Those power saving schemes include optimization of chiller operation, air conditioning system improvement, power factor improvement and the lighting system improvement.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
USC, Los Angeles, California
Funding: Work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-76SF00515.
An electron beam driven Plasma Wake-Field Accelerator (PWFA) has recently sustained accelerating gradients above 50GeV/m for almost a meter. Future experiments will transition from using a single bunch to both drive and sample the wakefield, to a two bunch configuration that will accelerate a discrete bunch of particles with a narrow energy spread and preserved emittance. The plasma works as an energy transformer to transform high-current, low-energy bunches into relatively lower-current higher-energy bunches. This method is expected to provide high energy transfer efficiency (from 30% up to 95%) from the drive bunch to the accelerated witness bunch. The PWFA has a wide variety of applications and also has the potential to greatly lower the cost of future accelerators. We discuss various possible uses of this technique such as: linac based light sources, injector systems for ring based synchrotron light sources, and for generation of electron beams for high energy electron-hadron colliders.
POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk
Funding: Work supported by MEST and PAL.
Recently the Korean government successfully completed a large-scale facility, called the KSTAR, a fully superconducting tokamak after joining in the ITER project. It made renewed interests in large-scale scientific facilities to promote basic and applied research capabilities. The next projects include a space project and particle accelerators. The immediate one in accelerator program is the PLS-upgrade, and its budget is now in the congress for FY2009. The others are in the middle of consensus making process: a heavy ion accelerator for rare isotopes and a new synchrotron light source other than the PLS-upgrade and the ongoing proton linac program. This paper will give an overview of the status and prospects of major particle accelerator initiatives in Korea. The paper will also include descriptions of the significant contributions undertaken by Korea through collaborations with major international facilities using particle accelerators. Finally, the paper will outline how industry, government and universities in Korea are collaborating on particle accelerator R&D.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Fermilab, Batavia
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
An AC dipole magnet produces a sinusoidally oscillating dipole field with frequency close to betatron frequency and excites large sustained oscillations of beam particles circulating in a synchrotron. Observation of such oscillations with beam-position-monitors allows direct measurements of a synchrotron's nonlinear parameters. This paper presents experimental studies to measure effects of sextupole and octupole fields, such as tune dependence on amplitude and resonance driving terms, performed in the Fermilab Tevatron using an AC dipole.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
For his outstanding contribution to the design and construction of accelerators that has led to the realization of major machines for fundamental science on two continents, and his promotion of international collaboration.
HIT, Heidelberg
The Heidelberg Ion Therapy facility (HIT) is the first dedicated proton and carbon therapy facility in Europe. HIT will start treating the first patients by the end of 2008. The talk presents the commissioning experience and reports on the quality of machine operations in the clinical environment including initial treatment results. The commissioning of the Italian facility Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO) is also discussed.
NIRS, Chiba-shi
AEC, Chiba
Based on more than ten years of experience of the carbon cancer therapy with HIMAC, we have proposed a new treatment facility for the further development of the therapy with HIMAC. This facility will consist of three treatment rooms: two rooms equipped with horizontal and vertical beam-delivery systems and one room with a rotating gantry. For the beam-delivery system of the new treatment facility, a 3D hybrid raster-scanning method with gated irradiation with patient’s respiration has been proposed. A R&D study has been carried out toward the practical use of the proposed method, although this method was verified by a simulation study. In the R&D study, we have improved the beam control of the size, the position and the time structure for the proposed scanning method with the irradiation gated with patient’s respiration. Further, owing to the intensity upgrade of the synchrotron, we can successfully extend the flattop duration, which can complete one fractional irradiation with one operation period and can increase the treatment efficiency of the gated irradiation. We will report the recent progress on HIMAC for carbon therapy.
LNLS, Campinas
We present an overview of a new synchrotron radiation source currently being designed at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) in Campinas. The LNLS-1 light source, based on a 1.37 GeV storage ring, has been in routine operation since 1997. The LNLS-2 light source will consist of an injector system and a low emittance 2.5 GeV electron storage ring capable of delivering undulator radiation with average brightness in excess of 1020 photons/sec/0.1%/mm2/mrad2 in the few hundred eV to several tens of keV photon energy range. High flux radiation up to 100 keV will also be available with the use of superconduting wigglers. In this work, we present the basic design considerations and parameters for a proposed magnetic lattice for LNLS-2, with special attention to providing solutions for the realization of low emittance which are cost effective regarding both the construction investment as well as the operation of the facility. In particular, the possibility of the large scale use of permanent magnet technology for the storage ring lattice magnets is discussed.
CERN, Geneva
The usual approach and treatment for the interaction of a particle beam with wake fields start from the assumption of ultrarelativistic beams. This is not the case, for example, for the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) whose particles have a kinetic energy up to 1.4 GeV, with a relativistic gamma close to 2.5. There are some examples in literature which derive non ultrarelativistic formulas for the resistive wall impedance. In this paper we have extended the Broad-Band resonator model, allowing the impedance to have poles even in the half upper complex plane, in order to obtain a wake function different from zero for z greater than zero. The Haissinski equation has been numerically solved showing longitudinal bunch shape changes with the energy. In addition some longitudinal bunch profile measurements, taken for different energies and bunch intensities at the PSB, are shown.
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.
GSI, Darmstadt
The conservation of the longitudinal beam quality through the SIS-18/100 synchrotron chain is of major importance for the FAIR accelerator project as well as for the SIS-18 upgrade. The generation of a short, intense heavy ion bunch at the end of the machine cycle defines a tight budget for the tolerable longitudinal emittance growth. Potential sources of bunch quality degradation are intensity effects and non-adiabatic rf ramps during the rf capture in SIS-18 and during the barrier bucket pre-compression in SIS-100. The time spend on rf manipulations has to be as small as possible in order to maximize the repetition rate. We report about theoretical and experimental studies in SIS-18 of optimized voltage ramps for rf capture into single and double rf buckets, including space charge and beam-loading effects. Further we show that longitudinal space charge can improve the efficiency of rf manipulations. As an example we present an optimized barrier bucket pre-compression scheme for SIS-100.
