Reduction of X-BPM systematic errors by modification of lattice in the APS storage ring

With recent developments, X-ray beam position monitors (BPMs) are capable of making accurate photon position measurements down to the sub-micron level. The true performance of X-ray beam position monitors when installed on insertion device beamlines is, however, severely limited due to the stray radiation traveling along the beamline that contaminates the insertion device photons. The stray radiation emanates from upstream and downstream dipole magnet fringe fields, from steering correctors, and from sextupoles and quadrupoles with offset trajectories. While significant progress has been made at the APS using look-up tables derived from translation stage scans to compensate for this effect, performance of ID X-BPMs to date is at the 10 to 20 micron level. A research effort presently underway to address this issue involves the introduction of a chicane into the accelerator lattice to steer the stray radiation away from the X-ray BPM blades. A horizontal parallel translation of the insertion device allows only ID photons and radiation from two nearby correctors to travel down the beamline, simplifying the radiation pattern considerably. A detailed ray tracing analysis has shown that stray radiation gets displaced by up to 2 cm horizontally at the X-BPM locations so that it can be easily masked. Results from such a modified lattice, implemented for one of the insertion devices, are reported here.