A new method of monitoring the luminosity has been developed at CESR. The method involves shaking one bunch at a speciic frequency and observing the resulting oscillations of the corresponding opposing bunch. In initial tests, measurements with 1% accuracy have been obtained in 1 second. Measurements of diierent bunches in a train shows bunch to bunch diierences with the optimum luminosity cond...

The AØ Photoinjector at Fermilab can produce high charge (10-14 nC) electron bunches of low emittance (20π mm-mrad for 12 nC). We have undertaken a study of the optimal compression conditions. Off-crest acceleration in the 9-cell capture cavity induces an energy-time correlation, which is rotated by the compressor chicane (4 dipoles). The bunch length is measured using streak camera images of o...

A bunch-by-bunch beam diagnostic system which consists of a high speed light shutter and an optical beam detector has been developed. Since the open/close time of the shutter is comparable to a bunch spacing of 2 ns, it is capable of picking out the light pulses from a particular bunch in a bunch train. The selected pulses can be analyzed with conventional optical beam diagnostic methods in ord...

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 ...

Grapevine cultivar can affect susceptibility to Lobesia botrana and Eupoecilia ambiguella with important implications on control strategies. A four-year study was carried out in north-eastern Italy on 10 cultivars (Cabernet Sauvignon, Carménère, Chardonnay, Merlot, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Rhine Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Terrano, Tocai Friulano and Verduzzo Friulano) grown in the same vine...

The Robust Conjugate Direction Search (RCDS) [1] optimizer is applied for online optimizations of the ESRF accelerators. This paper presents the successful application of the algorithm in reducing vertical emittance, improving injection efficiency and increasing lifetime. A new set of sextupole settings to increase chromaticity has been obtained with lifetimes comparable to the existing one. Th...

Two Hadamard matrices of order 764 of Goethals– Seidel type are constructed. Recall that a Hadamard matrix of order m is a {±1}-matrix A of size m × m such that AA T = mI m , where T denotes the transpose and I m the identity matrix. We refer the reader to one of [2, 4] for the survey of known results about Hadamard matrices. In our previous note [1], written about 13 years ago, we listed 17 in...

As the beam currents at the SLC are increased, transverse aperture restrictions in the ring-to-linac transport line (RTL) become increasingly important. The RTL contains a bunch compressor which introduces a large energy variation across the bunch and hence a larger transverse beam size. Since 1994 the compressor amplitude has been operating at higher than design voltage. While advantangeous fo...

An optical bunch-by-bunch beam diagnostic system, which can detect oscillations of individual bunches in a multi­ bunch operation, has been developed. The system is com­ posed of a high-speed light shutter and an optical beam­ oscillation detector. The shutter that consists of a pockels cell and polarizers can be opened or closed in a bunch spac­ ing time (2ns in KEK-PF) and it can select a lig...