IPAC2018 - List of Authors (Volpi, M.)

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MOPML043	High Gradient Performance of an S-Band Backward Traveling Wave Accelerating Structure for Medical Hadron Therapy Accelerators	491
SUSPL097	use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code
	A. Vnuchenko, C. Blanch Gutiérrez, D. Esperante Pereira IFIC, Valencia, Spain S. Benedetti, N. Catalán Lasheras, A. Grudiev, B. Koubek, G. McMonagle, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A. Faus-Golfe LAL, Orsay, France T.G. Lucas, M. Volpi The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia S. Pitman Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
	The high-gradient performance of an accelerating structure prototype for a medical proton linac is presented. The structure was designed and built using technology developed by the CLIC collaboration and the target application is the TULIP (Turning Linac for Proton therapy) proposal developed by the TERA foundation. The special feature of this design is to produce gradient of more than 50 MV /m in low-β accelerating structures (v/c=0.38). The structure was tested in an S-band test stand at CERN. During the tests, the structure reached over above 60 MV/m at 1.2 μs pulse length and breakdown rate of about 5x10^-6 bpp. The results presented include ultimate performance, long term behaviour and measurements that can guide future optimization.
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WEPMF074	High Power Conditioning of X-Band RF Components	2545
	N. Catalán Lasheras, H. Damerau, R.L. Gerard, A. Grudiev, G. McMonagle, J. Paszkiewicz, A. Solodko, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch, V. del Pozo Romano CERN, Geneva, Switzerland T.G. Lucas, M. Volpi The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia S. Pitman Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom A. Vnuchenko IFIC, Valencia, Spain
	As part of the effort to qualify CLIC accelerating struc-tures prototypes, new X-band test facilities have been built and commissioned at CERN in the last years. In this context, a number of RF components have been designed and manufactured aiming at stable operation above 50 MW peak power and several kW of average power. All of them have been tested now in the X-band facility at CERN either as part of the facility or in dedicated tests. Here, we describe shortly the main design and manufac-turing steps for each component, the testing and eventual conditioning as well as the final performance they achieved.
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THPMK103	Initial Testing of Techniques for Large Scale Rf Conditioning for the Compact Linear Collider	4548
SUSPF019	use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code
	T.G. Lucas, M.J. Boland, P.J. Giansiracusa, R.P. Rassool, M. Volpi The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia N. Catalán Lasheras, A. Grudiev, T. Lefèvre, G. McMonagle, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch, V. del Pozo Romano CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Paszkiewicz University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom C. Serpico Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy A. Vnuchenko IFIC, Valencia, Spain R. Zennaro PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	Nominal operating conditions for the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) 380 GeV requires 72 MV/m loaded accelerating gradients for a 180 ns flat-top pulse. Achieving this requires extensive RF conditioning which past tests have demonstrated can take several months per structure, when conditioned at the nominal repetition rate of 50 Hz. At CERN there are three individual X-band test stands currently operational, testing up to 6 structures concurrently. For CLIC's 380 GeV design, 28,000 accelerating structures will make up the main linac. For a large scale conditioning programme, it is important to understand the RF conditioning process and to optimise the time taken for conditioning. In this paper, we review recent X-band testing results from CERN's test stands. With these results we investigate how to optimise the conditioning process and demonstrate the feasibility of pre-conditioning the structures at a higher repetition rate before installation into the main linac.
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THPMK104	High Power and High Repetition Rate X-band Power Source Using Multiple Klystrons	4552
	M. Volpi, M.J. Boland, P.J. Giansiracusa, T.G. Lucas, R.P. Rassool The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia N. Catalán Lasheras, A. Grudiev, G. McMonagle, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch, V. del Pozo Romano CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Paszkiewicz University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom C. Serpico Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy A. Vnuchenko IFIC, Valencia, Spain
	In July 2016, the first X-band test facility operating with two interwoven, 6 MW klystron pulses was commissioned at CERN. Outputting up to 46 MW after pulse compression, the new test stand allows testing of two structures concurrently with repetition rates up to 400 Hz in each line. RF commissioning of all four lines has been completed and testing of high gradient accelerating structures for the Compact Linear Collider has commenced. Operations have been ongoing for more than a year, where dedicated control algorithms have been developed to conditioning the structure and to keep the pulse compressors tuned. Significant progress has been made in understanding the conditioning of two structures that are sharing an interlock and vacuum system. The high repetition rate is already showing the significantly reduced time needed to condition accelerating structures.
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THPML130	Applications of a Distributed Beam Loss Monitor at the Australian Synchrotron	4986
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	P.J. Giansiracusa, T.G. Lucas, R.P. Rassool, M. Volpi The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia M.J. Boland CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada G. LeBlanc SLSA, Clayton, Australia
	A distributed beam loss monitoring system, based on Cherenkov silica fibres, has been installed at the Australian Synchrotron. The fibres are installed parallel to the beam pipe and cover the majority of the injection system and storage ring. Relativistic charged particles from beam loss events that have a velocity above the Cherenkov threshold produce photons in the fibres. These photons are then guided along the fibres to detectors outside of the accelerator tunnels. Originally the system was installed to determine its suitability for measuring losses at a future linear collider, such as the Compact Linear Collider, with single pass 150 ns bunch trains. This study builds on these results and attempts to use the system to measure loss locations with a circulating beam. We present the preliminary results and describe how the system could be improved.
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Paper

