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MOOCH01 Beam Based Alignment at the KEK-ATF Damping Ring quadrupole, emittance, lattice, betatron 36
 
  • M. Woodley, J. Nelson, M.C. Ross, J.L. Turner
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • K. Kubo
    KEK, Ibaraki
  • A. Wolski
    LBNL/AFR, Berkeley, California
  The damping rings for a future linear collider will have demanding alignment and stability requirements in order to achieve the low vertical emittance necessary for high luminosity. The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at KEK has successfully demonstrated the <5 pm vertical emittance specified for the GLC/NLC Main Damping Rings [*]. One contribution to this accomplishment has been the use of Beam Based Alignment (BBA) techniques. The mode of operation of the ATF presents particular challenges for BBA, and we describe here how we have deduced the offsets of the BPMs with respect to the quadrupoles. We also discuss a technique that allows for direct measurements of the beam-to-quad offsets.

* "Extremely Low Vertical-Emittance Beam in the Accelerator Test Facility at KEK", K. Kubo, et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.88:194801,2002

 
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MOPKF053 Pulsed-wire Method of Field Measurement on Short Elliptically Polarized Undulator undulator, radiation, synchrotron, polarization 428
 
  • T.-C. Fan, C.-S. Hwang, F.-Y. Lin
    NSRRC, Hsinchu
  With two sets of photo illuminator and detector, scientists already have applied pulsed-wire method to measure the magnetic field along two mutually perpendicular directions. Two-dimensional pulsed-wire method is useful for the test of elliptically polarlized undulator (EPU). We tried to use this method to observe the first integral and second integral fields of a short EPU in real time during the polarization tuning. We have taken care more details than the pulsed-wire measurement of planner undulators. The phase difference, the relative field strength along two direction as well as the precise centerline can be achieved.  
 
MOPLT008 The Mechanical Design for the LHC Collimators simulation, collimation, beam-losses, vacuum 545
 
  • A. Bertarelli, O. Aberle, R.W. Assmann, E. Chiaveri, T. Kurtyka, M. Mayer, R. Perret, P. Sievers
    CERN, Geneva
  The design of the LHC collimators must comply with the very demanding specifications entailed by the highly energetic beam handled in the LHC: these requirements impose a temperature on the collimating jaws not exceeding 50°C in steady operations and an unparalleled overall geometrical stability of 25micro-m on a 1200 mm span. At the same time, the design phase must meet the challenging deadlines required by the general time schedule. To respond to these tough and sometimes conflicting constraints, the chosen design appeals to a mixture of traditional and innovative technologies, largely drawing from LEP collimator experience. The specifications impose a low-Z material for the collimator jaws, directing the design towards graphite or such novel materials as 3-d Carbon/Carbon composites. An accurate mechanical design has allowed to considerably reduce mechanical play and optimize geometrical stability. Finally, all mechanical studies were supported by in-depth thermo-mechanical analysis concerning temperature distribution, mechanical strength and cooling efficiency.  
 
MOPLT025 Status and Plans for the SPS to LHC Beam Transfer Lines TI 2 and TI 8 injection, optics, extraction, quadrupole 593
 
  • V. Mertens, B. Goddard, T. Risselada
    CERN, Geneva
  Beam transfer from the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be done through the two transfer lines TI 2 and TI 8, presently under construction, with a combined length of about 5.6 km. The final layout, optics design and correction scheme for these lines will be presented. The requirement of simultaneously matching their geometry and optics with that of the LHC will be treated, including the methodology for alignment of the elements along the line and a proposed solution in the final matching section. After the commissioning of the short transfer line TT40 just upstream of TI 8 in 2003, beam tests of the whole of TI 8 are scheduled for autumn 2004, with the aim to validate many of the new features and mechanisms involved in the future control and operation of these lines. The status of the installation will be described, comprising the progress with infrastructure, services and line elements. An outlook will be given for the work remaining until 2007.  
 
