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MOPORI01 A Multi-Camera System for Tomographic Beam Diagnostics 215
 
  • A. Ateş, G. Blank, H. Hähnel, U. Ratzinger
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
  A prototype of a beam-induced residual gas fluorescence monitor (BIF) has been developed and successfully tested at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) of the Goethe University Frankfurt. This BIF is based on ten single-board cameras inserted into the vacuum and directed onto the beam axis. The overall goal is to study the beam with tomography algorithms at a low energy beam transport section. Recently, we tested the detector with a 60keV, 15mA proton beam at 20Hz and 1ms puls length. In this paper we present the ongoing investigations on image processing and application of the algebraic reconstruction technique (ART).  
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About • Received ※ 20 August 2022 — Revised ※ 21 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 28 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 01 September 2022
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MOPORI02 Implementation of an Advanced MicroTCA.4-based Digitizer for Monitoring Comb-Like Beam at the J-PARC Linac 219
 
  • E. Cicek, K. Futatsukawa, T. Miyao, S. Mizobata
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • N. Hayashi, A. Miura, K. Moriya
    JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
 
  The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) linac beam pulse, generated by a beam chopper system placed at the MEBT, comprises a series of intermediate pulses with a comb-like structure synchronized with the radio-frequency of the rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS). The sequentially measuring and monitoring the comb-like beam pulse ensures the beam stability with less beam loss at the current operation and higher beam intensity scenarios at the J-PARC. However, signal processing as a function of the pulse structure is challenging using a general-purpose digitizer, and monitoring the entire macro pulse during the beam operation is unavailable. To this end, an advanced beam monitor digitizer complying with the MicroTCA.4 (MicroTelecommunications Computing Architecture.4) standard, including digital signal processing functions, has been developed. This paper reports the implementation, performance evaluation, and the first results of this unique beam monitor digitizer.  
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About • Received ※ 13 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 22 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 01 September 2022  
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MOPORI03 Development of Quantum Gas Jet Beam Profile Monitor for Sub-mm Beams 223
 
  • N. Kumar, O. Stringer, C.P. Welsch, J. Wolfenden, H.D. Zhang
    The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • N. Kumar, C.P. Welsch, J. Wolfenden, H.D. Zhang
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • I. Maltusch
    FH Aachen, Jülich, Germany
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the STFC grants ST/W000687/1 and ST/W002159/1, InnovateUK Germinator 10004615, HL-LHC-UK project funded by STFC and CERN and the STFC Cockcroft core grant No. ST/G008248/1.
The development work of a high-resolution quantum gas jet beam profile monitor for highly energetic sub-mm particle beams is in progress at the Cockcroft Institute (CI), UK. This device is designed on the principle of detecting the secondary ions from the ionisation induced in the interaction between the quantum gas jet and charged particle beams. This monitor aims to generate an intense gas jet with a diameter of less than 100 µm, which can ultimately lead to superior position resolution and high signal intensity resulting from a strongly focused quantum gas jet. This is done by exploiting the quantum wave feature of the neutral gas atoms to generate an interference pattern with a single maximum acting as an ultra-thin gas jet using an ’atom sieve’ which is similar to the light focusing with a Fresnel zone plate. This device will be minimally interceptive and will work analogously to a mechanical wire scanner. This contribution gives a general overview of the design, working principle of the monitor and experimental results obtained from the electron beam profile measurements carried out at the Cockcroft Institute.
 
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About • Received ※ 13 August 2022 — Revised ※ 16 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 30 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 01 September 2022
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MOPORI04 A Gas Jet Beam Halo Monitor for LINACs 227
 
  • O. Stringer, N. Kumar, C.P. Welsch, H.D. Zhang
    The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • N. Kumar, O. Stringer, C.P. Welsch, H.D. Zhang
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  The gas jet beam profile monitor is a non-invasive beam monitor that is currently being commissioned at the Cockcroft Institute. It utilises a supersonic gas curtain which traverses the beam perpendicular to its propagation and measures beam-induced ionisation interactions of the gas. A 2D transverse beam profile image is created by orientating the gas jet 45 degrees to obtain both X and Y distributions of the beam. This paper builds upon previously used single-slit skimmers and improves their ability to form the gas jet into a desired distribution for imaging beam halo. A skimmer device removes off-momentum gas particles and forms the jet into a dense thin curtain, suitable for transverse imaging of the beam. The use of a novel double-slit skimmer is shown to provide a mask-like void of gas over the beam core, increasing the relative intensity of the halo interactions for measurement. Such a non-invasive monitor would be beneficial to linacs by providing real time beam characteristic measurements without affecting the beam. More specifically, beam halo behaviour is a key characteristic associated with beam losses within linacs.  
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About • Received ※ 24 August 2022 — Revised ※ 26 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 31 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 13 October 2022
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MOPORI05 Application of Virtual Diagnostics in the FEBE Clara User Area 231
 
