Author: Higashiya, A.
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TUPC094 Development of High-speed Differential Current-transformer Monitor 1227
 
  • S. Matsubara, H. Ego, K. Yanagida
    JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan
  • A. Higashiya, S.I. Inoue, Y. Otake
    RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan
  • H. Maesaka
    RIKEN Spring-8 Harima, Hyogo, Japan
 
  The XFEL, which was named SACLA, was constructed in the SPring-8 site. In the SACLA, the bunch length of an electron beam is compressed from 1 ns to 30 fs, and the beam charge is decreased to obtain a genuine electron beam from 1nC to 0.3 nC for lasing. A new current-transformer (CT) monitor, which should measure the charge of the electron beam and make bunch length observation in velocity bunching process, was developed with two advantageous properties. One is differential output signal which suppresses common-mode noise from the thyratron of a klystron modulator by a factor of ten. Another property is high-speed signal output which provides a possibility to measure the bunch length and the time-of-flight (TOF) at the injector part of the SACLA. The output signal has 200 ps rise-time and a pulse width of 400 ps (FWHM) for an impulse beam. We successfully observed the bunch length between 1 ns and 400 ps around a 238 MHz buncher cavity. Moreover, we measured the TOF between two CTs with a few picoseconds resolution for a low-energy beam around 1 MeV. Thus, the new CT performance was confirmed to be sufficient for the SACLA.