GSI, Darmstadt
The prediction of beam loss for long term storage of a high intensity beam is a challenging task essential for the SIS100 design. On this ground an experimental campaign using a high intensity beam has been performed at GSI on the SIS18 synchrotron with the purpose of extending a previous benchmarking experiment made at the CERN-PS in the years 2002-2003. We report here the results of this experimental campaign and the benchmarking with the simulation predictions.
Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto
MPI-K, Heidelberg
Kyoto IAE, Kyoto
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
AEC, Chiba
NIRS, Chiba-shi
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
Funding: This work is supported by Advanced Accelerator Development Project of MEXT and the Global COE program "The Next Generation of Physics, Spun from Universality and Emergence".
Transverse laser cooling experiments of 24Mg+ beam have been carried out at S-LSR, which is a small ion storage and cooler ring. According to a simulation, it is expected that under such a condition as the difference of synchrotron and betatron tunes is near integer, synchro-betatron coupling occurs and transverse laser cooling will be achieved*. In order to confirm this situation, the horizontal beam size and momentum spread are measured optically with CCD camera and PAT (post acceleration tube), respectively**,***. CCD camera observes fluorescence from the beam at the laser cooling section. Typical measured horizontal beam size is 0.5mm (1 σ). In some condition, an increase of fluorescence strength is observed, which indicates the beam concentration to the center, where the beam and the laser can interact. PAT is utilized for measurement of a longitudinal beam velocity profile. By application of electric potential to the PAT, the beam velocity is slightly modified. Since only particles which have velocities in a certain region can interact with the laser, the time variation of the florescence during voltage sweep represents the longitudinal velocity profile of the beam.
*H. Okamoto, Phys. Rev. E 50, 4982 (1994)
**B. Wanner et al., Phys. Rev. A 58, 2242 (1998)
***T. Ishikawa, Master's thesis, Kyoto University (2008)
Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto
MPI-K, Heidelberg
Kyoto IAE, Kyoto
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
NIRS, Chiba-shi
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
AEC, Chiba
Funding: The present work was supported by Advanced Compact Accelerator Development program by MEXT of Japanese Government. Support from Global COE, The Next Generation of Physics, is also greatly appreciated.
Creation of 3-dimensional crystalline beam by application of laser-cooling for a Mg ion beam with kinetic energy of 40 keV is a major research subject of the ion storage ring, S-LSR, at ICR, Kyoto University*. Based on the success of longitudinal laser cooling in 2007**, an approach to extend the effect of laser cooling to the transverse degree of freedom has been performed. An indication of heat transfer from the horizontal to longitudinal direction has been obtained by synchro-betatron coupling. By application of bunched beam laser cooling at the operation point around (2.07, 1.10), the momentum spread of the cooled ion beam has been observed to have a peak at a synchrotron tune around 0.07 and simultaneously transverse beam size seems to be reduced in this region. An increase of beam brightness in the horizontal profile has also been observed by measuring spontaneous emission of absorbed laser light. In the present paper, strategy to reach the final 3-dimensional crystalline state by application of 3-dimensional laser cooling by careful adjustment of coupling among 3 degrees of freedom is to be presented based upon the recent experimental results.
*A. Noda, M. Ikegami, T. Shirai, New Journal of Physics, 8, 288-307(2006).
**M. Tanabe et al.,Applied Physics Express 1, 028001-1-028001-3 (2008).
Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto
MPI-K, Heidelberg
Kyoto IAE, Kyoto
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
AEC, Chiba
NIRS, Chiba-shi
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
Funding: Work supported by Advanced Accelerator Development Project of MEXT, the Global COE program "The Next Generation of Physics, Spun from Universality and Emergence" and the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows.
Laser cooling experiments have been carried out at Small Laser-equipped Storage Ring(S-LSR). In order to achieve transverse cooling, a resonant coupling method* is applied. In this method, the transverse temperature is cooled indirectly by synchro-betatron coupling, through an RF electric field at a straight section with a finite dispersion of 1.0 m. In this experiment, a Mg+ beam is cooled by a co-propagating laser with a wavelength of 280 nm under various values of tunes and several diffenence resonant conditions of a synchrotron and betatron tune. The momentum spread are measured by observing laser-induced fluorescence light by using a post acceleration tube. The transverse beam profiles are measured with a CCD camera. When the synchrotron tune and the horizontal betatron tune are 0.065 and 2.064, respectively, an enhancement of momentum spread is observed. In this resonant condition the momentum spread is increased from 1.5x10-4 to 3.0x10-3 at 3x107 stored particles. The effect of resonant coupling for transverse beam sizes is now under investigation. The tune dependence and time variation of the beam sizes by laser cooling is also a subject in the present experiments.
*H. Okamoto, Phys. Rev. E 50, 4982 (1994)
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Funding: This work was supported by the Director, Office of Science, U. S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
The Touschek lifetime in low energy or small emittance lepton storage rings strongly depends on the particle density in bunches. In the usual parameter range, this dominates other effects and the lifetime gets shorter with higher the bunch density, i.e. with smaller beam emittance. However, once one gets to extremely small horizontal emittances, this is no longer the case. Since the Touschek scattering process is an energy transfer from the transverse plane to the longitudinal one, the Touschek lifetime actually increases, once the transverse temperature (i.e. emittance) gets small enough. In the usual Touschek lifetime formulas, this is accounted for with a complicated multiparameter function (form factor). This paper presents to our knowledge the first direct measurements of the Touschek lifetime in this region of reversed dependence on horizontal emittance, as well as comparison with theory. The measurements were carried out at the ALS at reduced beam energy and ultrasmall horizontal emittance.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
We discuss various density estimation techniques to represent charge particle distributions in beam dynamics simulation codes. A detailed analysis of the different methods shows that for an accurate, reliable and efficient modeling of microbunching instability a careful control of numerical noise is required. In particular, we compare a standard particle-in-cell scheme plus denoising via wavelets thresholding with a meshless Monte-Carlo method used in statistical estimation. We inplement them in a Vlasov-Maxwell solver and show results for FELs systems.