MOPLT028 In-Situ Vibration Measurements of the CTF2 Quadrupoles quadrupole, resonance, linac, lattice 602
 
  • S. Redaelli, W. Coosemans
    CERN, Geneva
  The Compact LInear Collider (CLIC), presently under study at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), aims at colliding high-energy ‘‘nanobeams'' at a luminosity of 10$35$\,cm-2s-1. Vibrations of the lattice elements, if not properly corrected, can result in a loss in performance by creating both unacceptable emittance growth in the linear accelerator and relative beam-beam offsets at the interaction point. Of particular concern are the vibrations induced by the accelerator environment. For example, the circulating water used to cool the lattice quadrupoles will increase magnet vibration levels. In the framework of the CLIC stability study, in-situ measurements of quadrupole vibrations have been performed at the CLIC Test Facility 2 (CTF2) with all accelerator equipment switched on. Since the CTF2 quadrupoles and their alignment support structures are realistic prototypes of those to be used in the CLIC linac, the measurements provide a realistic estimate of the CLIC magnet vibrations in a realistic accelerator working environment.  
 
MOPLT119 Fabrication of X-band Accelerating Structures at FERMILAB vacuum, RF-structure, factory, simulation 815
 
  • T.T. Arkan, C. Boffo, E. Borissov, H. Carter, D. Finley, I. Gonin, T. Khabibouline, S.C. Mishra, G. Romanov, N. Solyak
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  The RF Technology Development group at Fermilab is working together with the NLC and GLC groups at SLAC and KEK on developing technology for room temperature X-band accelerating structures for a future linear collider. We built seven 60cm long, high phase advance, detuned structures (HDS or FXB series). These structures have 150 degrees phase advance per cell, and are intended for high gradient tests. The structures were brazed in a vacuum furnace with a partial pressure of argon, rather than in a hydrogen atmosphere. We have also begun to build 60cm long, damped and detuned structures (HDDS or FXC / FXD series). So far, we have built 3 FXC structures. Our goal is to build 4 FXC and 2 FXD structures for the 8-pack test at SLAC by the end of March 2004, as part of the GLC/NLC effort to demonstrate the readiness of room temperature RF technology for a linear collider. This poster describes the RF structure factory infrastructure (clean rooms, vacuum furnaces, vacuum equipment, RF equipment etc.), and the fabrication techniques utilized (the machining of copper cells / couplers, quality control, etching, vacuum brazing, cleanliness requirements etc.) for the production of FXB and FXC structures.  
 
TUPKF007 Series Fabrication Technologies for Normalconducting Linac and Storage Ring Cavities vacuum, linac, coupling, RF-structure 968
 
  • P. vom Stein, K. Dunkel, B. Griep, C. Piel, H.P. Vogel
    ACCEL, Bergisch Gladbach
  Twelve HOM damped 476 MHz single cell cavities have been delivered for PEP II and the production of several 805 MHz CCL modules for SNS has recently been finalised by ACCEL Instruments. Based on those two examples, required key technologies for cavity production will be introduced. Final prove of successful manufacturing is given by low level rf measurements. Results of those measurements for above mentioned projects will be presented within this paper.  
 
TUPKF033 Cryogenic Performance of the Prototype Cryomodule for ADS Superconducting LINAC linac, synchrotron, proton, radiation 1033
 
  • N. Ohuchi, E. Kako, S. Noguchi, T. Shishido, K. Tsuchiya
    KEK, Ibaraki
  • N. Akaoka, H. Kobayashi, N. Ouchi, T. Ueno
    JAERI/LINAC, Ibaraki-ken
  • T. Fukano
    Nippon Sanso Corporation, Tokyo
  • H. Hara, M. Matsuoka, K. Sennyu
    MHI, Kobe
  A prottype cryomodule containing two 9-cell superconducting cavities of b=0.725 and f=972MHz is being constructed under the collaboration of Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) and High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) on the development of superconducting LINAC for Accelerator Driven System (ADS). Cryogenic performances of the cryomodule and 2K He-system will be reported.  
 
TUPKF041 Quasi-optic RF Power Transmission Line from a FEM Oscillator to the Model of the CLIC Accelerating Structure radiation, vacuum, diagnostics, insertion 1054
 
  • A. Kaminsky, A.V. Elzhov, E.A. Perelstein, N.V. Pilyar, T.V. Rukoyatkina, S. Sedykh, A.P. Sergeev, A. Sidorov
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
  • N.S. Ginzburg, S.V. Kuzikov, N.Yu. Peskov, M.I. Petelin, A. Sergeev, N.I. Zaitsev
    IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod
  Experimental investigation of a copper resonator lifetime under multiple action of 30 GHz power pulses is now carried out by the collaboration of CLIC team (CERN), FEM group of JINR (Dubna) and IAP RAS (Nizhny Novgorod). A quasi-optic two-mirror transmission line is used between the FEM oscillator and test cavity. An oversized FEM output waveguide based on the wavebeam transformation (Talbot effect) provides the optimal transverse distribution of the radiation, eliminates the output window breakdown and decrease the influence of the reflected wave on the FEM oscillator regime.  
 
