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| TUPCH011 |
Innovative Beam Diagnostics for the Challenging FAIR Project
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- P. Forck, A. Peters
GSI, Darmstadt
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The planned FAIR facility consists of two heavy ion synchrotrons and four large storage rings. The super-conducting synchrotrons are build for high current operation and secondary ion production. A large variety of low current secondary beams is stored and cooled in the four storage rings. A complex operation scheme with multiple use of transport lines is foreseen. This demands an exceptional high dynamic range for the beam instrumentation. Due to the enormous beam power, non-destructive methods are mandatory for high currents. For the low current secondary beams, non-destructive diagnostics are also preferred due to the low repetition rate. Precise measurements of all beam parameters and automatic steering or feedback capabilities are required due to the necessary exploitation of the full ring acceptances. Moreover, online beam-corrections with short response times are mandatory for the fast ramping super-conducting magnets. Due to the ultra-high vacuum condition and the demanding measurement accuracy, novel technical solution are foreseen. An overview of the challenges and projected innovative solutions for various diagnostic installations will be given.
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| TUPCH012 |
Digital Techniques in BPM Measurements at GSI-ISI
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- A.A. Galatis, P. Kowina, K. Lang, A. Peters
GSI, Darmstadt
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In this paper we describe new approaches for BPM measurements in hadron accelerators, which have strongly varying beam parameters such as intensity, accelerating frequency and bunch length. Following signal dynamic adjustment, direct digitalization and treatment of digitized data, we should reach a BPM resolution of 0.1mm. Interchangeability of this method between accelerators should be provided, which results in autonomous data treatment algorithms, free of external status and timing signalling. This should ensure the usability of the system in other bunched accelerator rings. Different operation modes are intended for allowing online storage of beam position data over full acceleration cycles as well as storage of beam waveforms in regions of acceleration that are of special interest e.g. transition, kicking, bunch gymnastics. First results of realised hardware/software combinations will be introduced and discussed.
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| TUPCH015 |
Integrated Beam Diagnostics Systems for HICAT and CNAO
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- A. Reiter, A. Peters, M. Schwickert
GSI, Darmstadt
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An integrated system for beam diagnostics was produced at GSI for the heavy-ion cancer treatment facility HICAT of the Heidelberg university clinics. A set of 92 manifold beam diagnostic devices allows automated measurements of the main beam parameters such as beam current, profile or energy. The beam diagnostic subsystem is completely integrated in the overall accelerator control system and its timing scheme. This paper reports on the underlying design patterns for the abstraction of the beam diagnostic devices towards the control system. Event-counting devices, i.e. scintillating counters and ionization chambers, are presented as examples of the diagnostic devices in the synchrotron and high-energy beam transport section of HICAT. Additionally, it is shown that the well-defined building blocks of the beam instrumentation made it possible to prepare almost identical devices including the manual control software, to be used in the CNAO facility (Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica) presently under construction in Pavia, Italy.
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| TUPCH031 |
A New SQUID-based Measurement Tool for Characterization of Superconducting RF Cavities
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1070 |
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- K. Knaack, K. Wittenburg
DESY, Hamburg
- R. Neubert, S. Nietzsche, W. Vodel
FSU Jena, Jena
- A. Peters
GSI, Darmstadt
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In this contribution a LTS-SQUID based measurement tool for characterization of superconducting RF cavities for the upcoming X-FEL project at DESY will be presented. The device makes use of the Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) principle and measures the so-called dark current, generated e.g. by superconducting cavities at high voltage gradients. To achieve the maximum possible energy the gradients should be pushed near to the physical limit of 50 MV/m. The measurement of the undesired field emission of electrons (the so-called dark current) in correlation with the gradient will give a proper value to characterize the performance of the RF cavities. The CCC mainly consists of a high performance LTS-DC SQUID system which is able to measure extremely low magnetic fields, e.g. caused by the extracted dark current of the RF cavities. Therefore, a special designed toroidal niobium pick-up coil for the passing electron beam is superconducting connected across the input coil of the SQUID. The noise limited sensitivity of the CCC as well as new experimental results with the whole measurement device assembled in a special wide-necked LHe cryostat will be presented.
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Status of the Linac-commissioning for the Heavy Ion Cancer Therapy Facility HIT
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- M.T. Maier, R. Baer, W. Barth, L.A. Dahl, C. Dorn, T.G. Fleck, L. Groening, C.M. Kleffner, C. Müller, A. Peters, B. Schlitt, M. Schwickert, K. Tinschert, H. Vormann
GSI, Darmstadt
- R. Cee, B. Naas, S. Scheloske, T. Winkelmann
HIT, Heidelberg
- U. Ratzinger, A. Schempp
IAP, Frankfurt-am-Main
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A clinical facility for cancer therapy using energetic proton and ion beams (C, He and O) is under construction and will be installed at the Radiologische Universitätsklinik in Heidelberg, Germany. It consists of two ECR ion sources, a 7 MeV/u linac injector and a 6.5 Tm synchrotron to accelerate the ions to final energies of 50-430 MeV/u. The linac comprises a 400 keV/u RFQ and a 7 MeV/u IH-DTL operating at 216.8 MHz. In this contribution the current status of the linear accelerator is reported. After first tests with 1H+ beam of the RFQ at GSI, the commissioning of the accelerator in Heidelberg has already started. The commissioning with beam is performed in three steps for the LEBT, the RFQ and the IH-DTL. For this purpose a versatile beam diagnostic test bench has been designed. It consists of a slit-grid emittance measurement device, transverse pick-ups providing for time of flight energy measurements, SEM-profile grids and different devices for beam current measurements. This paper will provide for a status report of the linac-commissioning.
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