GSI, Darmstadt
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
Electroplant, Moscow
TUG/ITP, Graz
IHEP Protvino, Protvino, Moscow Region
The first full size superconducting dipole magnets for the SIS 100 Tm synchrotron were built and tested. The achieved magnetic field has been measured with a rotating coil probe. An intensive Finite Element R&D, necessitated by the used superconducting cable as well as by the complex mechanical coil and yoke structure, allows calculating the field with high accuracy. Elliptic multipoles were used to describe the field within the whole aperture of the vacuum chamber. As the final design for the SIS 100 dipoles is curved, we developed toroidal multipoles describing the field within a curved magnet, and enabling us to interpret the measurement of a rotating coil probe within such magnets. We describe the performance of the magnetic measurement system, present the measured field properties and compare them to the calculated ones.
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken
In order to observe two-dimensional beam profiles in the longitudinal phase space, the reconstruction techniques with the computer tomography algorithms can be adopted at the J-PARC RCS. On the assumption that the longitudinal profiles should not be disturbed for one period of the synchrotron oscillation, such two-dimensional profiles can be reconstructed easily from one-dimensional bunch beam profiles, which are measured for every turn by the wall current monitor. In this presentation, we introduce the experimental results and the comparison to the longitudinal beam tracking simulation, and we discuss the technical issues and applicability of this longitudinal tomography techniques.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Funding: Work supported by the Director, Office of Science, U. S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Multiobjective optimization has been used in many fields including accelerator related projects. Here we use it as a powerful tool for lattice design and optimization, which includes betatron functions, brightness.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
Funding: NSF PHY-0131508
The forces from Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) on the particle bunch can be computed exactly for a line charge. Modeling a finite bunch by a line charge often produces a very good model of the CSR forces, and the full bunch can then be propagated under these forces. This 1-D model of CSR has often been used with a small angle approximation, an ultra relativistic approximation, and the approximation that radiation originating in one dipole can be neglected in the next dipole. Here we use Jefimenko's forms of Maxwell's equations, without such approximations, to calculate the wake-fields due to the longitudinal CSR force in multiple bends and drifts. Several interesting observations are presented, including multiple bend effects, shielding by conducting parallel plates, and bunch compression.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
Funding: Work supported by US DOE contracts DE-AC03-76SF00515
We study the impedance due to coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) generated by a short bunch of charged particles passing through a bend magnet of finite length in a vacuum chamber of a given cross section. Our method represents a further development of the previous papers*. In this method we decompose the electromagnetic field of the beam into the eigenmodes of the toroidal chamber. We derive a system of equations for the expansion coefficients in the series, and develop a numerical algorithm for practical calculations. We illustrate our general method by calculating the CSR impedance of a beam moving in a vacuum chamber of rectangular cross section.
*G. V. Stupakov and I. A. Kotelnikov, PRST-AB 6, 034401 (2003); T. Agoh, K.Yokoya, PRST-AB, 7, 054403 (2004)
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Funding: Work supported by Department of Energy Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
Synchrotron radiation is the main source of vacuum chamber heating in the PEP-II storage ring collider. This heating is reduced substantially as lattice energy is lowered. Energy scans over Υ energy states were performed by varying the high energy ring (HER) lattice energy at constant gap voltage and frequency. We observed unexpected temperature rise at particular locations when HER lattice energy was lowered from 8.6 GeV (Υ(3S)) to 8.0 GeV (Υ(2S)) while most other temperatures decreased. Bunch length measurements reveal a shorter bunch at the lower energy. The shortened bunch overheated a beam position monitoring electrode causing a vacuum breach. We explain the unexpected heating as a consequence of increased higher order mode (HOM) power generated by a shortened bunch. In this case, temperature rise helps to identify HOM sources and HOM sensitive vacuum chamber elements. Reduction of gap voltage helps to reduce this unexpected heating.
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 (APS) has three circular machines: a 7-GeV electron storage ring (SR), a booster synchrotron (booster) of beam energy 325 MeV to 7 GeV, and a particle accumulator ring (PAR). Their tune measurement systems are based on HP 4396 network and spectrum analyzers (NASA) and HP 89400 vector spectrum analyzers (VSA). The instruments are no longer supported by the vendor and will need replacement in the future. An upgrade of these systems with FPGA-based processors has been implemented. The new systems provided faster tune history and bunch-by-bunch tune reading in addition to the original systems. We present a brief description of the implementation and performance of the new systems.
LNLS, Campinas
We describe the development of a new button-type beam position monitor (BPM) for the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source (LNLS) electron storage ring. One third of the storage ring stripline BPMs were replaced whit this new model, which counts on bellows, temperature stabilization and new support stands in order achieve improved mechanical stability. Finally, in-vacuum heat absorbers were installed at the upstream vacuum tubes of the bending magnets to minimize the vacuum chamber motion due to the high thermal load. We also present performance results.
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.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
ANL, Argonne
Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contracts DE-AC02-98CH10886 and DE-AC02-06CH11357.
The NSLS-II Light Source being built at Brookhaven National Laboratory requires submicron stability of the electron orbit in the storage ring in order to utilize fully very small emittances and electron beam sizes. This sets high stability requirements for beam position monitors and a program has been initiated for the purpose of characterizing RF beam position monitor (BPM) receivers in use at other light sources. Present state-of-the-art performance will be contrasted with more recently available technologies. The details of the program and preliminary results are presented.
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.
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.
