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Title Beam tomography research at Daresbury Laboratory
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Abstract Beam tomography research at Daresbury Laboratory has focussed on the development of normalised phase space techniques — starting with the idea of sampling tomographic projections at equal phase advances. This idea has influenced the design and operation of the tomography sections at the Photo Injector Test Facility at Zeuthen (PITZ) and at the Accelerator and Lasers in Combined Experiments (ALICE) at Daresbury. We have studied the feasibility of using normalised phase space to measure the effect of space charge. Quadrupole scan measurements are carried out at two different parts of a beamline. Reconstructions at the same location give results that are clearly rotated with respect to each other in normalised phase space. We are able to show that a significant part of this rotation can be attributed to the effect of space charge. We show how the normalised phase space technique can be used to increase the reliability of the Maximum Entropy Technique (MENT). While MENT is known for its ability to work with just a few projections, the accuracy of its reconstructions has seldom been questioned. We show that for typical phase space distributions, MENT could produce results that look quite different from the original. We demonstrate that a normalised phase space technique could give results that are closer to the actual distribution. We also present simpler ways of deriving the phase space tomography formalism and the Maximum Entropy Technique.
Organisation ASTeC , ASTeC-AP , ASTeC-MaRS , CI , STFC
Keywords ASTeC 2013-2014 , Diagnostics , Accelerator , Beam tomography
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Language English (EN)
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Journal Article Nucl Instrum Meth A 753 (2014): 38-55. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2014.03.050 2014