213 research outputs found
On the calibration measurement of stripline beam position monitor for the ELI-NP facility
Stripline Beam Position Monitor (BPM) will be installed in the Compton Gamma Source in construction at the ELI Nuclear Physics facility in Romania. A test bench for the calibration of BPM has been built to characterize the device with stretched wire measurement in order to get the BPM response map. A full S-parameters characterization is performed as well to measure the electrical offset with the “Lambertson method”. This paper discusses the extensive simulations performed with full 3D electromagnetic CAD codes of the above measurements to investigate measurement accuracy, possible measurement artefacts and beam position reconstruction
Study of plasma wakefield acceleration mechanism for emittance dominated regimes via hybrid and pic simulations
Electron plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) mechanism is a promising non conventional
acceleration scheme. Nonetheless further investigation is still needed to fully uncover
the instability mechanisms so to mitigate them and make PWFA an effective tool. This
work focuses in this direction, we discuss the necessity to use well matched driver bunches
to further mitigate witness instabilities. Specifically we propose to inject driver bunches
with larger emittance than the matched one (overcompressed bunch) so to let the system
reach the matching condition by itself. This preliminary results lead us to the following
consideration: while a limited number of cases can be studied with a particle-in-cell code,
we understand the necessity for fast systematic analysis: we briefly introduce the hybrid
code Architect
Energy chirp measurements by means of an RF deflector: a case study the gamma beam source LINAC at ELI-NP
RF Deflector (RFD) based measurements are widely used in high–brightness electron LINAC around the world in order to measure the ultra–short electron bunch length. The RFD provides a vertical kick to the particles of the electron bunch according to their longitudinal positions. In this paper, a measurement technique for the bunch length and other bunch proprieties, based on the usage of an RFD, is proposed. The basic idea is to obtain information about the bunch length, energy chirp, and energy spread from vertical spot size measurements varying the RFD phase, because they add contributions on this quantity. The case study is the Gamma Beam System (GBS), the Compton Source being built in the Extreme Light Infrastructure–Nuclear Physics (ELI–NP) facility. The ELEctron Generation ANd Tracking (ELEGANT) code is used for tracking the particles from RFD to the measurement screen
Design and simulations of the cavity BPM readout electronics for the ELI-NP gamma beam system
Longitudinal and Transverse Wakefields Simulations and Studies in Dielectric-Coated Circular Waveguides
In recent years, there has been a growing interest and rapid experimental progress on the use of e.m. fields produced by electron beams passing through dielectric-lined structures and on the effects they might have on the drive and witness bunches. Short ultra-relativistic electron bunches can excite very intense wakefields, which provide an efficient acceleration through the dielectric wakefield accelerators (DWA) scheme with higher gradient than that in the conventional RF LINAC. These beams can also generate high power narrow band THz coherent Cherenkov radiation. These high gradient fields may create strong instabilities on the beam itself causing issues in plasma acceleration experiments (PWFA), plasma lensing experiments and in recent beam diagnostic applications. In this work we report the results of the simulations and studies of the wakefields generated by electron beams at different lengths and charges passing on and off axis in dielectric-coated circular waveguides. We also propose a semi-analytical method to calculate these high gradient fields without resorting to time consuming simulations
Beam diagnostics for charge and position measurements in ELI-NP GBS
The advanced source of Gamma-ray photons to be built in Bucharest (Romania), as part of the ELI-NP European Research Infrastructure, will generate photons by Compton back-scattering in the collision between a multi-bunch electron beam and a high intensity recirculated laser pulse. An S-Band photoinjector and the following C-band Linac at a maximum energy of 720MeV, under construction by an European consortium (EurogammaS) led by INFN, will operate at 100Hz repetition rate with trains of 32 electron bunches, separated by 16ns and a 250pC nominal charge. The different BPMs and current transformers used to measure transverse beam position and charge along the LINAC are described. Design criteria, production status and bench test results of the charge and position pickups are reported in the paper, together with the related data acquisition systems
A wireless method to obtain the impedance from scattering parameters
The coaxial wire method is a common and appreciated choice to assess the beam
coupling impedance (BCI) of an accelerator element. Nevertheless, the results
obtained from wire measurements could be inaccurate due to the presence of the
stretched conductive. The aim of this work is to establish a solid technique to obtain
the BCI from electromagnetic simulations, without modifications of the device
under test. In this framework, we identified a new relation to get the resistive wall
beam coupling impedance of a circular chamber directly from the scattering
parameters. Furthermore, a possible generalization of the method to arbitrary cross
section geometries has been studied and validated with numerical simulations
Measurements with the ELI-NP cavity Beam Position Monitor Read-out Electronics at FLASH
The Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics
Gamma Beam System (ELI-NP GBS) will be installed and
commissioned starting within the next year in Magurele,
Romania. It will generate gamma beam through Compton
back-scattering of a recirculated laser and a multi-bunch
electron beam, produced by a 720 MeV LINAC. In order
to obtain bunch by bunch position measurements, four cavity
beam position monitors (cBPM) near the two interaction
points are foreseen. Extensive tests on the cBPM readout
electronics, recently developed by Instrumentation
Technologies and acquired for ELI-NP GBS, were performed
in laboratory at INFN-LNF and at FLASH in
DESY, during the user operation. In the latter case, three
cBPMs installed along the LINAC, with similar features as
the ones of ELI-NP GBS, were used as measuring devices
and signal sources for the read-out electronics under test.
We present here the measurements collected and the related
analysis, with a particular focus on the beam position
measurement resolution
Plasma density profile characterization for resonant plasmawakefield acceleration experiment at SPARC-LAB
Thermal simulations for optical transition radiation screen for Eli-NP compton gamma source
The ELI-NP GBS (Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics Gamma Beam Source) is a high brightness elec-tron LINAC that is being built in Romania. The goal for this facility is to provide high luminosity gamma beam through Compton Backscattering. A train of 32 bunches at 100Hz with a nominal charge of 250pC is accelerated up to 740 MeV. Two interaction points with an IR Laser beam produces the gamma beam at different energies. In order to measure the electron beam spot size and the beam proper-ties along the train, the OTR screens must sustain the ther-mal and mechanical stress due to the energy deposited by the bunches. This paper is an ANSYS study of the issues due to the high quantity of energy transferred to the OTR screen. They will be shown different analysis, steady-state and thermal transient analysis, where the input loads will be the internal heat generation equivalent to the average power, deposited by the ELI-GBS beam in 512 ns, that is the train duration. Each analyses will be followed by the structural analysis to investigate the performance of the OTR materi
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