SHINE has developed different signal processors for beam diagnostics, including processors for cold button beam position monitor (BPM), stripline BPM, chicane BPM, cavity BPM, cavity bunch arrival-time monitor (BAM), electro-optic BAM, CSR bunch length monitor (BLM), beam charge loss monitoring, and fast orbit feed-back system (FOFB). The processors employ a common SoC-FPGA-based digital...
The Canadian Light Source (CLS) linear accelerator (linac) serves as the injector for the 2.9 GeV synchrotron. The original linac, which was installed in the 1960's, was replaced in 2024. The new 3000.24 MHz linac was designed and built by RI Research Instruments GmbH. The linac makes use of a 90 kV thermionic source, three 5m long accelerating S-band structures and a SLED pulse compressor...
A fiber-optic (FO) beam loss montior (BLM) system, installed along the booster to storage ring (BTS) trasnport line has been useful in identifying loss locations employing time-of-flight (TOF) analysis. The BTS BLM TOF system is comprised of a pair of rad-hard, fused-silica FO cables running along either side of the BTS line at beam elevation. In the initial configuration, we measured losses...
SOLARIS storage ring has been equipped with a set of twelve Beam Loss Detectors, controlled by Libera Beam Loss Monitors. This system enhances the ability to monitor and analyze beam losses and operational efficiency. Detectors were strategically placed around storage ring and transfer line, providing ability to optimize injection losses and enable precise localization of beam loss events....
To achieve high-precision, bunch-by-bunch beam cur-rent and lifetime measurements at the Hefei Light Source (HLS), we developed a beam diagnostics system based on interleaved sampling technology, achieving an equivalent sampling rate of 6.5 GHz. In single-bunch mode, amplitude extraction via cross-correlation with a single response function yieds a turn-by-turn current relative resolution of...
For the ESS linac commissioning, twelve extremely compact beam destinations were designed in place of bulky and expensive beam dumps, in order to dump [0.075, 250] MeV protons. The beam destinations were either Faraday Cups (FC) for the NCL commissioning or Insertable Beam Stops (IBS) for the SCL commissioning. Both FC and IBS are beam-intercepting devices, operated under vacuum, water cooled...
The Future Circular $ \mathrm{e}^+ \mathrm{e}^- $ Collider (FCC-ee) at CERN will provide collisions at four interaction points along a 91 km long ring, with beam energies ranging from 45.6 GeV (Z pole) to 182.5 GeV ($\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$ threshold). The radiation environment along the accelerator varies significantly, with different dominant sources depending on location and operational...
Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) and Shanghai Soft X-ray FEL(SXFEL) are open to user, and the Shanghai High Repetition Rate X-ray FEL and Extreme Light Facility (SHINE) is under construction. These accelerator facilities require diverse beam diagnostics electronics to ensure their high-performance and stable operation. After more than a decade of development, the SSRF has...
Retarding Potential Energy Analysers (RPEAs) are widely used diagnostic instruments for measuring energy distribution of charged particle beams. In this work we will discuss the conceptual design studies of a novel RPEA for low-energy antimatter beams (antiprotons/positrons). Simulation tools such as CST studio and G4Beamline were used for studying the prototype RPEA and to optimize its...
CERN’s Beam Instrumentation Group is developing a mini-crate to host the future Beam Loss Monitor (BLM) and Beam Positioning Monitor (BPM) systems acquisition electronics at HL-LHC and SPS accelerators. For this purpose, a new power supply has been designed to meet the low noise requirements, high reliability, and availability standards for these harsh radioactive environments. This design...
The proposed FETS-FFA would exhibit high-intensity operation of a Fixed-Field Alternating Gradient (FFA) accelerator, as a demonstrator for a spallation neutron source driver. Faraday cups are planned to be installed in the injection straight to investigate injection efficiency and infer beam-position during early commissioning stages; and in the extraction line to inspect extraction...
In this work, the development of a non-invasive DC Current Monitor device (DCCM), based on Tunnelling MagnetoResistive (TMR) sensors, is presented. The device is primarily intended for measuring the current intensity of an ion beam without the need of intercepting it (therefore not altering its characteristics), making it suitable for online current monitoring. Details are given about the...
Sirius beamlines require specialized electronic devices to monitor key parameters of the photon beam, such as position and flux, through the detection of extremely low-level electrical currents. Furthermore, experiments conducted in fly-scan mode usually demand fast, high-precision low-level current measurements. To address these requirements, the development of a wide dynamic range ammeter...
The Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC) being built at the Central Laser Facility in the UK will utilise a 10Hz Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA) to produce a tuneable x-ray source, with energies ranging from 3keV up to 10’s of MeV while maintaining a micron-scale source size and ultra-short pulse duration. Combination of such characteristics opens an opportunity for cutting-edge...
