The Studies

The performed orbit studies and this report are the result of practical studies required by ETH for undergraduate students of experimental physics prior to taking final exams. I have spent four weeks learning practical aspects of experimental accelerator physics on site. In advance I acquired basic understandings of accelerator physics in the lectures ''Physics of Particle Accelerators'' [4] given by Lenny Rivkin at ETH. The following report is a summary of the experiments and studies I carried out at the SLS storage ring. It contains a description of the experiments as well as analysis of the acquired data. Not all questions that arose during the experiments could be answered completely due to the short time frame given, but answers will be stated where they could actually be found. A complete error analysis hasn't been done because the systematic errors of the BPMs, corrector magnets, etc. couldn't be investigated during this short period of time.