BEAM DIAGNOSTICS DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CRYOGENIC STORAGE RING CSR

A cryogenic storage ring (CSR) is under construction at the MPI-K Heidelberg. It consists of electrostatic elements and has a circumference of ~35 m. The CSR shall be used for storage of rotationally non-excited molecules and highly charged ions, therefore extremely low temperatures (<4K) and gas pressures (10-15 mbar) are required. The ring shall also be operational at room temperature and bakeable to at least 300°C. The maximum energy of singly charged ions is 300 keV, the intensities will be in the range 1 nA – 1 μA. For the mass range, A<100 is taken as reasonable design value, in later stages of CSR operation experiments with heavier ions are foreseen. Due to the exceptional boundary conditions we are working on new or further developments for most of the diagnostics devices. For example our RGMs have to produce their own local pressure bumps. The MCPs have to work at temperatures around 4 K. The beam position pickups shall be operated in resonant mode for increased sensitivity. Our beam profiler will use secondary electrons from a stopper plate, which allows beam imaging in the intensity range 102 to 1012 pps. For intensity measurements a SQUID CCC system is under discussion