RAON is a heavy-ion accelerator supporting a wide range of beam energies and charge states. An integrated operational environment has been developed to enable centralized control and monitoring of accelerator systems. Machine states are defined through a structured framework combining source, machine, and beam modes, providing clear visibility of system readiness via an EPICS-based...
The beam loss monitor (BLM) is a diagnostic system designed to protect accelerator components from unexpected high-energy radiation. We have developed a cost-effective BLM system for the next-generation synchrotron light source, Korea-4GSR.
The system uses plastic scintillators, optical fibers, and a CMOS camera to localize beam losses with 10 ms time resolution. Scintillators placed along...
DDesign studies of the FETS-FFA demonstration ring have been conducted as part of the ISIS-II proposal for a new high-power spallation neutron source. Beam stacking has been proposed to overcome space-charge limits in an FFA, and the feasibility of this will be evaluated in the FETS-FFA test ring by stacking up to four pulses at 50 Hz. To monitor the long-pulsed current of the coasting stacked...
Conceptual design studies of the FETS-FFA demonstration ring have been actively performed to confirm the reliability of a Fixed Field Alternating gradient (FFA) accelerator for a future high-power spallation neutron source, called ISIS-II. A wall Current Monitor (WCM) is a choice of non-destructive intensity monitor to evaluate the circulating proton beams from 3 MeV (about 1MHz in revolution...
In January 2025, beam was first stored in the SLS 2.0, and by April 2025, the milestone of a 400 mA beam was reached. A variety of diagnostics were utilized to reach these milestones; for example, charge, current and loss monitors for minimizing losses and optimizing transmission and injection efficiency, polarized visible light for vertical beam size measurement, and more. This paper will...
The PERLE (Powerful Energy Recovery Linac for Experiments) project is a high current and high charge testbed for the technologies required to realise future ERLs. A 20 mA electron beam with a bunch charge of 500 pC will be accelerated to 7 MeV by the booster and injected into the ERL. To deliver the beam to the ERL loop, a three-dipole merger with variable momentum compaction has been...
Accelerators are complex systems composed of tens of thousands of individual components requiring continuous maintenance. Aging facilities such as LANSCE face an increased rate of equipment failures, resulting in costly unscheduled shutdowns for maintenance. Early identification and localization of problems along the accelerator can mitigate future failures during scheduled maintenance periods...
In Fermilab's PIP-II machine protection system, beam loss signals from various detectors are digitized at 125 MS/s. Noise from both high-frequency sources and low-frequency 60 Hz AC power equipment can contaminate the data. To suppress noise across these ranges—especially 60 Hz and its harmonics, which overlap with beam loss signal frequencies—advanced digital processing beyond standard...
Radiation transport simulations allow the design and operation of entire facilities such as the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden.
This paper summarizes three of the first applications of Attila4MC simulations to the high-power proton accelerator of ESS and its beam instrumentation. Entire linac sections and beam-interceptive instrumentation were modelled by implementing...
Accelerator facilities generate diverse documentation, from technical reports to structured wikis and semi-structured logbooks, which complicates efficient knowledge access. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) offers a path toward intelligent operator assistants, no single method is universally optimal. We present three use cases from PSI: for technical documentation, naive dense...
The Hefei Light Source is a synchrotron radiation facility operating in the vacuum ultraviolet and soft X-ray regions. If the evolution of beam parameters and beam loss during the injection transient process can be observed synchronously, analyzing their correlation can provide more quantitative guidance for further optimizing the injection process. To achieve this goal, a monitoring system...
The Canadian Light Source is a third generation synchrotron which supports 22 operational beamlines. A project to replace all beam diagnostic analog cameras with CCD cameras was initiated in 2020. Over time this project has been expanded to include beam analysis capabilities. We present an EPICS-based imaging system that uses inexpensive CCD cameras. The system computes beam parameters...
Two CLIC TD24 accelerating structures, manufactured by CERN, are undergoing high-power testing on the 12 GHz RF test stand, MelBOX, at the x-Band Laboratory for Accelerators and Beams (XLAB). Installed in late 2024, these are the first devices tested at the facility. The goal is to condition the structures for stable operation at gradients of 100 MV/m.
The maximum gradient is limited by...
The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) storage-ring (SR) is equipped with five horizontal collimators used to intercept 6-GeV electrons during fast whole-beam aborts and protect the rest of the SR. The collimators are located in sectors 37, 38, 39, 40, and 1. A fan-out kicker (FOK) system has been installed to reduce damage to the collimators during whole-beam loss events. Since APS-U...
