Development of an H0CT measurement system at the CSNS injection region
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摘要: 中国散裂中子源的强流质子加速器采用剥离注入的方式,碳膜将H−剥离两个电子后变成质子,多圈涂抹注入到快循环同步环加速中,并加速至1.6 GeV。为了精确测量剥离膜的剥离效率并研究不同厚度剥离膜的使用寿命,在I-Dump束线上新研发并安装了一套束流流强探测器(H0CT),用于测量未完全剥离的H−和H0(H−被剥离一个电子)粒子。为了测量μA级束流,H0CT弱流强测量系统的研制考虑了外部干扰,配合探头、线缆及电子学低噪声的抗干扰设计,将环境噪声及干扰的影响降至最低,提高信噪比,实现了μA级脉冲电流的测量。Abstract: The high intensity proton accelerator of China Spallation Neutron Source adopts the method of charge exchange injection. A carbon foil strips two electrons of H− into H+, and proton beams are multiturn-painted in the phase space of the rapid cycling synchrontron for acceleration to 1.6 GeV. A new-developed beam current transformer (H0CT) was installed at the I-Dump beamline to measure the incompletely stripped H− and H0 particles, for the sake of an accurate measurement of the stripping efficiency, together with a study of the service life of the foil stripper with different thicknesses. To measure such extremely weak microampere beam current, in the development of the H0CT measurement system, we took into account the external interference and the noises from probes, cables and electronics. The new design has minimized the impact of environmental noise, improved the signal-to-noise ratio, and successfully measured the microampere pulsed current.
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Key words:
- CSNS /
- H0CT /
- pulsed current measurement /
- microampere
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表 1 采取剥离注入模式的国际同类加速器剥离方式和束流参数对比
Table 1. Comparison of stripping methods and beam parameters of similar accelerators in the world
facility pulse width beam intensity/mA beam instruments stripping method stripping efficiency ISIS-RCS[3] 200 - 250 µs 40 BCT 1. Al2O3 Foil
2. diamond like carbon foil (DLC)98%±1%(estimated)
99% (simulated)CERN-PSB[4-5] 400 µs(1.2 ms) 40/20 BCT
BCT+H0/H− monitor1. graphite foil
2. carbon based foil99% SNS[6-8] 1 ms 38 BCM(FCT) 1. diamond foil
2. laser assisted Lorentz stripping99%(maximum) J-PARC[9] 600 µs 50 BCT+preamplifier 1. carbon foil
2. hybrid-type boron doped carbon foil99.7% 表 2 H0CT技术参数
Table 2. Optimized electronics parameters
frequency/Hz macro pulse width/μs turns of torus/ turn droop/(%/ms) risetime/μs measuring range/μA 25 50 – 500 50 < 1 < 10 ±50 表 3 线缆噪声测量
Table 3. Cable noise measurement
cable triax cable quad CT-output (single-end
earthed)/mV206 286 CT-output (double-end
earthed)/mV54 166 -
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