A superconducting undulator is installed in the ANKA electron storage ring. Electron clouds could potentially contribute to the heat load of this device. A microwave transmission type electron cloud diagnostic has been installed for the undulator section of the ANKA machine. We present the system layout with particular emphasis on the electron machine aspects. Hardware transfer function results and e-cloud data for different machine settings are discussed. Special care has been taken for front end filter design both on the microwave injection and pick-up side.
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.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
VIGO System S.A., Ozarow Maz.
Real time diagnostics is a fundamental tool for accelerator physics, particularly important to improve performances of existing synchrotron radiation sources, colliders and a key issue for 4th generation sources and FELs. We report the first measurements in the time and frequency domain performed at Hefei Light Source (HLS), the SR facility of the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), of the longitudinal bunch lengths. A fast uncooled HgCdTe photodiode optimized in the mid-IR range has been used to record at the IR port the length of the e- bunches. IR devices are compact and low cost detectors suitable for a bunch-by-bunch longitudinal diagnostics. The data are useful to investigate longitudinal oscillations and characterize the bunch length. The IR signal has been used to measure the synchrotron oscillation frequency, its harmonics in the multi-bunch mode and the bunch lengths in multi-bunch mode at different beam currents. For the first time, simultaneously, data have been collected at visible wavelengths using a fast photodiode at the diagnostics beamline of HLS. A comparison between IR data and diagnostics realized in the visible will be presented and discussed.
IKP, Mainz
Funding: Work supported by DFG (CRC 443) and the German Federal State of Rheinland-Pfalz.
The 1.5GeV Harmonic Double Sided Microtron (HDSM)* as the fourth stage of the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) is now in routine operation for two and a half years**. Simulations predicted a wide range of applicable longitudinal parameters with which the machine can be run. Measurements of the longitudinal acceptance proved that. The reproducibility of different configurations is sufficient to support a fast and reliable set-up of the machine and to guarantee a stable long-term operation. But in order to optimise the configuration a reliable measurement of the phases and accelerating voltages in both linacs is essential. Each turn’s phase information is provided by low-Q-TM010 resonators at both linacs when operating the machine with 10ns diagnostic pulses. The HDSM’s four bending magnets are designed with a field gradient to compensate the vertical fringe defocusing. The decreasing field integral results in less synchronous energy gain per turn, automatically causing a change of the longitudinal phase. The calibration of the phase signals which in case of the RTMs could be easily done by exciting a synchrotron oscillation was improved to deliver precise phase data.
*K.-H. Kaiser et al., NIM A 593 (2008) 159 - 170, doi:10.{10}16/j.nima.2008.05.018
**A. Jankowiak et al., ID 2689, this conference
JAI, Egham, Surrey
CERN, Geneva
The diagnostics of a 6D phase space distribution is a crucial and a challenging task, which is required for modern and future installations such as light sources or linear colliders, like CLIC. The longitudinal profile is one of the parameters which needs to be monitored. A setup for the investigation of coherent diffraction radiation from a conducting screen as a tool for non-invasive longitudinal electron beam profile diagnostics has been designed and installed in the CRM line of the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) at CERN. This setup also allows the measurements of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation from the last bending magnet. In this report we present the status of the experiment and show some preliminary results on coherent synchrotron radiation and coherent diffraction radiation studies. The plans for interferometric measurements of coherent radiation are also presented.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Y.Y. Labs, Inc., Fremont, California
Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No.
By coupling the emitted synchrotron light into an optical fiber, it is possible to transmit the signal at substantial distances from the light port, without the need to use expensive beamlines. This would be especially beneficial in all those cases when the synchrotron is situated in areas not easily access because of their location, or due to high radiation levels. Furthermore, the fiber output can be easily switched, or even shared, between different diagnostic instruments. We present the latest results on the coupling and dispersion measurements performed at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
The vibration issue is significant issue about the accelerator commission. The utility system has many mechanical parts and induces severe vibrations. For the purpose of tracing vibration source and preventing facility failure, the on-line vibration measurement and trace system has been developed. The system adopt programmable automation controller with FPGA function to conduct a series of data acquisition and algorithm. The system including specific analysis of time and frequency domain has also been integrated into the previous monitor and archive system. The user friendly interface may provide on-line analysis and trace vibration source via network anywhere and anytime.
Ankara University, Faculty of Sciences, Tandogan/Ankara
The Turkish Accelerator Complex (TAC) is a project for accelerator based fundamental and applied researches supported by Turkish State Planning Organization (DPT). The proposed complex is consisted of 1 GeV electron linac and 3.56 GeV positron ring for a charm factory and a few GeV proton linac. Apart from the particle factory, it is also planned to produce synchrotron radiation from positron ring. In this study the lattice structure design of the positron storage ring is made to produce the third generation synchroton light. It has been studied with different lattice structures (DBA, TBA, DDBA etc.) for TAC. It has been compared lattice structures and tried to find the best structure for lowest emittance.
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
Emittance coupling in the Australian Synchrotron storage ring is currently controlled using a total of 28 skew quadrupoles. The LOCO method was used to calculate the skew quadrupole settings, using measured vertical dispersion and transverse coupling. This information is used to create a calibrated model of the machine, which is then used to calculate the required skew quadrupole settings needed to minimise coupling. This method has thus far achieved encouraging results for achieving ultra low (<2pm) vertical emittance. In this study we seek to explore the validity of the LOCO model based on empirical measurements and possible improvements of this method.
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
Generating short bunches for time resolved studies or the generation of THz radiation has been done at many other light sources and is of increasing interest in the user community. Light sources not designed with ps bunchs can usually tune the lattice to reduce ps bunchs without much difficulty, sometimes referred to as a Low Alpha mode. At the Australian light source a low alpha configuration has been investigated. The results looking into the 'shaping' of the momentum compaction factor, beam stability and current limitations will be presented.
