DISSERTATION DEFENSE
“SYNCHROTRON RADIATION INTERFEROMETRY AT CEBAF”
Sankalp Rajendra Shinde
Old Dominion University, 2025
Director: Dr. Todd J. Satogata
Monday, April 14, 2025
12:00 pm
Synchrotron Radiation Interferometry (SRI) is a method to measure transverse beam size in electron accelerators. By using synchrotron radiation interferometry at a dispersive location in CEBAF at Jefferson Lab, we measure the electron beam size and energy spread. This interferometry technique allows us to monitor the energy spread non-invasively to measure precise electron beam size and RMS energy spread for hypernuclear experiments and verify that they meet experiment requirements in real time. This includes the underlying beam measurements and beam physics calculations necessary to calculate measured RMS energy spread from the SRI measurements of the beam size. This talk discusses the design, simulations, construction, and commissioning of this Synchrotron Radiation Interferometer SRI) in the Hall C transport line at Jefferson Lab in 2024–2025.