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Title: Design of a Multi-Bunch BPM for the Next Linear Collider

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/812942· OSTI ID:812942

The Next Linear Collider (NLC) design requires precise control of colliding trains of high-intensity (1.4 x 10{sup 10} particles/bunch) and low-emittance beams. High-resolution multi-bunch beam position monitors (BPMs) are required to ensure uniformity across the bunch trains with bunch spacing of 1.4ns. A high bandwidth ({approx}350 MHz) multi-bunch BPM has been designed based on a custom-made stripline sum and difference hybrid on a Teflon-based material. High bandwidth RF couplers were included to allow injection of a calibration tone. Three prototype BPMs were fabricated at SLAC and tested in the Accelerator Test Facility at KEK and in the PEP-II ring at SLAC. Tone calibration data and single-bunch and multi-bunch beam data were taken with high-speed (5Gsa/s) digitizers. Offline analysis determined the deconvolution of individual bunches in the multi-bunch mode by using the measured single bunch response. The results of these measurements are presented in this paper.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
812942
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-8828; TRN: US0303523
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 21 Mar 2003
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English