ANL, Argonne, USA
Development and testing of a prototype 352-MHz, 4-kW cw solid state rf power amplifier system is underway at the Advanced Photon Source to study and evaluate the performance advantages of an upgrade to solid state rf power technology at the APS. General performance measurement data on the assembled amplifier system is discussed, with emphasis on efficiency improvements possible through the use of dynamic drain voltage control.
ANL, Argonne, USA
The Advanced Photon Source requires damping of higher-order modes in the storage ring rf cavities in order to prevent beam instability at beam currents in excess of 100 mA proposed for the APS Upgrade. Due to constraints imposed by available space and by existing 35-mm pick-up ports on the cavity, a compact design has been analyzed with a quarter-wave rejection filter of the fundamental mode. Separate broadband, low-frequency and high-frequency dampers are utilized to span the frequency range from 500 MHz to 1500 MHz. The dampers have been designed to reject the fundamental cavity mode, couple strongly to HOM’s, utilize an external rf load, minimize the overall size, and incorporate rf diagnostics. In addition, the mechanical design has been optimized to simplify construction, improve mechanical stability, and reduce thermally induced stresses.
ANL, Argonne, USA
The Advanced Photon Source is a 7-GeV hard x-ray synchrotron light source. Operation for users is delivered at a nominal current of 100 mA in one of three bunch patterns. The APS Upgrade calls for a minimum planned operating current of 150 mA, with an option to deliver beam up to 200 mA. The high-current threshold in the storage ring has been explored, and storage ring components have been identified that either drive collective instabilities or are subjected to excessive beam-drive higher-order-mode (HOM) heating. In this paper, we describe machine studies at 150 mA in a special lattice that simulates the upgraded APS. We also describe the accelerator upgrades that are required to accommodate 200-mA operation, as well as the ongoing machine studies plan.
ANL, Argonne, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade project (APS-U) at Argonne includes implementation of Zholents’* deflecting cavity scheme for production of short x-ray pulses. This is a joint project between Argonne National Laboratory, Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This paper describes performance characteristics of the proposed source and technical issues related to its realization. Ensuring stable APS storage ring operation requires reducing quality factors of these modes by many orders of magnitude. These challenges reduce to those of the design of a single-cell SC cavity that can achieve the desired operating deflecting fields while providing needed damping of all these modes. The project team is currently prototyping and testing several promising designs for single-cell cavities with the goal of deciding on a winning design in the near future.
*A. Zholents et al., NIM A 425, 385 (1999).
