IHEP CSNS, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China
IHEP, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
UCAS, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
The Associated Proton beam Experiment Platform (APEP) beamline is the first proton irradiation facility to use naturally-stripped protons which come from H− beams interacting with the residual gas in the linac beampipe at CSNS. The stripped beam current, which is in the order of 0.1% of the original H− beam and approximately 10 mi-croamperes, should be measured precisely to provide the proton number for irradiation experiments. Therefore, a low-intensity beam current measurement system was developed with considerations to eliminate the external interferences. An anti-interference design is adopted in this system with an elaboration of probes, cables and electronic low-noise technology to minimize the impact of environmental noise and interferences. This improves the signal-to-noise ratio and enables a more precise measurement of the microampere-level pulsed beam cur-rent. The system was installed and tested during the summer maintenance in 2021 and 2022. It shows a good agreement with the measurement of the Faraday cup.
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IHEP CSNS, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China
IHEP, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
UCAS, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
During the upgrade of linac in CSNS-II, the beam in-jection energy will increase from 80.1MeV to 300MeV and the beam power from 100kW to 500kW. A com-bined layout of superconducting spoke cavities and ellip-tical cavities is adopted to accelerate H− beam to 300MeV. Due to a ~10ps short bunch width at the exit of the spoke SC section, the longitudinal beam density dis-tribution will be measured by bunch shape monitors using low energy secondary emission electrons. As the most important part of a bunch shape monitor, a prototype 324MHz RF deflector is designed and tuned on the basis of a quasi-symmetric λ/2 325MHz coaxial resona-tor, which was fabricated for the C-ADS proton accelera-tor project. Preliminary parameters of the bunch shape monitor are presented. Simulation of the RF deflector and test results in the laboratory are described and analysed.