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A Fiber Profile Monitor for low Beam Intensities.
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- G. R. Tassotto, H. Nguyen, D. P. Schoo, G. W. Sellberg
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
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A scintillating Fiber Profile Monitor (FPM) has been prototyped, built and tested for the new low intensity Meson Test (M-Test) beamline at Fermilab. The beamline has the following beam parameters: E = 1-120 GeV, I from a few hundreds to 700,000 particles/spill, and the spill length is 4.5 seconds. Segmented Wire Ion Chambers (SWICs) and Proportional Wire Chambers (PWCs) do not display the beam profile accurately below about 10,000 particles. For the prototype FPM detector a modified SWIC vacuum can was used. An (x, y) array of fibers replaced the chamber containing windows, gas, and AuW wires soldered on a ceramic substrate. The fibers were purchased from Saint Gobain and are of the type BCF-12 MC, 420 nm wavelength They have a diameter of 0.75 mm and are coated with black EMA for optical isolation. The 64 channel fibers are positioned and then epoxied in a vacuum feed-thru cookie to match a Burle 64 channel multianode microchannel plate PMT of the type Planacon # 85011-501. The gain of the Planacon PMT is 800,000 at 2400 Volts. Unlike SWICs or PWCs, this device will allow for vacuum continuity. Comparative data with PWCs will be presented.
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Segmented Foil SEM Grids for High-Intensity Proton Beams at Fermilab
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- Z. Pavlovic, D. Indurthy, S. E. Kopp, M. Proga, R. M. Zwaska
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
- B. B. Baller, S. C. Childress, R. D. Ford, D. Harris, C. L.K. Kendziora, C. D. Moore, G. R. Tassotto
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
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The extracted beam transport lines and transfer lines between accelerators at Fermilab must operate at ever higher proton fluences to service the neutrino program and the production of antiprotons for the Tevatron collider program. The high proton fluences place stringent criteria on invasive instrumentation to measure proton beam profiles. Based on a design from CERN, we have built SEM's consisting of Ti foils segmented at either 1.0mm or 0.5mm pitch. The foils are 5um thick Titanium, and two planes of the segmented foils per SEM chamber provides both horizontal and vertical beam profiles. The foil SEM's provide several features over the Au-plated 75 um Ø W-wire SEM's previously in use at Fermilab: (1) a factor 50-60 lower fractional beam loss; (2) greater longevity of Ti signal yield, as compared with W or Au-W; (3) a 'bayonnette'-style frame permitting insertion/retraction from the beam without interruption of operations; and (4) reduced calculated beam-heating from the high-intensity proton-pulses, which results in less sag of the wires/foils. Experience with these detectors after two years' operations in 8 and 120GeV beams will be summarized.
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