Author: Boorman, G.E.
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MOPP129 Status of the FETS Project 361
 
  • A.P. Letchford, M.A. Clarke-Gayther, D.C. Faircloth, S.R. Lawrie
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • S.M.H. Alsari, M. Aslaninejad, J.K. Pozimski, P. Savage
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • J.J. Back
    University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
  • G.E. Boorman, A. Bosco, S.M. Gibson
    Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
  • R.T.P. D'Arcy, S. Jolly
    UCL, London, United Kingdom
  • M. Dudman, J.K. Pozimski
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • D.C. Plostinar
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
 
  The Front End Test Stand (FETS) under construction at RAL is a demonstrator for front end systems of a future high power proton linac. Possible applications include a linac upgrade for the ISIS spallation neutron source, new future neutron sources, accelerator driven sub-critical systems, high energy physics proton drivers etc. Designed to deliver a 60mA H-minus beam at 3MeV with a 10% duty factor, FETS consists of a high brightness ion source, magnetic low energy beam transport (LEBT), 4-vane 324MHz radio frequency quadrupole, medium energy beam transport (MEBT) containing a high speed beam chopper and non-destructive laser diagnostics. This paper describes the current status of the project and future plans.  
 
TUPP035 Transverse Profile and Emittance Measurements With a Laser Stripping System During the CERN LINAC4 Commissioning at 3 and 12 MeV 506
 
  • F. Roncarolo, E. Bravin, T. Hofmann, U. Raich, F. Zocca
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • G.E. Boorman, A. Bosco, S.M. Gibson, K.O. Kruchinin
    Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
  • C. Gabor
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • J.K. Pozimski
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
 
  The CERN LINAC4 beam commissioning at 3 and 12 MeV was completed in 2014. A novel system for measuring the transverse beam profile and emittance, based on low power laser stripping and H0 detection using a diamond detector, was successfully tested at these two energies. The measurement results agree with the operational slit-grid method within a few percent in terms of both transverse profile and emittance. After describing the general system setup, this remarkable achievement is discussed in detail together with the present limitations, which will be addressed in order to design a laser based emittance monitor for the LINAC4 top energy of 160 MeV.