  • J. Wolfenden, C. Swain, C.P. Welsch
    The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • D.J. Dunning, J.K. Jones, T.H. Pacey, A.E. Pollard
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • C. Swain, C.P. Welsch, J. Wolfenden
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the AWAKE-UK phase II project funded by STFC and the STFC Cockcroft core grant No. ST/G008248/1.
Successful user experiments at particle beam facilities are dependent upon the awareness of beam characteristics at the interaction point. Often, properties are measured beforehand for fixed operation modes; users then rely on the long-term stability of the beam. Otherwise, diagnostics must be integrated into a user experiment, costing resources and limiting space in the user area. This contribution proposes the application of machine learning to develop a suite of virtual diagnostic systems. Virtual diagnostics take data at easy to access locations, and infer beam properties at locations where a measurement has not been taken, and often cannot be taken. Here the focus is the user area at the planned Full Energy Beam Exploitation (FEBE) upgrade to the CLARA facility (UK). Presented is a simulation-based proof-of-concept for a variety of virtual diagnostics. Transverse and longitudinal properties are measured upstream of the user area, coupled with the beam optics parameters leading to the user area, and input into a neural network, to predict the same parameters within the user area. Potential instrumentation for FEBE CLARA virtual diagnostics will also be discussed.
 
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About • Received ※ 17 August 2022 — Revised ※ 22 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 28 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 01 September 2022
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MOPORI06 Improvements on the Modified Nomarski Interferometer for Measurements of Supersonic Gas Jet Density Profiles 235
 
  • C. Swain, Ö. Apsimon, A. Salehilashkajani, C.P. Welsch, J. Wolfenden, H.D. Zhang
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • Ö. Apsimon, A. Salehilashkajani, C. Swain, C.P. Welsch, J. Wolfenden, H.D. Zhang
    The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the AWAKE-UK phase II project funded by STFC, the STFC Cockcroft core grant No. ST/G008248/1 and the HL-LHC-UK phase II project funded by STFC under Grant Ref: ST/T001925/1.
For supersonic gas jet based beam profile monitors such as that developed for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) upgrade, density profile is a key characteristic. Due to this, non-invasive diagnostics to study the jet’s behaviour have been designed. A Nomarski interferometer was constructed to image jets 30 um to 1 mm in diameter and study changes in their density. A microscope lens has been integrated into the original interferometer system to capture phase changes on a much smaller scale than previous experiments have achieved. This contribution presents the optimisation and results gained from this interferometer.
 
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About • Received ※ 14 August 2022 — Revised ※ 24 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 29 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 01 September 2022
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MOPORI08 Beam Mapping Linearity Improvement in Multi-Dimensional Bunch Shape Monitor 239
 
  • S.V. Kutsaev, R.B. Agustsson, A.C. Araujo Martinez, A. Moro, A.Yu. Smirnov, K.V. Taletski
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
  • A.V. Aleksandrov, A.A. Menshov
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy , Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under contract DE-SC0020590.
RadiaBeam is developing a Bunch Shape Monitor (BSM) with improved performance that incorporates three major innovations. First, the collection efficiency is im-proved by adding a focusing field between the wire and the entrance slit. Second, a new design of an RF deflector improves beam linearity. Finally, the design is augmented with both a movable wire and a microwave deflecting cavity to add functionality and enable measuring the transverse profile as a wire scanner. In this paper, we pre-sent the design of the BSM and its sub-systems.
 
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About • Received ※ 24 August 2022 — Revised ※ 01 September 2022 — Accepted ※ 02 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 09 September 2022
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MOPORI10 First Studies of 5D Phase-Space Tomography of Electron Beams at ARES 247
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  • S. Jaster-Merz, R.W. Aßmann, R. Brinkmann, F. Burkart, T. Vinatier
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • R.W. Aßmann
    LNF-INFN, Frascati, Italy
 
  A new beam diagnostics method to reconstruct the full 5-dimensional phase space (x, x’, y, y’, t) of bunches has recently been proposed. This method combines a quadrupole-based transverse phase-space tomography with the variable streaking angle of a polarizable X-band transverse deflecting structure (PolariX TDS). Two of these novel structures have recently been installed at the ARES beamline at DESY, which is a linear accelerator dedicated to accelerator research and development, including advanced diagnostics methods and novel accelerating techniques. In this paper, realistic simulation studies in preparation for planned experimental measurements are presented using the beamline setup at ARES. The reconstruction quality of the method for three beam distributions is studied and discussed, and it is shown how this method will allow the visualization of detailed features in the phase-space distribution.  
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About • Received ※ 22 August 2022 — Revised ※ 27 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 01 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 09 September 2022
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