Tune Shift and Betatron Modulations due to Insertion Devices in SPEAR
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The High energy Engineering X-ray (HEX) diffraction beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) is the first high-energy beamline capable of reaching 200 keV for a monochromatic beam. With the 3 GeV electron beam energy for the NSLS-II ring, only the superconducting wiggler (SCW) producing greater than 4 T peak field can cover these ranges with a sufficient number of photons. The 1.2 m-long HEX-SCW has a period length of 70 mm and a field strength on-axis of 4.3 T. It utilizes no liquid helium, and the vertical aperture size of the electron beam vacuum chamber is 8 mm. Unlike regular undulators/wigglers, there is no standard configuration for the magnetic measurement system for superconducting insertion devices. The NSLS-II Insertion Devices group has developed, in collaboration with the vacuum group, a novel in-vacuum Hall mapper with a 1.75 m in-vacuum linear motor and an in-vacuum flip coil system utilizing many commercial-off-the-shelf products. The measurements were conducted at the BNL, and the device was installed in the ring and commissioned. Here, this paper provides a description of the SCW and its magnetic measurement systems, as well as a brief account of the installation and commissioning efforts.
Rack mounted chassis units are quickly inserted or extracted by a device which is driven in either direction by turning a simple hand crank. This device is used in aircraft and water craft.
The proposed Advanced Photon Source (APS) upgrade from a double-bend achromats (DBA) to multi-bend achromats (MBA) lattice with ring energy change from 7 GeV to 6 GeV and beam current from 100 mA to 200 mA poses new challenges for front ends. All front ends must be upgraded to fulfill the following requirements: 1) handle the high heat load from two insertion devices in either inline or canted configuration, 2) include a clearing magnet in the front end to deflect and dump any electrons in case the electrons escape from the storage ring during swap-out injection with the safety shutters open, 3) incorporate the next generation x-ray beam position monitors (XBPMs) into the front end to meet the new stringent beam stability requirements. This paper presents the evaluation of the existing APS front ends and standardizes the insertion device (ID) front ends into two types: one for the single beam and one for the canted beams. The conceptual design of high heat load front end (HHLFE) and canted undulator front end (CUFE) for APS MBA upgrade is presented.
The 3{sup rd} generation low-emittance 6 GeV PETRA III facility has been substantially modified to add new beamlines. This extension project involved the complete removal and reconstruction of part of the storage ring with a double-bend achromat lattice as well as the construction of two new experimental halls. Making use of two long straight sections and a canted undulator scheme in the rebuilt arcs, up to ten new insertion device beamlines can be accommodated. In the current phase of the project, seven insertion device and one bending magnet beamline are being implemented.
Poly(ethylene glycol), PEG, known to inhibit protein adsorption, is widely used on the surfaces of biomedical devices when biofilm formation is undesirable. Poly(desaminotyrosyl-tyrosine ethyl ester carbonate), PDTEC, PC for short, has been a promising coating polymer for insertion devices, and it has been anticipated that PEG plays a similar role if it is copolymerized with PC. Earlier studies show that no fibrinogen (Fg) is adsorbed onto PC polymers with PEG beyond the threshold weight percentage. This is attributed to the phase separation of PEG. Further, iodination of the PC units in the PC polymer, (I 2 PC), has been found to counteract this Fg-repulsive effect by PEG. Here, in this study, we employ surface-sensitive X-ray techniques to demonstrate the surface affinity of Fg toward the air–water interface, particularly in the presence of self-assembled PC-based film, in which its constituent polymer units are assumed to be much more mobile as a free-standing film. Fg is found to form a Gibbs monolayer with its long axis parallel to the aqueous surface, thus maximizing its interactions with hydrophobic interfaces. It influences the amount of insoluble, surface-bound I 2 PC likely due to the desorption of the formed Fg–I 2 PC complex and/or the penetration of Fg onto the I 2 PC film. The results show that the phase behavior at the liquid–polymer interface shall be taken into account for the surface behavior of bulk polymers surrounded by tissue. The ability of PEG units rearranging into a protein-blocking layer, rather than its mere presence in the polymer, is the key to antifouling characteristics desired for polymeric coating on insertion devices.
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is currently in the preliminary design phase for the multi-bend achromat (MBA) lattice upgrade. Beam stability is critical for the MBA and will require long term drift defined as beam mo-tion over a seven-day timescale to be no more than 1 mi-cron at the insertion device locations and beam angle change no more than 0.25 micro-radian. Mechanical stabil-ity of beam position monitor (BPM) pickup electrodes mounted on insertion device vacuum chambers place a fun-damental limitation on long-term beam stability for inser-tion device beamlines. We present the design and imple-mentation of prototype mechanical motion system (MMS) instrumentation for quantifying this type of motion specif-ically in the APS accelerator tunnel and experiment hall floor under normal operating conditions. The MMS pres-ently provides critical position information on the vacuum chamber and BPM support systems. Initial results of the R&D prototype systems have demonstrated that the cham-ber movements far exceed the long-term drift tolerance specified for the APS Upgrade MBA storage ring.
