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MOOCH03 Status of a Linac RF Unit Demonstration for the NLC/GLC X-band Linear Collider linac, linear-collider, collider, klystron 42
 
  • D.C. Schultz, C. Adolphsen, D.L. Burke, J. Chan, S. Doebert, V.A. Dolgashev, J.C. Frisch, R.K. Jobe, D.J. McCormick, C.D. Nantista, J. Nelson, M.C. Ross, T.J. Smith, S.G. Tantawi
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • D.P. Atkinson
    LLNL, Livermore, California
  • Y.H. Chin, S. Kazakov, A. Lounine, T. Okugi, N. Toge
    KEK, Ibaraki
  Designs for a future TeV scale electron-positron X-band linear collider (NLC/GLC) require main linac units which produce and deliver 450 MW of rf power at 11.424 GHz to eight 60 cm accelerator structures. The design of this rf unit includes a SLED-II pulse compression system with a gain of approximately three at a compression ratio of four, followed by an overmoded transmission and distribution system. We have designed, constructed, and operated such a system as part of the 8-Pack project at SLAC. Four 50 MW X-band klystrons, running off a common 400 kV solid-state modulator, drive a dual-moded SLED-II pulse compression system. The compressed power is delivered to structures in the NLCTA beamline. Four 60 cm accelerator structures are currently installed and powered, with four additional structures and associated high power components available for installation late in 2004. We describe the layout of our system and the various high-power components which comprise it. We also present preliminary data on the processing and initial high-power operation of this system.  
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MOPKF035 Stabilization of the Pulsed Regimes on Storage Ring Free Electron Laser: The Cases of Super-ACO and Elettra laser, electron, storage-ring, undulator 381
 
  • C. Bruni, D. Garzella, G. Lambert, G.L. Orlandi
    LURE, Orsay
  • E. Allaria, R. Meucci
    INOA, Firenze
  • S. Bielawski
    PhLAM/CERCLA, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex
  • M.-E. Couprie
    CEA/DSM, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • M. Danailov, G. De Ninno, B. Diviacco, M. Trovò
    ELETTRA, Basovizza, Trieste
  • D. Fanelli
    KTH/NADA, Stockholm
  • L. Giannessi
    ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
  In a Storage Ring Free Electron Laser (SRFEL) a relativistic electron beam interacts with the magnetostatic periodic field of an undulator, thus emitting synchrotron radiation. The light is stored in an optical cavity and amplified during successive turns of the particles in the ring. The laser intensity may appear as a "continuous wave (cw)" or show a stable pulsed behaviour depending on the value of the temporal detuning, i.e. the difference between the electron beam revolution period and the round trip of the photons in the cavity. It was recently shown, that the loss of stability in a SRFEL occurs through an Hopf bifurcation [*]. This observation opens up the perspective of introducing a derivative self-controlled feedback to suppress locally the bifurcation and enlarge the region of stable signal. A feedback of this type has been implemented on Super-ACO and shown to produce a significant and reproducible extension of the stable "cw" region. We review here these results and discuss new experiments performed on the Super-ACO and ELETTRA SRFELs.

* G. De Ninno and D. Fanelli, Phys. Rev. Lett. in press; M.E. Couprie et al. Nucl. Instrum.and Meth. A., in press

 
 
MOPKF040 Effect of Electron-beam Feedbacks on the ELETTRA Storage-ring Free-electron Laser laser, free-electron-laser, electron, storage-ring 393
 
  • M. Trovò, D. Bulfone, M. Danailov, G. De Ninno, B. Diviacco, V. Forchi', M. Lonza
    ELETTRA, Basovizza, Trieste
  • L. Giannessi
    ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
  As is well known, the stability of a storage-ring free-electron laser is strongly related to that of the electron beam. With respect to second-generation devices, such as Super ACO and UVSOR, the free-electron laser at ELETTRA is characterized by a noticeably higher gain and, consequently, shows to be much more sensitive to electron-beam instabilities. In order to counteract the impact of such instabilities, both a longitudinal multibunch and a local orbit feedbacks have been implemented for free-electron laser operation. Aim of this paper is to report on the beneficial effect of these feedback systems on the laser performance.  
 
