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Lower Emittance Lattice for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade Using Reverse Bending Magnets

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is pursuing an upgrade to the storage ring to a hybrid seven-bend-achromat design [1]. The nominal design provides a natural emittance of 67 pm [2]. By adding reverse dipole fields to several quadrupoles [3, 4] we can reduce the natural emittance to 41 pm while simultaneously providing more optimal beta functions in the insertion devices and increasing the dispersion function at the chromaticity sextupole magnets. The improved emittance results from a combination of increased energy loss per turn and a change in the damping partition. At the same time, the nonlinear dynamics performance is very similar, thanks in part to increased dispersion in the sextupoles. This paper describes the properties, optimization, and performance of the new lattice.

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Simulation of Swap-Out Reliability For The Advance Photon Source Upgrade

The proposed upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) to a multibend-achromat lattice relies on the use of swap-out injection to accommodate the small dynamic acceptance, allow use of unusual insertion devices, and minimize collective effects at high single-bunch charge. This, combined with the short beam lifetime, will make injector reliability even more important than it is for top-up operation. We used historical data for the APS injector complex to obtain probability distributions for injector up-time and down-time durations. Using these distributions, we simulated several years of swap-out operation for the upgraded lattice for several operatingmodes. The results indicate that obtaining very high availability of beam in the storage ring will require improvements to injector reliability.

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Beam Loss Simulation and Collimator System Configurations for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade

The proposed multi-bend achromat lattice for the Advanced Photon Source upgrade (APS-U) has a design emittance of less than 70 pm. The Touschek loss rate is high: compared with the current APS ring, which has an average beam lifetime ~ 10 h, the simulated beam lifetime for APS-U is only ~2 h when operated in the high flux mode (I=200 mA in 48 bunches). An additional consequence of the short lifetime is that injection must be more frequent, which provides another potential source of particle loss. In order to provide information for the radiation shielding system evaluation and to avoid particle loss in sensitive locations around the ring (for example, insertion device straight sections), simulations of the detailed beam loss distribution have been performed. Several possible collimation configurations have been simulated and compared.

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Safe operating conditions for NSLS-II Storage Ring Frontends commissioning

The NSLS-II Storage Ring Frontends are designed to safely accept the synchrotron radiation fan produced by respective insertion device when the electron beam orbit through the ID is locked inside the predefined Active Interlock Envelope. The Active Interlock is getting enabled at a particular beam current known as AI safe current limit. Below such current the beam orbit can be anywhere within the limits of the SR beam acceptance. During the FE commissioning the beam orbit is getting intentionally disturbed in the particular ID. In this paper we explore safe operating conditions for the Frontends commissioning.

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Reviewed approach to defining the Active Interlock Envelope for Front End ray tracing

To protect the NSLS-II Storage Ring (SR) components from damage from synchrotron radiation produced by insertion devices (IDs) the Active Interlock (AI) keeps electron beam within some safe envelope (a.k.a Active Interlock Envelope or AIE) in the transverse phase space. The beamline Front Ends (FEs) are designed under assumption that above certain beam current (typically 2 mA) the ID synchrotron radiation (IDSR) fan is produced by the interlocked e-beam. These assumptions also define how the ray tracing for FE is done. To simplify the FE ray tracing for typical uncanted ID it was decided to provide the Mechanical Engineering group with a single set of numbers (x,x’,y,y’) for the AIE at the center of the long (or short) ID straight section. Such unified approach to the design of the beamline Front Ends will accelerate the design process and save valuable human resources. In this paper we describe our new approach to defining the AI envelope and provide the resulting numbers required for design of the typical Front End.

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Considerations for NSLS-II Synchrotron Radiation Protection When Operating Damping Wigglers at Low Machine Energy

The NSLS-II storage ring vacuum chamber, including frontends (FE) and beamlines (BL), is protected from possible damage from synchrotron radiation (SR) emitted from insertion devices (IDs) by a dedicated active interlock system (AIS). The system monitors electron beam position and angle and triggers a beam dump if the beam orbit is outside of the active interlock envelope (AIE). The AIE was calculated under the assumptions of 3 GeV beam energy and ID gaps set to their minimum operating values (i.e. “fully closed”). Recently it was proposed to perform machine studies that would ramp the stored beam energy significantly below the nominal operational value of 3 GeV. These studies may potentially include the use of NSLS-II damping wigglers (DWs) for electron beam emittance reduction and control.