Purpose We have developed a second‐generation virtual‐pinhole (VP) positron emission tomography (PET) device that can position a flat‐panel PET detector around a patient's body using a robotic arm to enhance the contrast recovery coefficient (CRC) and detectability of lesions in any region‐of‐interest using a whole‐body PET/computed tomography (CT) scanner. Methods We constructed a flat‐panel VP‐PET device using 32 high‐resolution detectors, each containing a 4 4 MPPC array and 16 16 LYSO crystals of 1.0 1.0 3.0 mm 3 each. The flat‐panel detectors can be positioned around a patient's body anywhere in the imaging field‐of‐view (FOV) of a Siemens Biograph 40 PET/CT scanner by a robotic arm. New hardware, firmware and software have been developed to support the additional detector signals without compromising a scanner's native functions. We stepped a 22 Na point source across the axial FOV of the scanner to measure the sensitivity profile of the VP‐PET device. We also recorded the coincidence events measured by the scanner detectors and by the VP‐PET detectors when imaging phantoms of different sizes. To assess the improvement in the CRC of small lesions, we imaged an elliptical torso phantom measuring 316 228 162 mm 3 that contains spherical tumors with diameters ranging from 3.3 to 11.4 mm with and without the VP‐PET device. Images were reconstructed using a list mode Maximum‐Likelihood Estimation‐Maximization algorithm implemented on multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) to support the unconventional geometries enabled by a VP‐PET system. The mean and standard deviation of the CRC were calculated for tumors of different sizes. Monte Carlo simulation was also conducted to image clusters of lesions in a torso phantom using a PET/CT scanner alone or the same scanner equipped with VP‐PET devices. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were analyzed for three system configurations to evaluate the improvement in lesion detectability by the VP‐PET device over the native PET/CT scanner. Results The repeatability in positioning the flat‐panel detectors using a robotic arm is better than 0.15 mm in all three directions. Experimental results show that the average CRC of 3.3, 4.3, and 6.0 mm diameter tumors was 0.82%, 2.90%, and 5.25%, respectively, when measured by the native scanner. The corresponding CRC was 2.73%, 6.21% and 10.13% when imaged by the VP‐PET insert device with the flat‐panel detector under the torso phantom. These values may be further improved to 4.31%, 9.65% and 18.01% by a future dual‐panel VP‐PET insert device if DOI detectors are employed to triple its detector efficiency. Monte Carlo simulation results show that the tumor detectability can be improved by a VP‐PET device that has a single flat‐panel detector. The improvement is greater if the VP‐PET device employs a dual‐panel design. Conclusions We have developed a prototype flat‐panel VP‐PET device and integrated it with a clinical PET/CT scanner. It significantly enhances the contrast of lesions, especially for those that are borderline detectable by the native scanner, within regions‐of‐interest specified by users. Simulation demonstrated the enhancement in lesion detectability with the VP‐PET device. This technology may become a cost‐effective solution for organ‐specific imaging tasks.
The new orbit feedback system required for the APS multi-bend acromat (MBA) ring must meet challenging beam stability requirements. The AC stability requirement is to correct rms beam motion to 10 % the rms beam size at the insertion device source points from 0.01 to 1000 Hz. The vertical plane represents the biggest challenge for AC stability which is required to be 400 nm rms for a 4 micron vertical beam size. In addition long term drift over a period of 7 days is required to be 1 micron or less at insertion de- vice BPMs and 2 microns for arc bpms. We present test re- sults of theMBA prototype orbit feedback controller (FBC) in the APS storage ring. In this test, four insertion device BPMs were configured to send data to the FBC for process- ing into four fast corrector setpoints. The configuration of four bpms and four fast correctors creates a 4-bump and the configuration of fast correctors is similar to what will be implemented in the MBA ring. We report on performance benefits of increasing the sampling rate by a factor of 15 to 22.6 kHz over the existing APS orbit feedback system, lim- itations due to existing storage ring hardware and extrapo- lation to theMBA orbit feedback design. FBC architecture, signal flow and processing design will also be discussed.
The first eight insertion devices (IDs) at the NSLS-II were commissioned during the fall run of 2014. In this paper we discuss commissioning of the synchrotron radiation protection (SRP) system and beamline frontends (FE) for the respective IDs. We describe the diagnostics utilized if FE commissioning and a procedure that was used for the alignment of the photon beam from insertion devices in the beamline frontends. Then we discuss the current status of the SRP system and operation of the commissioned frontends.
