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A Wideband Intercepting Probe for the TRIUMF Cyclotron
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- V.A. Verzilov, D. Cameron, D.T. Gray, S. Kellogg, M. Minato, W.R. Rawnsley
TRIUMF, Vancouver
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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.
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