Analysis of the Proton Beam in the DESY Transport Lines by Video Readout

Injection efficiency, beam optic matching and emittance preservation are very important parameters in achieving a high luminosity in large proton accelerators. We improved the analysing system of the phosphor screen readout of the proton transport lines in the accelerator chain of HERA with respect to the parameters above. The screens are read out by simple CCD video cameras. The signals are stored in local frame grabbers. An analogue output of the stored image is multiplexed and read-out by a fast PCI frame grabber card in a PC. The beam orbit and the beam emittance can be measured from each screen. A Visual Basic program is used to displays the trajectory and the envelope of the beam from a single transfer. The same program helps to drive bumps to achieve a proper steering through the line. The beam width can be measured from selected screens to calculate the emittance and other beam parameters including their errors. The read out and analysing system will be described and measurements will be shown

Experimental study of bispectrum-based encoding in radio communication system

This paper is devoted to a novel multi-frequency and bispectrum-based encoding technique designed for radio communication systems. An experimental study of an interference resistance in digital communication is performed using a novel bispectrum-based strategy. Test statistics evaluated in the form of peak values of magnitude bispectrum estimates are proposed for triplet-signals discrimination. Bit error rates assessed experimentally in a radio communication link contaminated by additive Gaussian noise and fading are studied within a wide range of input signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Advantages of the proposed bispectral-based signal processing as compared with common phase and frequency shift keying are demonstrated and discussed