LIU Chang, LENG Yongbin, YU Luyang, et al. Development of fiber beam loss monitor based on Cerenkov principle[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2013, 36(8): 080102
LIU Chang, LENG Yongbin, YU Luyang, et al. Development of fiber beam loss monitor based on Cerenkov principle[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2013, 36(8): 080102 DOI: 10.11889/j.0253-3219.2013.hjs.36.080102.
Development of fiber beam loss monitor based on Cerenkov principle
Background: A new type of beam loss monitor(BLM) system is needed in the synchrotron radiation light source or FEL facility to monitor the real-time beam loss inside the small-gap insertion devices.Purpose: A BLM system was developed with optical fiber as the probe to meet the requirements of SSRF.Methods: The whole system consists of a 30-m long step-index fiber
photomultiplier tubes(PMT)
a 10-bit 8-GS/s high-speed waveform digitizer and a PXI input-output controller.The software was developed under the Linux system based on Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System(EPICS).A new measurement and corresponding calculation method were designed to make the system work well with the multi-bunch operation mode in the storage ring of SSRF.Results: The BLM system worked well at SSRF.And the results of beam experiments showed that the system could detect beam loss properly even at the 1-mA low current case.Conclusions: This system could be used in the detection of beam loss dose and position.In the experiments the counts of light pulses can be used as a rough estimation of beam loss dose.The noise floor is about 3.56% of the total count in the 220-mA top-up user operation mode.