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MOAC1 | Awake: the Proof-of-principle R&D Experiment at CERN | 34 |
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The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) is a proof-of-principle R&D experiment at CERN. It is the world’s first proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment, using a high-energy proton bunch to drive a plasma wakefield for electron beam acceleration. The AWAKE experiment will be installed in the former CNGS facility and uses the 400 GeV proton beam bunches from the SPS, which will be sent to a plasma source. An electron beam will be injected into the plasma cell to probe the accelerating wakefield. Challenging modifications in the area and new installations are required for AWAKE. First proton beam to the experiment is expected late 2016. The accelerating electron physics will start late 2017. This paper gives an overview of the project from a physics and engineering point of view, it describes the main activities, the milestones, the organizational set-up for the project management and coordination. | ||
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MOPWI037 | Upgrade and Operation of the Demonstration 4 GS/Sec. Intra-Bunch Instability Control System for the SPS | 1246 |
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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 expanded system implementation and operational experience details for the “Demo” technology platform commissioned at the SPS in January 2015. The system has been expanded during the LS1 shutdown with added features. The upgraded system has enhanced performance and more robust synchronization to the beam and accelerator timing system. Central to the new features are 1 GHz bandwidth kickers and RF amplifiers (including associated equalizers) which allow excitation and control of higher modes within the 2 ns bunch. We highlight the expanded features, and present their details. |
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MOPWI041 | Identification of Intra-Bunch Transverse Dynamics for Model Based Wideband Feedback Control at CERN Super Proton Synchrotron | 1249 |
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Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 and the US LHC Accelerator Research program (LARP). Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) feedback design techniques can be helpful to stabilize intra-bunch transverse instabilities induced by electron-clouds or transverse mode couplings at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). These MIMO techniques require a reduced order model of intra-bunch dynamics. We estimate a linear reduced order MIMO models for transverse intra-bunch dynamics and use these models to design model based MIMO feedback controllers. The effort is motivated by the plans to increase currents in the SPS as part of the HL-LHC upgrade. Parameters of the reduced order models are estimated based on driven beam SPS measurements. We study different types of controllers. We test the model based designs using macro particle simulation codes (CMAD and HEADTAIL) and compare its performance with FIR filters tested during beam measurements of the feedback system in SPS machine development (MD) studies. |
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TUAC2 | Wideband Vertical Intra-Bunch Feedback At The SPS - 2015 Results And Path Forward | 1353 |
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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 experimental measurements taken from CERN SPS machine development studies with a wideband intra-bunch feedback channel prototype. The demonstration system is a digital processing system with recently installed wideband kicker and amplifier components. This new hardware extends the bandwidth up to 1GHz and allows driving and controlling multiple vertical transverse modes in the bunch. The studies are focused on both driving the bunch with spectrally controlled signals to identify a reduced model of the bunch dynamics and testing model-based feedback controllers to stabilize the bunch dynamics. The measurements are structured to validate reduced MIMO models and macro-particle simulation codes, including the dynamics and limits of the feedback channel. Noise effects and uncertainties in the model are evaluated via SPS measurements to quantify the limits of control techniques applied to stabilize the intrabunch dynamics. The design of controllers for Q26 and Q20 optics are illustrated and future control developments are described. |
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