laserwire
English
Noun
laserwire (plural laserwires)
- A thin laser beam, that functions as a wire, used to measure the extent of a particle beam
- 2015, T. Hofmann, K.O. Kruchinin, A. Bosco, S.M. Gibson, F. Roncarolo, G. Boorman, U. Raich, E. Bravin, J.K. Pozimski, A. Letchford, C. Gabor, “Demonstration of a laserwire emittance scanner for the CERN LINAC4 H- Beam”, in arXiv:
- The vertical phase-space distribution of a 3 MeV beam during LINAC4 commissioning has been measured by the laserwire and verified with a conventional slit and grid method..
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