• W. Wan, W.E. Byrne, H. Nishimura, G.J. Portmann, D. Robin, F. Sannibale, A. Zholents
  LBNL, Berkeley, California

With the advance of ultrafast science, manipulating electron beam at the sub-micron and nanometer scale has been actively pursued. A special lattice of the ALS storage ring was conceived to studythe sub-micron longitudinal structure of the beam. It contains sections that are isochronous to the firstorder. Due to the practical constraints of the accelerator, sextupoles have to be off and the dispersion at the injection point is 60 cm, which make commissioning a highly nontrivial task. After a few months of tuning, we have been able to store at 30 mA of beam at the life time of 2 hours. After a brief introduction to the motivation of the experiment and the design of the lattice, the process and more detailed results of the commissioning will be presented. Future plan will also be discussed.

• H. Nishimura, W.E. Byrne
  LBNL, Berkeley, California

The Errant Electron Beam Interlock (EEBI) is a system that protects the vacuum chamber of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) from synchrotron light damage should the orbit, through a superconducting bend magnet (superbend), become distorted. The EEBI system monitors the vertical beam position on two BPMs, one upstream and the other downstream, of the superbend and dumps the stored beam if the orbit exceeds preset limits in either offset or angle. Discussed are the modeling studies carried out to determine how to create a large vertical bump, both for performing the test and implementing the automated test software.

• H. Nishimura, R.J. Donahue, D. Robin, C. Steier
  LBNL, Berkeley, California

The ALS is planning to operate with top-off injection at higher beam currents and smaller vertical beam size. As part of a radiation safety study for top-off, we carried out two kinds of tracking studies: (1) to confirm that the injected beam cannot go into users’ photon beam lines, and (2) to control the location of beam dump when the storage ring RF is tripped. (1) is done by tracking electrons from a photon beam line to the injection sector inversely by including the magnetic field profiles, varying the field strength with geometric aperture limits to conclude that it is impossible. (2) is done by tracking an electron with radiation in the 6-dim space for different combinations of vertical scrapers for the realistic lattice with errors.

• H. Nishimura, T. Scarvie
  LBNL, Berkeley, California

New storage ring lattices have traditionally been commissioned using a trial-and-error approach, where the number of turns circulated is slowly built up until enough beam is stored to correct the orbit. We have found that by combining the calculated response matrix of magnet misalignments from a linear model of a new lattice with the measured steering magnet response matrix used during normal operations, it is possible to make an educated guess for the steering magnet settings that will immediately allow beam circulation in the new lattice. “Effective” magnet misalignments are simply those that are sufficiently close to the real misalignments to make the first guess good enough to circulate beam; the relationship between effective and real magnet misalignments is also discussed in the paper. This predictive steering method makes the process of establishing enough circulating beam for SVD-based orbit correction in a new lattice very efficient.