Development of a transverse beam emittance and Twiss parameters measurement system for transport line-1

Beam Transport Line-1 (TL-1) in Indus Accelerator Complex at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore is being used to transport 20 MeV, 30 mA beam from the injector Microton exit point to the Booster Synchrotron where energy of electron beam is raised from 20 MeV to 450 MeV for injection into Indus-1 storage ring and 550 MeV to Indus-2 storage ring. It is important to measure the transverse beam emittance and Twiss parameters at Microton beam exit point for beam optics optimization in the transport line and to judge the beam quality. A transverse emittance and Twiss parameters measurement system using quadrupole scan method has been developed and tested. The system uses the electron beam images from the existing scintillator based beam profile monitor installed in TL-1 for beam size measurement. We have developed MATLAB codes that can extract transverse beam size and estimate transverse beam emittance. This paper describes the measurement method, software and some initial results obtained using this system. (author)