Faraday Cup for Low-energy, Low-intensity Beam Measurements at the Usr*
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For destructive beam intensity measurements, electrostatic Faraday cups will be incorporated into the Ultra-low energy Storage Ring (USR) and its transfer lines at the Facility for Low-energy Antiproton and Ion Research (FLAIR). This multi-purpose machine will offer both slow and fast extracted beams resulting in a wide range of intensities and varying time structure of the beam. In this contribution, we present the particular challenges of measuring the beam intensity in the USR, results from numerical optimization studies, as well as the design of the cup.
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