Limiting High Frequency Longitudinal Impedance of an Inductive Pick-Up by a Thin Metallic Layer

An Inductive Pick-Up (IPU) [1] was developed to measure the position and current of an electron beam of the Third CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) Drive Beam Linac [2]. The pick-up construction is similar to a wall current monitor, but the pick-up inner wall is divided into 8 electrodes, each of which forms the primary winding of a toroidal transformer. The beam image current component flowing along each electrode is transformed to a secondary winding, connected to an output. The continuity of the vacuum chamber is taken care of by a ceramic insertion surrounded by the electrodes. The insertion is titanium coated on the inside and the end-to-end resistance of the layer is chosen in such a way that within the IPU bandwidth the image current flows over the electrodes. For higher frequencies the current is conducted by the coating to limit the longitudinal impedance of the device in the GHz range. This paper describes a simple electric network model, which was used to simulate the influence of the coating and to optimize its resistance. The model is built from sections of ideal transmission lines and resistors and is suitable for SPICE simulations. Results of measurements and simulations are compared.