LNLS, Campinas
The UVX electron storage ring at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) was recently equipped with active current shunt circuits that allow for individual variation of the quadrupole magnet strengths. This allows us to apply the widely used technique of beam-based alignment (BBA) to calibrate the electrical center offset of the BPMs with respect to the magnetic center of the closest quadrupole. In this report we present the BBA experimental results and an analysis of the resolution of the method in the case of the LNLS UVX storage ring.
Diamond, Oxfordshire
JAI, Oxford
With the aim of generating short pulse radiation, a low momentum compaction lattice has recently been commissioned for the Diamond storage ring. By introducing both positive and negative dispersion in the bending magnets it has been possible to operate the storage ring in a quasi-isochronous state, resulting in a natural electron bunch length of less than 1 pico-second. A description of the techniques used to develop the lattice is given, along with first results obtained during recent machine trials. Operation with both positive and negative momentum compaction factor is also described
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: Work supported by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
A transition-free lattice is a basic requirement of a high-intensity medium-energy (several GeV) proton synchrotron in order to eliminate beam losses during transition crossing. An 8 GeV synchrotron is proposed as a principal component in an alternative hybrid design of Project-X. This machine would be housed in the Fermilab antiproton source enclosure replacing the present Debuncher. A simple doublet lattice with high transition gamma has been designed. It uses just one type of dipoles and one type of quadrupoles (QF and QD are of the same length). It has no transition crossing. It has a triangular shape with three zero dispersion straight sections, which can be used for injection, extraction, RF and collimators. The beta-functions and dispersion are low. This lattice has plenty of free space for correctors and diagnostic devices, as well as good optical properties including large dynamic aperture, weak dependence of lattice functions on amplitude and momentum deviation.
*W. Chou, “An Alternative Approach to Project X,” this conference.
ANL, Argonne
Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
Optimization of dynamic and momentum aperture is one of the most challenging problems in storage ring design. For storage-ring-based x-ray sources, large dynamic aperture is sought primarily to obtain high injection efficiency, which is important in efficient operation but also in protecting components from radiation damage. X-ray sources require large momentum aperture in order to achieve workable Touschek lifetimes with low emittance beams. The most widely applied method of optimizing these apertures is to minimize the driving terms of various resonances. This approach is highly successful, but since it is based on perturbation theory, it is not guaranteed to give the best result. In addition, the user must somewhat arbitrarily assign weights to the various terms. We have developed several more direct methods of optimizing dynamic and momentum aperture. These have been successfully applied to operational and design problems related to the Advanced Photon Source and possible upgrades.
CERN, Geneva
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The emission of Synchrotron Radiation in the CLIC BDS is one of the major limitations of the machine performance. An extensive revision of this phenomenon is presented with special emphasis on the IP solenoid.
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.
KEK, Ibaraki
The value calculated by using general-purpose computer code SAD for the accelerator is sometimes different from actual measurements. This is because many kinds of factor cause error, like machine error, so we can’t include such error exactly in SAD. Therefore, on the contrary, we consider the model which includes error by using measurement data and derive Hamiltonian from it.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Funding: Work supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
We present nonlinear dynamics measurements and tracking for the SPEAR3 storage ring. SPEAR3 does not have a vertical pinger magnet, so we have developed a method of measuring (x, y) frequency maps by exciting vertical oscillations using a strip line driven with a swept frequency. When the vertical oscillations reach the desired amplitude, the drive is cut, and an injection kicker excites horizontal oscillations. The subsequent free horizontal and vertical betatron oscillations are digitized turn-by-turn. We have used measured and tracked frequency maps in (x, y) and (x, energy) to characterize and optimize the dynamic aperture, injection and lifetime of the SPEAR3 low emittance optics.
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
Analytic descriptions of arbitrary magnetic fields can be calculated from the generalised gradients* of the on-axis field. Using magnetic field data, measured or computed on the surface of a cylinder, the generalised gradients can be calculated by solving Laplace's equation to find the three-dimensional multipole expansion of the field within the cylinder. After a suitable transformation, this description can be combined with a symplectic integrator allowing the transfer map to be calculated. A new tracking code is under development in C++, which makes use of a differential algebra class to calculate the transfer map. The code has been heavily optimised to give a fast, accurate calculation of the transfer map for an arbitrary field. The multipole nature of the field description gives additional insights into fringe-field and pseudo-multipole effects and allows a deeper understanding of the beam dynamics.
*Venturini M. and Dragt A., NIM Phys. Res. Sect. A, 427, 387 (1999)
NSRRC, Hsinchu
After commissioning of new BPM system in the TLS, it would support functionality of turn by turn data which can be applied in independent component analysis (ICA). This data analysis method is a special case of blind source separation to separate multivariable signal and additive noise and shown to be a useful diagnostic tool in acceleration application. In this paper, we use the ICA method to analyze experimental BPM turn by turn data of the TLS storage ring, measure betatron tunes, and identify abnormal BPM signals. Other possible applications have been also further studied continuously.
PKU/IHIP, Beijing
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: DOE Contract DE-AC05-060R23177 China Scholarship Council
Beam size measurement with near-field optical diffraction radiation (ODR) has been carried out successfully at CEBAF. The ODR station is installed on the Hall-A beam line after eight bending magnets. The ODR images were affected by an unexpected radiation. Some calculations for analyzing the source of the radiation will be presented. Furthermore, two schemes will be proposed to alleviate the contamination.
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
A photon-beam-position-monitor (PBPM) is installed in a diagnostic beamline of the Pohang Light Source (PLS). From experience of existing PBPMs, we enriched our understanding of the synchrotron radiation and this understanding is fully considered for physical design of the new PBPM. The newly built PBPM is tested by using a high-power ultraviolet laser and its performance is checked before installation. Measurement results of beam position shows that the current (thermal) effect is reduced significantly and they also shows good agreement with results from a beam position monitor inside the PLS storage ring.
RadiaBeam, Marina del Rey
Spectrum Detector, Lake Oswego, Oregon
UGA, Athens, Georgia
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Funding: Work supported by U.S. DOE Grant Number DE-FG02-07ER84814.
