ESFR gets a boost from an oPAC fellow
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is currently in the process of upgrading its electron booster ring with new Beam Position Monitoring (BPM) readout electronics. Quite often booster rings are not equipped with readout electronics, or these systems are there just for basic monitoring purpose.
The new BPM machine is based on the commercial Libera-Spark system developed by the oPAC partner Instrumentation Technologies. This system will be able to measure the beam position at various output rates, with a possible time resolution even below that of the orbit-turn time (1 µs), providing an unprecedented amount of fast high-resolution data and helping to monitor and optimize the booster operations.
The oPAC fellow Manuel Cargnelutti, from Instrumentation Technologies is spending four weeks at the ESRF in Grenoble. Manuel is participating in the commissioning and upgrading of the booster ring, fine tuning and calibrating the electronics for all the 75 BPM stations. His work will contribute to the integration of the readout system with the accelerator control system and the validation of a beam-loss monitor prototype.
Image courtesy of Instrumentation Technologies