Transverse bunch-by-bunch feedback systems for damping coupled-bunch instabilities in the KEKB rings have been working well since the early stages of the commissioning of the rings. Beam diagnostic systems that are the part of the bunch feedback systems, such as bunch current monitors, betatron-tune measurements systems, and bunch oscillation recorders, have been playing important roles in the ...

Acceptance testing and commissioning of a CyberKnife robotic stereotactic radiosurgery system was performed in April 2006. The CyberKnife linear accelerator produces a photon beam of 6 MV nominal energy, without the use of a flattening filter. Clinically measured tissue-phantom ratios, off-center ratios, and output factors are presented and compared with similar data from other CyberKnife sites...

Making an accurate Radio Frequency, RF, design of any accelerating structure is fundamental to ensure that electromagnetic and beam dynamics requirements will be achieved. This is essential for the most complicated accelerating structures like the Drift Tube Linac, DTL; in this case a meticulous design facilitates the RF commissioning too. In this paper the influence of the interfaces and of th...

The KEK electron linac was upgraded to 8 GeV for the KEK B-Factory (KEKB) project. During commissioning of the upgraded linac, even while continuing SOR ring injections, we had achieved a primary electron beam with 10-nC (6:24 10) per bunch up to 3.7-GeV for positron generation. This could be classified as one of the brightest S-band linac’s. Since the KEKB rings were completed in December 1998...

PETRA III is a high brilliant synchrotron light-source operating at 6GeV. The commissioning of the machine had started in April 2009 [1]. In the first months of operation the Machine Protection System (MPS) ran on basic MPS requirements to protect absorbers and vacuum chambers in the damping wiggler section and the undulator section against synchrotron light. Therefore several alarms distribute...

Helical tomotherapy presented many unique dosimetric challenges and solutions during the initial commissioning process, and some of them are presented. The dose calculation algorithm is convolution/superposition based. This requires that the energy fluence spectrum and magnitude be quantified. The methodology for doing so is described. Aspects of the energy fluence characterization that are uni...

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free electron laser project is currently under construction at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). A new injector and upgrades to the existing accelerator were installed in two phases in 2006 and 2007. We report on the commissioning of the injector, the two new bunch compressors at 250 MeV and 4.3 GeV, and transverse and longitudinal beam ...

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is a SASE 1.5-15 Å x-ray Free-Electron Laser (FEL) facility under construction at SLAC [1], and presently in an advanced phase of commissioning. The injector, linac, and new bunch compressors were commissioned in 2007 [2] and 2008 [3], establishing the necessary electron beam brightness at 14 GeV. The final phase of commissioning, including the FEL undulat...

A short-period in-vacuum undulator for the NSLS X-ray Ring has been developed in a collaboration between SPring-8 and the NSLS, and has achieved its project design goals during commissioning studies. The device is called IVUN (in-vacuum undulator) and employs magnet arrays (31 periods, with an 11 mm period) developed at SPring-8, while the requisite vacuum chamber and mechanical systems were de...

Uranium fission chambers are commonly used for neutron beam monitoring in research facilities. The challenges brought with the renewing or commissioning of new facilities encourage to minimize interaction between monitor and beam. In order characterize both their detection efficiency transmission factor, several chambers, have been scanned on CT1 monochromatic line ILL. Results show that transp...