Philip Burrows

Abstract:

The electron-positron Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) has challenging requirements for beam instrumentation, including the need for thousands of high-resolution beam position monitors (BPMs) presenting low impedance to the circulating beam. This paper details the requirements for the FCC-ee arc BPMs and investigates button-type pickups with various geometries through electromagnetic simulations using FCC-ee design parameters. The simulation results are used to estimate key BPM characteristics, including impedance and heating.

Abstract:

The slow losses measured by Beam Loss Monitors (BLMs) at synchrotron light source facilities offer useful but indirect insight into the state of the beam. Patterns arise across the set of BLMs depending on the movement of insertion devices, beam current, temperature, humidity, and other contributors. A variety of neural network models were designed and evaluated to model this behaviour under user beam operation. By applying an anomaly detection algorithm, a set of known disturbances were successfully detected.

Abstract:

The AWAKE facility at CERN utilises proton beam-driven plasma wakefields to accelerate electron bunches in a 10-meter long rubidium plasma cell. Precise monitoring of the electron bunches in the presence of the more intense proton bunches, which have distinct temporal and spatial characteristics, requires a beam position monitor (BPM) operating in the tens of GHz frequency range, assuming Gaussian longitudinal particle distributions. Two types of BPMs, one based on Cherenkov diffraction radiation (ChDR), and the other utilising high frequency (HF) conical shaped pickups, have been explored as a method to distinguish the electromagnetic signals of the shorter electron bunches (a few ps) from those of the longer proton bunches (a couple of hundred ps) co-propagating in the AWAKE beam line. Recent tests of both BPMs in the AWAKE common beam line have been conducted at frequencies above 20 GHz. The sensitivity of the HF and ChDR BPMs to the electron beam position was determined under various beam conditions, with and without proton bunches present. The read-out, utilising an RF front-end developed by TRIUMF, is additionally discussed.