TUPLT033 RF Design of the MAFF IH-RFQ Power Resonator vacuum, ion, rfq, impedance 1216
 
  • M. Pasini, D. Habs, O. Kester
    LMU, München
  • T. Sieber
    CERN, Geneva
  The low energy part of the LINAC of the MAFF facility will be an IH-RFQ cavity with 101.28 MHz resonance frequency. The RF design of the cavity has been completed, including design calculations and model measurements. The RFQ is designed to deliver ions of A/q = 6.5 up to 300 keV/u to be injected into the following LINAC. The structure chosen was an IH type of resonator since it was demontrated to have a better shunt impedance. The required voltage between the electrodes is 70kV and the operation mode is pulsed with a duty cycle of 10%. The structure will be made out from bulk copper in order to improve the shunt impedance and hence to allow not direct cooling on the electrodes. The optimizazion of the several parameters of the structure, and the technique for tuning the voltage distribution are presented in this paper. Measurements with a short model will be shown as well.  
 
TUPLT035 Online Calculation of the Beam Trajectory in the HERA Interaction Regions quadrupole, proton, interaction-region, synchrotron 1222
 
  • F. Brinker
    DESY, Hamburg
  During the HERA luminosity upgrade the new super conducting mini beta quadrupoles have been placed inside the experiments for final focussing and separation of the lepton and proton beams. The synchrotron radiation of up to 12 kW produced in these magnets passes through the detector and is absorbed behind the experiments. In order to avoid background events from synchrotron radiation it is a mandatory to adjust precisely the beam trajectory before and inside the detector. A procedure has been developed to calculate the trajectory in the interaction regions. With a beam-based alignment the offsets of the beam with respect to the quadrupoles is measured. From this measurement the offsets of the quadrupoles and of the beam position monitors are fitted. With the knowledge of these offsets the trajectory of the beam is calculated with high precision. The display of the trajectory is online available as an operational tool for beam steering and background optimization.  
 
TUPLT054 Design of the Low-beta, Quarter-wave Resonator and its Cryomodule for the SPIRAL 2 Project resonance, vacuum, coupling, simulation 1276
 
  • P.-E. Bernaudin, P. Bosland, S. Chel, G. Devanz, P. Hardy, F. Michel, P. de Girolamo
    CEA/DSM/DAPNIA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  The SPIRAL 2 project, to be built in GANIL, consists of a 40 MeV linear accelerator for 5 mA of deuterons and a target-source complex for the production of exotic isotopes. The accelerator is also optimised to accelerate q/A = 1/3 ion up to 14.4 MeV/u. The three stages of the linac are a RFQ (up to 0.75 MeV/A), a low beta (0.007) and a high beta (0.12) sections consisting of quarter-wave, 88 MHz superconducting resonators. This paper focuses on the low beta cavity and its cryomodule. The cavity nominal accelerating gradient is at least 6.5 MV/m in operation conditions. RF properties of the cavities are dealt with, as well as the mechanical ones: helium pressure effects, tunability, vibrations. The cryomodule is designed so as to save longitudinal space and therefore is partly assembled in clean room.  
 
TUPLT095 Precision Field Mapping System for Cyclotron Magnet cyclotron, undulator, insertion, insertion-device 1378
 
  • K.-H. Park, Y.G. Jung, D.E. Kim, L.W.W. Lee
    PAL, Pohang
  • J.-S. Chai, Y.S. Kim
    KIRAMS, Seoul
  • B.-K. Kang, S.H. Shin, M. Yoon
    POSTECH, Pohang
  A 13 MeV cyclotron has been developed by KIRAMS for radio-isotopes production such as F-18 and O-15 for positron emission tomography(PET). To characterize the cyclotron magnet precisely, a Hall probe mapping system with very high precise positioning mechanism in the Cartesian coordinate has been developed. Hall probe assembly was translated in two dimensions by two stepping motors at both sides of the Hall-probe-carrier to keep synchronously rotation sharing one step-pulse source for x-axis and one motor for y-axis. The data acquisition time had reduced to 60 minutes in full mapping by 'flying' mode. The accuracy of the measurement system is better than during the entire mapping process. In this paper the magnetic field measurement system for the cyclotron magnet is described, and measurement results are presented.  
 
