Proposed beam diagnostics instrumentation for the LANSCE refurbishment project

Author

Gilpatrick, J.D. ; Blind, B. ; Borden, M. ; Erickson, J. ; McCrady, R. ; Gulley, M.S. ; Kurennoy, S. ; Hara, J.O. ; Oothoudt, M. ; Pillai, C. ; Power, J. ; Rybarcyk, L. ; Shelley, F.

Author_Institution

LANL, Los Alamos

fYear

2007

fDate

25-29 June 2007

Firstpage

4099

Lastpage

4101

Abstract

Presently, the Los Alamos National Laboratory is in the process of planning a refurbishment of various subsystems within its Los Alamos Neutron Science Center accelerator facility. A part of this LANSCE facility refurbishment will include some replacement of and improvement to existing older beam-diagnostics instrumentation. While plans are still being discussed, some instrumentation that is under improvement or replacement consideration are beam phase and position measurements within the 805-MHz side-coupled cavity linac, slow wire profile measurements, typically known as wire scanners, and possibly additional installation of fast ionization-chamber loss monitors. This paper will briefly describe the requirements for these beam measurements, what we have done thus far to answer these requirements, and some of the technical issues related to the implementation of the instrumentation.

Keywords

accelerator cavities; linear accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; LANSCE refurbishment project; beam diagnostics instrumentation; beam phase measurements; beam position measurements; fast ionization-chamber loss monitors; frequency 805 MHz; side-coupled cavity linac; slow wire profile measurements; Acceleration; Instruments; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Neutrons; Particle beams; Phase measurement; Position measurement; Protons; Wire;

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.2007.4440061

Filename

4440061