Author: Pollock, K.M.
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TUBL2 A 4 GS/s Feedback Processing System for Control of Intra-Bunch Instabilities 323
 
  • J.D. Fox, J.M. Cesaratto, J.E. Dusatko, J.J. Olsen, K.M. Pollock, C.H. Rivetta, O. Turgut
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • W. Höfle
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 and the US LHC Accelerator Research program ( LARP)
We present the architecture and implementation overview of a digital signal processing system developed to study control of Electron-Cloud and Transverse Mode coupling instabilities in the CERN SPS. The system is based on a reconfigurable processing architecture which samples vertical bunch motion and applies correction signals at a 4 GS/s rate, allowing 16 samples across a single 5 ns SPS RF bucket. The system requires wideband beam pickups and a vertical kicker structure with GHz bandwidth. This demonstration system implements a general purpose 16 tap FIR control filter for each sample. We present results from SPS machine studies showing the impact of wideband feedback to excite/damp internal modes of vertical motion as well as stabilize an unstable beam. These results highlight the challenges of intra-bunch feedback and show proof of principle feasibility of the architecture.
 
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