The two-screen measurement setup to indirectly measure proton beam self-modulation in AWAKE
- NázevTitle
- The two-screen measurement setup to indirectly measure proton beam self-modulation in AWAKEThe two-screen measurement setup to indirectly measure proton beam self-modulation in AWAKE
- Druh výsledkuResult type
- Článek v časopiseJournal article
- AutořiAuthors
- M. Turner, B. Biskup, S. Burger, E. Gschwendtner
- DOIDOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.064
- Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2017, 854 100-106. ISSN 0168-9002.
- RokYear
- 2017
- JazykLanguage
- eng
- WoSWoS
- 000398869100014
- ScopusScopus
- 2-s2.0-85013841365
- RIVRIV
- RIV/68407700:21670/17:00308886!RIV18-MSM-21670___
- ProjektProject
- Technologie potlačení pozadí, detektorové techniky v jaderné fyzice a jejich aplikaceTechnologies of background suppression, detection techniques in nuclear physics and their applications
AbstraktAbstract
The goal of the first phase of the AWAKE [1,2] experiment at CERN is to measure the self-modulation [3] of the σz=12cm long SPS proton bunch into microbunches after traversing 10m of plasma with a plasma density of npe=7×1014electrons/cm3. The two screen measurement setup [4] is a proton beam diagnostic that can indirectly prove the successful development of the self-modulation of the proton beam by imaging protons that got defocused by the transverse plasma wakefields after passing through the plasma, at two locations downstream the end of the plasma. This article describes the design and realization of the two screen measurement setup integrated in the AWAKE experiment. We discuss the performance and background response of the system based on measurements performed with an unmodulated Gaussian SPS proton bunch during the AWAKE beam commissioning in September and October 2016. We show that the system is fully commissioned and adapted to eventually image the full profile of a self-modulated SPS proton bunch in a single shot measurement during the first phase of the AWAKE experiment.
The goal of the first phase of the AWAKE [1,2] experiment at CERN is to measure the self-modulation [3] of the σz=12cm long SPS proton bunch into microbunches after traversing 10m of plasma with a plasma density of npe=7×1014electrons/cm3. The two screen measurement setup [4] is a proton beam diagnostic that can indirectly prove the successful development of the self-modulation of the proton beam by imaging protons that got defocused by the transverse plasma wakefields after passing through the plasma, at two locations downstream the end of the plasma. This article describes the design and realization of the two screen measurement setup integrated in the AWAKE experiment. We discuss the performance and background response of the system based on measurements performed with an unmodulated Gaussian SPS proton bunch during the AWAKE beam commissioning in September and October 2016. We show that the system is fully commissioned and adapted to eventually image the full profile of a self-modulated SPS proton bunch in a single shot measurement during the first phase of the AWAKE experiment.