IPAC2015 - List of Authors (Pietralla, N.)

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MOPHA019	Implementation of a High Level Phase Controller for the Superconducting Injector of the S-DALINAC	814
	T. Bahlo, C. Burandt, F. Hug, N. Pietralla TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
	Funding: This work has been supported by the DFG through CRC 634 The Superconducting DArmstadt LINear Accelerator S‑DALINAC is a recirculating electron accelerator with a design energy of 130 MeV. It operates in cw-mode at a radio frequency of 3 GHz and provides either unpolarized or polarized electron beams. Before entering the main accelerator the electron beam passes both, a normal-conducting injector beamline for beam preparation and a superconducting 10 MeV injector beamline for preacceleration. The phase of the beam which is injected into the 40 MeV main accelerator is crucial for the efficiency of the acceleration process and the minimization of the energy spread. Due to thermal drifts of the normal-conducting injector cavities this injection phase varies by about 0.2 degree over a timescale of an hour. In order to compensate these drifts, a high level phase controller has been implemented. It adjusts the phase measured at an rf-monitor at the exit of the superconducting injector by changing the phase of a prebuncher in the normal-conducting injector beamline. We will present the used hardware, the control algorithm as well as measurements showing the phase stabilization achieved by this controller.
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MOPHA020	Automated Transverse Beam Emittance Measurement using a Slow Wire Scanner at the S-DALINAC	817
	P. Dijkstal, M. Arnold, C. Burandt, F. Hug, N. Pietralla TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
	Funding: This work has been supported by the DFG through CRC 63 and by the EPS-AG through the EPS-AG student grant program. The superconducting linear accelerator S-DALINAC of the TU Darmstadt provides electron beams of up to 130 MeV in cw mode. It consists of a 10 MeV injector and a 40 MeV main linac, both equipped with elliptical cavities operating in liquid helium at 2 K at a frequency of 3 GHz. The final energy is reached by using up to two recirculation paths. In order to improve beam simulations, it is planned to monitor the transverse beam emittance at different locations along the beam line. A system of slow wire scanners in combination with quadrupole variation is foreseen to accomplish this task. For a first test a wire scanner was installed in the 250 keV section behind the thermionic electron gun of the S-DALINAC. A procedure to automatize measurements was developed and integrated in the EPICS-based control system. We will show the status of the work on the automatized control and the results of first emittance measurements. A report on the future plans will be given.
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Implementation of a High Level Phase Controller for the Superconducting Injector of the S-DALINAC

814

T. Bahlo, C. Burandt, F. Hug, N. Pietralla
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Funding: This work has been supported by the DFG through CRC 634
The Superconducting DArmstadt LINear Accelerator S‑DALINAC is a recirculating electron accelerator with a design energy of 130 MeV. It operates in cw-mode at a radio frequency of 3 GHz and provides either unpolarized or polarized electron beams. Before entering the main accelerator the electron beam passes both, a normal-conducting injector beamline for beam preparation and a superconducting 10 MeV injector beamline for preacceleration. The phase of the beam which is injected into the 40 MeV main accelerator is crucial for the efficiency of the acceleration process and the minimization of the energy spread. Due to thermal drifts of the normal-conducting injector cavities this injection phase varies by about 0.2 degree over a timescale of an hour. In order to compensate these drifts, a high level phase controller has been implemented. It adjusts the phase measured at an rf-monitor at the exit of the superconducting injector by changing the phase of a prebuncher in the normal-conducting injector beamline. We will present the used hardware, the control algorithm as well as measurements showing the phase stabilization achieved by this controller.

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MOPHA020

Automated Transverse Beam Emittance Measurement using a Slow Wire Scanner at the S-DALINAC

817

P. Dijkstal, M. Arnold, C. Burandt, F. Hug, N. Pietralla
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Funding: This work has been supported by the DFG through CRC 63 and by the EPS-AG through the EPS-AG student grant program.
The superconducting linear accelerator S-DALINAC of the TU Darmstadt provides electron beams of up to 130 MeV in cw mode. It consists of a 10 MeV injector and a 40 MeV main linac, both equipped with elliptical cavities operating in liquid helium at 2 K at a frequency of 3 GHz. The final energy is reached by using up to two recirculation paths. In order to improve beam simulations, it is planned to monitor the transverse beam emittance at different locations along the beam line. A system of slow wire scanners in combination with quadrupole variation is foreseen to accomplish this task. For a first test a wire scanner was installed in the 250 keV section behind the thermionic electron gun of the S-DALINAC. A procedure to automatize measurements was developed and integrated in the EPICS-based control system. We will show the status of the work on the automatized control and the results of first emittance measurements. A report on the future plans will be given.

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