MOPLT003 Upgrading the LNLS Control System from a Proprietary to a Commercial Communications Environment power-supply, target, monitoring, linac 530
 
  • J.G.R.S. Franco, R.M. Ernits, M. Fernandes, A.F.A. Gouveia, J.R. Piton, M.A. Raulik, F.D.S. Rodrigues
    LNLS, Campinas
  The LNLS Control System was built over a proprietary technology, due to governmental policy of information technology in the mid 80's. This made interfacing to commercial systems difficult, limited the technology transfer to the private sector, required a staff with specific knowledge and reduced the possibility of new implementations on the system. Nowadays, the cost to move all of our hardware to a commercial one is out of our budget. This paper describes a proposal, the viability study and first results to move only the communication interfaces to a commercial environment, keeping most of our hardware unchanged and opening the way to gradually move the system to widely accepted standards, when and if necessary. This solution allows a smooth implementation without long periods of machine shutdown and keeps the possibility to operate the machine concurrently between old and new communication interfaces.  
 
MOPLT019 Experience Gained in the SPS for the Future LHC Abort Gap Cleaning injection, betatron, optics, proton 575
 
  • W. Höfle
    CERN, Geneva
  Abort gap cleaning using a transverse damper (feedback) has been previously shown in the RHIC accelerator. We report on experimental results in the SPS, where the transverse damper was used to excite transverse oscillations on part of an LHC test beam, and by the induced losses, creating a practically particle free zone. It is proposed to use the same principle for abort gap cleaning in the LHC. For the LHC abort gap cleaning may be required at injection energy, during the ramp and at top energy. It is shown how the transverse excitation can be optimized taking into account the actual bandwidth of the damper systems and the possibility to fully modulate their input signal to match the beam batatron tune distribution. The cleaning efficiency and speed is estimated considering the porcesses involved, the cleaning (with damper) and the filling of the abort gap.  
 
MOPLT026 Equipment Manufacturing and Test Data Tracking for the LHC dipole, site, cryogenics 596
 
  • E. Manola-Poggioli, S.-A. Chalard, C. Delamare, T. Ladzinski, S. Mallon-Amerigo, P. Martel, S. Petit, T. Pettersson, O. Rademakers Di Rosa, B. Rousseau, A.S. Suwalska, D. Widegren
    CERN, Geneva
  The MTF system was developed at CERN to capture the design, manufacturing and test data of equipment built for LHC. Today, more than 80.000 descriptions of LHC equipment are managed using the MTF. The system handles both production data and non-conformance issues. The acquisition of the equipment data is both an organisational and a technical challenge. On the organisational side many different aspects of production and management have to be taken into account. The LHC equipment suppliers, wherever their production facilities are located, whatever their computer skills or rates of production are, need a user friendly environment to provide the data with a very limited effort on the shop floor. For expensive equipment such as the LHC dipoles a reliable and robust non-conformance methodology must be put in place, the MTF provides the required information technology support tools. The EDMS Service has developed methods, training processes and tools to cope with an extensive use of the system, a use that will grow during the next years until the LHC is installed. This paper presents the experience acquired and the solutions put in place.  
 
MOPLT037 Simulation of Transient Beam-feedback Interaction with Application to the Extraction of the CNGS Beam from the SPS extraction, betatron, kicker, simulation 626
 
  • E. Vogel, W. Höfle
    CERN, Geneva
  For actual and future high energy proton accelerators, such as the LHC, transverse feedback systems play an essential role in supplying the physics experiments with high intensity beams at low emittances. We developed a simulation model to study the interaction between beam and transverse feedback system in detail, bunch-by-bunch and turn-by-turn, considering the real technical implementation of the latter. A numerical model is used as the nonlinear behavior (saturation) and limited bandwidth of the feedback system, as well as the transient nature at injection and extraction, complicates the analysis. The model is applied to the practical case of the CNGS beam in the SPS accelerator. This beam will be ejected from the SPS in two batches causing residual oscillations by kicker ripples on the second batch. This second batch continues to circulate for some 1000 turns after the first batch has been extracted and oscillations are planned to be damped by the feedback system. It is shown how the model can be extended to the case of transients at injection (LHC), and to include coupled bunch instability effects.  
 
