Analysis of data from the LEDA wire scanner/halo scraper

Author

Kamperschroer, J.H. ; O´Hara, J.F. ; Day, L.A. ; Gilpatrick, L.D. ; Kerstiens, D.M.

Author_Institution

Gen. Atomics, Los Alamos, NM, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1306

Abstract

A new diagnostic has been designed and commissioned that measures the profile of the beam in the halo channel of the Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This paper describes the algorithms written to analyze the data from that diagnostic, a combined wire scanner and halo scraper. These algorithms determine the safe insertions limit of the scrapers, spatially differentiate the scraper signal, amalgamate the wire scanner data with the differentiated scraper data, determine when both the core and combined distributions rise above the noise floor, and compute the moments of the combined distribution. Results of applying the algorithms to data acquired during experiments matching the beam into the halo channel are presented

Keywords

data analysis; linear accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; proton accelerators; LEDA; Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator; algorithms; beam profile; halo scraper; wire scanner; Algorithm design and analysis; Control systems; Current density; Data analysis; Distributed computing; Instruments; Laboratories; Particle beams; Probes; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.986662

Filename

986662