Electron induced molecular desorption of the RHIC beam pipes

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Use of maps in the exploration of electron cloud parameter space

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How to Use CSEC

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RF test benches for electron cloud studies

In the framework of the CERN program on the electron cloud effects in existing and future accelerators, a coaxial multipacting test stand was built. It consists of a 100 mm diameter vacuum chamber forming the outer conductor and 6 wires cage-aerial-type as the inner conductor. In order to simulate the bunched beam, this test stand is submitted to short RF pulses. The available field strength in a travelling wave mode allows to trigger electron multipacting in as received or baked stainless steel surfaces, but not in chambers treated to reduce the secondary emission yield. Thus a number of upgrades in the bench set-up have been pursued, mainly in two directions. The first one is a general improvement on mismatches and losses. Second, instead of dumping the pulsed power into a load, it is re-circulated in a multiple frequency ring resonator. For this purpose, we designed a directional coupler with several kV DC isolation, very low transmission losses and a four octave bandwidth. In this paper, we give an overview of the present status of the set-up highlighting the latest improvements

Maps, electron-clouds in RHIC and first-order phase-transitions

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Molecular Desorption of Baked Stainless Steel From Irradiation With 9 Gev/Nucleon au79+, 10 Gev/Nucleon cu29+, and 23gev P+ Under Perpendicular Impact.

We report on molecular desorption of baked stainless steel from irradiation with high energy ions under perpendicular impact. Ion induced molecular desorption has affected the performance of a number of ion accelerators, in which the beam loss typically occurs under small angles. However, experimental parameters can be easier controlled in measurements with perpendicular impact. Desorption coefficients for small angle impact can be estimated from these measurements. The measurements were carried out at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Measurements and calibration of the stripline BPM for the ELI-NP facility with the stretched wire method

A methodology has been developed to perform electrical characterization of the stripline BPMs for the future Gamma Beam System of ELI Nuclear Physics facility in Romania. Several prototype units are extensively benchmarked and the results are presented in this paper. The BPM sensitivity function is determined using a uniquely designed motorized test bench with a stretched wire to measure the BPM response map. Here, the BPM feedthroughs are connected to Libera Brilliance electronics and the wire is fed by continuous wave signal, while the two software-controlled motors provide horizontal and vertical motion of the BPM around the wire. The electrical offset is obtained using S-parameter measurements with a Network Analyzer (via the “Lambertson” method) and is referenced to the mechanical offse

Electron Beam Size Measurements Using the Heterodyne Near Field Speckles at ALBA

Experiments using the heterodyne near field speckle method (HNFS) have been performed at ALBA to characterize the spatial coherence of the synchrotron radiation, with the ultimate goal of measuring both the horizontal and vertical electron beam sizes. The HNFS technique consists on the analysis of the interference between the radiation scattered by a colloidal suspension of nanoparticles and the synchrotron radiation, which in this case corresponds to the hard x-rays (12keV) produced by the in-vacuum undulator of the NCD-Sweet beamline. This paper describes the fundamentals of the technique, possible limitations, and shows the first experimental results changing the beam coupling of the storage ring

Progress on transverse beam profile measurement using the heterodyne near field speckles method at Alba

We present the recent developments of a study aimed at measuring the transverse beam profile using the Heterodyne Near Field Speckles (HNFS) method. The HNFS technique works by illuminating a suspension of Brownian nanoparticles with synchrotron radiation and studying the resulting interference pattern. The transverse coherence of the source, and therefore, under the conditions of validity of the Van Cittert and Zernike theorem, the transverse electron beam size is retrieved from the interference between the transmitted beam and the spherical waves scattered by each nanoparticle. We here describe the fundamentals of this technique, as well as the recent experimental results obtained with 12 keV undulator radiation at the NCD beamline at the ALBA synchrotron. The applicability of such a technique for future accelerators (e.g. CLIC or FCC) is also discussed