The generation of high peak current, high brightness beams routinely requires compression methods (e.g. four-bend chicane), which produce coherent radiation as a by-product. The sensing of this radiation, coupled with interferometric methods, yields crucial longitudinal bunch length and bunch profile information. This paper discusses the progress of the development of a real-time terahertz interferometer used for longitudinal beam profile diagnosis.
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
Funding: Work supported by the STFC LC-ABD collaboration and the Commission of the European Communities under the 6th Framework Programme Structuring the European Research Area, contract RIDS-RIDS-011899
A complete optical characterization of an electro-optic deflector to be used for fast laser-wire electron beam profilers performed using a 130 kHz repetition rate mode-locked laser, is presented. Incorporation of the device into the 2D laser-wire at PETRA III synchrotron at DESY is discussed.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
The stability of synchrotron radiation source is of great significance for users, and an accurate and reliable photon beam position monitor (PBPM) is essential for success of synchrotron radiation experiments. Recently, we development a new PBPM called staggered pair photon beam position monitor for photon beam position measurement in Hefei Light Source (HLS). Its main advantage is to reduce the influence of bunch size. Usually, difference over sum (Δ/Σ) method is used to process the photon beam signal. Two new methods are put forward, which are a ratio method and a log-ratio method. For photon beam with Gaussian distribution, differences among methods of Δ/Σ, ratio and log-ratio are introduced. Some calculating results are given for three signal processing methods. Comparing those three methods of position signal processing, log-ratio method is found to have the widest range of linearity, and can obtain identical beam position with different bunch size. Based on that, we also compare staggered pair monitor with double-blade monitor. The staggered pair monitor is found to have higher sensitivity, as well it can ignore the influence of bunch size.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
Radial alternating magnetic field is generated to act on polarized beam to give rise to resonant depolarization and calibrate the energy of electron by feeding power to a pair of vertical installed striplines in HLS. In the paper, the relationship between depolarization time and power fed into the striplines is investigated, and spin frequency spread is considered too. As a result, a depolarization time of 60s is acquired with an amplifier power of 15W fed into the striplines.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
In HLS streak camera system has been built. The system is used to measure some parameters of bunch like bunch length, longitudinal bunch profile and synchrotron frequency and so on, as it may report a direct derivation of fundamental machine characteristics. The system mainly consists of the synchrotron light extracting optics setup, the OPTOSCOPE streak camera and PC with a frame grabber interface card. The light extracting optics setup is used to extract synchrotron light at the bending magnet and the setup consists of the light extracting path and the optics imaging system. The streak camera realizes the functions of acquiring light and imaging. PC with a frame grabber interface card and ARP-Optoscope software package is used to monitor the light in real-time, acquire the image of light and analyze the data. The streak camera system operates with either synchroscan sweep mode or dual time base sweep mode. At present, some results are given, which include the bunch lengthening, the longitudinal bunch profile and the synchrotron frequency. These results are compared with the results acquired by using oscilloscope.
Melbourne
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
Recently a transverse bunch-by-bunch feedback system was commissioned to combat the resistive-wall instability in the storage ring. The system successfully controls the vertical beam motion so 200 mA can be stored with all in-vacuum undulators at minimum gap and a slightly positive chromaticity setting. The FPGA that comes with the feedback system also provides powerful possibilities for diagnostic measurements. Results will be presented for a) growth/damp measurements to quantitatively characterise the resistive-wall instability, b) bunch-by-bunch diagnostics such as tune chromaticity and c) initial bunch-cleaning attempts in conjunction with a APD bunch purity measurement system.
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.
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.
KEK, Ibaraki
KURRI, Osaka
Straight section in scaling FFAG accelerator has been explored and scaling law for straight section has been investigated. Under these studies, dispersion suppressed straight section, which could be useful for efficient RF acceleration, can be designed in ordinary scaling FFAG ring accelerator.
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
ISIS is the pulsed neutron and muon source based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. Operation is centred on a loss-limited 50 Hz proton synchrotron which accelerates ~3·1013 protons per pulse from 70 MeV to 800 MeV, corresponding to mean beam powers of 0.2 MW. A number of ISIS upgrades are currently under study. One option replaces the linac for higher energy injection into the existing ring, potentially increasing beam current through reduction in space charge. The other main option adds a new 3 GeV RCS, boosting the energy of the beam to provide higher beam power. For both these upgrade routes, longitudinal dynamics of the existing and proposed new rings play a crucial role in achieving high intensity with low loss. This paper outlines longitudinal beam dynamics studies in the rings for both these cases, including development of a new longitudinal space charge code, comparison of different algorithms and codes and treatment of the key beam dynamics issues for each case. The influence of non-space charge impedances is also considered.
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
Funding: This work is supported under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
When an electron bunch with initial linear energy chirp traversing a bunch compression chicane, the bunch interacts with itself via coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) and space charge force. The effective longitudinal CSR force for a 2D energy-chirped gaussian bunch on a circular orbit has been analyzed earlier*. In this paper, we present our analytical results of the effective longitudinal CSR force for such a bunch going through a general orbit, which includes the entrance and exit of a circular orbit.
*R. Li, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 11, 024401 (2008).
YSU, Yerevan
CANDLE, Yerevan
PSI, Villigen
An online measurement of the beam energy spread is based on the analysis of the decoherence/recoherence signals obtained from the beam position monitors after a single turn beam excitation by a pinger magnet. Furthermore the analysis allows calibration of the model in terms of higher order chromaticities and amplitude dependant tune shifts. An analytical model including 1st and 2nd order chromaticities and amplitude dependant tune shift will be presented.
