2011 Particle Accelerator Conference - List of Authors (Pasquinelli, R.J.)

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High Level Software for 4.8 Ghz LHC Schottky System

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J. Cai, E.S.M. McCrory, R.J. Pasquinelli
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
M. Favier, O.R. Jones
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
A. Jansson
ESS, Lund, Sweden
T.E. Lahey
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

A high level software package has been developed for a 4.8GHz Schottky system installed in the LHC at CERN. It has two main components. The first is a monitor application continuously running on a dedicated server as a daemon process to acquire the FFT traces, perform data analysis, publish results and do archiving. The second is a graphical user interface to display the FFT traces and various measurement results. It also allows the end user to change the settings for the front-end electronics such as the local oscillators, bunch selector, amplifier gains etc. Data analysis with curve fitting poses a big challenge due to the strong coherent signals that are often observed superimposed onto the Schottky sidebands. A method has been successfully created to remove the coherent spikes to enable curve fitting on the underlying signals, with the ultimate aim of providing reliable tune, momentum spread, chromaticity and emittance measurements for LHC beams with no external excitation.

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LARP LHC 4.8 GHz Schottky System Initial Commissioning with Beam

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R.J. Pasquinelli
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
F. Caspers, O.R. Jones
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
A. Jansson
ESS, Lund, Sweden

The LHC Schottky system consists for four independent 4.8 GHz triple down conversion receivers with associated data acquisition systems. Each system is capable of measuring tune, chromaticity, momentum spread in either horizontal or vertical planes; two systems per beam. The hardware commissioning has taken place during the spring and summer of 2010. With nominal bunch beam currents of 10¹¹ protons, the first incoherent Schottky signals were detected and analyzed. This paper will report on these initial commissioning results. A companion paper will report on the data analysis curve fitting and remote control user interface of the system.

Slides WEOBN6 [27.117 MB]

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Status and Specifications of a Project X Front-End Accelerator Test Facility at Fermilab

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J. Steimel, R.L. Madrak, R.J. Pasquinelli, E. Peoples-Evans, R.C. Webber, D. Wildman
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
This paper describes the construction and operational status of an accelerator test facility for Project X. The purpose of this facility is for Project X component development activities that benefit from beam tests and any development activities that require 325 MHz or 650 MHz RF power. It presently includes an H^- beam line, a 325 MHz superconducting cavity test facility, a 325 MHz (pulsed) RF power source, and a 650 MHz (CW) RF power source. The paper also discusses some specific Project X components that will be tested in the facility.

Slides WEOBS6 [2.401 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOP218	High Level Software for 4.8 Ghz LHC Schottky System	507
	J. Cai, E.S.M. McCrory, R.J. Pasquinelli Fermilab, Batavia, USA M. Favier, O.R. Jones CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A. Jansson ESS, Lund, Sweden T.E. Lahey SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	A high level software package has been developed for a 4.8GHz Schottky system installed in the LHC at CERN. It has two main components. The first is a monitor application continuously running on a dedicated server as a daemon process to acquire the FFT traces, perform data analysis, publish results and do archiving. The second is a graphical user interface to display the FFT traces and various measurement results. It also allows the end user to change the settings for the front-end electronics such as the local oscillators, bunch selector, amplifier gains etc. Data analysis with curve fitting poses a big challenge due to the strong coherent signals that are often observed superimposed onto the Schottky sidebands. A method has been successfully created to remove the coherent spikes to enable curve fitting on the underlying signals, with the ultimate aim of providing reliable tune, momentum spread, chromaticity and emittance measurements for LHC beams with no external excitation.

WEOBN6	LARP LHC 4.8 GHz Schottky System Initial Commissioning with Beam	1413
	R.J. Pasquinelli Fermilab, Batavia, USA F. Caspers, O.R. Jones CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A. Jansson ESS, Lund, Sweden
	The LHC Schottky system consists for four independent 4.8 GHz triple down conversion receivers with associated data acquisition systems. Each system is capable of measuring tune, chromaticity, momentum spread in either horizontal or vertical planes; two systems per beam. The hardware commissioning has taken place during the spring and summer of 2010. With nominal bunch beam currents of 10¹¹ protons, the first incoherent Schottky signals were detected and analyzed. This paper will report on these initial commissioning results. A companion paper will report on the data analysis curve fitting and remote control user interface of the system.
	Slides WEOBN6 [27.117 MB]

WEOBS6	Status and Specifications of a Project X Front-End Accelerator Test Facility at Fermilab	1430
	J. Steimel, R.L. Madrak, R.J. Pasquinelli, E. Peoples-Evans, R.C. Webber, D. Wildman Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy. This paper describes the construction and operational status of an accelerator test facility for Project X. The purpose of this facility is for Project X component development activities that benefit from beam tests and any development activities that require 325 MHz or 650 MHz RF power. It presently includes an H^- beam line, a 325 MHz superconducting cavity test facility, a 325 MHz (pulsed) RF power source, and a 650 MHz (CW) RF power source. The paper also discusses some specific Project X components that will be tested in the facility.
	Slides WEOBS6 [2.401 MB]