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| TUPB10 | Proposed Beam Position and Phase Measurements for the LANSCE Linac | linac, bunching, instrumentation, beam-losses | 78 | ||
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There is presently an ongoing effort to develop beam position and phase measurements for the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) linac associated with an improvement project known as the LANSCE Refurbishment. This non-interceptive measurement’s purpose is to provide both beam measurements of phase for determining rf-cavity phase and amplitude set points, and position measurements for determining the 805-MHz linac input transverse position and trajectories. The measurement components consist of a four-electrode beam position and phase monitor (BPPM), a cable plant that transports the 201.25-MHz signals, electronics capable of detecting phase and amplitude signals, and associated software that communicates with a mature LANSCE control system. This paper describes measurement requirements, proposed beam line device and some initial device bench measurements, initial designs of the associated electronics, and some of the difficulties developing these beam measurements in an operational facility.
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| TUPB14 | Test of a Silicon Photomultiplier for Ionization Profile Monitor Applications | photon, synchrotron, controls, permanent-magnet | 90 | ||
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A sample of SiPM (silicon photomultiplier) has been tested as an elementary light detector for accelerated beam fast profile evolution observation by using it in residual gas ionization profile monitors. A noise, sensitivity, dynamic range and timing parameters tests of SiPM were performed. A procedure of the data acquisition and following signal reconstruction is discussed. A special attention has been paid to the fine time resolution counting mode with single photon detection. A dedicated signal normalizing and time-to-digit converter design was prototyped and tested. In addition some different modes of operation and optical schemes are discussed in this paper. It is shown that fast optical detectors like SiPMs also could be used for high performance profile measurements with spatial resolution compatible with CCD sensors.
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| TUPB16 | Optimization of the Linear-cut Beam Position Monitors Based on Finite Element Methods | coupling, cryogenics, quadrupole, pick-up | 96 | ||
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This contribution presents simulations of the Beam Position Monitors (BPMs) for the FAIR project that were performed using CST Studio Suite 2006B. The linear-cut BPMs based on a metal-coated ceramics were considered as the only solution that meets the required mechanical stability under cryogenic conditions. The essential BPM features like position sensitivity or linearity of position determination were compared for two geometries. In these geometries, in both cases based on elliptically shaped ceramic pipe, the vertical and horizontal electrode pairs were either mounted subsequently in series or were spirally shaped and combined alternatively within one unit. It is shown that optimization of BPM design increases position sensitivity by more than a factor of two. The frequency dependence of the position sensitivity and an offset of electrical center of BPM in respect to its geometrical center were analyzed in the bandwidth of 200 MHz. In a frequency range up to 100 MHz (i.e. typical for the BPM applications) calculated variations of the displacement sensitivity are smaller than 1%; the careful design of a guard ring configuration allows keeping the offset consistent with zero.
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| TUPB20 | Large Horizontal Aperture BPM and Precision Bunch Arrival Pickup | pick-up, laser, electron, vacuum | 108 | ||
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The large horizontal aperture chicane BPM and the precision bunch arrival monitor at FLASH will be important tools to stabilize the arrival-time of the beam at the end of the linac. The pickups for these monitors will be paired with front-ends that sample the zero-crossing of the beam transient through the use of electro-optical modulators and sub-picosecond-long laser pulses delivered by the master-laser oscillator. The design of pickups for this front-end requires the consideration of the beam transient shape as well as the amplitude. Simulations and oscilloscope traces from pickups that use or will use the EOM based phase measurement and the expected limitations and benefits of each pickup are presented. In particular, the design for a 5 um resolution BPM with a 10 cm horizontal aperture is demonstrated in terms of its capability to measure the beam energy and its sensitivity to the shape and orientation of the beam.
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| TUPB29 | Experimental Optimization of the Cathode Laser Temporal Profile | laser, cathode, emittance, electron | 135 | ||
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Producing a flat-top temporal intensity profile of the cathode laser pulse is a key issue for the XFEL photo injector. The photo injector test facility at DESY in Zeuthen (PITZ) serves as a test bench for FEL photo injectors. The PITZ cathode laser contains a pulse shaper to produce flat-top temporal pulse profiles. Based on birefringent filters the pulse shaper includes four degrees of freedom to achieve a pulse profile with parameters closer to the required XFEL photo injector specifications (20 ps FWHM, 2 ps rise/fall time). A procedure for experimental temporal laser profile optimization is presented in this paper. The laser profile is measured using a streak camera. The four parameters - pulse length (FWHM), rise and fall time as well as modulation of the flat-top which are obtained from a flat-top fit of the measured profile - are used in the profile evaluation. Utilizing results of beam dynamics simulations for various cathode laser profiles a single value of the goal function – the expected emittance growth due to measured imperfections of the profile - can be obtained. The procedure of the goal function minimization has been implemented and tested at PITZ.
