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A device is described and mathematically analyzed which creates electrostatic multipole potentials at least up to rank 3 in a 2 cm diam spherical region. The fields in the Stark ball are produced by the application of programmed voltages to 24 conducting rods that are inserted symmetrically in an empty 5 cm conducting cavity. Three mutually orthogonal unobstructed paths through the center of the device between the rods are provided for access of light and particle beams, and four other tetrahedrally located openings can be added for beams, detectors, or imaging. The device is intended for application in atom or molecule trapping and cooling, recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy, particulate analysis, reactive scattering, and coherent control. Potential distributions can be established, altered, and rotated on subnanosecond time scales, and frequencies higher than 20 GHz can be introduced via the same electrodes. Uniform fields, i.e., first-rank multipoles, quadrupole, and octupole potentials can be programmed and superposed with arbitrary and independent time profiles, so that the device may be applied to the study of orientational properties of complex anisotropic molecules, pollens, grains of dust, and other particulates. The device is nonmagnetic. An extensive analysis of fields in the center region, fringing fields, and multipole purity up to rank 7 has been carried out, and recipes are given for pure (ℓ,m)=(1,0), (2,0), and (3,0) multipoles. The principles and methods laid out here and applied to a "truncated octahedron" can be applied to the design of electrostatic environments having fewer or more independent electrodes in any polyhedral geometry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A 4-m-long elliptically polarizing undulator (EPU5.6) device with an Apple-II structure is installed in the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center storage ring. This is the longest EPU device with an Apple-II structure worldwide. The errors of the magnet construction and the assembly process are among the several factors that can degrade the spectral performance. This study describes the mechanical design concept and construction that reduce magnetic field errors to keep high performance of the magnet. The electron orbit distortion in various polarization radiation modes is discussed with reference to a global feedback system and a feed forward table with following gap and phase. The beam dynamic effects are also investigated when the phase and magnetic gap are changed. © 2002 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the design parameters and performance of double-crystal monochromator (DCM) for an x-ray beamline. Factors affecting the stability of motions and overall size of the monochromator; Development of a software program to control the motion of DCM; Absorption spectrum of the device.

A special theoretical concept involving the harmonic magnetic-field measurement and analysis method using a fixed angle Hall probe was developed at the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (SRRC) for measuring as well as analyzing the triple bending achromat magnets of the storage ring. The method can be used to simulate the harmonic magnetic-field calculation of the two-dimensional (2D) "MAGNET" program. This method has a quite simple mechanism. The Hall plate was fixed at a 0° angle with respect to the horizontal plane of magnet to measure only the vertical field. Additionally, the 2D nonlinear least-square fitting was used to fit the mapping data so as to find the normal and skew multipole field strength. If necessary, the angle of Hall probe could be rotated 90° precisely for measuring the horizontal field. Consequently, the skew dipole field could be obtained. A real-time Hall-probe automatic magnetic-field measurement system was also developed for fulfilling the concept of the harmonic field measurement. Some special mapping trajectories for different kinds of magnets were discussed to match this special theoretical concept with the analysis methodology. This was done so as to obtain the reliable and accurate harmonic field strength. The accuracy and precision of the harmonic field strength measurement and analysis of this method being better than ± 0.01% was confirmed by experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pulsed wire method for magnetic field measurement has been developed by several groups. In most cases the thin wires were used and only the short magnets were measured to ignore the dispersion due to stiffness of the wires. In the application to the long insertion devices, a lot of spurious signals occurred and contaminated the normal field signals. In this article we demonstrate a new approach to applying the pulsed wire method to a long insertion undulator with a high field. Thick wire is used instead. Then we can cancel the dispersion and trace back the normal field signal by using the fast Fourier transform calculation. The results are quite comparable to Hall probe measurement. © 2002 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]