Author: Shkvarunets, A.G.
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MOP094 Development of Advanced Beam Halo Diagnostics at the Jefferson Lab Free-Electron-Laser Facility 274
 
  • S. Zhang, S.V. Benson, D. Douglas, F.G. Wilson
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • R.B. Fiorito, A.G. Shkvarunets, H.D. Zhang
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
 
  Funding: Many colleagues at JLab FEL provided help with the installation of the present experimental setup. This work is partially supported by DOE Contract DE-AC05-060R23171.
High average current and high brightness electron beams are needed for many applications. At the Jefferson Lab FEL facility, the search for dark matter with the FEL laser beam has produced interesting results*, and a second very promising method for dark matter search using JLab Energy-recovery-linac (ERL) machine has been put forward**. Although the required beam current has been achieved on this machine, one key challenge is the management of beam halo. UMD has demonstrated a high dynamic range halo measurement method using a digital micro-mirror array device. A similar system has been established at JLab FEL facility as a joint effort by UMD and JLab to measure the beam halo on the high current ERL machine***. The experiment and characterization are being performed while the new UV FEL is running for optimization. In this paper, the limitations of the current system will be analyzed and study of other approaches (such as an optimized coronagraph) for further extending measuring dynamic range will be presented. In particular, we will discuss in detail the possibility of performing both longitudinal and transverse (3D) halo measurement altogether on one single system.
* A. Afanasev, et al., PRL. 101 120401 (2008).
** J. Thale, Searching for a New Gauge Boson at JLab, Newport News, VA, September 20-21, 2010
*** H. Zhang, et al., this conference.
 
 
WEOCN5 Beam Halo Measurements at UMER and the JLAB FEL Using an Adaptive Masking Method 1449
 
  • H.D. Zhang, S. Bernal, R.B. Fiorito, R.A. Kishek, P.G. O'Shea, A.G. Shkvarunets
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
  • S.V. Benson, D. Douglas, F.G. Wilson, S. Zhang
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  Funding: US Dept. of Energy Offices of High Energy Physics and Fusion Energy Sciences and by the Dept. of Defense Office of Naval Research and Joint Technology Office.
Beam halo is a challenging issue for intense beams since it can cause beam loss, emittance growth, nuclear activation and secondary electron emission. Because of the potentially low number of particles in the halo compared with beam core, traditional imaging methods may not have sufficient contrast to detect faint halos. We have developed a high dynamic range, adaptive masking method to measure halo using a digital micro-mirror array device and demonstrated its effectiveness experimentally on the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER). We also report on similar experiments currently in progress at the Jefferson Lab Free Electron Laser (FEL) using this method.
 
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