PSI, Villigen
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
CIAE, Beijing
OPAL (Object Oriented Parallel Accelerator Library) is a tool for charged-particle optics in accelerator structures and beam lines including 3D space charge, short range wake-fields and a 1D coherent synchrotron radiation. Built from first principles as a parallel application, OPAL admits simulations of any scale, from the laptop to the largest HPC clusters available today. Simulations, in particular HPC (High Performance Computing) simulations, form the third pillar of science, complementing theory and experiment. In this paper we present numerical and HPC capabilities such as fast direct and iterative solvers together with timings up to several thousands of processors. The application of OPAL to our PSI-XFEL project as well as to the ongoing high power cyclotron upgrade will demonstrate OPAL's capabilities applied to ongoing projects at PSI. Plans for future developments will be discussed.
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
An analytic tracking code has been developed to describe an arbitrary magnetic field in terms of its generalised gradients* and multipole expansion, which is used with a 2nd-order symplectic integrator** to calculate dynamical maps for particle tracking. The modular nature of the code permits a high degree of flexibility and allows customised modules to be integrated within the code framework. Several different applications are presented, and the speed, accuracy and flexibility of the algorithms are demonstrated. A module to simulate synchrotron emission is described and its application to an 'ILC-type' undulator system is demonstrated.
*Venturini M. and Dragt A., NIM Phys. Res. Sect. A, 427, 387 (1999)
**Wu Y., Forest E., Robin D.S., Physical Review E,68, 4, Part 2, 046502 (2003)
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy
Couples bunch longitudinal instability in the presence of high frequency impedance is considered. A frequency domain technique is developed and compared with simulations. The frequency domain technique allows for absolute stability tests and is applied to the problem of longitudinal stability in RHIC with the proposed 56 MHz rf system.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Single large angle Coulomb scattering is referred to as Touschek scattering. In addition to causing particle loss when the scattered particles are outside the momentum aperture, the process also results in a non-Gaussian tail, which is an equilibrium between the Touschek scattering and radiation damping. Here we present an analytical calculation for this equilibrium distribution.
CERN, Geneva
The HEADTAIL code has been used for many years to study the interaction of a single bunch with a localized or lumped source of electromagnetic perturbation, usually self-induced (impedance, electron cloud or space charge). It models the bunch as macroparticles and at each turn slices up the bunch into several adjacent charged disks, which are made to subsequently interact with the perturbing agent. A first step toward the extension of HEADTAIL to multi-bunch simulations is presented in this paper. In this case, the bunches themselves are modeled as charged disks and are not sliced, which makes us lose information on the intra-bunch motion but can describe a zero mode interaction between different bunches in a train. The interaction of an SPS bunch train of 72 bunches with the resistive wall or a narrow-band impedance is studied as an example.
Fermilab, Batavia
CERN, Geneva
Funding: Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy and CARE-HHH
Motivated by the discussions on scenarios for LHC upgrades, beam studies on the stability of flat bunches in a double-harmonic RF system have been conducted in the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS). Injecting nearly nominal LHC beam intensity per cycle, 18 bunches are accelerated on harmonic h=21 to 26 GeV with the 10 MHz RF system. On the flat-top, all bunches are then transformed to flat bunches by adiabatically adding RF voltage at h=42 from a 20 MHz cavity in anti-phase to the h=21 system. The voltage ratio V(h42)/V(h21) of about 0.5 was set according to simulations. For the next 140 ms, longitudinal profiles show stable bunches in the double harmonic RF bucket until extraction. Without the second harmonic component, coupled-bunch oscillations are observed. The flatness of the bunches along the batch is analyzed as a measure of the relative phase error between the RF systems due to beam loading. Measurements of electron cloud effects induced by the beam are also discussed. The results of beam dynamics simulations and their comparison with the measured data are presented.
HZB, Berlin
Bursts of coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) in the far IR and down to the μ-wave region have been observed in many synchrotron light sources. At BESSY II the temporal structure of these pulses in the THz-region was observed as a function of the bunch length which was varied by changing the momentum compaction factor and as a function of the number of electrons in the single bunch. It was found, that for a bunch length between 3 and 15 ps the first signs of time dependent CSR occur at a frequency which is a multiple of the zero current synchrotron frequency. This frequency increases with the bunch length and indicates that higher azimuthal modes become unstable first. Slower bursts, with repetition rates on the time scale of mill seconds and much slower than the synchrotron period, show up slightly above this threshold. These bursts possess the much faster initial temporal structure and are probably the result of longitudinal mode mixing. The experimental observations are presented and compared to calculations.
KEK, Ibaraki
POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk
Electron cloud causes a transverse single bunch instability above a threshold of the cloud density. The threshold is determeined by the strength of the beam-electron cloud interaction and Landau damping due to the synchrotron oscillation and/or momentum compaction. We discuss that the threshold is remarkably degraded due to the dispersion, one of the parameter of the circular accelerator optics. The single bunch instability is more serious than previous predictions without considering the dispersion, especially in the case that the horizontal beam size due to the dispersion dominates compare than that due to the emittance.