TUPLT167 Installation of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Warm Linac vacuum, linac, site, quadrupole 1521
 
  • P.E. Gibson, C. Deibele, J.J. Error, G.A.J. Johnson, P. Ladd
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • N.K. Bultman
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source being built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The SNS project design and construction is a partnership involving six DOE national laboratories including Argonne, Brookhaven, Jefferson, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos. When completed in 2006, the SNS will provide the most intense, pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development. At the present time we are installing and commissioning the warm linac system, designed by Los Alamos, and have to date had good success. The warm linac is comprised of six Drift Tube Linac (DTL) tanks and four Coupled Cavity Linac (CCL) modules. These accept an incoming negative hydrogen ion beam from the Front End injector at 2.5 MeV, and accelerate to a final energy of 185 MeV. At this time we have installed and commissioned DTL tanks 1-3 and installed CCL module 1 . Experience and information gained during installation will be presented. The performance in terms of alignment, vacuum and field tuning will be described.  
 
WEPKF011 Performance of the Superconducting Matching Quadrupoles for the LHC Insertions quadrupole, multipole, insertion, target 1615
 
  • N. Catalan-Lasheras, G. Kirby, R. Ostojic, J.C. Perez, H. Prin, W.  Venturini Delsolaro
    CERN, Geneva
  The optics flexibility of the LHC insertions is provided by the individually powered quadrupoles in the dispersion suppressors and matching sections. These units comprise special quadrupole magnets of the MQM and MQY type and range in length from 5.4 m to 11.4 m. In total, 82 insertion quadrupoles will be assembled at CERN. In this paper we present the advance in construction and report on the performance of the first series built quadrupoles. In particular, we present the quench performance of the individual magnets and alignment measurements of the cold masses, and discuss the field quality trends and possible implications.  
 
WEPKF012 LHC Dipole Axis, Spool Piece Alignment and Field Angle in Warm and Cold Conditions dipole, laser, quadrupole, sextupole 1618
 
  • M. Coccoli, M. Buzio, J. Garcia Perez
    CERN, Geneva
  The installation and commissioning of the LHC dipoles requires the knowledge of the magnetic axis and of the spool piece corrector alignment at the operating conditions. The installation is based at present on the use of geometric information derived from mechanical measurements performed in warm conditions, with the assumption that the geometric and magnetic axis are coincident. Any discrepancies between mechanical and magnetic axis and unforeseen geometry variations from ambient to cold operating temperature can introuduce important uncertaintes in the prediction of the alignment at operational conditions. Such prediction is studied through correlations between measurements performed at room and liquid helium temperature. A statistic analysis of the measurement data available is presented showing uncertainties on the correctors alignment. They are compared with beam-based specifications of the positioning of the spool piece.  
 
WEPKF016 Instrumental Uncertainty in Measuring the Geometry of the LHC Main Dipoles. laser, simulation, dipole, extraction 1627
 
  • M. La China, G. Gubello, W. Scandale
    CERN, Geneva
  In the Large Hadron Collider 1232 superconducting dipoles will bend the two 7 TeV energy beams along a 27 km-circumference trajectory. The series production (assigned to three European firms) will require a well-defined procedure to check, in every magnet, the respect of the dimensional specifications. To verify the tolerances of few tenths of millimeter over the 15-meter length in each cold mass, a laser tracker is necessarily used. To access the two beam apertures and to increase the measurement accuracies, the laser tracker is placed in different stations around the dipole defining a 'multi-station measuring procedure'. The noise affecting all the data taken so far suggested a careful analysis of the procedure itself. Through the computer modeling (based on a Monte Carlo algorithm), the statistical error was quantified and compared to the experimental error. From this comparison the critical aspects of low accuracy rooted in the multi-station procedure were better understood, allowing the optimization of the procedure itself for the forthcoming series production.  
 
