DC beam current transformer
= DC beam current transformer
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A nonintercepting circulating-beam current monitor that senses the beam's direct-current component through a magnetic core and feedback electronics. It is suitable for total stored intensity and <beam lifetime> measurements; zero-offset drift and calibration must be controlled. Bunch-resolved signals instead require an appropriate time-dependent pickup or current-transformer bandwidth.