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Kellogg, S.

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TUPCH006 A Wideband Intercepting Probe for the TRIUMF Cyclotron 1001
 
  • V.A. Verzilov, D. Cameron, D.T. Gray, S. Kellogg, M. Minato, W.R. Rawnsley
    TRIUMF, Vancouver
 
  An intercepting probe for the TRIUMF cyclotron capable of measuring the phase and time structure of the circulating beam was designed, manufactured, installed into the tank and tested. A model of the probe head in the form of a 50 Ohm parallel plate transmission line was developed and simulated to operate up to 2 GHz. Thermal simulations show that the probe can withstand at least 500 nA of average current for the 500 MeV beam. In laboratory tests the probe demonstrated a bandwidth in excess of 1 GHz. The probe was mounted on a 3 m long drive and is capable of travelling over 0.5 m at an angle of 27 degree w.r.t. the cyclotron radius. The signals extracted from the probe are processed by a pair of diplexers, where low frequency and high frequency components are separated. The low frequency signal is directed to our standard electronics for processing and provides both dc current and a time of flight signal with a rise time of about 100 ns. At the high frequency output a signal-to-noise ratio of about 4 at 250 nA average current and 0.1 % duty cycle was measured in the presence of rf background from the cyclotron resonators. A bunch time structure as short as 1 ns was resolved.