Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: The early stages of most particle accelerator chains produce sub-ns bunches with velocities in the range of 1 to 20% of the speed of light. Fast Faraday Cups (FFC) are designed to measure the longitudinal charge distribution of these short bunches of free charges. Coaxial designs have been utilized at the GSI's linear accelerator UNILAC to characterize ion bunches with bunch lengths ranging from a few hundred ps to a few ns. The typical design goals are to avoid the pre-field of the charges and to suppress secondary electron emission, while retaining the capability of bunch-by-bunch measurements. In this contribution, a novel FFC design manufactured using additive manufacturing, e.g. laser powder bed fusion is presented and compared with a traditionally produced FFC. The design considerations, RF characterization, and selected measurements with ion beam at GSI are shown.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Klaproth, Stephan, Singh, Rahul, Gruber, Samira, Stepien, Lukas, De Gersem, Herbert, Penirschke, Andreas
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7075993685
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