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          <authors>
             <author>Qiu, R.Y.</author>
             <author>Huang, W.L.</author>
             <author>Li, F.</author>
             <author>Liu, M.Y.</author>
             <author>Liu, Q.R.</author>
             <author>Rehman, M.A.</author>
             <author>Tan, Z.X.</author>
             <author>Xu, Zh.H.</author>
             <author>Yang, R.J.</author>
             <author>Yang, T.</author>
             <author>Zeng, L.</author>
          </authors>
       </contributors>
       <titles>
          <title>
             Low Intensity Beam Current Measurement of the Associated Proton Beam Line at CSNS
          </title>
       </titles>
       <publisher>JACoW Publishing</publisher>
       <pub-location>Geneva, Switzerland</pub-location>
		 <isbn>2673-5350</isbn>
		 <isbn>978-3-95450-236-3</isbn>
		 <electronic-resource-num>10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2023-TU3C05</electronic-resource-num>
		 <language>English</language>
		 <pages>174-178</pages>
       <keywords>
          <keyword>electron</keyword>
          <keyword>proton</keyword>
          <keyword>electronics</keyword>
          <keyword>experiment</keyword>
          <keyword>shielding</keyword>
       </keywords>
       <work-type>Contribution to a conference proceedings</work-type>
       <dates>
          <year>2023</year>
          <pub-dates>
             <date>2023-12</date>
          </pub-dates>
       </dates>
       <urls>
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              <url>https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2023-TU3C05</url>
              <url>https://jacow.org/ibic2023/papers/tu3c05.pdf</url>
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       <abstract>
          The Associated Proton beam Experiment Platform (APEP) beamline is the first proton irradiation facility to use naturally-stripped protons which come from H⁻ beams interacting with the residual gas in the linac beampipe at CSNS. The stripped beam current, which is in the order of 0.1% of the original H⁻ beam and approximately 10 mi-croamperes, should be measured precisely to provide the proton number for irradiation experiments. Therefore, a low-intensity beam current measurement system was developed with considerations to eliminate the external interferences. An anti-interference design is adopted in this system with an elaboration of probes, cables and electronic low-noise technology to minimize the impact of environmental noise and interferences. This improves the signal-to-noise ratio and enables a more precise measurement of the microampere-level pulsed beam cur-rent. The system was installed and tested during the summer maintenance in 2021 and 2022. It shows a good agreement with the measurement of the Faraday cup.
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