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View article: Design and manufacturing of the combined quadrupole and corrector magnets for the LIPAc accelerator high energy beam transport line
Design and manufacturing of the combined quadrupole and corrector magnets for the LIPAc accelerator high energy beam transport line Open
The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is a project aiming to investigate candidate materials to be used in the most exposed zones of future fusion reactors. The linear IFMIF prototype accelerator (LIPAc), presentl…
View article: Design and Fabrication of a Short Multipole Wiggler and the Front End for the New ALBA Beamline FAXTOR
Design and Fabrication of a Short Multipole Wiggler and the Front End for the New ALBA Beamline FAXTOR Open
FAXTOR is a new hard XR tomography beam line that is being built at ALBA in order to fulfil the needs that cannot be currently covered by the MISTRAL VUV and soft XR beamline. This beam line needs a small source size as well higher than 10…
View article: Acceptance Tests and Installation of the IVU and Front End for the XAIRA Beamline of ALBA
Acceptance Tests and Installation of the IVU and Front End for the XAIRA Beamline of ALBA Open
XAIRA is a new beamline being built at ALBA synchrotron for macromolecular crystallography (MX) devoted to the study of small bio crystals. It aims at providing a full beam with a size of 3x1 µm² FWHM (hxv) and flux of >3·10¹² ph/s (250 mA…
View article: New Undulator and Front End for XAIRA beamline at ALBA
New Undulator and Front End for XAIRA beamline at ALBA Open
A new microfocus beamline for macromolecular crystallography, XAIRA, is being built at ALBA synchrotron light source. The light source for this new beamline is an in-vacuum undulator that can reach the spectral range from 4 keV up to 20 ke…
View article: Design and construction of 3D Helmholtz coil system to calibrate 3D Hall probes
Design and construction of 3D Helmholtz coil system to calibrate 3D Hall probes Open
In this paper we present the design of a system of 3D Helmholtz coils aimed to generate a magnetic field in any direction in a controlled way. The system is intended to be applied to the detailed characterisation of the response of 3D Hall…
View article: New small diameter rotating coil shaft for characterizing new generation of multipolar magnets
New small diameter rotating coil shaft for characterizing new generation of multipolar magnets Open
The proliferation of ultimate-light source facilities around the world has yielded the need of accurate characterization of small gap magnets. This also applies to multipolar magnets. Clearance diameters down to 10 mm for quadrupoles and s…
View article: Upgrade of the ALBA magnetic laboratory for measuring LIPAc HEBT quadrupoles and dipole
Upgrade of the ALBA magnetic laboratory for measuring LIPAc HEBT quadrupoles and dipole Open
Along 2017 ALBA magnetic measurements facility has measured LIPAc HEBT quadrupoles and dipole designed by CIEMAT and built by ELYTT Company. ALBA magnetic measurements laboratory has been improved through an upgrade program of its measurem…
View article: First tests of the APPLE II undulator for the LOREA Insertion Device and Front End
First tests of the APPLE II undulator for the LOREA Insertion Device and Front End Open
ALBA synchrotron is currently installing the new beamline LOREA (Low-Energy Ultra-High-Resolution Angular Photoemission for Complex Materials at ALBA). It operates in the range of 10 - 1500 eV with polarized light. To produce the light for…
View article: From design to alignment of ThomX quadrupoles
From design to alignment of ThomX quadrupoles Open
Quadrupoles for Thomx Facility have been carefully designed and measured due to high constraints of the storage ring. The need of a compact accelerator, 70 m2 on floor, as well as a beam life time of 20 ms, led to the following requirement…
View article: Commissioning of the Alba Injector With 67 Mev Single Klystron Linac
Commissioning of the Alba Injector With 67 Mev Single Klystron Linac Open
The 3 GeV ALBA booster normally accelerates an injected beam of 110 MeV, delivered by the linac operating with two independent klystrons. On 2014, the linac waveguide system was upgraded and commissioned to allow operating with either klys…
View article: Magnetic Measurements of SESAME Storage Ring Dipoles at ALBA
Magnetic Measurements of SESAME Storage Ring Dipoles at ALBA Open
In this work we present the results of the measurement campaign of the main bending magnets of the SESAME storage ring, that were fully characterized at ALBA-CELLS magnetic measurements facility. A total of 17 combined function dipoles ' 1…
View article: A general view of IDs to be installed at ALBA for second and third phase beam-lines
A general view of IDs to be installed at ALBA for second and third phase beam-lines Open
ALBA is a 3GeV synchrotron light source located in Barcelona. Currently it has 7 beamlines fully operational since 2012. Currently, the design of new beamlines has started, and up to 8 have been priorized. Two of them (Phase II) are curren…
View article: Detailed Characterization of MEBT Quadrupoles for the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc)
Detailed Characterization of MEBT Quadrupoles for the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) Open
The IFMIF-EVEDA* Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPac) is a 9 MeV, 125 mA CW deuteron accelerator to validate the technology to be used in the future IFMIF accelerator. The acceleration of deuterons will be done through two stages. Th…
View article: Detailed Characterization of ALBA Quadrupoles for Beta Function Determination
Detailed Characterization of ALBA Quadrupoles for Beta Function Determination Open
Beta function value at quadrupoles for a circular accelerator can be determined using the relationship between the machine tune and the quadrupole strength. ALBA Storage Ring quadrupoles were measured during manufacturing, to be sure that …
View article: A New Bench Concept for Measuring Magnetic Fields of Big Closed Structures
A New Bench Concept for Measuring Magnetic Fields of Big Closed Structures Open
The measurement of big closed magnetic structures is becoming a challenge of great interest. The main reason is the tendency towards building accelerators with high magnetic fields produced by small gap magnets, as well as the development …
View article: New Improvements in Magnetic Measurements Laboratory of the ALBA Synchrotron Facility
New Improvements in Magnetic Measurements Laboratory of the ALBA Synchrotron Facility Open
ALBA synchrotron facility has a complete insertion devices (ID) laboratory to characterize and produce magnetic devices needed to satisfy the requirements of ALBA's user community. The laboratory is equipped with a Hall-probe bench working…
View article: A New Bench Concept for Measuring Magnetic Fields of Big Closed Structure
A New Bench Concept for Measuring Magnetic Fields of Big Closed Structure Open
The measurement of big closed magnetic structures is becoming a challenge of great interest. The main reason is the tendency towards building accelerators with high magnetic fields produced by small gap magnets, as well as the development …