Time-Resolved Beam-Profile Measurements on the Experimental Test Accelerator (ETA)

摘要

Examples are given of time-resolved beam profiles measured on ETA using several techniques. One method uses a Faraday cup that is remotely movable in two-transverse dimensions (x, y). In another method a small diameter wire or pellet target is moved across the beam and the bremsstrahlung x-ray intensity is plotted. Data for these methods are recorded using a Tektronix 7912 digitizer at 16 equally spaced times during 50 ns. Three other methods use a time gated (4 ns) microchannel plate television camera to record a two-dimensional image of the beam intensity on a single pulse. The light sources used for imaging are: Cherenkov light from a Kapton foil, prompt visible light from a titanium foil and radiated light from gas molecules excited by the beam. We are also testing an x-ray pinhole camera using K/sub alpha / x-rays from tungsten. (ERA citation 09:003137)