Beam Position Monitoring of Multi-bunch Electron Beams at the FLASH Free Electron Laser
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N. Baboi, H.T. Duhme, B. Lorbeer
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
The superconducting FLASH user facility (Free electron LASer in Hamburg) accelerates 10 electron bunch trains per second, which are mostly used to produce high brilliance XUV and soft X-ray pulses. Each train usually contains up to 600 electron bunches with a typical charge between 100 pC and 1 nC and a minimum bunch spacing of 1 us. Various types of beam position monitors (BPM) are built in three electron beam lines, having a single bunch resolution of 2-100 um rms. This paper presents multi-bunch position measurements for various types of BPMs and built in at various locations. The dependency of the resolution on the beam offset is also shown.
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B. Lorbeer, H.T. Duhme, I. Krouptchenkov, T. Lensch, D. Lipka, S. Vilcins, M. Werner
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
The SINBAD(Short and INnovative Bunches and Accelerators at DESY ) R&D accelerator is planned for studying new concepts for high gradient electron beam acceleration and the generation of ultra-short electron bunches. The accelerator called ARES(Accelerator Research Experiment At DESY) is composed of S-band accelerating structures. In order to achieve the goal of very short electron bunches the electron beam charges generated in the RF Gun can vary in a range from 1nC down to 500fC. In order to measure the beam position with good resolution at the small charge end of 500fC a new cavity BPM(beam position monitor) has been developed. One key component in the BPM system is the custom RF electronics to meet the resolution requirements in the entire charge range. The entire BPM system with a focus on the system design requirements and the utca based RF electronics are presented in this paper.