MOPLT071 EPICS Based Control System for the KOMAC RF System proton, rfq, linac, vacuum 716
 
  • J.C. Yoon, J. Choi, K.M. Ha, J.H. Kim, J.M. Kim, J.-W. Lee
    PAL, Pohang
  This paper presents the RF control system for Korea Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex (KOMAC). KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) has been performing the project named KOMAC. As the 3nd phase of the project, 20MeV proton accelerating structure is under development. The new design is based on the use of VME based Multi-function modules connected to the specific low level RF Controllers(LLRF) via distributed I/O modules and Serial communication modules. The control system was based on EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) from the end of 2003. Installation and commissioning of the RF module is scheduled on 2004. Control system to integrated the RF System to the KOMAC control system is implemented. Hardware, software and various applications are developed to support the operation of RF Control system. This paper EPICS based control system for KOMAC RF  
 
MOPLT107 Nanosecond-timescale Intra-bunch-train Feedback for the Linear Collider: Results of the FONT2 Run linear-collider, collider, kicker, dipole 785
 
  • P. Burrows, T. Hartin, S.M. Hussain, S. Molloy, G.R. White
    Queen Mary University of London, London
  • C. Adolphsen, J.C. Frisch, L. Hendrickson, R.K. Jobe, T. Markiewicz, D.J. McCormick, J. Nelson, M.C. Ross, S. Smith, T.J. Smith
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • R. Barlow, M. Dufau, A. Kalinin
    CCLRC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
  • G. Myatt, C. Perry
    OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
  We report on experimental results from the December 2003/January 2004 data run of the Feedback On Nanosecond Timescales (FONT) experiment at the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator at SLAC. We built a second-generation prototype intra-train beam-based feedback system incorporating beam position monitors, fast analogue signal processors, a feedback circuit, fast-risetime amplifiers and stripline kickers. We applied a novel real-time charge-normalisation scheme to account for beam current variations along the train. We used the system to correct the position of the 170 nanosecond-long bunchtrain at NLCTA, in both 'feed forward' and 'feedback' modes. We achieved a latency of 53 nanoseconds, representing a significant improvement on FONT1 (2002), and providing a demonstration of intra-train feedback for the Linear Collider.  
 
MOPLT108 TESLA Linac-IP Simulations luminosity, simulation, ground-motion, linac 788
 
  • G.R. White
    Queen Mary University of London, London
  • D. Schulte
    CERN, Geneva
  • N.J. Walker
    DESY, Hamburg
  We have formulated integrated simulations of the transport of the electron and positron bunches in the Linear Collider from the linac entrance through the beam delivery system and the interaction region, taking wakefield effects into account. We have set up the simulations to run on the 64-cpu prototpye Grid cluster at QMUL and generated results for various sets of input parameters for the TESLA and NLC machines. For TESLA we have evaluated the distortion of the phase-space of the bunches at the interaction point due to wakefields. We have calculated the luminosity degradation and the production of photons and e+e- pairs. We have simulated the performance of the intra-train beam feedback systems based on bunch position, angle and luminosity measures, and have evauated the luminosity recovery potential of these systems for TESLA and NLC.  
 
MOPLT146 Trickle-charge: a New Operational Mode for PEP-II injection, background, luminosity, diagnostics 881
 
  • J.L. Turner, S. Colocho, F.-J. Decker, S. Ecklund, A.S. Fisher, R.H. Iverson, C. O'Grady, J. Seeman, M.K. Sullivan, M. Weaver, U. Wienands
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • W. Kozanecki
    CEA/DSM/DAPNIA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  In regular top-up-and-coast operation, PEP-II average luminosity is about 70…75% of the peak luminosity due to detector ramp-down and ramp-up times plus the time it takes to top-up both beams. We recently commissioned a new operational mode where the Low Energy Ring is injected continuously without ramping down the detector. The benefits?increased luminosity lifetime and roughly half the number of top-ups per shift?were expected to give an increase in delivered luminosity of about 15% at the same peak luminosity; this was confirmed in test runs. In routine trickle operation, however, it appears that the increase in delivered luminosity is more than twice that due to an increase in availability credited to the more stable operating conditions during trickle operation. In this paper we will present our operational experience as well as some of the diagnostics we use to monitor and maintain tuning of the machine in order to control injection background and protect the detector. Test runs are planned to extend trickle-charge operation to the High Energy Ring as well.  
 