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Defining the safe current limit for opening ID photon shutter

The NSLS-II storage ring is protected from possible damage from insertion devices (IDs) synchrotron radiation by a dedicated active interlock system (AIS). It monitors electron beam position and angle and triggers beam drop if beam orbit exceeds the boundaries of pre-calculated active interlock envelope (AIE). The beamlines (BL) and beamline frontends (FE) are designed under assumption that the electron beam is interlocked within the AIE. For historic reasons the AIS engages the ID active interlock (AI-ID) at any non-zero beam current whenever the ID photon shutter (IDPS) is getting opened. Such arrangement creates major inconveniences for BLs commissioning. Apparently there is some IDPS safe current limit (SCL) under which the IDPS can be opened without interlocking the e-beam. The goal of this paper is to find such limit.

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Dose Calculations for NSLS-II Beamline Frontend Safety Shutters

Bremsstrahlung is produced in the storage ring by the interaction of the electron beam with residual gas molecules and/or with storage ring components like vacuum chamber, magnet yokes etc. Such interactions are one of the sources of stored beam loss, resulting in beam decay, and occur continuously during storage ring operation. Gas bremsstrahlung interactions take place all around the storage ring, but are a particular problem in the straight sections for the insertion devices.

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Concept of the Complex Bend

Modern synchrotron lattices follow Multi-­Bend Achromat approach and realize low emittance by arranging small horizontal beta-­function and dispersion in the bends. In this paper we propose another optics solution aimed to reach low emittance by using a lattice element that we named as “Complex Bend”. The Complex Bend corresponds to a strong alternate focusing distributed along the bend so to maintain the beta-function and dispersion oscillating at low values. Comprising the ring lattice out of Complex Bends instead of regular dipoles will minimize the Ң-­function and reduce the horizontal emittance while localizing bending to a small fraction of the storage ring circumference. The latter should help to gain more space for Insertion Devices. In the following, we present the concept of Complex Bend, considerations on the choice of its optimal parameters, as well as, thoughts of its practical realization. This paper gives a snapshot where our current studies stand and does not pretend to be a complete description of the Complex Bend engineering design and integration of this element into a specific ring lattice.

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BPM Offset of NSLS-II Storage Ring Based on BBA Measurement

Beam based alignment (BBA) is the final calibration of the Beam position monitor (BPM) readings based on the quadrupole centers and it becomes essential process for the modern synchrotron light sources. For the convenient BBA implementation, usually BPMs are placed close to the quadrupoles and the beam is adjusted to pass the center of the quadrupoles. Therefore, measured BPM BBAs are, in fact, the BPM offsets relative to the quadrupole centers, and by observing their variations, we can estimate the relative movements of the BPMs. In NSLS-II, the BPM BBAs are measured whenever the beam-time allows and the variations are being observed. However, because changing BBAs in the BPM readings has direct and significant impact on the machine operation as well as the user experiments, they are not applied instantly. Instead, in NSLS-II, the official BBA values are managed by the snapshot archiving and retrieving system, called MASAR (MAchine Snapshot Archiving and Retrieve), so that they are well organized and can be easily set to any stored set of BBAs values. NSLS-II is implementing MASAR as a part of EPICS control system for the convenient and mistake-free machine operation. Each snapshot is a group of key-value pairs where keys are EPICS Process Variables (PVs). The snapshots are organized by configurations where each configuration has specific PV sets. And each configuration saves snapshots with titles corresponding their purposes such as normal user operations or specific beam studies. Anyone with control system account can save snapshots and they can be restored whenever needed. One of the configurations is “SR_BPM_BBAS" and the configuration includes the set of EPICS PVs for the storage ring BPM BBA values. This configuration also includes the BBAs of the in the straight sections, called ID (insertion device) BPMs playing important roles in user experiments. The ID BPM BBAs are also directly engaged in the active interlock (AI) machine protection system, which prevents the mechanical damage from the ID radiation. However, in estimating ID BPM BBAs, because there is no quadrupoles around them, interpolations from the surrounding sector BPM BBAs are used. This note focuses on the BPM offset variations based on the BBA measurement data and does not discuss about the ID BPM BBAs because they are not the direct measures of the offsets.

