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TY - CONF AU - Scheible, B.E.J. AU - Ackermann, W. AU - Czwalinna, M.K. AU - De Gersem, H. AU - Penirschke, A. AU - Schlarb, H. ED - Tavares, Daniel ED - Picoreti, Renan ED - Bruno, Gustavo ED - Marques, Sergio ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Evaluation of a Novel Pickup Concept for Ultra-Low Charged Short Bunches in X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers J2 - Proc. of IBIC2020, Santos, Brazil, 14-18 September 2020 CY - Santos, Brazil T2 - International Beam Instrumentation Conference T3 - 9 LA - english AB - The all-optical synchronization systems used in various Xray free-electron lasers (XFEL) such as the European XFEL depend on transient fields of passing electron bunches coupled into one or more pickups in the Bunch Arrival Time Monitors (BAM). The extracted signal is then amplitude modulated on reference laser pulses in a Mach-Zehnder type electro-optical modulator. With the emerging demand of the experimenters for future experiments with ultra-short FEL shots, fs precision is required for the synchronization systems even with 1 pC bunches. Since the sensitivity of the BAM depends in particular on the slope of the bipolar signal at the zero crossing and thus, also on the bunch charge, a redesign with the aim of a significant increase by optimized geometry and bandwidth is inevitable. In this contribution a possible new pickup concept is simulated and its performance is compared to the previous concept. A significant improvement of slope and voltage is found. The improvement is mainly achieved by the reduced distance to the beam and a higher bandwidth. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 145 EP - 149 KW - pick-up KW - FEL KW - laser KW - electron KW - free-electron-laser DA - 2020/10 PY - 2020 SN - 2673-5350 SN - 978-3-95450-222-6 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2020-WEPP21 UR - https://www.jacow.org/ibic2020/papers/wepp21.pdf ER -