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The Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) at the heavy-ion storage ring CRYRING@ESR at GSI provides a calibrated non-destructive measurement of beam current with a resolution of 10 nA or better. With traditional diagnostics in storage rings or transfer lines a non-interceptive absolute intensity measurement of weak ion beams ( 1 µA) is already challenging for bunched beams and virtually impossible for coasting beams. Therefore, at these currents the CCC is the only diagnostics instrumentation that gives reliable values for the beam intensity independently of the measured ion species and without the need for tedious calibration procedures. Herein, after a brief review of the diagnostic setup, an overview of the operation of the CCC with different stored ion beams at CRYRING is presented. The current reading of the CCC is compared to the intensity signal of various standard instrumentations including a Parametric Current Transformer (PCT), an Ionization Profile Monitor (IPM) and the Beam Position Monitors (BPMs). It was shown that the CCC is a reliable instrument to monitor changes of the beam current in the range of nA., Proceedings of the 11th International Beam Instrumentation Conference, IBIC2022, Kraków, Poland

A collaboration agreement between the HZB, DESY and ALBA institutions was signed on 2021 in order to test the 3rd harmonic normal conducting, HOM damped, active cavity designed and prototyped by ALBA*. The test will involve low power characterization of the fundamental mode, bead pull measurements to fully determine the HOM characteristics, a full high power conditioning to validate the power capability of the cavity, and finally, the installation of the cavity in the BESSY II storage ring in order to test the cavity in real conditions with beam. In this paper the low power, bead pull and conditioning results will be presented. The cavity has been installed at BESSY II on May 2022 to be tested after the summer shutdown., Proceedings of the 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2022, Bangkok, Thailand

The superconducting injector section of the S-DALINAC (superconducting Darmstadt linear electron accelerator) [1] constists of two cryomodules with three 3-GHz SRF cavities in total. The first cavity of this pre-accelerator is currently a 5-cell structure designed for relativistic particle velocities. Since the gun delivers a 250 keV beam (β=0.74), this cavity is not suited for an efficient capture of the low-energy electron bunches provided by the normal-conducting section of the injector. Beam dynamics simulations and operational experience have shown a large low-energy tail in the phase-space distribution of the bunch downstream of the injector, which arises from the large phase-slippage during the capture in the 5-cell. It is therefore intended to replace the cavity with a beta-adapted 6-cell, re-using most of the cryostat parts. This contribution presents the status of the injector upgrade and the layout and manufacturing status of the new cavity., Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on RF Superconductivity, SRF2019, Dresden, Germany

The Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) extends the measurement range of traditional non-destructive current monitors used in accelerator beamlines down to a few nano-amperes of direct beam current. This is achieved by a cryogenic environment of liquid helium around the beamline, in which the beam’s magnetic field is measured with a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID), which is itself enclosed in a superconducting shielding structure. For this purpose, a versatile UHV-beamline cryostat was designed for the CCCs at FAIR and is currently in production. It is built for long-term autonomous operation with a closed helium re-liquefaction cycle and with good access to all inner components. The design is supported by simulations of the cryostat’s mechanical eigenmodes to minimize the excitation by vibrations in an accelerator environment. A prototype at GSI has demonstrated the self-contained cryogenic operation in combination with a 15 l/day re-liquefier. The cryostat will be used in CRYRING to compare the FAIR-CCC-X with newly developed CCC-types for 150 mm beamlines. Both which will supply a nA current reading during commissioning and for the experiments., Proceedings of the 8th International Beam Instrumentation Conference, IBIC2019, Malmö, Sweden

Recently, the S-DALINAC has successfully passed the first ERL tests. One of the critical requirements for further operation in the ERL regime is minimising the longitudinal energy spread of the electron beam. One of the major sources for the current energy spread at the S-DALINAC is the low energy accelerating section. In order to overcome this problem an SRF reduced-beta cavity has been designed. The new cavity will replace the existing capture section and will allow to accelerate low energy electron beams with a minimised energy spread growth. In this work we discuss the electromagnetic and mechanical design of the SRF 3 GHz 6-cell reduced-beta cavity of elliptic type. In addition, we present the results of beam dynamics simulations., Proceedings of the 39th Free Electron Laser Conference, FEL2019, Hamburg, Germany