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Reviewed Approach to Defining the Active Interlock Envelope for Front End Ray Tracing

To protect the NSLS-II Storage Ring (SR) components from damage from synchrotron radiation produced by insertion devices (IDs) the Active Interlock (AI) keeps electron beam within some safe envelope (a.k.a Active Interlock Envelope or AIE) in the transverse phase space. The beamline Front Ends (FEs) are designed under assumption that above certain beam current (typically 2 mA) the ID synchrotron radiation (IDSR) fan is produced by the interlocked e-beam. These assumptions also define how the ray tracing for FE is done. To simplify the FE ray tracing for typical uncanted ID it was decided to provide the Mechanical Engineering group with a single set of numbers (x,x’,y,y’) for the AIE at the center of the long (or short) ID straight section. Such unified approach to the design of the beamline Front Ends will accelerate the design process and save valuable human resources. In this paper we describe our new approach to defining the AI envelope and provide the resulting numbers required for design of the typical Front End.

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NSLS-II Storage Ring Layout and Components

The NSLS-II storage ring consists of 30 cells with alternating long (9.3m) and short (6.6m) straights. The layout of the magnets and the vacuum components has 15-fold symmetry, even though some of the components, such as scrapers, strip lines, are put in asymmetrically at only a few places. The insertion devices will likely be different for each straight; therefore the magnet strength will be slightly adjusted when IDs are installed.

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Considerations for NSLS-II Synchrotron Radiation Protection When Operating Damping Wigglers at Low Machine Energy

The NSLS-II storage ring vacuum chamber, including frontends (FE) and beamlines (BL), is protected from possible damage from synchrotron radiation (SR) emitted from insertion devices (IDs) by a dedicated active interlock system (AIS). The system monitors electron beam position and angle and triggers a beam dump if the beam orbit is outside of the active interlock envelope (AIE). The AIE was calculated under the assumptions of 3 GeV beam energy and ID gaps set to their minimum operating values (i.e. “fully closed”). Recently it was proposed to perform machine studies that would ramp the stored beam energy significantly below the nominal operational value of 3 GeV. These studies may potentially include the use of NSLS-II damping wigglers (DWs) for electron beam emittance reduction and control. These DWs have the minimum operating gap of g min =15 mm with the corresponding peak magnetic field B 0 =1.8 T. During regular machine operations or studies at 3 GeV, DWs are usually held at this minimum gap (thus maximum field), or, alternatively, they are fully opened to the gap of 150 mm, which corresponds to a negligible residual magnetic field. However, any intermediate values of wiggler gap can be easily set through the control system with micron level precision, so wiggler fields in the range of 0< B < B 0 can be precisely set and maintained. For the low energy studies two likely modes of DW operation must be considered: 1) the maximum allowable wiggler filed is proportional to the storage ring energy, B ( E )= B 0 E /E 0 ; and 2) the maximum allowable wiggler field (and thus the minimum allowable gap) is energy independent and is equal to its nominal 3 GeV value of 1.8 T (i.e. wiggler gap is fixed at 15 mm). The aim of this technical note is to consider the synchrotron radiation protection (SRP) implications of DW use during low energy machine studies, when DWs are operated in either of these two modes. For consistency with earlier SRP documents we will quote all the powers and power densities at the nominal NSLS-II design beam current of 500 mA, even though the low energy studies will be done at significantly lower beam currents, hence the SR power will be proportionally smaller.

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3D Hall Probe Calibration Procedure

Hall probes are commonly used to measure local magnetic field, however they need to be calibrated. This technical note describes the accurate 3D Hall probe calibration system developed by the NSLS-II Insertion devices group at BNL. The calibration procedure and the calibration curves of an Arepoc 3D Hall probe have been presented.

