IBIC2023 - List of Authors (Bloomer, C.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOP031	A Study Into the Long-Term Stability of Front End X-Ray Beam Position Monitor Support Columns at Diamond Light Source	90
	C.E. Houghton, C. Bloomer, L. Bobb, D. Crivelli, J.E. Melton, H. Patel DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
	Sand-filled steel columns are used at Diamond Light Source to support front end X-ray beam position monitors. This approach is chosen due to the relatively large thermal mass of the sand being considered useful to reduce the rate at which expansion and contraction of the column occurred as the storage ring tunnel temperature varied, particularly during machine start-up. With the higher requirements for mechanical stability for the upcoming Diamond-II upgrade, there is now a need to assess and quantify the current system’s impact on X-ray beam movement. A study of thermal and mechanical stability has been carried out to quantify the stability performance of the front end X-ray beam position monitor’s columns and the impact that column motion may have on the X-ray beam position measurement. Measurements have been made over a range of different timescales, from 250 Hz up to 2 weeks. The measured stability of the support column is presented, showing that it meets our Diamond-II stability requirements. A comparison of the stability of the column with and without a sand filling is presented.
	Poster MOP031 [0.594 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2023-MOP031
About •	Received ※ 06 September 2023 — Revised ※ 07 September 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 September 2023 — Issue date ※ 17 September 2023
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WEP021	100Hz X-ray Beam Profile Measurements from a Transmissive CVD Diamond Detector	387
	C. Bloomer, L. Bobb DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom M.E. Newton University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
	A non-destructive CVD diamond X-ray beam imaging monitor has been developed for synchrotron beamlines. The device can be permanently installed in the X-ray beam path and is capable of transmissively imaging the beam profile at 100 frames per second. The response of this transmissive detector at this imaging rate is compared to synchronously acquired images using a destructive fluorescent screen. It is shown that beam position, size, and intensity measurements can be obtained with minimal disturbance to the transmitted X-ray beam. This functionality is beneficial to synchrotron beamlines as it enables them to monitor the X-ray beam focal size and position in real-time, during user experiments. This is a key enabling technology that would enable live beam size feedback, keeping the beamline’s focusing optics optimised at all times. Ground vibrations (10-20Hz) can cause movement of focusing optics and beamline mirrors, which disturb the X-ray beam and reduce the ultimate quality of the sample-point beam. This instrument can detect this beam motion, enabling the source to be more easily determined and mitigations to be put in place.
	Poster WEP021 [1.842 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2023-WEP021
About •	Received ※ 06 September 2023 — Revised ※ 08 September 2023 — Accepted ※ 11 September 2023 — Issue date ※ 02 October 2023
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A Study Into the Long-Term Stability of Front End X-Ray Beam Position Monitor Support Columns at Diamond Light Source

90

C.E. Houghton, C. Bloomer, L. Bobb, D. Crivelli, J.E. Melton, H. Patel
DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Sand-filled steel columns are used at Diamond Light Source to support front end X-ray beam position monitors. This approach is chosen due to the relatively large thermal mass of the sand being considered useful to reduce the rate at which expansion and contraction of the column occurred as the storage ring tunnel temperature varied, particularly during machine start-up. With the higher requirements for mechanical stability for the upcoming Diamond-II upgrade, there is now a need to assess and quantify the current system’s impact on X-ray beam movement. A study of thermal and mechanical stability has been carried out to quantify the stability performance of the front end X-ray beam position monitor’s columns and the impact that column motion may have on the X-ray beam position measurement. Measurements have been made over a range of different timescales, from 250 Hz up to 2 weeks. The measured stability of the support column is presented, showing that it meets our Diamond-II stability requirements. A comparison of the stability of the column with and without a sand filling is presented.

Poster MOP031 [0.594 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2023-MOP031

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Received ※ 06 September 2023 — Revised ※ 07 September 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 September 2023 — Issue date ※ 17 September 2023

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WEP021

100Hz X-ray Beam Profile Measurements from a Transmissive CVD Diamond Detector

387

C. Bloomer, L. Bobb
DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
M.E. Newton
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

A non-destructive CVD diamond X-ray beam imaging monitor has been developed for synchrotron beamlines. The device can be permanently installed in the X-ray beam path and is capable of transmissively imaging the beam profile at 100 frames per second. The response of this transmissive detector at this imaging rate is compared to synchronously acquired images using a destructive fluorescent screen. It is shown that beam position, size, and intensity measurements can be obtained with minimal disturbance to the transmitted X-ray beam. This functionality is beneficial to synchrotron beamlines as it enables them to monitor the X-ray beam focal size and position in real-time, during user experiments. This is a key enabling technology that would enable live beam size feedback, keeping the beamline’s focusing optics optimised at all times. Ground vibrations (10-20Hz) can cause movement of focusing optics and beamline mirrors, which disturb the X-ray beam and reduce the ultimate quality of the sample-point beam. This instrument can detect this beam motion, enabling the source to be more easily determined and mitigations to be put in place.

Poster WEP021 [1.842 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2023-WEP021

About •

Received ※ 06 September 2023 — Revised ※ 08 September 2023 — Accepted ※ 11 September 2023 — Issue date ※ 02 October 2023

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reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)