Absolute Calibration of the Booster Gauss Clock
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
The Booster Gauss Clock is described in reference 1. Its relation to the Booster Gauss Line generator has been described in references 2 and 3. The Gauss Clock is fundamentally sensitive to the rate of change of the Booster main dipole magnetic field. The instantaneous absolute value of the magnetic field is derived by integrating the output of the Gauss Clock in an up/down counter. Two properties of differential measuring devices such as the Gauss Clock are: (1) The value must be initialized. (2) The value is subject to cumulative errors. To accommodate the former and correct the latter, an absolute measurement of the field intensity is required. The value of such a measurement could be transferred to the field register as a “jam transfer” but, as will be discussed below, this implies difficult synchronization problems or a period when the Gauss Clock is insensitive to field changes, possibly introducing the cumulative errors which it is desired to correct. A technique to avoid these problems is desirable.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 1150564
- Report Number(s):
- BNL--105230-2014-IR
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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