Beamline stability measurements with a stretched wire system in the FFTB

摘要

Beamline stability is of great importance for future linear colliders where tolerances generally are in the micron to sub-micron range. A stretched wire system in the sealed FFTB tunnel at SLAC was used to monitor beamline motion with a sub-micron resolution. In future linear colliders low frequency changes of the beamline alignment (< 0.1 Hz) lead to untolerable quasistatical misalignments and betatron oscillations. Since it requires time to correct those errors, it is very important to determine how often corrections are needed. The authors present the measurements, discuss the systematics of the stretched wire system and compare the observations with the ATL-model for ground motion.