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occurred at approximately 2 mA of average beam current. The process of slowly<br />

ramping up the current was repeated several times to ensure that the instability<br />

developed at the same current each time. With the FEL Upgrade Driver in a<br />

configuration to readily observe beam breakup, the mode causing the instability was<br />

identified (Section 5.3) and measurements of the threshold current were conducted<br />

(Section 5.4) to benchmark BBU simulation codes.<br />

5.3 HOM Voltage<br />

Upon identifying cavity 7 as containing the unstable mode, the next measure-<br />

ment was identifying the frequency of the mode. To do this, the signals from the<br />

HOM coupler are split further after the −20 dB directional coupler, with one part<br />

connected to a Schottky diode to measure the power while the other part is sent di-<br />

rectly to an oscilloscope to measure the voltage. A schematic of this setup is shown<br />

in Fig. 5.3. If the oscilloscope is fast enough and the signal sufficiently sampled, the<br />

frequency of the offending mode can be extracted by Fourier analysis. A screen shot<br />

of the oscilloscope screen showing the HOM power and voltage during BBU is given<br />

in Fig. 5.4. Taking the FFT of the voltage signal reveals that the mode frequency<br />

is 2106.007 MHz (see Fig. 5.5).<br />

The results of the measurements show that with nominal, decoupled optics for<br />

an 88 MeV machine configuration, the most dangerous mode is at a frequency of<br />

2106.007 MHz and located in cavity 7. This is in agreement with simulation results<br />

presented in Section 4.8.2. The 2106 MHz mode was considered one of the prime<br />

candidates for causing BBU because it has the second highest impedance, (R/Q)QL,<br />

of the 224 modes measured in zone 3. In fact, the highest impedance mode is also in<br />

cavity 7, at a frequency of 2116 MHz. However subsequent measurements, described<br />

116<br />

in Section 5.4.3, confirmed that this HOM was not a threat for causing BBU because

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