IPAC2012 - List of Authors (Gardner, I.S.K.)

Paper	Title	Page
THPPC025	Improvements to ISIS RF Cavity Tuning	3332
	R.J. Mathieson, D. Bayley, N.E. Farthing, I.S.K. Gardner, A. Seville STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	The ISIS facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK routinely accelerates proton beam currents in excess of 230 uA to run two neutron spallation target stations. The accelerator consists of a 70 MeV H⁻ linac and an 800 MeV, 50 Hz, proton synchrotron. The synchrotron beam is accelerated using six fundamental (h=2), and four second harmonic (h=4) ferrite loaded RF cavities each having its own drive amplifier and bias system. Each RF cavity is driven as a high Q tuned RF circuit; the resonant frequency being controlled by biasing the ferrite using a current from the bias regulator system. The cavity is kept at the correct resonant frequency by an analogue feedback loop comparing the phase of the cavity voltage to the phase of the demand voltage at the amplifier, and a 50Hz digital correction function calculated from the estimated frequency response of the system. This paper describes work improving the performance of the tuning system by introducing better system identification of the tuning loop and a time varying transfer function.

THPPP088	Beam Loss Studies of the ISIS Synchrotron Using ORBIT	3942
	D.J. Adams STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom I.S.K. Gardner, B. Jones, B.G. Pine, A. Seville, H. V. Smith, C.M. Warsop, R.E. Williamson STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	The ISIS synchrotron forms part of the accelerator chain for the Spallation Neutron Source at RAL, UK. The synchrotron is an 800 MeV, 50Hz , RCS accelerating ~2.8·10¹³ protons per cycle. Beam loss is localized in two super periods of the ring using a system of collimators. The injection and acceleration processes, vacuum vessels and collimation systems have been modeled using the particle tracking code ORBIT. This paper presents simulation results in comparison to measurements of longitudinal profiles and beam loss.

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Improvements to ISIS RF Cavity Tuning

3332

R.J. Mathieson, D. Bayley, N.E. Farthing, I.S.K. Gardner, A. Seville
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

The ISIS facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK routinely accelerates proton beam currents in excess of 230 uA to run two neutron spallation target stations. The accelerator consists of a 70 MeV H⁻ linac and an 800 MeV, 50 Hz, proton synchrotron. The synchrotron beam is accelerated using six fundamental (h=2), and four second harmonic (h=4) ferrite loaded RF cavities each having its own drive amplifier and bias system. Each RF cavity is driven as a high Q tuned RF circuit; the resonant frequency being controlled by biasing the ferrite using a current from the bias regulator system. The cavity is kept at the correct resonant frequency by an analogue feedback loop comparing the phase of the cavity voltage to the phase of the demand voltage at the amplifier, and a 50Hz digital correction function calculated from the estimated frequency response of the system. This paper describes work improving the performance of the tuning system by introducing better system identification of the tuning loop and a time varying transfer function.

THPPP088

Beam Loss Studies of the ISIS Synchrotron Using ORBIT

3942

D.J. Adams
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
I.S.K. Gardner, B. Jones, B.G. Pine, A. Seville, H. V. Smith, C.M. Warsop, R.E. Williamson
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

The ISIS synchrotron forms part of the accelerator chain for the Spallation Neutron Source at RAL, UK. The synchrotron is an 800 MeV, 50Hz , RCS accelerating ~2.8·10¹³ protons per cycle. Beam loss is localized in two super periods of the ring using a system of collimators. The injection and acceleration processes, vacuum vessels and collimation systems have been modeled using the particle tracking code ORBIT. This paper presents simulation results in comparison to measurements of longitudinal profiles and beam loss.