Author: Bergoz, J.F.
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MOPME005 Goubau Line and Beam Characterization of TURBO-ICT for SwissFEL 476
 
  • S. Artinian, J.F. Bergoz, F. Stulle
    BERGOZ Instrumentation, Saint Genis Pouilly, France
  • P. Pollet, V. Schlott
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  SwissFEL will be able to operate with electron bunch doublets 28ns apart. Each of the bunches carries 10pC to 200pC of charge with bunch lengths of a few femto-seconds. For charge calibration of the FEL photon pulses, a measurement accuracy of 1% is desired. The Turbo-ICT accomplishes these requirements with negligible beam position and bunch length dependence. It is insensitive to dark current and features high immunity to background noise. We characterize the Turbo-ICT performance on a Goubau line, also known as single-wire transmission line. The Goubau line utilizes electromagnetic fields with frequencies up to many GHz. It allows accurate bench testing including beam position and bunch length dependence. The results are compared to beam measurements performed at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility (SITF).