Beam Position Monitoring at CLIC

At the European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva, Switzerland the design of the Compact LInear Collider (CLIC) for high energy physics is studied. To achieve the envisaged high luminosity the quadrupole magnets and radio-frequency accelerating structures have to be actively aligned with micron precision and submicron resolution. This will be done using beam-based algorithms which rely on beam position information inside of quadrupoles and accelerating structures. After a general introduction to the CLIC study and the alignment algorithms, the concept of the interaction between beams and radio-frequency structures is given. In the next chapter beam measurements and simulations are described which were done to study the performance of cavity beam position monitors (BPM). A BPM design is presented which is compatible with the multi-bunch operation at CLIC and could be used to align the quadrupoles. The beam position inside the accelerating structures will be measured by using the structures themselves as BPMs. This concept was demonstrated on an undamped and a heavily damped and detuned accelerating structure. The performance of accelerating structures as beam position monitor was evaluated based on simulations and measurements. Finally a technique to compute the transverse wake of a periodic accelerating structure based on calculation of the fields in one cell is presented.