• G. Feng, B. Deriy, T. Fors, J. Wang
  ANL, Argonne

Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

The APS storage ring uses DC/DC converters to power the magnets. High resolution for current regulation is desired for future improvement. It is calculated that at least 20- to 21-bit digital pulse width modulation (DPWM) is required in the proposed digital control system. This paper proposes a digital control system that adopts a new DPWM topology to achieve 21-bit DPWM without gigahertz system clock. The proposed topology uses a combination of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and a serializer chip TLK2541 from TI. The FPGA calculates the desired PWM signals and sends them to the TLK2541 chip. Then, the TLK2541 generates corresponding high-resolution DPWM pulses. An FPGA development board has been used to develop a prototype system to verify the proposed DPWM generation topology. This paper discusses the circuit topology and the experiment results.

• X. Zhao, G. Feng, W. Li, L. Wang, H. Xu, S.C. Zhang
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

HALS(Hefei Advanced Light Source) is the electron storage ring of ultra-low emittance in process of design. Under this design, the quadrupole magnet with sextupole component must be mounted on which the βη is much bigger, to use enough the effect of compersation chromaticity of sextupole magnet field and to use sparingly the space in the same time . So the combined quadrupole and sextupole magnet must be designed, and have more strong sextupole component and restrain the production of high harmonic field. In this paper, the chocie of design scheme is discussed, and the calculation of combined quadrupole and sextupole mangnet design is given.

• G. Feng
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

In china, polymer radiation processing has become one of the most important processing industries. Electron beam accelerator or radioactive source is usually used as radiation processing source. For radiation crosslinking application, physical design, construction and testing of a electron beam facility is introduced because of it’s much higher dose rate and efficiency. Main part of this facility is a 10MeV traveling wave electron linac with constant impedance accelerating structure. It is the first electron beam facility designed for polymer radiation processing by National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) in China. In the paper, a start to end simulation is finished to optimize electron beam dynamics in the linac. Measurement results of some subassemblies are presented. The linac construction has been finished just now. Testing experiments prove that the facility can work well for radiation crosslinking application.

• L. Wang, Z. Bai, G. Feng, W. Li, L. Liu, C.-F. Wu, S.C. Zhang
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

Hefei Light Source is a second generation VUV light source, whose performance cannot meet the requirements of synchrotron radiation users at the present time. One year ago, the concept of the Hefei Advanced Light Source, whose main features are ultra low beam emittance and high brilliance in VUV and soft X-ray range, was brought forward. In the preliminary design study, a medium scale storage ring and multi bend achromat focusing structure were adopted to achieve beam emittance lower than 0.2 nm.rad. Linear and nonlinear parameter optimizations were performed to obtain large on-momentum and off-momentum dynamic aperture. The design status will be introduced briefly in the presentation.

• S.C. Zhang, G. Feng, W. Li, L. Liu, L. Wang, C.-F. Wu, H. Xu
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

Funding: supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (10705027)

Hefei Advanced Light Source(HALS) is a super low emittance storage ring and has a very poor beam life time. In order to run the ring stablely, Top-up injection will be necessary. Injection system will greatly affect the quality of beam. This article first give a physics design of injecting system. Then the injecting system is tracked under different errors. The responses of storage beam and injecting beam is given in the article.

• G. Feng, W. Li, L. Liu, L. Wang, C.-F. Wu, H. Xu, S.C. Zhang
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

In order to meet the increasing requirements of synchrotron radiation users, a new plan of VUV and soft X-ray light source, named Hefei Advanced Light Source (HALS), is brought forward by National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL). This 1.5GeV storage ring with ultra low emittance 0.2nmrad consists of 18 combined FBA cells and the circumference is 388m. Strong enough quadrupoles and sextupoles must be needed for getting such low emittance lattice, which will lead beam close orbit distortions’ (COD) sensitivity to the field and alignment errors in magnets. Estimation of the COD from various error sources is investigated. Using orbit response matrix and singular value decomposition method, the distribution of beam position monitors and the location of correctors are reported in the paper. Simulation proves that COD can be corrected down to 60 microns level. In the same time the corrector strengths are weaker enough in the correction scheme.