WEPKF019 Magnetic Measurement Systems for the LHC Dipole Assembly Firms dipole, site, power-supply, controls 1636
 
  • H. Reymond, J. Billan, J. Garcia Perez, D. Giloteaux, A. Raimondo, V. Remondino, A. Rijllart
    CERN, Geneva
  The LHC lattice superconducting dipole magnets are actually under construction in three European industries. Due to the extremely high magnet performance required for the LHC, these magnets have to be built with high accuracy during all the steps of their assembling. In order to detect defects in the earliest production phases and to ensure the quality of the magnetic field as specified by the CERN contracts, dedicated measurement benches have been built and installed in each industry to validate the magnetic field quality at two important production stages. This paper describes the initial requirements and the implementation of the magnetic measurement systems. Details on the technical solutions, the present status and measurement results are presented.  
 
WEPKF025 Experience with the Hydrostatic Levelling System of the SLS storage-ring, monitoring, synchrotron, synchrotron-radiation 1651
 
  • F.Q. Wei, L. Rivkin, A. Wrulich
    PSI, Villigen
  The Hydrostatic Levelling System (HLS) of the SLS was installed and commissioned in year 2000. It is a measurement system for monitoring the vertical positions of the SLS storage ring girders. It is integrated in the concept of dynamic alignment. The HLS was modified and re-calibrated in 2002. Since January 2003 the system has collected approximately 2 million measurements. The analysis of the data shows that displacement of the SLS storage ring foundation and the girder support was in the range of 0.15 mm in year 2003. The long term HLS stability was significantly improved. The short term precision of the HLS is in the micrometer range. The experience gained on the HLS is presented.  
 
WEPKF035 Analysis of the Cold Mass Displacements at the TTF quadrupole, monitoring, linac, vacuum 1681
 
  • A. Bosotti, C. Pagani, P. Pierini
    INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI)
  • R. De Monte, M. Ferianis
    ELETTRA, Basovizza, Trieste
  • R. Lange
    DESY, Hamburg
  Few of the TTF cryomodules have been equipped with wire position monitors (WPM) in order to monitor on line the displacements of the cold mass to verify alignment stability and reproducibility . Based on the operation experience of the first prototypical cryomodules, equipped with up to 36 WPMs distributed in two strings, on the last generation cryomodules a single string of 7 sensors has been installed. Here we review and analyze the data collected so far to prove that the the proposed cryomodule design is consistent with the TESLA alignment requirements.  
 
WEPKF037 Structural Analysis of an Integrated Model of Short Straight Section, Service Module, Jumper Connection and Magnet Interconnects for the Large Hadron Collider vacuum, collider, hadron, ground-motion 1684
 
  • S. Dutta, J. Dwivedi, A. Kumar, H.C. Soni
    CAT, Indore (M.P.)
  • B. Skoczen
    CERN, Geneva
  The Short Straight Section (SSS) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) houses a twin quadrupole.The cryogens are fed to the SSS through a Jumper Connection between service modules of Cryogenic Distribution Line (QRL) and SSS.A Finite Element analysis has been performed in collaboration with CERN for the unified model of SSS of LHC,consisting of cold mass, cold supports,vacuum vessel and its bellows, interconnects, jumper connection and alignment jacks. The model has been developed to understand coupling between the quadrupole magnet and the service module due to ground motion and during the realignment or global smoothening of the LHC arc. The model incorporates experimental stiffness values for support posts, internal pipes and jacks and calculated stiffness for magnet-to-magnet interconnects. The computation space and time has been reduced by executing a two step linear static analycal approach with an initial trial analytical approach cycle in which the program estimates the behavior of the flexibles. A special routine is developed within ANSYS,using APDL which selects the correct secant stiffness of flexibles(by applying a user interactive logical algorithm)from their non-linear force displacement characteristics.  
 
WEPKF038 The Alignment Jacks of the LHC Cryomagnets vacuum, radiation, quadrupole, collider 1687
 