MOPLT163 Luminosity Optimization Using Automated IR Steering at RHIC luminosity, background, coupling, electron 911
 
  • K.A. Drees, T. D'Ottavio
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  The goal of the RHIC 2004 Au-Au run was to maximize the achieved integrated luminosity. One way is to increase beam currents and minimize beam transverse emittances. Another important ingredient is the minimization of time spent on activities postponing the declaration of 'physics conditions', i.e. stable beam conditions allowing the experimental detectors to take data. Since collision rates are particularly high in the beginning of the store the integrated luminosity benefits considerably from any minute saved early in the store. In the RHIC run 2004 a new IR steering application uses luminosity monitor signals as a feedback for a fully automated steering procedure. This report gives an overview of the used procedure and summarizes the achieved results.  
 
TUPKF001 Upgrade and Commissioning of the LNLS RF System storage-ring, klystron, synchrotron, damping 950
 
  • R.H.A. Farias, N.P. Abreu, L.C. Jahnel, L. Liu, C. Pardine, P.F. Tavares
    LNLS, Campinas
  In this paper we present a report on the commissioning of the new RF system of the electron storage ring of the brazilian synchrotron radiation facility (LNLS).  
 
TUPKF002 TRIUMF ISAC II RF Control System Design and Testing controls, coupling, linac, target 953
 
  • M.P. Laverty, S.F. Fang, K. Fong
    TRIUMF, Vancouver
  The rf control system for the ISAC II superconducting cavities is a hybrid analogue/digital design which has undergone several iterations in the course of its development. In the current design, the cavity operates in a self-excited feedback loop, while phase locked loops are used to achieve frequency and phase stability. Digital signal processors are used to provide amplitude and phase regulation, as well as mechanical cavity tuning control. The most recent version also allows for the rapid implementation of operating firmware and software changes, which can be done remotely, if the need arises. This paper describes the RF control system and the experience gained in operating this system with a four-cavity test facility.  
 
TUPKF034 Low Output-Impedance RF System for 2nd Harmonic Cavity in the ISIS Synchrotron cathode, impedance, synchrotron, beam-loading 1036
 
  • T. Oki, S. Fukumoto, Y. Irie, M. Muto, S. Takano, I. Yamane
    KEK, Ibaraki
  • R.G. Bendall, I.S.K. Gardner, M.G. Glover, J. Hirst, D. Jenkins, A. Morris, S. Stoneham, J.W.G. Thomason, T. Western
    CCLRC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
  • J.C. Dooling, D. Horan, R. Kustom, M.E. Middendorf, G. Pile
    ANL, Argonne, Illinois
  In the ISIS facility based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK, second target station project was funded, which requires to increase the current intensity by 1.5-times (300 micro-A). Four 2nd harmonic RF cavities will be installed in the ISIS synchrotron in order to increase the trapping efficiency, and to mitigate the space charge detuning. A very low output-impedance RF system for the 2nd harmonic cavity has been developed by the collaboration between RAL, Argonne National Laboratory (US) and KEK (Japan). The system comprises the 240 kW triode as a final amplifier with plate-to-grid feedback path. The measured output-impedance was less than 30 ohms over the frequency range of 2.7 - 6.2 MHz, which agreed well with calculations. High power test was also performed under frequency swept mode at 50 Hz repetition. The operation was almost stable, and more than 12 kVpp was obtained as maximum. The voltage gain of the final amplifier was 25 - 30, which decreased gradually with frequency due to decreasing input-impedance of triode. The beam test is planned at ISIS in near future.  
 
