17–22 May 2026
C.I.D
Europe/Zurich timezone

A Visible-Light Monitor for Transverse Beam Profile Diagnostics in the SLS Booster

WEP6084
20 May 2026, 16:00
2h
C.I.D

C.I.D

Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC6.T03: Beam Diagnostics and Instrumentation Poster session

Speaker

Maria Paula Rey Barrera (Paul Scherrer Institute)

Description

A visible-light 2D imaging monitor was developed and commissioned in the Swiss Light Source 2.0 booster ring to characterize transverse beam behavior during the energy ramp. Installed dwnstream of a bending magnet, it extracts visible synchrotron radiation via an in-vacuum copper mirror and uses a CMOS camera with motorized optics and filters. The setup accommodates the evolving synchrotron spectrum, with the critical photon energy increasing from 0.2 eV (at 100 MeV electron beam energy) to ~3.9 keV (at 2.7 GeV). Long exposures, integrating over hundreds of turns matched to the 1 µs revolution time, enabled measurements of adiabatic damping due to synchrotron radiation emission. Notably, the system enables imaging at bunch charges as low as ~20–100 pC using short exposures over just a few tens of turns, which allowed to capture the fast dynamics of emittance exchange during coupling resonance crossing, a technique first implemented in an electron ring at the SLS*. This high-speed acquisition confirmed optimal extraction timing, corresponding to the minimum horizontal beam size. The monitor provides non-invasive diagnostics for tracking beam stability and optimizing injection into the storage ring.

Footnotes

*Kallestrup, J., and M. Aiba “Emittance Exchange in Electron Booster Synchrotron by
Coupling Resonance Crossing | Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams.” Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 23, no. 2 (2020) : 020701. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.020701.

In which format do you inted to submit your paper? LaTeX

Author

Maria Paula Rey Barrera (Paul Scherrer Institute)

Co-authors

Jonas Kallestrup (Paul Scherrer Institute) Mr Leon Felix Zimmermann (Paul Scherrer Institute) Mike Seidel (Paul Scherrer Institute) Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institute)

Presentation materials

There are no materials yet.