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BPM (Beam Position Measurement) system is one of the most important beam diagnostic instruments in accelerators. A fully digital BPM (DBPM) has been designed for SSRF (Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility). As Analog-to-Digital Converter…
A simple, analytically correct algorithm is developed for calculating pencil beam coordinates using the signals from an ideal cylindrical particle beam position monitor (BPM) with four pickup electrodes (PUEs) of infinitesimal widths. The…
Beam position monitors (BPMs) are indispensable components of modern particle accelerators, providing real-time diagnostics to ensure precise beam control, stability, and quality. As accelerators such as the International Linear Collider…
In conventional beam based alignment (BBA) procedures, the relative alignment of a quadrupole to a nearby beam position monitor is determined by finding a beam position in the quadrupole at which the closed orbit does not change when the…
A fully digital beam position and phase measurement (BPPM) system was designed for the linear accelerator (LINAC) in Accelerator Driven Sub-critical System (ADS) in China. Phase information is obtained from the summed signals from four…
The advancement of simulation-assisted robot programming, automation of high-tolerance assembly operations, and improvement of real-world performance engender a need for positionally accurate robots. Despite tight machining tolerances, good…
The paper proposes a new calibration method for parallel manipulators that allows efficient identification of the joint offsets using observations of the manipulator leg parallelism with respect to the base surface. The method employs a…
This introduction on beam position monitors (BPM) summarizes the fundamental parts of the tutorial presented at the CAS 2018 on beam instrumentation. The focus is on the signal detection and normalization, and on the principle of operation…
The new beam position monitor (BPM) system of the injector at the upgrade project of Hefei Light Source (HLS II) has 19 stripline beam position monitors. Most consist of four orthogonal symmetric stripline electrodes. The differences in…
We propose a method to simultaneously determine the magnetic centers of multiple quadrupoles in a transport line or a storage ring. The method finds the magnet centers by correcting the orbit shift due to a change of the quadrupole gradient…
This article presents a method that uses turn-by-turn beam position data and k-modulation data to measure the calibration factors of beam position monitors in high energy accelerators. In this method, new algorithms have been developed to…
In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the position, orientation and gain of a magnetic field sensor using a set of (large) electromagnetic coils. We apply the method for calibrating an array of optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs)…
With a Bayesian Gaussian regression approach, a systematic method for analyzing a storage ring's beam position monitor (BPM) system requirements has been developed. The ultimate performance of a ring-based accelerator, based on brightness…
The paper proposes a novel calibration approach for the Orthoglide-type mechanisms based on observations of the manipulator leg parallelism during mo-tions between the prespecified test postures. It employs a low-cost measuring system…
The paper proposes a novel calibration approach for the Orthoglide-type mechanisms based on observations of the manipulator leg parallelism during motions between the prespecified test postures. It employs a low-cost measuring system…
Beam-line equipment was upgraded for experiment E08-027 (g2p) in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. Two beam position monitors (BPMs) were necessary to measure the beam position and angle at the target. A new BPM receiver was designed and built to…
This paper describes a calibration algorithm to simultaneously calibrate a magnetometer and an accelerometer without any information besides the sensors readings. Using a linear sensor model and maximum likelihood cost, the algorithm is…
Good geometrical calibration is essential in the use of high resolution detectors. The individual sensors in the detector have to be calibrated with an accuracy better than the intrinsic resolution, which typically is of the order of 10 um.…
The J\"ulich Electric Dipole moment Investigation (JEDI) collaboration aims at a direct measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of protons and deuterons using a storage ring. The measurement is based on a polarization measurement.…
Accurate beam alignment is essential for beam-based millimeter wave communications. Conventional beam sweeping solutions often have large overhead, which is unacceptable for mobile applications like vehicle-to-everything. Learning-based…