Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams (Jan 2015)

Evaluation of the cone-shaped pickup performance for low charge sub-10 fs arrival-time measurements at free electron laser facilities

  • Aleksandar Angelovski,
  • Michael Kuntzsch,
  • Marie Kristin Czwalinna,
  • Andreas Penirschke,
  • Matthias Hansli,
  • Cezary Sydlo,
  • Vladimir Arsov,
  • Stephan Hunziker,
  • Holger Schlarb,
  • Michael Gensch,
  • Volker Schlott,
  • Thomas Weiland,
  • Rolf Jakoby

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.18.012801
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 1
p. 012801

Abstract

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An evaluation of the cone-shaped pickup performance as a part of the high bandwidth bunch arrival-time monitors (BAMs) for a low charge sub-10 fs arrival-time measurements is presented. Three sets of pickups are installed at the free electron laser FLASH at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, the quasi-cw SRF accelerator ELBE at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and the SwissFEL injector test facility at Paul Scherrer Institute. Measurements and simulations are in good agreement and the pickups fulfill the design specifications. Utilizing the high bandwidth BAM with the cone-shaped pickups, an improvement of the signal slope by a factor of 10 is demonstrated at ELBE compared to the BAM with a low bandwidth.