9–13 Oct 2022
FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch
Europe/Zurich timezone

Longitudinal beam-based feedback system at the European XFEL

13 Oct 2022, 14:05
20m
Aula (Building 3)

Aula

Building 3

Oral Low Level RF Workshop 2022 Beam Measurements and Feedback Control

Speaker

Björn Lautenschlager (DESY)

Description

For pump-probe experiments, where the FEL photon pulses interact together with an external laser, a highly temporal stability is mandatory. The longitudinal beam-based feedback system at the European XFEL stabilizes the arrival time, measured by a bunch arrival time monitor (BAM). To compensate fast arrival time fluctuations of the bunch trains, the energy in front of a bunch compression chicane is modulated by the low level RF (LLRF) system of the superconducting RF (SRF) cavities. Measurements at the EuXFEL shows train-to-train arrival time stabilities down to the sub-10 fs level if the longitudinal intra bunch-train feedback (L-IBFB) is activated at the LLRF system.

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