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Alongwiththeseimplementedoperations,somesignalprocessingfunctionssuchasltering,back- thebeamcentroidpositiondenedasx0=RxdxI(x;y)<br />

groundsubtraction,etc...,areavailable. thebeamspotthermswidthdenedas=R(xx0)2I(x;y)dx<br />

Duringourpreliminarymeasurementswehavenoticedthatdirectlycomputingthevarianceofthe beamprolecomputedontherawdatamatrixwasyieldingerroneousvaluesforthermsbeam <strong>and</strong>theHoughtransforms(i.e.projection)alonghorizontal<strong>and</strong>verticalaxis(i.e.P(x)= RI(x;y)dy)<br />

photo-electronemittedasthedrivelaserpulseifo.These\ghostbunches"areindeedduetothe inabilitytohaveaperfectextinctionratioof0betweendrivelaserpulsethatservetocreate\real" bunches.Physicallythisisduetotheelectro-opticscellthatareusedtoswitchthelaserpulseon size.Thiswastracedbacktobeduetotheso-called\ghostpulse"eect:alongwiththemain interestforourmeasurement,thereareparasiticbunchescalled\ghostbunches"thatconsistsof <strong>and</strong>oonthephotocathode.Thereforewemodiedouracquisitionalgorithmtotakeintoaccount thiseectbyusingthefollowingstepsduringameasurement: macropulsethatcontainsaseriesofelectronbunches,whosetransversedensityisthequantityof<br />

5.mathematicallyperformtheoperationMbeam=MghostMbeam+ghost 3.increasethemacropulsetotheappropriatewidth 4.acquirethepixelmatrixMbeam+ghost<strong>and</strong>storeitinthecurrentbuer 1.reducemacropulsewidthto100nstoonlydetect\ghost"pulses, 2.acquirethepixelmatrixMghost<strong>and</strong>storeitinamemorybuer,<br />

methodyieldsreasonableresults. Intheabovestep3,weneedtoclarifythemeaningof\appropriate"macropulseduration:it TheresultsofthisoperationisgraphicallyshowninFigure4.12.Wehavealsoveriedthatthis dependsonthebeamsize,<strong>and</strong>itisexperimentallydeterminedbyinsuringtheCCDarrayisstill operatedinitslineardomain.Typicallythepowersurfacedensity,dP=dS,onthepixelarray,scales 6.computeparameterusingthematrixMbeam<br />

withthetransversermsbeamsizeimage,x<strong>and</strong>y,<strong>and</strong>withthepoweroftheemittedradiation, P,accordingtotherelation:<br />

conditionchangeswecanusethescalinglawofthelatterequationtore-adjustthemacropulse widthdynamically.<br />

determinedfortypicalbeamsizeoneachofthebeamprolemeasurementstation.Itisthenautomaticallyrecalledwhenameasurementisperformed.Alsotoaccommodatepotentialoperating Duringourexperiments,foreachmeasurementstation,themacropulsewidthwasexperimentally dP dS/P1xy (4.23)

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