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MOPOPT042 | Recent AWAKE Diagnostics Development and Operational Results | 343 |
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The Advanced Wakefield Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN investigates the Plasma-Wakefield acceleration of electrons driven by a relativistic proton bunch. After successfully demonstrating the acceleration process in the AWAKE Run 1, the experiment has now started the Run 2. The AWAKE Run 2 consists of several experimental periods that aim to demonstrate the feasibility of the AWAKE concept beyond the acceleration experiment, showing its feasibility as accelerator for particle physics application. As part of these developments, a dramatic effort in improving the AWAKE instrumentation is sustained. This contribution reports on the current developments of the instrumentation pool upgrade, including the digital camera system for transverse beam profile measurement, beam halo measurement and the spectrometer upgrade studies. The studies on the development of high-frequency beam position monitors are also described. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOPT042 | |
About • | Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 13 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 23 June 2022 | |
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MOPOPT048 | Design of a Prototype Gas Jet Profile Monitor for Installation Into the Large Hadron Collider at CERN | 363 |
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The Beam-Gas Curtain or BGC is the baseline instrument for monitoring the concentricity of the LHC proton beam with a hollow electron beam for the hollow e-lens (HEL) beam halo suppression device which is part of the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade. The proof-of-principles experiments of this gas-jet monitor have now been developed into a prototype instrument which has been built for integration into the LHC ring and is now under phased installation for operation in the upcoming LHC run. This paper describes the challenges overcome to produce a gas-jet fluorescence monitor for the ultra-high vacuum accelerator environment. It also presents preliminary results from the installation of the instrument at CERN. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOPT048 | |
About • | Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 13 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 17 June 2022 | |
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MOPOPT053 | A Beam Position Monitor for Electron Bunch Detection in the Presence of a More Intense Proton Bunch for the AWAKE Experiment | 381 |
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The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN uses 6 cm long proton bunches extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at 400 GeV beam energy to drive high gradient plasma wakefields for the acceleration of electron bunches to 2 GeV within a 10 m length. Knowledge and control of the position of both copropagating beams is crucial for the operation of the experiment. Whilst the current electron beam position monitoring system at AWAKE can be used in the absence of the proton beam, the proton bunch signal dominates when both particle bunches are present simultaneously. A new technique based on the generation of Cherenkov diffraction radiation (ChDR) in a dielectric material placed in close proximity to the particle beam has been designed to exploit the large bunch length difference of the particle beams at AWAKE, 200 ps for protons versus a few ps for electrons, such that the electron signal dominates. Hence, this technique would allow for the position measurement of a short electron bunch in the presence of a more intense but longer proton bunch. The design considerations, numerical analysis and plans for tests at the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR) facility are presented. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOPT053 | |
About • | Received ※ 20 May 2022 — Revised ※ 09 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 10 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 17 June 2022 | |
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MOPOPT056 | Commissioning of a Gas Jet Beam Profile Monitor for EBTS and LHC | 393 |
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Funding: This work is supported by the HL-LHC-UK II project funded by STFC and CERN and the STFC Cockcroft core grant No. ST/G008248/1. A gas jet beam profile monitor was designed for measuring the electron beam at the electron beam test stand (EBTS) for the Hollow electron lens (HEL) and the proton beam in the large hadron collider (LHC). It is partially installed in the LHC during the second long shutdown. The current monitor is tailored to the accelerator environment including vacuum, geometry, and magnetic field for both the EBTS and the LHC. It features a compact design, a higher gas jet density, and a wider curtain size for a better integration time and a larger detecting range. In this contribution, the commissioning of this monitor at the Cockcroft Institute will be discussed. |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOPT056 | |
About • | Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 23 June 2022 | |
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WEPOST039 | Mapping Charge Capture and Acceleration in a Plasma Wakefield of a Proton Bunch Using Variable Emittance Electron Beam Injection | 1780 |
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In the Phase 2 of the AWAKE first experimental run (from May to November 2018), an electron beam was used to probe and test proton-driven wakefield accelera-tion in a rubidium plasma column. The witness electron bunches were produced using an RF-gun equipped with a Cs2Te photocathode illuminated by a tailorable ultrafast ultraviolet (UV) laser pulse. The construction of the UV beam optical system enabled appropriate transverse beam shaping and control of its pulse duration, size, and position on the photocathode, as well as time delay with respect to the ionizing laser pulse that seeds the plasma wakefields in the proton bunches. Variable photocathode illumination provided the required flexibility to produce electron bunches with variable charge, emittance, and injection trajectory into the plasma column. In this work, we analyze the overall charge capture and shot-to-shot reproducibility of the proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator with various UV illumination and electron bunch injection parameters. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST039 | |
About • | Received ※ 23 May 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 29 June 2022 | |
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THOYGD1 | Experimental Verification of Several Theoretical Models for ChDR Description | 2420 |
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In recent years the potential of using Cherenkov Diffraction Radiation (ChDR) as a tool for non-invasive beam diagnostics has been thoroughly investigated. Although several theoretical models of ChDR have been developed, differences in their assumptions result in inconsistent predictions. The experimental verification is therefore needed in order to fully understand ranges of validity of available models. In this contribution we present a detailed theoretical study of the radiation yield as a function of the beam-radiator distance. Following identification of beam parameters and frequency range for which differences between the model predictions are most prominent, we compare theoretical estimates with the results of a dedicated experiment. | ||
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THOYGD1 | |
About • | Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 15 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 19 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 27 June 2022 | |
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