  • J. Dwivedi, S.G. Goswami, A. Kumar, V. Madhumurthy, H.C. Soni
    CAT, Indore (M.P.)
  • V. Parma
    CERN, Geneva
  The precise alignment of the some 1700 cryomagnets of the LHC collider, requires the use of some 7000 jacks. The specific requirements and the need for an cost-effective solution for this large production, justified the development and industrialisation of a dedicated mechanical jack which was developed, and is now being produced, in the framework of a collaboration between CERN and the Center for Advanced Technology in India. Three jacks support each of the 32-ton heavy, 15-meter long cryo-dipoles of LHC, and provide the required alignment features. The main requirements are a setting resolution of 0.05 mm, and a range of movement of 20 mm in the horizontal and 40 mm in the vertical direction. Each jack has two degrees of controlled movement in the horizontal and vertical direction, whereas the remaining horizontal movement is left free. By a suitable choice of the layout of the three jacks, the full range of alignment of a cryo-magnet can be obtained. The design of the jacks evolved from a preliminary value analysis between various concepts, towards the complete engineering of the retained concept, selection of the most appropriate and cost-effective industrial production processes and setting-up of an effective quality assurance policy. Building and testing of 36 prototype jacks allowed an extensive experimental validation of their performance at CERN, where they were operated in the String 2 facility, and yielded an improved understanding for cost-effective steering of the production processes before launching the series production. Presently, the mass production of the jacks is in progress with two Indian manufacturers, and some 1500 jacks have already been delivered to CERN. Considering the successful performance of the jacks, it is now envisaged to extend the use of the same type of jacks to provide the even higher-demanding alignment of the low-beta quadrupoles of LHC.  
 
WEPKF073 2nd Generation LHC IR Quadrupoles Based on Nb3Sn Racetrack Coils quadrupole, luminosity, target, interaction-region 1774
 
  • V. Kashikhin, J. Strait, A.V. Zlobin
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  After the LHC operates for several years at nominal parameters, it will be necessary to upgrade it for higher luminosity. Replacing the baseline NbTi low-beta quadrupoles with a higher performance magnets based on advanced superconducting materials and magnet technologies is one of the most straightforward ways in this direction. Preliminary studies show that high-performance Nb3Sn strands to be available within the next few years allow increasing the quadrupole aperture up to 110 mm using a 4-layer shell-type coil and providing the same 200 T/m field gradient with 20% margin as the baseline magnets. It will allow reduction of b* by a factor of 3. An alternative approach to the quadrupole design is based on simple flat racetrack coils. This paper discusses the possibilities and limitations of large-aperture racetrack quadrupole designs and compares them to the shell-type magnets.  
 
WEPKF074 Magnetic Field Measurements of the LHC Inner Triplet Quadrupoles Produced at Fermilab quadrupole, interaction-region, injection, dipole 1777
 
  • G. Velev, R. Bossert, R. Carcagno, J. DiMarco, S. Feher, H. Glass, V. Kashikhin, J.S. Kerby, M. Lamm, T. Nicol, L. Nobrega, D. Orris, T. Page, T. Peterson, R. Rabehl, P. Schlabach, J. Strait, C. Sylvester, M. Tartaglia, J. Tompkins, A.V. Zlobin
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  Production of 18 superconducting low-beta quadrupoles (MQXB) for the LHC is well advanced. These 5.5 m long magnets are designed to operate at 1.9 K with a peak field gradient of 215 T/m in the 70 mm apertures. Two MQXB cold masses with a dipole orbit corrector between them form a single cryogenic unit (LQXB) which is the Q2 optical element of the final focus triplets in the LHC interaction regions. A program of magnetic field quality and alignment measurements of the cold masses are performed at room temperature during magnet fabrication and LQXB assembly as well as at superfluid helium temperature. Results of these measurements are summarized in this paper.  
 
WEPLT027 Connection Cryostats for LHC Dispersion Suppressors dipole, vacuum, shielding, radiation 1888
 
  • S. Marque, T. Colombet, M. Genet, B. Skoczen
    CERN, Geneva
  The lattice of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being built at CERN is based on 8 standard arcs of 2.8 km length. Each arc is bounded on either side by Dispersion Suppressors connected to the arc by connection cryostats providing 15m long drift spaces. As for a dipole magnet, the connection cryostat provides a continuity of beam and insulation vacuum, electrical powering, cryogenic circuits, thermal and radiation shielding. In total 16 modules will be constructed. The stringent functional specification has led to various analyses. Among them, a light mechanical structure has been developed to obtain a stiffness comparable to a dipole magnet, for alignment purpose. Thermal studies, included λ front propagation, have been performed to ensure a cooling time down to 1.9K within the time budget. A special cooling scheme around the beam tubes has been chosen to cope with heat loads produced during operation. We will report on the general design of the module and on the manufacturing process adopted to guarantee the tight alignment of the beam tubes once the module installed in the machine. Special emphasis will be given on thermo-mechanical analysis, λ front propagation and on beam-tubes cooling scheme.  
 
