Nulling emittance measurement technique for CLIC Test Facility

In order to test the principle of two-beam-acceleration, the CLIC Test Facility utilizes a high-intensity drive beam of 640 to 1000 nC to generate 30 GHz accelerating fields. To ensure that the beam is transported efficiently, a robust measurement of beam emittance and Twiss parameters is required. This is accomplished by measuring the beam size on a profile monitor, while scanning five or more upstream quadrupoles in such a fashion that the Twiss parameters at the profile monitor remain constant while the phase advance through the beam line changes. In this way the beam size can be sampled at different phases while a near-constant size is maintained at the profile monitor. This eases many of the difficulties of such measurement devices, especially those associated with limited dynamic range. In addition, the beam size is explicitly constant for a matched beam, which provides a “nulling” measurement of the match. Details of the technique, simulations, and results of the measurements are discussed