A new beam intensity monitoring system with wide dynamic range for the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility

Author

Meigs, M.J. ; Haynes, D.L. ; Jones, C.M. ; LeCroy, C.T.

Author_Institution

Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., TN, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1995

fDate

1-5 May 1995

Firstpage

2643

Abstract

A new beam intensity monitoring system with a wide dynamic range has been designed, fabricated and tested for use at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF). Radioactive ion beams produced with this first generation facility will have intensities much lower than those of stable ions previously injected into the 25 URC tandem accelerator and the existing beam current monitoring systems, which have a lower limit of approximately 100 pA, will not be adequate to tune the injection line or accelerator. This paper describes a new system which combines a Faraday cup and a continuous dynode electron multiplier (CDEM) to yield a dynamic range from a few particles per second to greater than a microampere. The CDEM can be biased to count either secondary electrons or Rutherford backscattered ions

Keywords

electron multiplier detectors; electron multipliers; intensity measurement; particle beam diagnostics; Faraday cup; HRIBF; Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility; Rutherford backscattered ions; beam intensity monitoring system; continuous dynode electron multiplier; secondary electrons; wide dynamic range; Current measurement; Dynamic range; Electron beams; Ion accelerators; Ion beams; Monitoring; Particle accelerators; Particle beam injection; Particle beam measurements; Particle beams;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2934-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1995.505645

Filename

505645