TUPKF037 Multi-harmonic RF Acceleration System for a Medical Proton Synchrotron acceleration, synchrotron, proton, impedance 1045
 
  • K. Saito, M. Katane, K. Kobayashi, K. Masui, K. Moriyama, H. Nishiuchi, H. Sakurabata, H. Satomi
    Hitachi, Ltd., Power & Industrial Systems R&D Laboratory, Ibaraki-ken
  We have developed an RF accelerating system for medical proton synchrotron. The RF cavity is a tuning-free wideband type, loaded with FINEMET cores, which is driven by a solid-state RF power amplifier with operation frequency range between 1MHz and 10MHz. Multi-harmonic RF acceleration scheme has been realized with the RF control system, to reduce beam loss by space-charge effect in low energy region. The original techniques for high-speed digital signal processing and high-precision RF signal processing have been applied, in order to fulfill feedback control of the frequency, phase and amplitude of the second and third harmonic RF signals as well as the fundamental one.  
 
TUPKF061 The SPEAR3 RF System klystron, damping, radiation, impedance 1084
 
  • P.A. McIntosh, S. Allison, P. Bellomo, S. Hill, V. Pacak, S. Park, J.J. Sebek, D.W. Sprehn
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  SPEAR2 was upgraded in 2003, to a new 3rd Generation Light Source (3GLS) enabling users to take better advantage of almost 100x higher brightness and flux density over its predecessor SPEAR2. As part of the upgrade, the SPEAR2 RF system has been re-vamped from its original configuration of one 200 kW klystron feeding a single 358.5 MHz, 5-cell aluminum cavity; to a 1.2 MW klystron feeding four 476.3 MHz, HOM damped copper cavities. The system installation was completed in late November 2003 and the required accelerating voltage of 3.2 MV (800 kV/cavity) was very rapidly achieved soon after. This paper details the SPEAR3 RF system configuration and its new operating requirements, highlighting its installation and subsequent successful operation.  
 
TUPKF062 PEP-II RF System Operation and Performance klystron, luminosity, impedance, damping 1087
 
  • P.A. McIntosh, J. Browne, J.E. Dusatko, J.D. Fox, W.C. Ross, D. Teytelman, D. Van Winkle
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  The Low Energy Ring (LER) and High Energy Ring (HER) RF systems have operated now on PEP-II since July 1998 and have assisted in breaking all design luminosity records back in June 2002. Luminosity on PEP-II has steadily increased since then as a consequence of larger e+ and e- beam currents being accumulated. This has meant that the RF systems have inevitably been driven harder, not only to achieve these higher stored beam currents, but also to reliably keep the beams circulating whilst at the same time minimizing the number of aborts due to RF system faults. This paper details the current PEP-II RF system configurations for both rings, as well as future upgrade plans spanning the next 3-5 years. Limitations of the current RF system configurations are presented, highlighting improvement projects which will target specific areas within the RF systems to ensure that adequate operating overheads are maintained and reliable operation is assured.  
 
TUPKF075 Inductive Output Tubes for Particle Accelerators gun, electron, microtron, background 1111
 
  • H.P. Bohlen
    CPI, Palo Alto, California
  • E. Davies, P. Krzeminski, Y. Li, R.N. Tornoe
    CPI/EIMAC, San Carlos, California
  The Inductive Output Tube (IOT) is not widely used as an RF power source in particle accelerators yet, but this is about to change rapidly. One reason for this change is the IOT's "coming of age": almost twenty years of successful operation in television transmitters have lead to high refinement of IOT technology and proven reliability. The other reason is the fitness of the IOT to especially meet accelerator requirements: high efficiency, no need for power back-off to achieve fast feed-back regulation, and the possibility to pulse the RF without using a high-voltage modulator. Two classes of IOTs are available so far for application in particle accelerators. One of them consists of UHF external-cavity devices, frequency-tunable and producing output power levels up to 80 kW CW. The second class has been developed only recently. These are L-band IOTs with internal output cavities for 1.3 and 1.5 GHz, respectively, featuring output power levels between 15 and 30 kW CW. Extensive computer simulations have lead to the conclusion that even higher-power IOTs, such as a 300 kW peak-power, long-pulse L-band tube, are feasible.  
 