WEPLT113 Development of New Hydrostatic Levelling Equipment for Large Next Generation Accelerator ground-motion, site, klystron, target 2113
 
  • S. Takeda
    KEK, Ibaraki
  The Hydrostatic Levelling Systems (HLS) are installed and commissioned in many laboratories. We have developed a new type hydrostatic levelling equipment for the large future accelerator. The designing points are as followings: (1) use of half filled water level sensor instead of the usual full filled level sensor, (2) the capacitive sensor is supported by an invar rod and (3) use of digitized signal transfer system. These three points are very important factor to apply the leveling system to large next generation accelerator in order to obtain good temperature stability and being free from the environmental electronic noises. We have obtained a typical resolution of the equipment as 0.3 micron-meter, though usual HLS shows the value ten times as much. We are going to show a detailed report about the system including data obtained.  
 
WEPLT123 Engineering Design of High-current 81.36 MHz RFQ with Elliptic Coupling Windows rfq, vacuum, coupling, ion 2143
 
  • D. Kashinskiy, A. Kolomiets, S. Minaev, V. Pershin, B.Y. Sharkov, T. Tretyakova
    ITEP, Moscow
  Four-vane RFQ structure with elliptic coupling windows has been originally developed at ITEP for injection into ITEP-TWAC synchrotron/storage ring complex, being lately adapted for RIA project too. As the electrodynamics simulations show, this structure combines the high efficiency with the operating mode stability against asymmetric detuning and electrode misalignment. A considerable reduction of structure diameter due to coupling windows becomes important for low frequency range which is necessary for the heavy ion acceleration. At the same time, the electrode configuration allows the efficient cooling and high duty factor operation. A mechanical design of 81 MHz, 1.6 MeV/u, 6 m long heavy ion RFQ section is discussed. The outer tank is made of two layers, steel and copper, joined by using the thermal diffusion technology. Each electrode is supplied with the alignment mechanism and connected to the tank by the flexible conducting insert. The whole setup is in manufacturing now.  
 
THPKF036 Developments of the FZP Beam Profile Monitor damping, coupling, radiation, background 2353
 
  • N. Nakamura, M. Fujisawa, H. Kudo, H. Sakai, K. Shinoe, H. Takaki, T. Tanaka
    ISSP/SRL, Chiba
  • H. Hayano, T. Muto
    KEK, Ibaraki
  A beam profile monitor based on two Fresnel Zone Plates (FZPs) has been developed at the KEK-ATF damping ring. This monitor can perform real-time imaging of the electron beam with an X-ray imaging optics and the synchrotron radiation and measure the horizontal and vertical beam sizes with a high spatial resolution. A clear electron-beam image with the vertical beam size less than 10 microns was already obtained in the early measurements [*]. Thereafter some of the optical elements, the crystal monochromator, X-ray CCD camera and FZP holders, were improved and an X-ray pinhole mask was installed between the two FZPs for reducing the background of X-rays passing through the MZP (the second FZP). Aberrations due to alignment errors of the FZPs were studied with an analytical approach and a ray-tracing method and vibrations of the optical elements were measured in order to estimate their effects on the system performance. In this paper, we will present developments of the beam profile monitor with results of some beam-size measurements.

* K. Iida et al., Nucl. Instrum. Methods A506, p.41-49 (2003); N. Nakamura et al., Proc. of PAC2003, p.530-532

 
 
THPKF070 A Beam Based Alignment System at the CAMD Light Source quadrupole, lattice, power-supply, storage-ring 2427
 
  • V.P. Suller, E.J. Anzalone, A.J. Crappell, M.G. Fedurin, T.A. Miller
    LSU/CAMD, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  Beam based alignment is being applied to the CAMD light source. It is implemented by a flexible and versatile system of electronic shunts which are applied to each of the storage ring lattice quadrupoles. The essential design features of the electronic shunts are described as is the routine operation of the full system. The improvement to the corrected closed orbit from using the system is shown. Preliminary results are presented of the use of the shunts for correcting the lattice functions.  
 