Title

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High Gradient Performance of an S-Band Backward Traveling Wave Accelerating Structure for Medical Hadron Therapy Accelerators

491

SUSPL097

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A. Vnuchenko, C. Blanch Gutiérrez, D. Esperante Pereira
IFIC, Valencia, Spain
S. Benedetti, N. Catalán Lasheras, A. Grudiev, B. Koubek, G. McMonagle, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
A. Faus-Golfe
LAL, Orsay, France
T.G. Lucas, M. Volpi
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
S. Pitman
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

The high-gradient performance of an accelerating structure prototype for a medical proton linac is presented. The structure was designed and built using technology developed by the CLIC collaboration and the target application is the TULIP (Turning Linac for Proton therapy) proposal developed by the TERA foundation. The special feature of this design is to produce gradient of more than 50 MV /m in low-β accelerating structures (v/c=0.38). The structure was tested in an S-band test stand at CERN. During the tests, the structure reached over above 60 MV/m at 1.2 μs pulse length and breakdown rate of about 5x10^-6 bpp. The results presented include ultimate performance, long term behaviour and measurements that can guide future optimization.

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WEPMF074

High Power Conditioning of X-Band RF Components

2545

N. Catalán Lasheras, H. Damerau, R.L. Gerard, A. Grudiev, G. McMonagle, J. Paszkiewicz, A. Solodko, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch, V. del Pozo Romano
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
T.G. Lucas, M. Volpi
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
S. Pitman
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
A. Vnuchenko
IFIC, Valencia, Spain

As part of the effort to qualify CLIC accelerating struc-tures prototypes, new X-band test facilities have been built and commissioned at CERN in the last years. In this context, a number of RF components have been designed and manufactured aiming at stable operation above 50 MW peak power and several kW of average power. All of them have been tested now in the X-band facility at CERN either as part of the facility or in dedicated tests. Here, we describe shortly the main design and manufac-turing steps for each component, the testing and eventual conditioning as well as the final performance they achieved.

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THPMK103

Initial Testing of Techniques for Large Scale Rf Conditioning for the Compact Linear Collider

4548

SUSPF019

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T.G. Lucas, M.J. Boland, P.J. Giansiracusa, R.P. Rassool, M. Volpi
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
N. Catalán Lasheras, A. Grudiev, T. Lefèvre, G. McMonagle, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch, V. del Pozo Romano
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Paszkiewicz
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
C. Serpico
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
A. Vnuchenko
IFIC, Valencia, Spain
R. Zennaro
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

Nominal operating conditions for the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) 380 GeV requires 72 MV/m loaded accelerating gradients for a 180 ns flat-top pulse. Achieving this requires extensive RF conditioning which past tests have demonstrated can take several months per structure, when conditioned at the nominal repetition rate of 50 Hz. At CERN there are three individual X-band test stands currently operational, testing up to 6 structures concurrently. For CLIC's 380 GeV design, 28,000 accelerating structures will make up the main linac. For a large scale conditioning programme, it is important to understand the RF conditioning process and to optimise the time taken for conditioning. In this paper, we review recent X-band testing results from CERN's test stands. With these results we investigate how to optimise the conditioning process and demonstrate the feasibility of pre-conditioning the structures at a higher repetition rate before installation into the main linac.

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THPMK104

High Power and High Repetition Rate X-band Power Source Using Multiple Klystrons

4552

M. Volpi, M.J. Boland, P.J. Giansiracusa, T.G. Lucas, R.P. Rassool
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
N. Catalán Lasheras, A. Grudiev, G. McMonagle, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch, V. del Pozo Romano
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Paszkiewicz
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
C. Serpico
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
A. Vnuchenko
IFIC, Valencia, Spain

In July 2016, the first X-band test facility operating with two interwoven, 6 MW klystron pulses was commissioned at CERN. Outputting up to 46 MW after pulse compression, the new test stand allows testing of two structures concurrently with repetition rates up to 400 Hz in each line. RF commissioning of all four lines has been completed and testing of high gradient accelerating structures for the Compact Linear Collider has commenced. Operations have been ongoing for more than a year, where dedicated control algorithms have been developed to conditioning the structure and to keep the pulse compressors tuned. Significant progress has been made in understanding the conditioning of two structures that are sharing an interlock and vacuum system. The high repetition rate is already showing the significantly reduced time needed to condition accelerating structures.

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THPML130

Applications of a Distributed Beam Loss Monitor at the Australian Synchrotron

4986

SUSPF097

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P.J. Giansiracusa, T.G. Lucas, R.P. Rassool, M. Volpi
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
M.J. Boland
CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
G. LeBlanc
SLSA, Clayton, Australia

A distributed beam loss monitoring system, based on Cherenkov silica fibres, has been installed at the Australian Synchrotron. The fibres are installed parallel to the beam pipe and cover the majority of the injection system and storage ring. Relativistic charged particles from beam loss events that have a velocity above the Cherenkov threshold produce photons in the fibres. These photons are then guided along the fibres to detectors outside of the accelerator tunnels. Originally the system was installed to determine its suitability for measuring losses at a future linear collider, such as the Compact Linear Collider, with single pass 150 ns bunch trains. This study builds on these results and attempts to use the system to measure loss locations with a circulating beam. We present the preliminary results and describe how the system could be improved.

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