IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Christian, G.B.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPO017	Latest Performance Results from the FONT5 Intra-train Position and Angle Feedback System at ATF2	520
	G.B. Christian, D.R. Bett, M.R. Davis, C. Perry JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom R. Apsimon, P. Burrows Oxford University, Physics Department, Oxford, Oxon, United Kingdom B. Constance, A. Gerbershagen CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Resta-López IFIC, Valencia, Spain
	A prototype Interaction Point beam-based feedback system for future electron-positron colliders, such as the International Linear Collider, has been designed and tested on the extraction line of the KEK Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). The FONT5 intra-train feedback system aims to stabilize the beam orbit by correcting both the position and angle jitter in the vertical plane on bunch-to-bunch timescales, providing micron-level stability at the entrance to the ATF2 final-focus system. The system comprises three stripline beam position monitors (BPMs) and two stripline kickers, custom low-latency analogue front-end BPM processors, a custom FPGA-based digital processing board with fast ADCs, and custom kicker-drive amplifiers. An overview of the hardware, and the latest results from beam tests at ATF2, will be presented. A total system latency as low as approximately 140 ns has been demonstrated.

TUPC128	Transverse Beam Jitter Propagation in Multi-bunch Operation at ATF2	1320
	J. Resta-López, J. Alabau-Gonzalvo IFIC, Valencia, Spain P. Burrows, G.B. Christian JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom B. Constance CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Pulse-to-pulse orbit jitter, if not controlled, can drastically degrade the luminosity in future linear colliders. The second goal of the ATF2 project at the KEK accelerator test facility is to stabilize the vertical beam position down to approximately 5% of the nominal rms vertical beam size at the virtual interaction point (IP). This will require control of the orbit to better than 1 micrometer at the entrance of the ATF2 final focus system. In this paper, by means of computer simulations, we study the vertical jitter propagation along the ATF2 from the start of the extraction line to the IP. For this study pulse-to-pulse vertical jitter measurements using three stripline beam position monitors are used as initial inputs. This study is performed for the case of a bunch-train with three bunches, but could easily be extended for a larger number of bunches. The cases with and without intra-train orbit feedback correction in the extraction line of ATF2 are compared.

TUPC157	Design and Initial Results of a Turn-by-Turn Beam Position Monitoring System for Multiple Bunch Operation of the ATF Damping Ring	1398
	G.B. Christian, D.R. Bett, M.R. Davis, C. Perry JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom R. Apsimon, P. Burrows Oxford University, Physics Department, Oxford, Oxon, United Kingdom B. Constance, A. Gerbershagen CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Resta-López IFIC, Valencia, Spain
	An FPGA-based monitoring system has been developed to study multi-bunch beam instabilities in the damping ring (DR) of the KEK Accelerator Test Facility (ATF), utilising a stripline beam position monitor (BPM) and existing BPM processor hardware. The system is designed to record the horizontal and/or vertical positions of up to three bunches in the DR in single-bunch multi-train mode or the head bunch of up to three trains in multi-bunch mode, with a bunch spacing of 5.6 ns. The FPGA firmware and data acquisition software were modified to record turn-by-turn data for up to six channels and 1–3 bunches in the DR. An overview of the system and initial results will be presented.

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Latest Performance Results from the FONT5 Intra-train Position and Angle Feedback System at ATF2

520

G.B. Christian, D.R. Bett, M.R. Davis, C. Perry
JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
R. Apsimon, P. Burrows
Oxford University, Physics Department, Oxford, Oxon, United Kingdom
B. Constance, A. Gerbershagen
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Resta-López
IFIC, Valencia, Spain

A prototype Interaction Point beam-based feedback system for future electron-positron colliders, such as the International Linear Collider, has been designed and tested on the extraction line of the KEK Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). The FONT5 intra-train feedback system aims to stabilize the beam orbit by correcting both the position and angle jitter in the vertical plane on bunch-to-bunch timescales, providing micron-level stability at the entrance to the ATF2 final-focus system. The system comprises three stripline beam position monitors (BPMs) and two stripline kickers, custom low-latency analogue front-end BPM processors, a custom FPGA-based digital processing board with fast ADCs, and custom kicker-drive amplifiers. An overview of the hardware, and the latest results from beam tests at ATF2, will be presented. A total system latency as low as approximately 140 ns has been demonstrated.

TUPC128

Transverse Beam Jitter Propagation in Multi-bunch Operation at ATF2

1320

J. Resta-López, J. Alabau-Gonzalvo
IFIC, Valencia, Spain
P. Burrows, G.B. Christian
JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
B. Constance
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Pulse-to-pulse orbit jitter, if not controlled, can drastically degrade the luminosity in future linear colliders. The second goal of the ATF2 project at the KEK accelerator test facility is to stabilize the vertical beam position down to approximately 5% of the nominal rms vertical beam size at the virtual interaction point (IP). This will require control of the orbit to better than 1 micrometer at the entrance of the ATF2 final focus system. In this paper, by means of computer simulations, we study the vertical jitter propagation along the ATF2 from the start of the extraction line to the IP. For this study pulse-to-pulse vertical jitter measurements using three stripline beam position monitors are used as initial inputs. This study is performed for the case of a bunch-train with three bunches, but could easily be extended for a larger number of bunches. The cases with and without intra-train orbit feedback correction in the extraction line of ATF2 are compared.

TUPC157

Design and Initial Results of a Turn-by-Turn Beam Position Monitoring System for Multiple Bunch Operation of the ATF Damping Ring

1398

G.B. Christian, D.R. Bett, M.R. Davis, C. Perry
JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
R. Apsimon, P. Burrows
Oxford University, Physics Department, Oxford, Oxon, United Kingdom
B. Constance, A. Gerbershagen
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Resta-López
IFIC, Valencia, Spain

An FPGA-based monitoring system has been developed to study multi-bunch beam instabilities in the damping ring (DR) of the KEK Accelerator Test Facility (ATF), utilising a stripline beam position monitor (BPM) and existing BPM processor hardware. The system is designed to record the horizontal and/or vertical positions of up to three bunches in the DR in single-bunch multi-train mode or the head bunch of up to three trains in multi-bunch mode, with a bunch spacing of 5.6 ns. The FPGA firmware and data acquisition software were modified to record turn-by-turn data for up to six channels and 1–3 bunches in the DR. An overview of the system and initial results will be presented.