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Title: The impact of pressure regulation of cryogenic fluids and EPICS EPID feedback on the monochromatic beam position stability of the 7ID beamline at the Advanced Photon Source.

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2436219· OSTI ID:970774

The first crystal mount of the double-crystal Si (111) cryogenically cooled monochromator of the 7ID beamline at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) is slightly sensitive to pressure variations in the cryogenic lines. Pressure variations during a liquid nitrogen cryocooler fill every 4 hours move the beam by tens of microns. Pressure variations due to the cryocooler closed-loop pressure control with a heater element (around 0.3 psi) move the beam by 5 microns every 15 seconds. We have recently stabilized the coolant pressure with a simple pressure regulator that is in use at many beamlines of the APS. This paper shows the improvements in beam position stability made using this simple yet effective pressure-regulation circuit. We also recently added beam-position feedback to the second-crystal Bragg angle of the monochromator. The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) Enhanced Proportional-Integral-Differential (EPID) feedback record implementation resulted in an additional improvement of the standard deviation of the beam position to 0.5 {micro}m.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
970774
Report Number(s):
ANL/XSD/CP-119172; TRN: US1000902
Resource Relation:
Conference: 9th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI 2006); May 28, 2006 - Jun. 2, 2006; Daegu, Korea
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH