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Abstract:

Instabilities associated with beam-size blow-up have previously been observed with multi-bunch beam in the damping ring (DR) of the KEK Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). A system has been developed to monitor such instabilities, utilising an ATF stripline beam position monitor (BPM) in the DR, and BPM processor hardware designed for the FONT upstream feedback system in the ATF extraction line. The system is designed to record the horizontal and/or vertical positions of up to three bunches in the DR in single-bunch multi-train mode or the head bunch of up to three trains in multi-bunch mode, with a bunch spacing of 5.6 ns. The FPGA firmware and data acquisition software were modified to record turn-by-turn data for up to six channels and 1-3 bunches in the DR. The maximum memory configuration on the FPGA allows 131071 bunch-turn-channels of data to be recorded from a particular machine pulse, and the system has the capability to select only certain turns at a regular interval in which to record data, in order to zoom out and cover the entire period of the damping cycle at the ATF. An overview of the system and initial results will be presented.

Abstract:

A prototype Interaction Point beam-based feedback system for future electron-positron colliders, such as the International Linear Collider, has been designed and tested on the extraction line of the KEK Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). The FONT5 intra-train feedback system aims to stabilise the beam orbit by correcting both the position and angle jitter in the vertical plane on bunch-to-bunch timescales, providing micron-level stability at the entrance to the ATF2 final-focus system. The system comprises three stripline beam position monitors (BPMs) and two stripline kickers, custom low-latency analogue front-end BPM processors, a custom FPGA-based digital processing board with fast ADCs, and custom kicker-drive amplifiers. An overview of the hardware, and the latest results from beam tests at ATF2, will be presented. A total system latency as low as approximately 140 ns has been demonstrated.