Abstract
For the purpose of non-destructive measurement of the cross-sectional shape of an electron beam, we have studied a detection system that is composed of both a number of antennas and a current monitor. The antenna detects an electric field, and the current monitor detects an integral of beam currents.
The signals acquired from these detectors are applied as the input of an inverse problem. We adopt the genetic algorithm to simulate the profile measurement as an inverse problem analysis.
The results showed that this detection system is partially effective, even though this system is an "ill-posed problem" (i.e. the number of input data parameters is less than the number of parameters to be estimated). We also found that the current monitor, which cannot acquire position-dependent information, is nevertheless useful to accelerate the convergence of sub-optimal beam profiles.