IPAC2022 - List of Authors (Marcos, J.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPOMS027	ALBA II Acelerator Upgrade Project	1467
	F. Pérez, I. Bellafont, G. Benedetti, J. Campmany, M. Carlà, J.J. Casas, C. Colldelram, F.F.B. Fernández, J.C. Giraldo, T.F. Günzel, U. Iriso, J. Marcos, Z. Martí, V. Massana, R. Muñoz Horta, M. Pont, L. Ribó, P. Solans, L. Torino ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	ALBA is working on the upgrade project that shall transform the actual storage ring, in operation since 2012, into a 4th generation light source, in which the soft X-rays part of the spectrum shall be diffraction limited. The project has been officially launched in 2021 and a White Paper presenting the main concepts of the upgrade has been published in Spring 2022. The storage ring upgrade is based on a 6BA lattice which has to comply with several constraints imposed by the decision of maintaining the same circumference (269 m), the same number of cells (16), the same beam energy (3 GeV), and as many of the source points as possible unperturbed. The lattice optimization has achieved an emittance of 140 pm.rad, which is a factor 30 smaller than that of the existing ring, but with an array compactness that presents technological challenges for the magnets, vacuum, diagnostics, RF systems and injection elements designs that are being investigated through an intensive R&D program.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOMS027
About •	Received ※ 06 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 17 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 23 June 2022
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THPOPT065	Operation of X-Ray Beam Position Monitors with Zero Bias Voltage at Alba Front Ends	2747
	J. Marcos, U. Iriso, V. Massana, R. Monge, D. Yépez ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	Blade-type X-ray Beam Position Monitors (XBPMs) are customarily operated with a negative bias voltage applied to the blades in order to prevent the transference of photoelectrons between the blades, and hence to maximize the signal at each blade and to avoid cross-talk. This was the selected approach at ALBA since the start of its operation for users in 2012. However, over the years the insulation provided by the ceramic pieces separating the blades from the support structure has degraded progressively, giving rise to an ever-increasing leakage current not related with the photon beam to be monitored. On 2020 the level of these leak currents had already become comparable to the photocurrents generated by the photon beam itself, making the readings from many of the XBPMs unreliable. Following the example from other facilities, we decided to remove the bias voltage from the blades and to test the performance of the XBPMs under these conditions, with such good results that we apply this method also for the new, non degraded, XBPMs. In this paper we present the approach used at ALBA to analyse XBPM data, and our experience operating them with zero bias voltage.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOPT065
About •	Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 29 June 2022
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ALBA II Acelerator Upgrade Project

1467

F. Pérez, I. Bellafont, G. Benedetti, J. Campmany, M. Carlà, J.J. Casas, C. Colldelram, F.F.B. Fernández, J.C. Giraldo, T.F. Günzel, U. Iriso, J. Marcos, Z. Martí, V. Massana, R. Muñoz Horta, M. Pont, L. Ribó, P. Solans, L. Torino
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

ALBA is working on the upgrade project that shall transform the actual storage ring, in operation since 2012, into a 4th generation light source, in which the soft X-rays part of the spectrum shall be diffraction limited. The project has been officially launched in 2021 and a White Paper presenting the main concepts of the upgrade has been published in Spring 2022. The storage ring upgrade is based on a 6BA lattice which has to comply with several constraints imposed by the decision of maintaining the same circumference (269 m), the same number of cells (16), the same beam energy (3 GeV), and as many of the source points as possible unperturbed. The lattice optimization has achieved an emittance of 140 pm.rad, which is a factor 30 smaller than that of the existing ring, but with an array compactness that presents technological challenges for the magnets, vacuum, diagnostics, RF systems and injection elements designs that are being investigated through an intensive R&D program.

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Received ※ 06 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 17 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 23 June 2022

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THPOPT065

Operation of X-Ray Beam Position Monitors with Zero Bias Voltage at Alba Front Ends

2747

J. Marcos, U. Iriso, V. Massana, R. Monge, D. Yépez
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Blade-type X-ray Beam Position Monitors (XBPMs) are customarily operated with a negative bias voltage applied to the blades in order to prevent the transference of photoelectrons between the blades, and hence to maximize the signal at each blade and to avoid cross-talk. This was the selected approach at ALBA since the start of its operation for users in 2012. However, over the years the insulation provided by the ceramic pieces separating the blades from the support structure has degraded progressively, giving rise to an ever-increasing leakage current not related with the photon beam to be monitored. On 2020 the level of these leak currents had already become comparable to the photocurrents generated by the photon beam itself, making the readings from many of the XBPMs unreliable. Following the example from other facilities, we decided to remove the bias voltage from the blades and to test the performance of the XBPMs under these conditions, with such good results that we apply this method also for the new, non degraded, XBPMs. In this paper we present the approach used at ALBA to analyse XBPM data, and our experience operating them with zero bias voltage.

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOPT065

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Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 29 June 2022

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