Beam based gain calibration method for beam position monitor at J-PARC MR

Stability of the closed orbit is one of very important points for stable operations to keep a small beam loss in MR. The relative gains of the output data may drift due to unpredictable imbalance among output signals from the pickup electrodes, because the output signals must travel through separate paths, such as cables, connectors, attenuators, switches, and then are measured by detectors. In KEKB, we found noticeable errors larger than 0.1mm in the almost all BPM readings. In KEKB, A non-linear chi-square method has received practical application to calibrate these errors come from the imbalance among 4 output voltage of a BPM. However, we were not able to apply a same method as KEKB to analyze a gain of BPMs in J-PARC. W noticed linear relations among 4 outputs voltage and analyzed the imbalance by the total least-squares method. This paper introduce the new method to estimate the related gains from four output data of a BPM head. (author)