The non-destructive and highly sensitive measurement of a charged particle beam is of utmost importance for modern particle accelerator facilities. A Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) can be used to measure beam currents in the nA-range. Therein, charged particles passing through a superconducting toroid induce screening currents at the surface of the toroid, which are measured via SQUIDs. Classical CCC beam monitors make use of a high magnetic permeability core as a flux-concentrator for the pickup coil. The core increases the pickup inductance and thus coupling to the beam, but unfortunately also raises low-frequency noise and thermal drift. In the new concept from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology the Coreless Cryogenic Current Comparator (4C) completely omits this core and instead uses highly sensitive SQUIDs featuring sub-micron cross-type Josephson tunnel junctions. Combined with a new shielding geometry a compact and comparably lightweight design has been developed, which exhibits a current sensitivity of about 6 pA/sqrt(Hz) in the white noise region and a measured shielding factor of about 134 dB*.

For more than 20 years Cryogenic Current Comparators (CCC) are used to measure the current of charged particle beams with low intensity (nA-range). The device was first established at GSI in Darmstadt and was improved over the past two decades by the cooperation of institutes in Jena, GSI and CERN. The improved versions differ in material parameters and electronics to increase the resolution and in dimensions in order to meet the requirements of the respective application. The device allows non-destructive measurements of the charged particle beam current. The azimuthal magnetic field which is generated by the beam current is detected by low temperature Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) current sensors. A complex shaped superconductor cooled down to 4.2 K is used as magnetic shielding and a high permeability core serves as flux concentrator. Three versions of the CCC shall be presented in this work: (1) GSI-Pb-CCC which was running at GSI Darmstadt in a transfer line, (2) CERN-Nb-CCC currently installed in the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN and (3) GSI-Nb-CCC-XD which will be operating in the CRYRING at GSI 2019. Noise, signal and drift measurements were performed in the Cryo-Detector Lab at the University of Jena., Proceedings of the 10th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia

A Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) is an extremely sensitive DC-Beam Transformer based on superconducting SQUID technology. Recently, a CCC without a toroidal core and with an axially oriented magnetic shielding has been developed at the Institute of Photonic Technologies (IPHT) Jena/Germany. It represents a compact and lightweight alternative to the ’classical’ CCC, which was originally developed at PTB Braunschweig and is successfully in operation in accelerators at GSI and CERN. Excellent low-frequency noise performance was demonstrated with a prototype of this new CCC-type. Current measurements and further tests are ongoing, first results are presented together with simulation calculations for the magnetic shielding. The construction from lead as well as simplified manufacturing results in drastically reduced costs compared to formerly used Nb-CCCs. Reduced weight also puts less constraints on the cryostat. Based on highly sensitive SQUIDs, the new prototype device shows a current sensitivity of about 6 pA/Hz1/2 in the white noise region. The measured and calculated shielding factor is ~135 dB. These values, together with a significant cost reduction - resulting also from a compact cryostat design - opens up the way for widespread use of CCCs in modern accelerator facilities., Proceedings of the 10th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia

A Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) is a non-destructive, metrological-traceable charged particle beam intensity measurement system for the nano-ampere range. Using superconducting shielding and coils, low temperature Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) and highly permeable flux-concentrators, the CCC can operate in the frequency range from DC to several kHz or hundreds of kHz depending on the requirement of the application. Also, the white noise level can be optimized down to 2 pA/sqrt(Hz) at 2.16 K. This work compares three different Pb- and Nb-based CCC-sensors developed at the Institute of Solid State Physics and Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology at Jena, Germany: CERN-Nb-CCC, optimized for applica-tion at CERN Antiproton Decelerator (AD) in 2015 with a free inner diameter of 185 mm; GSI-Pb-CCC, designed for GSI-Darmstadt with a free inner diameter of 145 mm, 1996 completed, 2014 upgraded; GSI-Nb-CCC-XD, de-signed for the GSI/FAIR-project with a free inner diame-ter of 250 mm, 2017 completed. The results of noise, small-signal, slew-rate, and drift measurements done 2015 and 2018 in the Cryo-Detector Lab at the University of Jena are presented here.

