[en] The formalism of Digital Signal Processing (DSP), is reviewed with the objective of providing a framework for understanding the utility of DSP techniques for Beam Instrumentation and developiong criteria for assessing the merits of DSP applications. copyright 1995 American Institute of Physics

[en] PWCs have been constructed in the shape of cylindrical quadrants, placed around the bicone in an experiment at the CERN ISR, and operated in a charge division mode to obtain two dimensional position information. A pair of PWCs share a cylindrical styrofoam shell as the basic support member, and contain approximately 0.008 radiation lengths of material. The observed charge division resolution is deltax/L approximately 0.5% in reasonable agreement with an expected resolution of approximately 0.3% due primarily to digitization noise. Reduction of digitization noise is limited by available dynamic range of the electronics and the width of the pulse height distributions. A method is described, using X-rays from ⁵⁵Fe strip sources for calibrating the electronics, which is sufficiently accurate to match the observed resolution. (Auth.)

[en] A programmable longitudinal feedback system based on four AT ampersand T 1610 digital signal processors has been developed as a component of the PEP-II R ampersand D program. This Longitudinal Quick Prototype is a proof of concept for the PEP-II system and implements full speed bunch-by-bunch signal processing for storage rings with bunch spacings of 4 ns. The design implements, via software, a general purpose feedback controller which allows the system to be operated at several accelerator facilities. The system configuration used for tests at the LBL Advanced Light Source is described. Open and closed loop results showing the detection and calculation of feedback signals from bunch motion are presented, and the system is shown to damp coupled-bunch instabilities in the ALS. Use of the system for accelerator diagnostics is illustrated via measurement of injection transients and analysis of open loop bunch motion

[en] We formulate the multibunch feedback problem as a standard control-systems design problem and solve it using Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) regulator theory. Use of a specific optimality criterion allows quantitative evaluation of different controllers and leads to the design of optimal LQG controllers. Computer simulations are used to show that, as compared to the existing Finite Impulse Response (FIR) control, LQG control can provide the same closed-loop damping for less peak power, thus making more effective use of limited kicker power. Furthermore, LQG control enables us to use more power to provide better damping without the problem of driving instabilities with higher loop gains. The code for the LQG filters described has been written for the Quick prototype installed at ALS

[en] The next generation of synchrotron light sources and particle accelerators will require active feedback systems to control multi-bunch instabilities. Stabilizing hundreds or thousands of potentially unstable modes in these accelerator designs presents many technical challenges. Feedback systems to stabilize coupled-bunch instabilities may be understood in the frequency domain (mode-based feedback) or in the time domain (bunch-by-bunch feedback). In both approaches an external amplifier system is used to create damping fields that prevent coupled-bunch oscillations from growing without bound. The system requirements for transverse (betatron) and longitudinal (synchrotron) feedback are presented, and possible implementation options developed. Feedback system designs based on digital signal-processing techniques are described. Experimental results are shown from a synchrotron oscillation damper in the SSRL/SLAC storage ring SPEAR that uses digital signal-processing techniques

[en] Recently a single-channel prototype of the proposed PEP-II longitudinal feedback system was successfully demonstrated at SPEAR and ALS on single-bunch beams. The phase oscillations are detected via a wide-band pick up. The feedback signal is then computed using a digital signal processor (DSP) and applied to the beam by phase modulating the rf. The authors analyze results in the frequency- and the time-domain and show how the closed-loop transfer functions can be obtained rigorously by proper modeling of the various components of this hybrid continuous/digital system. The technique of downsampling was used in the experiments to reduce the number of computations and allowed the use of the same digital hardware on both machines

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[en] A global orbit feedback system has been installed on SPEAR to help stabilize the position of the photon beams. The orbit control algorithms depend on either harmonic reconstruction of the orbit or eigenvector decomposition. The orbit motion is corrected by dipole corrector kicks determined from the inverse corrector-to-bpm response matrix. This paper outlines features of these control algorithms as applied to SPEAR

[en] A programmable longitudinal feedback system based on four AT ampersand T 1610 digital signal processors has been developed as a component of the PEP-II R ampersand D program. This longitudinal quick prototype is a proof of concept for the PEP-II system and implements full-speed bunch-by-bunch signal processing for storage rings with bunch spacings of 4 ns. The design incorporates a phase-detector-based front end that digitizes the oscillation phases of bunches at the 250 MHz crossing rate, four programmable signal processors that compute correction signals, and a 250-MHz hold buffer/kicker driver stage that applies correction signals back on the beam. The design implements a general-purpose, table-driven downsampler that allows the system to be operated at several accelerator facilities. The hardware architecture of the signal processing is described, and the software algorithms used in the feedback signal computation are discussed. The system configuration used for tests at the LBL Advanced Light Source is presented

[en] The proposed PEP II B factory at SLAC requires a feedback to damp out longitudinal synchrotron oscillations. A time domain, downsampled, bunch-by-bunch feedback system in which each bunching is treated as an oscillator being driven by disturbances from other bunches is presented as we review the evolution of the system design. Results from a synchrotron oscillation damping experiment conducted at the SLAC/SSRL/SPEAR ring are also presented in this paper. (author)