Accurate measurements of the transverse beam properties are essential to understand and optimize particle beams. We present an optimized method that uses three quadrupole magnets and one profile monitor to measure the full 4D transverse matrix of the beam. The method has been applied to the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility (SITF) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen). The SITF is the principal test bed and demonstration plant for the SwissFEL project, which aims at realizing a hard-x-ray free-electron laser in 2017. Simulations, measurements, and results of cross-plane coupling correction are presented.

• Received 10 July 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.052801

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