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken
The RCS of J-PARC accelerator complex has been commissioned since September 2007. By a study of one year, we were able to demonstrate more than 200kW operation. In such high intensity operation, the electron cloud effect may have an important roll for the accelerator limitation. we estimated the electron emission from the collimator surface of RCS by a simulation.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
KEK, Ibaraki
Using a streak camera, we measured the longitudinal profiles of a positron bunch in the Low Energy Ring (LER) of KEKB at various currents. The measured charge densities were used to construct a simple Q=1 broadband impedance model. The model with three parameters not only gave an excellent description of longitudinal dynamics for a positive momentum compaction factor but also for the negative ones, including bunch shortening bellow a threshold and bursting modes beyond the threshold. Furthermore, our study indicated that the threshold of microwave instability was about 0.5 mA in bunch current in the LER. At the nominal operating current 1.0 mA, there was a 20% increase of the energy spread. The results of measurement, analysis, and simulations will be presented in this paper.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
A proposed high-brightness synchrotron light source (PEP-X) is under design at SLAC. The 4.5-GeV PEP-X storage ring has four theoretical minimum emittance (TME) cells to achieve the very low emittance and two double-bend achromat (DBA) cells to provide spaces for IDs. Damping wigglers will be installed in zero-dispersion straights to reduce the emittance below 0.1nm. In this paper, we present a preliminary estimation of the threshold of the transverse mode coupling instability(TMCI). Three approaches have been used in the estimation and they agree well with each other.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
A proposed high-brightness synchrotron light source (PEP-X) is under design at SLAC. The 4.5-GeV PEP-X storage ring has four theoretical minimum emittance (TME) cells to achieve the very low emittance and two double-bend achromat (DBA) cells to provide spaces for IDs. Damping wigglers will be installed in zero-dispersion straights to reduce the emittance below 0.1 nm. Ion induced beam instability is one critical issue due to its ultra small emittance. Third harmonic cavity can be used to lengthen the bunch in order to improve the beam life time. Bunch-train filling pattern is proposed to mitigate both the fast ion instability and beam loading effect. This paper investigates the fast ion instability and beam loading for different beam filling patterns.
KIT, Karlsruhe
FZK, Karlsruhe
Funding: This work has been supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under contract number VH-NG-320.
In synchrotron light sources, coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is emitted at wavelengths comparable to and longer than the bunch length. One effect of the CSR wake field is the distortion of the bunch distribution, which increases with higher currents. In the theoretical calculations, a threshold exists beyond which the solutions begin to diverge. On the other hand, the CSR wake can also excite a micorbunching instability which prevents stable emission of CSR for high currents and leads to highly intense bursts of radiation. In this paper the development of the calculated bunch shapes and the corresponding moments of the current distribution for varying bunch currents are studied. It can be shown that the numerical threshold beyond which the solutions diverge, does not coincide with the observed bursting-stable-threshold at the ANKA storage ring, which agrees well with theory.
UW-Madison/SRC, Madison, Wisconsin
An electron beam focused by an ion channel without a magnetic field, in the so-called ion focus regime (IFR), may be disrupted by the transverse ion hose instability. We describe the growth in four regimes.
GSI, Darmstadt
Cosylab, Ljubljana
One of the main challenges of the planned Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI in Darmstadt is to handle its complex parallel and multiplexed beam operation. In addition, the size of the FAIR project demands for tailor-made but yet extendible solutions with respect to all technical subsystems, especially for the control system. In order to operate and maintain the large amount of front-end equipment standardized solutions are an absolute must. Moreover, to give guidelines and interface specifications to the international collaborators and external partners for so-called "in-kind contributions" facility-wide standards have to be defined. For that purpose, GSI decided to use the Front-end Software Architecture (FESA) at the lowest level of the control system. FESA was developed by CERN and is already operational at LHC and its injectors. This report presents a framework overview and summarizes the status of the FESA test installation at GSI. Additionally, first experiences with the SIS18 BPM system controlled via FESA are presented.
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
The prototypes of PBPM of the four blade types were installed in front-ends 1C1 diagnostic beam line. The four-blade PBPM measure both the horizontal and the vertical positions of the photon beam. KeithleyTM picoammeters are used to record the blade current. The position in both vertical and horizontal directions is calibrated by driving the stepping motors of the PBPM through an Industrial computer. PBPM Data Acquit ion Control System (DACS) is based on Window XP platform. The DACS is equipped with an Ethernet-to-GPIB controller (GPIB-ENET/00). Using the GPIB-ENET/100, networked computers can communicate with and control IEEE 488 devices from anywhere on an Ethernet-based TCP/IP network. This is GPIB interfaces four picoammeters and Ethernet-based TCP/IP communicates by Industrial Computer. Developing with LabVIEW for Windows XP, the interface to EPICS is accomplished by means of Win32 channel Access DLL's. Our LabVIEW application program incorporates EPICS-based motor control and PC-based data acquisition, using a National Instruments I/O board, and saves position data to txt files. This paper presents the PBPM DACS for PLS Control System.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
To improve the reliability of a contemporary synchrotron as light source, a diagnostic system is crucial. A satisfactory diagnostic system must enable a clear presentation of the reason for a system fault, and provide sufficient information to the data analyzer for system recovery and improvement. To identify a fault and to monitor the operation of a RF system, many diagnostic utilities have been adopted. The architecture for the diagnostics of the TLS RF system is here reported.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
At BNL NSLS Source Development Laboratory (SDL) 70MeV electron bunches are compressed by the bunch compressor (BC) consisting of a linac section followed by a 4-magnet chicane. The achievable beam compression is limited by nonlinear beam dynamics in the BC and by coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) effect. In this report we present a novel beam-based technique of chicane calibration, describe the measurements of CSR effect on the beam in the chicane, and discuss the possible scenarios of the BC optimization.
GSI, Darmstadt
The GSI UNILAC serving as a high duty factor heavy ion linac is in operation since nearly 35 years. An upgrade program dedicated to FAIR will be finished until 2011. For the FAIR project the synchrotron SIS 18 has to be filled up to the space charge limit. After re-commissioning of the UNILAC the replacement of the main DTL is foreseen. A new 4 MV/m 108 MHz IH-LINAC provides a high intensity 5 MeV/u U4+-beam. The existing gas stripper section is reused to perform a beam intensity of 24 emA in charge state 42+. The existing UNLAC-tunnel may house a high efficient linac structure. A superconducting or normal conducting 324 MHz-CH-linac (crossbar H-structure) is under consideration as well as rf-resonators of half wave or quarter wave type. The new high energy linac should be able to boost the beam energy up to 30 MeV/u. A further upgrade option is a second 100 m-linac (324 MHz) to enhance the beam energy to up to 100 MeV/u (U41+), sufficient to feed the FAIR 100 Tm synchrotron in direct line. The paper will report on the ongoing conceptual layout of a new UNILAC-concept.