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- J.N. Bai
IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- R. Bär, D.H. Beck, T. Ferrand, M. Kreider, D. Ondreka, C. Prados, S. Rauch, W.W. Terpstra, M. Zweig
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
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The FAIR facility makes use of the General Machine Timing (GMT) system and the Bunch phase Timing System (BuTiS) to realize the synchronization of two machines. In order to realize the bunch to bucket transfer, firstly, the source machine slightly detunes its RF frequency at its RF flattop. Secondly, the source and target machines exchange packets over the timing network shortly before the transfer and make use of the RF frequency-beat method to realize the synchronization between both machines with accuracy better than 1o. The data of the packet includes RF frequency, timestamp of the zero-crossing point of the RF signal, harmonic number and bunch/bucket position. Finally, both machines have all information of each other and can calculate the coarse window and create announce signals for triggering kickers.
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