Synchrotron radiation monitoring system at BEPC

The synchrotron radiation by the relativistic particles is a useful and important diagnostic tool to obtain various beam parameters. The visible light of the synchrotron radiation emitted in a bending magnet of the BEPC storage ring is reflected through the window by a water-cooled mirror in the vacuum chamber and then directed by a remote controlled mirror onto the optical bench supporting the diagnostic instruments in the dark room. These instruments include a CCD camera providing the image of the beam transverse profile on a TV monitor, a lens system focusing the synchrotron light onto a solid state scanned photodiode arrays to obtain the beam height or width, a streak camera to measure the bunch length for a single pass, and a two-dimensional position sensing photo-detector to monitoring the drift of the beam position. This paper gives the detailed description of the synchrotron radiation monitoring system at BEPC.