Cyclotrons2019 - List of Keywords (LLRF)

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MOP001	Design and Commissioning of RF System for SC200 Cyclotron	cavity, cyclotron, controls, MMI	21
	G. Chen, C. Chao, Y. Chen, K.Z. Ding, G. Liu, X.Y. Long, Z. Peng, Y. Song, C. Yu, X. Zhang, Y. Zhao ASIPP, Hefei, People’s Republic of China L. Calabretta, A.C. Caruso INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy O. Karamyshev JINR/DLNP, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia G.A. Karamysheva, G. Shirkov JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
	The SC200 proton therapy superconducting cyclotron is currently under construction by ASIPP (Hefei, China) and JINR (Dubna, Russia). The radio frequency (RF) system which provides an accelerating electric field for the particles, has been designed and tested in a high-power commissioning. The RF system consists of RF cavity, Low-level RF control system, RF source, transmission network and so on. The main performances of RF cavity meet design and use requirements in the cold test. The RF cavity achieved with an unload Q factor of 5200 at the resonant frequency of 91.5 MHz, 60 kV (Center)~120 kV (Extraction) accelerating voltage and coupling state of S11 <-30 dB. The low-level RF (LLRF) system has been tested with an amplitude stability of <0.2% and a phase stability of <0.1 degree in the high-power commissioning. What is more, the cavity operated in a ~50 kW continuous wave state after 4 weeks RF conditioning. Some risks have exposed at higher power test, but related solutions and improvements have been developed. In future work, the target of RF system is effective operation under the overall assembly of cyclotron after further optimization and RF conditioning.
	Poster MOP001 [0.720 MB]
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MOC03	Upgrade of the PSI Injector 2 Cyclotron	cyclotron, cavity, operation, pick-up	123
	M. Schneider, J. Grillenberger PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	The high intensity proton accelerator facility at PSI is capable of providing beam currents of up to 2.4 mA at a kinetic energy of 590 MeV. PSI is following an upgrade plan to further increase the beam power and to further minimize proton losses. Up to now, this has mainly been achieved by the installation of high gradient copper resonators in the Ring cyclotron and the installation of more powerful RF-amplifiers. Currently, PSI follows a similar approach for the Injector 2 cyclotron providing 72 MeV protons for the injection into the 590 MeV Ring cyclotron. In order to increase the turn separation in the injector cyclotron which results in lower relative beam losses, the two 150 MHz resonators operated in accelerating mode are replaced with two 50 MHz Aluminum resonators providing higher acceleration voltage. This paper describes the status of the upgrade, i.e., the replacement of the first resonator and related hardware.
	Slides MOC03 [10.052 MB]
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TUP007	Operational Experience in the Treatment of Ocular Melanomas with a New Digital Low-level RF Control System	controls, cyclotron, operation, resonance	162
	T. Fanselow, J. Bundesmann, A. Denker, U. Hiller HZB, Berlin, Germany J.K. Abraham, J.L. Conradie, W. Duckitt iThemba LABS, Somerset West, South Africa
	Ocular melanomas have been treated for the last 20 years at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in collaboration with the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. However, parts of the initial control system electronics date back to the 1970s, when the machine was installed. Facing a critical shortage of legacy and obsolete components and with the down-time due to failures in the electronics on the increase, a decision was made to install the digital low-level RF control system, developed by iThemba LABS, on our K=132 cyclotron. A short description of the installation and commissioning process, which occurred in April 2017, and the experiences of the first 2 years of operation with the new digital low-level RF control system is presented.
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WEA02	The Developments of the RF System Related to the K-800 Superconducting Cyclotron Upgrade	cyclotron, extraction, cavity, acceleration	262
	A.C. Caruso, L. Calabretta, G. Costa, G. Gallo, A. Longhitano, D. Rifuggiato, A. Spartà, G. Torrisi, E. Zappalà INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy
	The K-800 superconducting cyclotron has been in operation at Laboratori Nazionali del Sud for almost 25 years. It has been subjected to continuous upgrades and modifications since 1994: the RF couplers have been redesigned, the new dees have been changed from aluminium to copper, as has the new central region from radial to axial injection of the beam, the hybrid configuration solid state - tube of the power amplifiers, the digital LLRF, etc. The next scheduled important upgrade of the Cyclotron mainly consists in a new extraction beam line able to support the increase of the beam current intensity. The accelerated beam will be extracted in two ways: by stripper and by electrostatic deflector and, consequently, one of the most important features of the new upgrade is the new cryostat. Further upgrades and refurbishments of the other main parts of the cyclotron, such as a new liner, the modification of the RF cavities and dees, the refurbishment of HLRF-LLRF, the insertion of the stripper extraction system, to name but a few, are in progress, too. This work focuses on the RF system upgrade.
	Slides WEA02 [10.816 MB]
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Paper

