IPAC2018 - List of Authors (Hulsart, R.L.)

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WEPAF019	Fast Readout Algorithm for Cylindrical Beam Position Monitors Providing Good Accuracy for Particle Bunches with Large Offsets	1864
	P. Thieberger, D.M. Gassner, R.L. Hulsart, R.J. Michnoff, T.A. Miller, M.G. Minty, Z. Sorrell BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA A.C. Bartnik Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
	Funding: This work was supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the US Department of Energy. A simple, analytically correct algorithm is developed for calculating 'pencil' beam coordinates using the signals from an ideal cylindrical beam position monitor (BPM) with four pickup electrodes (PUEs) of infinitesimal widths. The algorithm is then applied to simulations of realistic BPMs with finite width PUEs. Surprisingly small deviations are found. Simple empirically determined correction terms reduce the deviations even further. Finally, the algorithm is used to study the impact of beam-size upon the precision of BPMs in the non-linear region. As an example of the data acquisition speed advantage, a FPGA-based BPM readout implementation of the new algorithm has been developed and characterized
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Fast Readout Algorithm for Cylindrical Beam Position Monitors Providing Good Accuracy for Particle Bunches with Large Offsets

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P. Thieberger, D.M. Gassner, R.L. Hulsart, R.J. Michnoff, T.A. Miller, M.G. Minty, Z. Sorrell
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
A.C. Bartnik
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA

Funding: This work was supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the US Department of Energy.
A simple, analytically correct algorithm is developed for calculating 'pencil' beam coordinates using the signals from an ideal cylindrical beam position monitor (BPM) with four pickup electrodes (PUEs) of infinitesimal widths. The algorithm is then applied to simulations of realistic BPMs with finite width PUEs. Surprisingly small deviations are found. Simple empirically determined correction terms reduce the deviations even further. Finally, the algorithm is used to study the impact of beam-size upon the precision of BPMs in the non-linear region. As an example of the data acquisition speed advantage, a FPGA-based BPM readout implementation of the new algorithm has been developed and characterized

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-WEPAF019

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