The Low Energy RHIC Electron Cooler (LEReC), the world’s first electron cooler utilizing an RF electron accelerator, was designed to operate with 1.6-2.6 MeV electron beams of up to 140 kW beam power. The LEReC successfully worked through RHIC Runs 2019-2021, substantially increasing RHIC luminosity, and has been routinely used for various studies since then. A dedicated, highly configurable...
Beam intensity measurement of high intensity proton accelerator at PSI mainly consists of several passive cavity type monitors and corresponding electronics. New VME based electronics are running in parallel for final online testing with the old CAMAC ones, which will be replaced soon.
The new pre-amplifier of the VME system is suffering significant temperature-dependent drift, leading to an...
Siam Photon Source II (SPS-II) is a 4th-generation synchrotron light source to be constructed in Thailand, envisioned as a major synchrotron facility for Southeast Asia. It is designed with a 3 GeV low-emittance electron storage ring based on a Double Triple Bend Achromat (DTBA) lattice, with a circumference of 327.6 meters and a natural emittance of 0.97 nm·rad. The design and machine...
With nuclear reactor technology rapidly advancing and the plan to raise the nuclear energy production by a factor of 4, the need for advanced detectors, geometries and shields has become apparent. The precise and reliable measurement of the neutron flux is not only relevant for the safe operation of nuclear reactors, but also for future reactor experiments essential for progressing the...
Several systems protect the superconducting magnets of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which operate at -271.3C. The Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system is critical for detecting lost particles around the machine and reacting on their quantity and associated energy. It protects the machine from quenching and irreversible damage. To measure these losses, various detectors are used, primarily...
The X-band Laboratory for Accelerators and Beams (X-LAB) at the University of Melbourne enables high-power testing of X-band accelerator technologies, including components for CERN’s Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). At its core is Mel-BOX, a high-gradient test stand rebuilt from CERN’s XBOX3. Two TD24 structures, previously conditioned at CERN, have been successfully re-tested, along with RF...
To support both routine operation and accelerator research at ELSA, a dual-mode dispenser-cathode based electron gun capable of thermionic emission and thermally assisted photoemission (TAPE) is being developed. A dedicated gun test stand is being designed to measure beam properties and quality, as well as quantum efficiency in the TAPE mode under operational conditions. Instrumentation will...
Faraday Cups have been used as diagnostic tools to measure the charged particle beam current directly. Up to now, different designs have been introduced for this purpose. In this work, a new design of Faraday Cup has been performed for the gun of PERLE, a Powerful Energy Recovery Linac to be installed at IJClab Orsay. FC's dimensions and desirable material have been considered based on PERLE...
CERN’s Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system is essential for the protection of machine elements against energy deposition due to beam losses. The protection function relies on approximately 5000 ionisation chamber type detectors installed along all of CERN's accelerators. Some of the areas where the detectors are installed have a high background dose (above 2mSv/h). Installation and maintenance...
The Beam Test Facility (BTF) at the National Laboratories of Frascati provides highly configurable positron/electron beams for different type of experiments. Extracted from the DAΦNE LINAC, the beam delivers up to 49 bunches/s, with 1 to $10^{10}$ particles/bunch. Secondary beams span 25-780 MeV (electrons) and up to 550 MeV (positrons). BTF includes two experimental halls: BTFEH1, suited for...
Due to the limited transverse acceptance of 4th generation light sources, the characterization and control of the incoming beam from the booster to the storage ring is an important asset to achieve highly efficient and reproducible injection. For the upgraded SLS 2.0 storage ring, a new booster-to-ring transfer line (BRTL) has been designed, which includes a non-dispersive section for beam...
The Shanghai Soft X-ray Free Electron Laser (SXFEL) is scheduled for a digital and intelligent upgrade over the next two years, aiming to achieve fully autonomous operation. This upgrade requires timestamping the BPM measurement results in the beam diagnostics system to enable synchronous acquisition of all measurement data at SXFEL. A new prototype of the digital BPM signal processor (DBPM)...
We investigate two well known ultraviolet–visible (UV–VIS) photon emission processes from highly charged uranium ions with energies of 300- 700 MeV/u. By combining theoretical models with estimates from the literature, we evaluate fluorescence yields from air and transition radiation from surfaces. Experimental studies with slow-extracted (U^{73+}) beam at the high-energy beam transport line...
The ELSA facility located at CEA DAM DIF consists of a 30 MeV, 15 ps rms, 1 nC compact linac. X-rays are produced either in the MeV energy range through interaction between the electron beam and a solid Ta conversion target (Bremsstrahlung radiation) or in the 10-80 keV energy domain through interactions between electrons with a Nd:YAG laser (inverse Compton Scattering radiation). ELSA is...