Title

Other Keywords

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MOP001

Design and Commissioning of RF System for SC200 Cyclotron

cavity, cyclotron, controls, MMI

21

G. Chen, C. Chao, Y. Chen, K.Z. Ding, G. Liu, X.Y. Long, Z. Peng, Y. Song, C. Yu, X. Zhang, Y. Zhao
ASIPP, Hefei, People’s Republic of China
L. Calabretta, A.C. Caruso
INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy
O. Karamyshev
JINR/DLNP, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
G.A. Karamysheva, G. Shirkov
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia

The SC200 proton therapy superconducting cyclotron is currently under construction by ASIPP (Hefei, China) and JINR (Dubna, Russia). The radio frequency (RF) system which provides an accelerating electric field for the particles, has been designed and tested in a high-power commissioning. The RF system consists of RF cavity, Low-level RF control system, RF source, transmission network and so on. The main performances of RF cavity meet design and use requirements in the cold test. The RF cavity achieved with an unload Q factor of 5200 at the resonant frequency of 91.5 MHz, 60 kV (Center)~120 kV (Extraction) accelerating voltage and coupling state of S11 <-30 dB. The low-level RF (LLRF) system has been tested with an amplitude stability of <0.2% and a phase stability of <0.1 degree in the high-power commissioning. What is more, the cavity operated in a ~50 kW continuous wave state after 4 weeks RF conditioning. Some risks have exposed at higher power test, but related solutions and improvements have been developed. In future work, the target of RF system is effective operation under the overall assembly of cyclotron after further optimization and RF conditioning.

Poster MOP001 [0.720 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-Cyclotrons2019-MOP001

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paper received ※ 09 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 24 September 2019 issue date ※ 20 June 2020

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MOC03

Upgrade of the PSI Injector 2 Cyclotron

cyclotron, cavity, operation, pick-up

123

M. Schneider, J. Grillenberger
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

The high intensity proton accelerator facility at PSI is capable of providing beam currents of up to 2.4 mA at a kinetic energy of 590 MeV. PSI is following an upgrade plan to further increase the beam power and to further minimize proton losses. Up to now, this has mainly been achieved by the installation of high gradient copper resonators in the Ring cyclotron and the installation of more powerful RF-amplifiers. Currently, PSI follows a similar approach for the Injector 2 cyclotron providing 72 MeV protons for the injection into the 590 MeV Ring cyclotron. In order to increase the turn separation in the injector cyclotron which results in lower relative beam losses, the two 150 MHz resonators operated in accelerating mode are replaced with two 50 MHz Aluminum resonators providing higher acceleration voltage. This paper describes the status of the upgrade, i.e., the replacement of the first resonator and related hardware.

Slides MOC03 [10.052 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-Cyclotrons2019-MOC03

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paper received ※ 13 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 26 September 2019 issue date ※ 20 June 2020

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TUP007

Operational Experience in the Treatment of Ocular Melanomas with a New Digital Low-level RF Control System

controls, cyclotron, operation, resonance

162

T. Fanselow, J. Bundesmann, A. Denker, U. Hiller
HZB, Berlin, Germany
J.K. Abraham, J.L. Conradie, W. Duckitt
iThemba LABS, Somerset West, South Africa

Ocular melanomas have been treated for the last 20 years at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in collaboration with the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. However, parts of the initial control system electronics date back to the 1970s, when the machine was installed. Facing a critical shortage of legacy and obsolete components and with the down-time due to failures in the electronics on the increase, a decision was made to install the digital low-level RF control system, developed by iThemba LABS, on our K=132 cyclotron. A short description of the installation and commissioning process, which occurred in April 2017, and the experiences of the first 2 years of operation with the new digital low-level RF control system is presented.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-Cyclotrons2019-TUP007

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paper received ※ 14 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 25 September 2019 issue date ※ 20 June 2020

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WEA02

The Developments of the RF System Related to the K-800 Superconducting Cyclotron Upgrade

cyclotron, extraction, cavity, acceleration

262

A.C. Caruso, L. Calabretta, G. Costa, G. Gallo, A. Longhitano, D. Rifuggiato, A. Spartà, G. Torrisi, E. Zappalà
INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy

The K-800 superconducting cyclotron has been in operation at Laboratori Nazionali del Sud for almost 25 years. It has been subjected to continuous upgrades and modifications since 1994: the RF couplers have been redesigned, the new dees have been changed from aluminium to copper, as has the new central region from radial to axial injection of the beam, the hybrid configuration solid state - tube of the power amplifiers, the digital LLRF, etc. The next scheduled important upgrade of the Cyclotron mainly consists in a new extraction beam line able to support the increase of the beam current intensity. The accelerated beam will be extracted in two ways: by stripper and by electrostatic deflector and, consequently, one of the most important features of the new upgrade is the new cryostat. Further upgrades and refurbishments of the other main parts of the cyclotron, such as a new liner, the modification of the RF cavities and dees, the refurbishment of HLRF-LLRF, the insertion of the stripper extraction system, to name but a few, are in progress, too. This work focuses on the RF system upgrade.

Slides WEA02 [10.816 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-Cyclotrons2019-WEA02

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paper received ※ 15 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 25 September 2019 issue date ※ 20 June 2020

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