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MOPPC064 A New Spark Detection System for the Electrostatic Septa of the SPS North (Experimental) Area ion, controls, cathode, septum 246
 
  • R.A. Barlow, B. Balhan, J. Borburgh, E. Carlier, C. Chanavat, T. Fowler, B. Pinget
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Electrostatic septa (ZS) are used in the extraction of the particle beams from the CERN SPS to the North Area experimental zone. These septa employ high electric fields, generated from a 300 kV power supply, and are particularly prone to internal sparking around the cathode structure. This sparking degrades the electric field quality, consequently affecting the extracted beam, vacuum and equipment performance. To mitigate these effects, a Spark Detection System (SDS) has been realised, which is based on an industrial SIEMENS S7-400 programmable logic controller and deported Boolean processors modules interfaced through a PROFINET fieldbus. The SDS interlock logic uses a moving average spark rate count to determine if the ZS performance is acceptable. Below a certain spark rate it is probable that the ZS septa tank vacuum can recover, thus avoiding transition into a state where rapid degradation would occur. Above this level an interlock is raised and the high voltage is switched off. Additionally, all spark signals acquired by the SDS are sent to a front-end computer to allow further analysis such as calculation of spark rates and production of statistical data.  
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TUCOCA09 Klystron Measurement and Protection System for XFEL on the MTCA.4 Architecture klystron, LLRF, vacuum, FPGA 937
 
  • Ł. Butkowski, H. Schlarb, V. Vogel
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  The European XFEL free-electron laser is under construction at the DESY. The driving engine of the superconducting accelerator will be 27 RF station. Each of an underground RF station consist from multi beam horizontal klystron which can provide up to 10MW of power at 1.3GHz. The XFEL should work continuously over 20 years with only 1 day per month for maintenance. In order to meet so demanding requirement lifetime of the MBK should be as long as possible. In the real operation the lifetime of tube can be thoroughly reduced by service conditions. To minimize the influence of service conditions to the klystrons lifetime the special fast protection system named as Klystron Lifetime Management System (KLM) has been developed, the main task of this system is to detect all events which can destroy the tube as quickly as possible, and then stop input power to the tube and send signal to stop HV pulse. The tube recovery procedure should depend on the kind of events has happened. KLM is based on the standard LLRF uTCA system for XFEL with additional DC channels. This article gives an overview of implementation of measurement and protection system installed at klystron test stand.  
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THCOCA05 Laser MegaJoule Timing System laser, timing, target, diagnostics 1457
 
  • J.I. Nicoloso
    CEA/DAM/DIF, Arpajon, France
  • J.P.A. Arnoul, J.J. Dupas, P. Raybaut
    CEA, LE BARP cedex, France
 
  The French Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies alternatives (CEA) is currently building the Laser Megajoule (LMJ). This facility is designed to deliver laser energy to targets for high energy density physics experiments, including fusion experiments. The Integrated Timing and Triggering System (ITTS) is one of the critical LMJ components, in charge of timing distribution for synchronizing the laser beams and triggering the shot data acquisitions. The LMJ ITTS Control System provides a single generic interface to its users at the Supervisory level, built around the key concept of “Synchronized Channels Group”, a set of delay channels triggered simultaneously. Software common components provide basic mechanisms: communication with its users, channel registration… User-defined delays are specified with respect to a given reference(target chamber center, quadruplet or beam reference times), these delays are then translated into hardware delays according to different parameters such as electronic cards temperatures(for thermal drift correction) and transit delays. Equipments are mainly off-the-shelf timing equipments delivering trigger signals with jitter down to 15ps rms.  
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