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| TUPC05 | Screen studies at PITZ | emittance, electron, scattering, diagnostics | 153 | ||
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The Photo Injector Test facility at DESY in Zeuthen (PITZ) has been built to test and to optimize electron sources that fulfill the requirements of SASE FEL's such as FLASH and XFEL. Basic properties of the electron beam such as mean momentum, momentum spread, transverse emittance etc. are determined using measurement of the beam size on YAG or OTR screens. Detailed knowledge of the uncertainties and systematic errors associated with these measurements are important to understand the underlying beam physics. The screen stations consist of a screen set-up, an optical transmission line to a CCD camera, and the video data acquisition system. In this paper we make a detailed description of the screen based beam size measurement systems that we use at PITZ and discuss the systematic errors of uncertainties associated with each single element of a system.
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| TUPC09 | Design of the cavity BPM system for FERMI@elettra | dipole, linac, coupling, diagnostics | 165 | ||
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The cavity Beam Position Monitor (BPM) is a fundamental instrument for a seeded FEL, as FERMI@elettra. It allows the measurement of the bunch trajectory non-destructively, on a shot-by shot basis and with sub-micron resolution. The high resolution the cavity BPM is providing relies on the excitation of the dipole mode, originated when the bunch passes off axis in the cavity. Here we present the electromagnetic (EM) design and the cold test of the prototype BPM developed for the FERMI@elettra. The design adopted a C-band cavity with its dipole mode at fDIP=6.5GHz. The prototype is actually fitted with two cavities: one for the position measurement and one for the generation of the reference signal for the demodulator. Furthermore, the design of the prototype electronics for the acquisition and processing of the BPM signals is presented. The adopted scheme consists of a down converter from C-band to the intermediate frequency, followed by an IQ demodulator to generate the base-band signal, proportional to the transverse beam position. The performed simulation session is presented as well which we run before building the hardware for bench tests.
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| WEO2A01 | Beam Diagnostics for the Front End Test Stand at RAL | emittance, ion, ion-source, vacuum | 218 | ||
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The Front End Test Stand (FETS) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is intended to demonstrate the early stages of acceleration (0-3MeV) and beam chopping required for high power proton accelerators, including proton drivers for pulsed neutron spallation sources and neutrino factories. The FETS ion source is required to produce a 60 mA beam in pulses up to 2ms long at up to 50 pps with an RMS emittance of 0.3 π mm mrad. A number of different diagnostic systems are currently under development to provide precise measurements of the H- ion beam. A pepperpot emittance measurement system, which is also capable of high resolution transverse beam density measurements, has been designed for use on the ISIS ion source development rig. This system is capable of sub-microsecond time-resolved measurements at a range of positions along the beam axis. Details are given of the improvements to the current design, including extensive tests on suitable scintillators and emittance and profile measurements are presented. Additionally, the designs of two different novel laser diagnostic systems for FETS are also presented.
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| WEO2A03 | Advanced Measurements at the SPARC Photoinjector | emittance, laser, electron, space-charge | 224 | ||
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The objective of the first stage of the SPARC commissioning was the optimization of the RF-gun setting that best matches the design working point and a detailed study of the emittance compensation process providing the optimal value of emittance at the end of the linac. For this purpose an innovative beam diagnostic, the emittance-meter, consisting of a movable emittance measurement system, was conceived and built. More than a simple improvement over conventional, though non-trivial, beam diagnostic tools this device defines a new strategy for the characterization of new high performance photo-injectors. The emittance meter allows to measure at different location along the beamline the evolution of important beam parameters both in longitudinal and in the transverse phase space such as beam sizes, energy spread and rms transverse emittances in a region where the space-charge effect dominate the electron dynamics. The quality and the amount of the data allowed a clear reconstruction of the phase space evolution. We report also the first experimental observation of the double emittance minima effect on which is based the optimized matching with the SPARC linac
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| WEPB04 | The VEPP-4M Dynamic Aperture Determination Through the Precise Measurement of the Beam Lifetime | dynamic-aperture, insertion, beam-losses, collider | 238 | ||
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To determine experimentally the particle stable area in the electron-positron collider VEPP-4M we measure the beam life time with high accuracy as a function of moving aperture. The measurement is performed by a photodiode installed in the collider diagnostic beam line. The experimental set up and the measurement results are described. Comparison with the tracking simulation is presented.