For the injector of the superconducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator S-DALINAC, the design of a new capture cavity was recently completed. This beta-reduced structure will optimize the capture of low-energy electron bunches from the gun section and therefore improve the longitudinal beam quality of the injector beam, as simulations have shown. The existing cryomodule of the injector has to be modified for the installation of the new cavity. These modifications include adaptions of the tuner frame as well as modifications of other surrounding parts. To improve the diagnostics in the low-energy section, an energy-spread measurement setup is currently also under development. In this contribution the cryomodule modifications as well as simulation results for the longitudinal beam dynamics are presented., Proceedings of the 29\textsuperscript{th} Linear Accelerator Conf., LINAC2018, Beijing, China

In order to reduce the energy spread and to be able to use a 200 keV spin-polarized electron source, the initial part of the injector linac of the superconducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator S-DALINAC needs to be upgraded. The decisions on the cavity type, number of cells and value of geometric beta are motivated. The main part of this work is dedicated to the mechanical design of the cavity. A precise evaluation of the mechanical characteristics of an SRF cavity is necessary during the design stage. The dependence of the resonant frequency of the fundamental mode on external mechanical loads needs to be investigated for developing the tuning procedures. The results of the multiphysics simulations and of the optimization of the mechanical design are presented., Proceedings of the 9th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The PETRA accelerator, which served originally as a pre-accelerator for the large HERA facility, is nowadays the world's best storage-ring-based X-ray radiation source. It provides the scientists experimental opportunities with X-rays radiation. The PETRA accelerator is based on a 7-cell normal conducting copper cavity operating at 500 MHz and delivers a particle beam with energy up to 6 GeV. To enable proper beam dynamics simulations, it is important to determine the eigenmodes in the accelerating cavities with high precision. In the real installation, the input coupler is required to transfer the energy from the sources to the particle beam. For this reason, a complex-valued eigenmode solver can be applied to properly calculate the eigenmodes. At the Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory (TEMF) a robust parallel eigenmode solver based on complex-valued finite element analysis is available. In this paper, the real-valued and complex-valued eigenmode solver have been applied to the PETRA 7-cell cavity to determine the resonance frequency, the quality factor and the corresponding field distribution of eigenmodes., Proceedings of the 12th Int. Computational Accelerator Physics Conf., ICAP2015, Shanghai, China

During the design phase of superconducting radio frequency (RF) accelerating cavities a challenging and difficult task is to determine the electromagnetic field distribution inside the structure with the help of proper computer simulations. Although dissipation due to lossy materials is neglected in the current work, in reality, because energy transfer appears due to the design of the superconducting cavities, the numerical eigenmode analysis based on real-valued variables is no longer suitable to describe the dissipative acceleration structure. Dissipation can appear with the help of dedicated higher order mode (HOM) couplers, the power coupler as well as the beam tube once the resonance frequency is above the cutoff frequency of the corresponding waveguide. At the Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory (TEMF) a robust parallel eigenmode solver based on complex-valued finite element analysis is available. The eigenmode solver has been applied to the TESLA 1.3 GHz and the third harmonic 3.9 GHz nine-cell cavities to determine the resonance frequency, the quality factor and the corresponding field distribution of eigenmodes., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany

Beam coupling impedances have been identified as an appropriate quantity to describe collective instabilities caused through beam-induced fields in heavy ion synchrotron accelerators such as the SIS-18 and the SIS-100 at the GSI facility. The impedance contributions caused by the multiple types of beamline components need to be determined to serve as input condition for later stability studies. This paper will discuss different approaches to calculate the Coupling Impedance contribution of ferrite devices, exploiting the abilities of both commercial codes such as CST STUDIO SUITE® and specific extensions of this code to address kicker related problems in particular. Before addressing actual beamline devices, benchmark problems with cylindrical and rectangular geometry will be simulated and the results will be compared with the corresponding analytical formulations., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan

