OTR measurements of the 10 keV electron beam at the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER)

Author

Fiorito, R.B. ; Feldman, D. ; Shkvarunets, A.G. ; Casey, S. ; Beaudoin, B.L. ; Quinn, B. ; Shea, P. G O

Author_Institution

Univ. of Maryland, College Park

fYear

2007

fDate

25-29 June 2007

Firstpage

4006

Lastpage

4008

Abstract

We present strong evidence of the observation of optical transition radiation (OTR) from aluminized silicon targets intercepting the UMER 10 keV, 100 ns pulsed electron beam, using fast (300 ps and Ins rise time) photomultiplier tubes. An intensified gated (3 ns-lms) intensified CCD camera is used to image the beam using OTR and to study its time evolution throughout the beam pulse. A comparison of wave forms and time resolved OTR images is presented along with time integrated images obtained with phosphor screens for different initial conditions, i.e. beam currents and gun bias voltages.

Keywords

CCD image sensors; aluminium; electron beams; electron guns; electron ring accelerators; particle beam bunching; particle beam diagnostics; phosphors; photomultipliers; silicon; University Of Maryland Electron Ring; aluminized silicon targets; beam currents; beam pulse; electron beam; electron volt energy 10 keV; gun bias voltages; intensified gated intensified CCD camera; phosphor screens; photomultiplier tubes; time resolved optical transition radiation images; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Electron beams; Electron optics; Electron tubes; Image resolution; Optical pulses; Phosphors; Photomultipliers; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007. PAC. IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0916-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2007.4440044

Filename

4440044