Calibration of RHIC electron detectors

Author

He, P. ; Hseuh, H.C. ; Gassner, D. ; Gullotta, J. ; Trbojevic, D. ; Zhang, S.Y.

Author_Institution

Collider-Accelerator Dept., Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

1425

Abstract

To characterize the electron cloud in RHIC, eleven custom electron detectors have been designed, fabricated and installed at a few RHIC warm-bore vacuum sectors for data collection during FY2003 runs. Prior to installation, the transmission and collection efficiencies of these detectors at various grid and collector bias voltages were measured using an electron gun with energy up to 1500 eV. This paper describes the design of the detector and the test system set-up, and summarizes the calibration results. In addition the calibration of a commercial microchannel plate is also reported.

Keywords

beam handling techniques; electron accelerators; electron detection; electron guns; ion accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; particle beam dynamics; storage rings; synchrotrons; RHIC electron detectors; RHIC warm-bore vacuum sectors; bias voltages; commercial microchannel plate; electron cloud; electron gun; Boring; Calibration; Clouds; Detectors; Electrons; Energy measurement; Gold; Particle beams; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1289727

Filename

1289727