At the superconducting 130 MeV Darmstadt electron linac S-DALINAC* a source of polarized electrons** is being installed, extending the experimental capabilities with polarized electron and polarized photon probes for nuclear structure studies. This involves disassembling the existing low energy test stand and rebuilding the beam line in the accelerator hall. The beam itself is produced from a GaAs cathode by irradiation with a pulsed laser. The low-energy electron beam line includes diagnostic elements, a Wien filter for spin manipulation, a 100 keV Mott polarimeter for polarization measurement and a chopper-prebuncher section to modulate the time structure of the beam. At higher energies a 5-10 MeV Mott polarimeter and a 50-130 MeV Moeller polarimeter as well as a Compton transmission polarimeter will be installed to measure the beam polarization after acceleration. The Mott polarimeter is working with backscattered electrons under 165° scattering angle while for the Moeller polarimeter a wide-angle (3°-15°) spectrometer magnet was designed. We report on the performance of the test stand, the ongoing implementation, and the polarimeter research and development., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan

The non-destructive and highly sensitive measurement of a charged particle beam is of utmost importance for modern particle accelerator facilities. A Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) can be used to measure beam currents in the nA-range. Therein, charged particles passing through a superconducting toroid induce screening currents at the surface of the toroid, which are measured via SQUIDs. Classical CCC beam monitors make use of a high magnetic permeability core as a flux-concentrator for the pickup coil. The core increases the pickup inductance and thus coupling to the beam, but unfortunately also raises low-frequency noise and thermal drift. In the new concept from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology the Coreless Cryogenic Current Comparator (4C) completely omits this core and instead uses highly sensitive SQUIDs featuring sub-micron cross-type Josephson tunnel junctions. Combined with a new shielding geometry a compact and comparably lightweight design has been developed, which exhibits a current sensitivity of about 6 pA/sqrt(Hz) in the white noise region and a measured shielding factor of about 134 dB*., Proceedings of the 8th International Beam Instrumentation Conference, IBIC2019, Malmö, Sweden

The electromagnetic (EM) simulation software CST STUDIO SUITE® * has been applied to investigate the beam dynamics for the electron gun of the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ). A series of 3D beam dynamics simulations are performed to study the bunch injection process at PITZ with the objective of clarifying the discrepancies between measurements and simulations. Multiple comparisons are presented for the transverse emittance and the total emitted charge between the measurement data and simulation results using CST STUDIO SUITE®and Astra **., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany

A Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) is a non-destructive, metrological-traceable charged particle beam intensity measurement system for the nano-ampere range. Using superconducting shielding and coils, low temperature Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) and highly permeable flux-concentrators, the CCC can operate in the frequency range from DC to several kHz or hundreds of kHz depending on the requirement of the application. Also, the white noise level can be optimized down to 2 pA/sqrt(Hz) at 2.16 K. This work compares three different Pb- and Nb-based CCC-sensors developed at the Institute of Solid State Physics and Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology at Jena, Germany: CERN-Nb-CCC, optimized for applica-tion at CERN Antiproton Decelerator (AD) in 2015 with a free inner diameter of 185 mm; GSI-Pb-CCC, designed for GSI-Darmstadt with a free inner diameter of 145 mm, 1996 completed, 2014 upgraded; GSI-Nb-CCC-XD, de-signed for the GSI/FAIR-project with a free inner diame-ter of 250 mm, 2017 completed. The results of noise, small-signal, slew-rate, and drift measurements done 2015 and 2018 in the Cryo-Detector Lab at the University of Jena are presented here., Proceedings of the 7\textsuperscript{th} Int. Beam Instrumentation Conf., IBIC2018, Shanghai, China