Tuning the beam: a physics perspective on beam diagnostic instrumentation
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
In a nutshell, the role of a beam diagnostic measurement is to provide information needed to get a particle beam from Point A (injection point) to Point B (a target) in a useable condition, with 'useable' meaning the right energy and size and with acceptable losses. Specifications and performance requirements of diagnostics are based on the physics of the particle beam to be measured, with typical customers of beam parameter measurements being the accelerator operators and accelerator physicists. This tutorial will be a physics-oriented discussion of the interplay between tuning evolutions and the beam diagnostics systems that support the machine tune. This will include the differences between developing a tune and maintaining a tune, among other things. Practical longitudinal and transverse tuning issues and techniques from a variety of proton and electron machines will also be discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1010657
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-10-02861; LA-UR-10-2861; TRN: US1101955
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2010 Beam Instrumentation Workshop ; May 2, 2010 ; Santa Fe, NM
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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