ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
An electron Scanner has been commissioned to non-destructively measure the transverse profiles in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Ring. The SNS Ring is designed to accumulate in the order of 1.6·1014 protons with a typical peak current of over 50 Amps. Because of this high intensity no other profile measuring devices such as wire scanners were installed. The electron scanner is based on measuring the deflection of 50-75kV electrons by the electric field of the proton beam. Two electron guns, one for each plane, with dipole correctors, quadrupoles and deflectors to shape the electron beam have been installed. This paper describes the system and the initial results.
Fermilab, Batavia
Abstract The Fermilab Recycler ring employs an electron cooler to store and cool 8.9-GeV antiprotons. The cooler is based on a 4.3MV, 0.1A, DC electrostatic accelerator (Pelletron) for which current losses have to remain low (~10-5) in order to operate reliably. The Machine Protection System (MPS) has been designed to interrupt the beam in a matter of 1-2 μs when losses higher than a safe limit are detected, either in the accelerator itself or in the beam lines. This paper highlights the various diagnostics, electronics and logic that the MPS relies upon to successfully ensure that no damage be sustained to the cooler or the Recycler ring.
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
The Australian Synchrotron (AS) timing system is based on a hybrid design: an Event Generator-Event Receiver (EVG-EVR) system creates the injection trigger and various clocks, while a network of digital delay generators adjusts pulse delays and widths. This architecture, combined with a storage ring fill pattern monitor, allows the targeting of injection into specific buckets in the storage ring. Nevertheless, more demanding needs from the machine and the beamlines require an upgrade of the system. Delay generators will be removed and replaced by EVRs. This will allow fixed or variable frequency clocks to be made available to beamlines or to trigger diagnostic hardware, orbit interlock distribution, etc., while reducing jitters to below 100 ps. This paper presents the architecture of the new timing system at AS and emphasizes its benefits for diagnostic tools.
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen
DESY, Hamburg
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin
Uni HH, Hamburg
The Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site, (PITZ) develops and optimizes high brightness electron sources for Free Electron Lasers (FELs) like FLASH and the European XFEL. A new multi-purpose dispersive section was designed* and installed to characterize the momentum distribution, the longitudinal phase space distribution and the transverse slice emittance of the electron bunch for an electron energy up to 40 MeV. The spectrometer consists of a 180 degree dipole magnet followed by a slit, a quadrupole magnet and two screen stations. One of the screen stations is equipped with an optical read-out for a streak camera to measure the longitudinal phase space distribution. The first measurement results and corresponding beam dynamics simulations of the longitudinal phase space and the momentum distributions will be reported in this contribution. The resolution of the system will be analysed and compared to the design expectations.
*Sergiy Khodyachykh et al.
"Design and Construction of the Multipurpose Dispersive Section at PITZ"
Proceedings of DIPAC 2007, Venice, Mestre, Italy 2007
PSI, Villigen
A screen monitor containing OTR foils and scintillator crystals has been designed to measure the transverse profile of electron bunches in the PSI-XFEL. In conjunction with quadrupole magnets in FODO cells and a transverse deflecting structure, the screen monitors will be used to measure transverse and longitudinal phase space projections of the electron pulses in the 250 MeV Injector. Tomographic methods will be used to reconstruct the phase space distributions.