Test beam studies at SLAC End Station A, for the International Linear Collider

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The SLAC Linac can deliver to End Station A (ESA) a high-energy test beam with similar beam parameters as for the International Linear Collider (ILC) for bunch charge, bunch length and bunch energy spread.[1] ESA beam tests run parasitically with PEP-II with single damped bunches at 10Hz, beam energy of 28.5 GeV and bunch charge of (1.5-2.0) 1010 electrons. A 5-day commissioning run was performed in January 2006, followed by a 2-week run in April. We describe the beamline configuration and beam setup for these runs, and give an overview of the tests being carried out. [2] These tests include studies of collimator wakefields, prototype energy spectrometers, prototype beam position monitors (BPMs) for the ILC Linac, and characterization of beam-induced electro-magnetic interference (EMI) along the ESA beamline.

Authors: Woods, M; Adolphsen, C; Arnold, R; Bowden, G; Bower, B

• Publisher: European Physical Society Accelerator Group (EPS-AG)
• Host title: EPAC 2006 - Contributions to the Proceedings
• Pages: 700-702
• Publication date: 2006-01-01