Speaker
Xuanhao Zhang
(Australian Synchrotron)
Description
A new beam loss monitor (BLM) system has been installed and commissioned at the Australian Synchrotron. The new system consists of 28 beam loss detector (BLD) units and 14 signal processing BLM units distributed around the storage ring. Each detector unit consists of a plastic scintillator coupled to a photomultiplier tube. The signal processing units are Libera BLMs from Instrumentation Technology. The new system can detect both integrated slow losses from the stored beam and turn-by-turn losses during injection. This talk will describe the calibration method, the commissioning results, and implementation of a postmortem function to detect unexpected beam loss events.
Primary authors
Xuanhao Zhang
(Australian Synchrotron)
Eugene Tan
(Australian Synchrotron - ANSTO)