A modern ring-based light source is a complex dynamic system for which the design is guided by a realistic computer model with predictable results. State-of-the-arts beam requirements translate into tight engineering tolerances. So, quality assurance for the equipment, e.g. ring magnets, girder system, power supplies, RF system, etc. is crucial to deliver on the design goals for the beam quality. For a streamlined commissioning and an effective approach for integration of insertion devices, the latter being an activity that is typically on-going for the entire life cycle of the facility, it is equally important to be able to calibrate the beam dynamics design model against the real system and pursue e.g. “gap analysis”, linear and nonlinear optics corrections, improvements to the baseline design, etc. In particular, for high-end insertion devices. Conceptually, it can be thought of as pursuing Model-Based and Adaptive Control; instead of “flying blind”. A straightforward approach is to use a pinger, a ~30 cm long hor/ver kicker that can kick the beam to about 1 mrad in each plane [1-2] and a Turn-by-Turn BPM data acquisition system that records the betatron motion on a Turn-by-Turn basis. Examples include: ALS, SLS, DIAMOND, and SOLEIL. We first outline how to measure the Beam Impulse Response (BIR) function and related Beam Transfer Function (BTF) with a Turn-by-Turn BPM data acquisition system and a pinger. In particular, how to obtain the amplitude and phase of the spectral components in the betatron spectrum with high precision by using signal processing. We also quantify how the impact of noise affects the accuracy of the measurements.
The fresh-slice technique improved the performance of several self-amplified spontaneous emission free-electron laser schemes by granting selective control on the temporal lasing slice without spoiling the other electron bunch slices. So far, the implementation has required a special insertion device to create the beam yaw, called a dechirper. Finally, we demonstrate a novel scheme to enable fresh-slice operation based on electron energy chirp and orbit dispersion that can be implemented at any free-electron laser facility without additional hardware.
The photon beamline frontend design for the new insertion device (ID) beamlines of the PETRA III extension project will be presented. The design is based on the concepts developed for the photon beamline frontends at PETRA III. This generic design approach minimized the number of specialized components for all beamlines. The girder concept with kinematic mounts at each girder allowed a fast and reliable installation phase. The extension beamlines are located in two new additional buildings. There will be 4 sectors with two undulator IDs in each sector with a canting angle of 20 mrad between the insertion devices. Additionally, two straight sections and a bending magnet chamber will be modified: one straight section will be transformed to a side station sector, the straight section with the 40 m long damping wiggler will be used as a hard X-ray source, and the bending magnet will serve as a soft-X-ray source.
At NSLS-II, the vertical emittance of electron beam is typically blown up to ~30 pm with a coupling wave to increase beam lifetime during user operation. As more and more insertion devices are added to the storage ring, injection efficiency to the ring drops noticeably in certain machine states, apparently due to degraded dynamic apertures. To help alleviate this issue, we have recently performed online multi-objective Bayesian optimization to increase injection efficiency while maintaining beam lifetime, by adjusting the strengths of 15 skew quadrupoles in non-dispersive sections. We report the results of this optimization effort.
The 16 ID-D (Insertion Device - D station) beamline of the High Pressure Collaborative Access Team at the Advanced Photon Source is dedicated to high pressure research using X-ray spectroscopy techniques typically integrated with diamond anvil cells. The beamline provides X-rays of 4.5-37 keV, and current available techniques include X-ray emission spectroscopy, inelastic X-ray scattering, and nuclear resonant scattering. Here, the recent developments include a canted undulator upgrade, 17-element analyzer array for inelastic X-ray scattering, and an emission spectrometer using a polycapillary half-lens. Recent development projects and future prospects are also discussed.
X‐ray microprobes (XRM) coupled with high‐brightness synchrotron X‐ray facilities are powerful tools for environmental biogeochemistry research. One such instrument, the XRM at the Geo Soil Enviro Center for Advanced Radiation Sources Sector 13 at the Advanced Photon Source (APS; Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL) was recently improved as part of a canted undulator geometry upgrade of the insertion device port, effectively doubling the available undulator beam time and extending the operating energy of the branch supporting the XRM down to the sulfur K edge (2.3 keV). Capabilities include rapid, high‐resolution, elemental imaging including fluorescence microtomography, microscale X‐ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy including sulfur K edge capability, and microscale X‐ray diffraction. These capabilities are advantageous for (i) two‐dimensional elemental mapping of relatively large samples at high resolution, with the dwell times typically limited only by the count times needed to obtain usable counting statistics for low concentration elements, (ii) three‐dimensional imaging of internal elemental distributions in fragile hydrated specimens, such as biological tissues, avoiding the need for physical slicing, (iii) spatially resolved speciation determinations of contaminants in environmental materials, and (iv) identification of contaminant host phases. In this paper, we describe the XRM instrumentation, techniques, applications demonstrating these capabilities, and prospects for further improvements associated with the proposed upgrade of the APS. Core Ideas X‐ray microprobes are powerful tools for environmental biogeochemistry. Upgraded GSECARS XRM operates down to the sulfur K edge. Capabilities: spatially resolved elemental analysis, spectroscopy, and diffraction. Advanced Photon Source upgrade will further advance XRM capabilities.