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1D Transient Study of Glidcop Surface Heating by Beam Power

Radiation fans from Insertion Devices and Bending Magnets are “trimmed” by various water-cooled absorbers located strategically downstream of those sources. Mostly, the absorber surfaces onto which power is deposited is constructed from Glidcop (rarely OFHC copper). A ring-resident Active Interlock (AI) system is designed to protect against overheating by disabling mis-steered beam within an allotted time. The Synchrotron Radiation Protection (SRP) protocol has the limiting criterion of 100*C maximum allowable temperature at any point when subject to mis-steered beam for a fixed period before the AI takes action. After 0.2 msec, radiation in excess of the +/- 500 um offset and +/- 250 urad angular error from the HEX SCW will trip in fault. AI specified beam parameters allow 1.0 msec to fully dump the electron beam. Given such short periods of peak power deposition we explore here these brief thermal transients to glean a general understanding of highest reachable limits before the onset of AI protection.

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HEX 2-piece ID Absorber: Steady and Transient Thermal FEA

Radiation fans from Insertion Devices and Bending Magnets are “trimmed” by various water-cooled absorbers located strategically downstream of those sources. Mostly, the absorber surfaces onto which power is deposited are constructed from Glidcop Al-15 (rarely OFHC copper). On the basis of Tech Note 327 a re-design for improved thermal performance has evolved to a two-piece ID Absorber configuration; one between dipole chamber and quadrupole, another after the sextupole, each with reduced incident angle. The ring’s Active Interlock (AI) system protects against overheating by disabling mis-steered beam within an allotted time. SRP (Synchrotron Radiation Protection) protocol has a limiting maximum allowable temperature of 100*C at any point when subject to mis-steered beam for a fixed period before AI activation. After 0.2 msec, radiation exceeding +/- 0.5mm offset and +/- 0.25 mrad angular error from the HEX SCW will trip in fault. AI specification allows 1.0 msec to fully dump the electron beam.

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FOFB-compatible AC Local Bump as a Potential New Operations Mode for NSLS-II

AC local bumps of the beam orbit developed at NSLS-II are successfully used for accelerator physics studies. Recently, AC bumps localized at light-generating insertion devices (ID) are considered by NSLS-II beamline scientists as a possible user operation mode. The AC perturbation of the X-ray beam in a controllable way will provide a possibility to investigate the effects of the source size and temporal evolution on the coherence of the photon beam. It also can be used to average out the spatial non-uniformity of the beam intensity caused by the beamline optics. Before the implementation of the AC orbit bumps into user operations, we must investigate if the electron beam perturbation affects the other beamlines. A proof-of-principle experiment was carried out: an AC bump was created and well localized in the CSX and/or FXI beamline. Transparency of this AC bump to other beamlines has been studied, the results are discussed.

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Reducing beta functions in the NSLS-II long straight section for NEXT-III beamlines

The NSLS-II Experimental Tools III (NEXT-III) Project with the goal of building 8-12 new beamlines is ongoing. We were requested to explore the possibility of modifying the long straight section in Cell 26 to accommodate two new undulators for Advanced Nanoscale Imaging (ANI) Beamline and Tender X-ray Nanoprobe (TXN) Beamline. The scope of work includes: linear lattice matching; confirmation of the minimum ID gaps consistent with beam stay-clear limitations; calculation of the X-ray brightness; optimization of the dynamic aperture and momentum acceptance; multi-particle tracking to confirm the injection efficiency does not deteriorate significantly. The beam simulations have to be done using the most recent NSLS-II lattice model with all present insertion devices and realistic magnet errors, misalignments, and apertures. Originally two lattice options were considered for the assessment:1) with single -minimum beta functions and 2) NSLS-II with double-minimum beta functions. However, since the beamlines are not interested in the reduction of the horizontal beta function, just the vertical one, we decided to stop considering the single-minimum option because the current vertical beta is already low (3.3m) and further reducing it at the straight section center can increase it too much at the edge of a long ID, and limit the beam stay-clear. So, this report is focused on the double mini-beta scheme only.

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