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| WEPC03 | Secondary Electron Emission Beam Loss Monitor for LHC | electron, proton, beam-losses, radiation | 313 | ||
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Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system is a vital part of the active protection of the LHC accelerators’ elements. It should provide the number of particles lost from the primary hadron beam by measuring the radiation field induced by their interaction with matter surrounding the beam pipe. The LHC BLM system will use ionization chambers as standard detectors but in the areas where very high dose rates are expected, the Secondary Emission Monitor (SEM) chambers will be employed because of their high linearity, low sensitivity and fast response. The SEM needs a high vacuum for proper operation and has to be functional for up to 20 years, therefore all the components were designed according to the UHV requirements and a getter pump was included. The SEM electrodes are made of Ti because of its Secondary Emission Yield (SEY) stability. The sensitivity of the SEM was modeled in Geant4 via the Photo-Absorption Ionization module together with custom parameterization of the very low energy secondary electron production. The prototypes were calibrated by proton beams in CERN PS Booster dump line, SPS transfer line and in PSI Optis line. The results were compared to the simulations.
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| WEPC09 | Classification of the LHC BLM Ionization Chamber | proton, space-charge, radiation, target | 328 | ||
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The LHC beam loss monitoring (BLM) system must prevent the super conducting magnets from quenching and protect the machine components from damage. The main monitor type is an ionization chamber. About 4000 of them will be installed around the ring. The lost beam particles initiate hadronic showers through the magnets and other machine components. These shower particles are measured by the monitors installed on the outside of the accelerator equipment. For the calibration of the BLM system the signal response of the ionization chamber to all relevant particles types and energies (keV to TeV range) is simulated in GEANT4. For validation, the simulations are compared to measurements using protons, neutrons, photons, muons and mixed radiation fields at various energies and intensities. This paper will focus on the signal response of the ionization chamber to various particle types and energies including recombination effects in the chamber gas at high ionization densities.
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| WEPC14 | Segmented Beam Dump for Time Resolved Spectrometry on a High Current Electron Beam | electron, radiation, scattering, linac | 340 | ||
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In the CLIC Test Facility 3, the strong coupling between the beam and the accelerating cavities induces transient effects such that the head of the pulse is accelerated twice as much as the rest of the pulse. Three spectrometer lines are installed along the linac with the aim of measuring energy spread versus time with a 20ns resolution. The major difficulty is due to the high power carried by the beam which imposes extreme constraints of thermal and radiation resistances for the detector. This paper presents the design and the performances of a simple and easy-to-maintain device, called ‘segmented dump’. In this device, the particles are stopped inside metallic plates and the deposited charge is measured in the same way as in faraday cups. Simulations were carried out with the Monte Carlo code ‘FLUKA’ in order to evaluate the problems coming from the energy deposition and find ways to prevent or reduce them. The detector resolution has been optimized by choosing the adequate material and thickness for the plates. The overall layout of the monitor is described with a special emphasis on its mechanical assembly. Finally, limitations arising at high beam energies are discussed.
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| WEPC16 | Excitation Striplines for SOLEIL Fast Transverse Feedback | impedance, feedback, vacuum, kicker | 343 | ||
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SOLEIL, the French third generation light source, is equipped with excitation striplines for a tune monitor and for the (bunch-by-bunch) Fast Transverse Feedback* that has been recently implemented. A careful design of the striplines and their vacuum feedthroughs was aimed at maximizing the effectiveness of the excitation power via high shunt impedances, and minimizing the power taken from the beam via low parasitic mode losses. Three stripline kickers have been developed for these applications. We report on their design using RADIA and GdfidL simulation codes, on the fabrication of the striplines, and on the experimental results with beam.
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* R. Nagaoka: Transverse Feedback Development at SOLEIL. ID 1257 |
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| WEPC19 | Toroid Protection System for FLASH | linac, beam-losses, single-bunch, electron | 349 | ||
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The FLASH fast machine protection includes a beam loss interlock using toroids to measure the beam charge. This system monitors the beam losses across the whole linac while other protection systems are specifically dedicated to critical components. Four protection modes are used to handle different scenarios of losses: charge validation, single bunch, slice and integration modes. This system is based on 4 ADC’s to sample the top and bottom of upstream and downstream toroid signals. A microcontroller drives 2 programmable delay generators to adjust the top and bottom ADC trigger during the calibration phase. The samples are then collected by a 200Kgates FPGA to process the various protection modes. At first, a VHDL testbench was developed to generate test vectors at the FPGA design inputs. Then, an electronic testbench simulates the linac signals to validate the global hardware functions. Finally, the toroid protection was tested on FLASH with long bunch train at 1 MHz repetition rate.
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