Nonintercepting diagnostics for transverse beam parameters: From rings to ERLs

The characterization of particle-beam parameters in accelerators and transport lines is important to the experiment's success. The development of nonintercepting (NI) diagnostics is of growing interest in the community due to top-up operations for storage rings such as the Advanced Photon Source (APS), as well as the rapidly developing energy recovering linacs (ERLs). In both areas beam position and beam quality are relevant, and the ability to measure these in an NI manner is critical. Beam transverse size and divergence are more of a challenge, and examples of the minimally intercepting or NI measurements based on optical transition radiation (OTR), optical synchrotron radiation (OSR), X-ray synchrotron radiation (XSR), optical diffraction radiation (ODR), and undulator radiation (UR) will be presented as space permits. These are relevant to the various ERL parameter spaces and operating modes.