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RIS citation export for WEZBA5: Development of a Marx Modulator for FNAL Linac

TY  - CONF
AU  - Butler, T.A.
AU  - Garcia, F.G.
AU  - Kufer, M.R.
AU  - Martin, K.S.
AU  - Pfeffer, H.
ED  - Yamazaki, Yoshishige
ED  - Raubenheimer, Tor
ED  - McCausey, Amy
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
TI  - Development of a Marx Modulator for FNAL Linac
J2  - Proc. of NAPAC2019, Lansing, MI, USA, 01-06 September 2019
CY  - Lansing, MI, USA
T2  - North American Particle Accelerator Conference
T3  - 4
LA  - english
AB  - A Marx-topology modulator has been designed and developed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP). This modulator replaces the previous triode hard-tube design, increasing reliability, lowering operational costs, and maintaining waveform accuracy. The Marx modulator supplies the anode of the 7835 VHF power triode tube with a 35 kV, 375 Amp, 460 µs pulse at 15 Hz. It consists of 54 individual Marx cells, each containing a 639 µF capacitor charged to 900 Volts, combined in series with IGBT switches to create the desired output waveform. This requires variable rise and fall times, flattening of capacitive droop, and feedforward beam loading compensation. All five 201.25 MHz RF systems have been upgraded to Marx modulators to ensure continued operation of the linear accelerator.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 653
EP  - 655
KW  - controls
KW  - operation
KW  - flattop
KW  - power-supply
KW  - high-voltage
DA  - 2019/10
PY  - 2019
SN  - 2673-7000
SN  - 978-3-95450-223-3
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-WEZBA5
UR  - http://jacow.org/napac2019/papers/wezba5.pdf
ER  -