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MOPD66 | Upgrade of the CERN PSB/CPS Fast Intensity Measurements | 200 |
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The CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) and Proton Synchrotron (CPS) complex fast intensity measurement is undergoing a major upgrade. The old analogue electronics no longer provides enough accuracy, resolution and versatility to perform accurate beam intensity measurements. It has also become less reliable due to the ageing equipment. A new measurement system - Transformer Integrator Card (TRIC) - replaces these obsolete acquisition systems. TRIC is a generic platform used to measure the intensity in different transfer lines at CERN. Five TRICs were installed during the year 2010 in order to evaluate their performance with different beam types, from the low intensity pilot (5×109 charges per bunch) to high intensity beams (1×1013 charges per bunch). The aim of this article is to present the technical aspects of the new system and the different measurement scenarios. It discusses possible sources of measurement errors and presents some statistical data acquired during this period. | ||
MOPD97 | Beam Position Monitor System for the CERN Linac4 | 272 |
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The new LINAC4 will provide 160 MeV H¯ ion beams for charge-exchange and proton injection into the CERN accelerator complex. Among a wide variety of beam diagnostics devices, shorted stripline pick-ups will measure the absolute beam position, the relative and absolute beam current, and the average beam energy via the time-of-flight between two monitors. This paper describes the beam position monitor (BPM) with its electronic acquisition chain to be implemented on the movable test bench for beam characterization up to 12 MeV. | ||
TUPD13 | CLIC Drive Beam Position Monitor | 326 |
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Funding: Work supported by Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 CLIC, an electron-positron linear collider proposed to probe the TeV energy scale, is based on a two-beam scheme where RF power to accelerate a high energy luminosity beam is extracted from a high current drive beam. The drive beam is efficiently generated in a long train at modest frequency and current then compressed in length and multiplied in frequency via bunch interleaving. The drive beam decelerator requires >40000 quadrupoles, each holding a beam position monitor (BPM). Though resolution requirements are modest (2 microns) these BPMs face several challenges. They must be compact and inexpensive. They must operate below waveguide cutoff to insure locality of position signals, ruling out processing at the natural 12 GHz bunch spacing frequency. Wakefields must be kept low. We find compact conventional stripline BPM with signals processed below 40 MHz can meet requirements. Choices of mechanical design, operating frequency, bandwidth, calibration, and processing algorithm are presented. Calculations of wakes and trapped modes and damping are discussed. |
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