ANL, Argonne, USA
Waveguide and beam pipe field probes associated with a superconducting deflecting cavity are explored as beam position and tilt monitoring diagnostics. The superconducting deflecting cavity will be used for the Short-pulse X-rays (SPX) in the Advanced Photon Source (APS) upgrade project. Microwave Studio will be used to simulate the techniques of detecting the fields excited by the beam passing through the cavity and determining how close the beam is on electrical center.
ANL, Argonne, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
The Short-Pulse X-ray (SPX) project, which is part of the APS upgrade, will provide intense, tunable, high-repetition-rate picosecond x-ray pulses through the use of deflecting cavities operating at the 8th harmonic of the storage-ring rf. Achieving this picosecond capability while minimizing the impact to other beamlines outside the SPX zone imposes demanding timing and synchronization requirements. For example, the mismatch between the upstream and downstream deflecting cavities' rf field phase is specified to be less than 0.077 degrees root mean squared (rms) at 2815 MHz (~77 femtoseconds). Another stringent requirement is to synchronize beamline pump-probe lasers to the SPX x-ray pulse to 400 femtoseconds rms. To achieve these requirements we have entered into a collaboration with the Beam Technology group at LBNL. They have developed and demonstrated a system for distributing stable rf signals over optical fiber capable of achieving less than 20 femtoseconds rms drift and jitter over 2.2 km over 60 hours*. This paper defines the overall timing/synchronization requirements for the SPX and describes the plan to achieve them.
* R. Wilcox et al. Opt. Let. 34(20), Oct 15, 2009
ANL, Argonne, USA
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
The broadband BPM system at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) is being upgraded with FPGA-based beam history modules, which fix problems in the old history modules and increase functionality. Using these new turn-by-turn BPMs and the newly developed real-time feedback system, measurement of BPM gains, beta function and other optics functions are being developed based on model-independent analysis of turn-by-turn data and model fitting, aiming at quasi-real-time and high-accuracy optics measurement. We will discuss our effort, especially experience with strong nonlinearity and wakefields typical of 3rd-generation light sources.
ANL, Argonne, USA
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) storage ring orbit real-time feedback (RTFB) system plays an important role in stabilizing the orbit of the stored beam. An upgrade is planned that will improve beam stability by increasing the correction bandwidth to 200 Hz or higher. To achieve this, the number of available steering correctors and beam position monitors (BPMs) will be increased, and the sample rate will be increased by an order of magnitude. An additional benefit will be the replacement of aging components. Simulations have been performed to quantify the effects of different system configurations on performance.
ANL, Argonne, USA
Phase noise generated primarily by power line harmonics modulating the 352-MHz rf system in the APS storage ring is a dominant source of high- frequency beam motion, both longitudinally and transversely, due to dispersion in the lattice. It also places fundamental limits on the ability to generate picosecond-scale x-ray pulses for fast pump / probe experiments*. Measurements using turn-by-turn beam position monitors (BPMs) located at high-dispersion locations are compared and contrasted with results from a dedicated S-band phase detector connected to either a capacitive pickup electrode or a diamond x-ray detector. Horizontal beam position at high-dispersion locations is related directly to beam phase by a very simple relation involving the momentum compaction. Simulation results are used to validate this relationship and to quantify the relation between phase noise on the main rf vs beam arrival time jitter.
* A. Zholents et al., NIM A 425, 385 (1999).
ANL, Argonne, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) Project at Argonne will include generation of short-pulse x-rays based on Zholents’* deflecting cavity scheme. We have chosen superconducting (SC) cavities in order to have a continuous train of crabbed bunches and flexibility of operating modes. In collaboration with Jefferson Laboratory, we are prototyping and testing a number of single-cell deflecting cavities and associated auxiliary systems with promising initial results. In collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, we are working to develop state-of-the-art timing, synchronization, and differential rf phase stability systems that are required for SPX. Collaboration with Advanced Computations Department at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is looking into simulations of complex, multi-cavity geometries with lower- and higher-order modes waveguide dampers using ACE3P. This contribution provides the current R&D status of the SPX project.
* A. Zholents et al., NIM A 425, 385 (1999).