THPLT016 LHC Orbit Feedback Tests at the SPS feedback, dipole, damping, closed-orbit 2499
 
  • J. Wenninger, J. Andersson, L.K. Jensen, R.O. Jones, M. Lamont, R. Steinhagen
    CERN, Geneva
  The real-time orbit feedback system foreseen for the LHC will be an essential component for reliable and safe machine operation. A test setup including a number of beam position monitors equipped with the LHC acquisition and readout system have been installed in the SPS ring to perform prototyping work on such an orbit feedback. A closed loop digital feedback was implemented and tested with LHC beams on the SPS during the 2003 machine run. The feedback loop was tested successfully at up to 100 Hz. The performance of the feedback loop and of its constituents will be described.  
 
THPLT036 New Discretization Scheme for Wake Field Computation in Cylindrically Symmetric Structures linear-collider, collective-effects, simulation, collider 2559
 
  • R. Hampel, T. Weiland, I. Zagorodnov
    TEMF, Darmstadt
  Collective effects due to wake fields are a limiting factor in almost every new front line accelerator. Since the early 80's computer codes such as TBCI and MAFIA have been developed for computing wake fields in realistic accelerator structures. With the advent of linear collider studies and small wavelength FEL projects these codes had to face a severe limitation. For the very short bunches in these new accelerators combined with the need for an analysis of very long sections the discrete dispersion became a serious drawback. This effect of having only discrete field values rather than continous ones can be overcome by special algorithms such as semi-implicit integrators as used e.g. in the wake field code ECHO. In this paper we present a new explicit approach which combines the advantage of explicit algorithms (fast) with the absence of dispersion in beam direction.  
 
THPLT047 Beam Position Monitor Development for the IThemba LABS Cyclotron Beamlines cyclotron, vacuum, proton, diagnostics 2589
 
  • J. Dietrich, I. Mohos
    FZJ/IKP, Jülich
  • A.H. Botha, J.L. Conradie, J.L.G. Delsink, P.F. Rohwer
    IThemba Labs, Somerset West
  In cooperation of iThemba LABS (South Africa) and Forschungszentrum Juelich the specification of a sensitive tunable rf narrowband beam position monitor system for cyclotron beamlines has been elaborated. iThemba LABS developed and manufactured the four section stripline monitor chamber. The monitor electronics were developed in the Forschungszentrum Juelich-IKP. The electronics consisting of an RF signal processing module (BPM-RF) and a data acquisition and control module (BPM-DAQ) sequentially processes and measures the monitor signals and deliver via serial network calculated horizontal and vertical beam position data. First measurements with cyclotron beam has been performed in the iThemba LABS in November 2003. Changed beam position due to changing different cyclotron parameters could be studied with high accuracy. The resolution of the beam position measurement was better than 0.1 mm with beam currents down to 0.0005 mA.  
 
THPLT055 Longitudinal Phase Space Characterization of the CTF3 Beam with the RF Deflector simulation, quadrupole, linac, transverse-dynamics 2610
 
  • D. Alesini, C. Biscari, A. Ghigo, F. Marcellini
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • R. Corsini
    CERN, Geneva
  The characterization of the longitudinal phase space of the CTF3 beam is an important item for tuning all machine parameters and increase the 30 GHz power production. By means of an RF deflector and a dispersive system the longitudinal phase space can be completely characterized. In this paper we present the simulation of the measurement and the mechanical layout of the full system.  
 
THPLT165 Synchrotron Light Interferometry at JEFFERSON Lab synchrotron, betatron, instrumentation, monitoring 2846
 
  • A. Freyberger, P. Chevtsov, T. Day, R. Hicks
    Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
  • J-C. Denard
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
  The hyper-nuclear physics program at JLAB requires an upper limit on the RMS momentum spread of dp/p<3e-5. The momentum spread is determined by measuring the beam width at a dispersive location (D~4m) in the transport line to the experimental halls. Ignoring the epsilon-beta contribution to the intrinsic beam size, this momentum spread corresponds to an upper bound on the beam width of σ_beam<120um. Typical techniques to measure and monitor the beam size are either invasive or do not have the resolution to measure such small beam sizes. Using interferometry of the synchrotron light produced in the dispersive bend, the resolution of the optical system can be made very small. The non-invasive nature of this measurement allows continuous monitoring of the momentum spread. Two synchrotron light interferometers have been built and installed at JLAB, one each in the Hall-A and Hall-C transport lines. The devices operate over a beam current range from 1uA to 100uA and have a spatial resolution of 10um. The structure of the interferometers, the experience gained during its installation, beam measurements and momentum spread stability are presented. The dependence of the measured momentum spread on beam current will be presented.