TUPLT063 Laser Temporal Pulse Shaping Experiment For SPARC Photoinjector laser, emittance, electron, insertion 1300
 
  • C. Vicario, A. Ghigo
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • I. Boscolo, C. Vozzi
    Universita' degli Studi di Milano, MILANO
  • S. Cialdi, A.F. Flacco
    INFN-Milano, Milano
  • M. Nisoli, G. Sansone, S. Stagira
    Politecnico/Milano, Milano
  • M. Petrarca
    INFN-Roma, Roma
  Laser for driving high brightness photoinjector have to produce UV square pulse which is predicted to be the optimum profile for emittance compensation in advanced photoinjectors. The longitudinal laser pulse distribution, according to numerical simulations for the SPARC photoinjector, must be square with rise and fall time shorter than 1 ps and flat top variable up to 10 ps FWHM. In this paper we report the results of pulse shaping obtained using an acousto-optic (AO) programmable dispersive filter (DAZZLER). The DAZZLER was used to perform spectral amplitude and phase modulation of the incoming 100 fs Ti:Sapphire pulses. Because of the finite length of the crystal the maximum duration of the shaped pulse is 6 ps. To overcome this limitation we used a configuration in which the laser pulses passed twice through the AO filter. A dispersive glass section was also used to lengthen the pulse with a single pass in the DAZZLER. In this paper we report the experimental setup, hardware description and time and frequency domain measurements.  
 
TUPLT096 RFQ Low Level RF System for the PEFP 100MeV Proton Linac rfq, proton, linac, simulation 1381
 
  • I.H. Yu, M.-H. Chun, K.M. Ha, Y.J. Han, W.H. Hwang, M.H. Jeong, H.-S. Kang, D.T. Kim, S.-C. Kim, I.-S. Park, J.S. Yang
    PAL, Pohang
  • Y.-S. Cho, K.T. Seol
    KAERI, Daejon
  The 100MeV Proton linear accelerator (Linac) for the PEFP (Proton Engineering Frontier Project) will include a 3MeV, 350MHz RFQ(Radio-Frequency Quadrupole) Linac. The RFQ accelerates a 20mA proton beam from 50keV to 3MeV. The low level RF system for RFQ provides field control. In addition to field control, it provides cavity resonance control. An accelerator electric field stability of ± 1% in amplitude and ± 1° in phase is required for the RF system. The low level RF system has been designed and is now being fabricated.  
 
TUPLT144 Upgrade of the ISIS Main Magnet Power Supply power-supply, synchrotron, proton, controls 1467
 
  • S. West, J.W. Gray, A. Morris
    CCLRC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
  ISIS, situated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is the world?s most powerful pulsed neutron source. At the heart of the ISIS accelerator is a proton synchrotron which uses a ring of magnets connected in series and configured as a ?White Circuit?. The magnets are connected in series with capacitor banks so that they form a resonant circuit with a fundamental frequency of 50 Hz. The circuit allows the magnets to be fed with an AC current superimposed on a DC current. The AC is currently provided by a 1MVA Motor-Alternator set and it is now proposed to replace this by a solid state UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) system. Tests on a smaller 80kVA unit have shown that it is possible to control the magnet current with a modified UPS system in such a way that both the frequency, phase and output voltage are under the direct influence of the control system. This paper discusses the issues surrounding the upgrading of AC supply to the main magnets with a view to improving the system reliability, improving magnet current stability and reducing the risk of mains failure.  
 
TUPLT163 Achieving Beam Quality Requirements for Parity Experiments at Jefferson Lab electron, polarization, damping, target 1509
 
  • Y.-C. Chao, H. Areti, F.J. Benesch, B. Bevins, S.A. Bogacz, S. Chattopadhyay, J.M. Grames, J. Hansknecht, A. Hutton, R. Kazimi, L. Merminga, M. Poelker, Y. Roblin, M. Tiefenback
    Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
  • D. Armstrong
    The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
  • D. Beck, K. Nakahara
    University of Illinois, Urbana
  • K. Paschke
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • M. Pitt
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
  Measurement of asymmetry between alternating opposite electron polarization in electron-nucleon scattering experiments can answer important questions about nucleon structures. Such experiments impose stringent condition on the electron beam quality, and thus the accelerator used for beam creation and delivery. Of particular concern to such ?parity? experiments is the level of correlation between beam characteristics (orbit, intensity) and electron polarization that can obscure the real asymmetry. This can be introduced at the beam forming stage, created due to scraping, or not damped to desired level due to defective transport. Suppression of such correlation thus demands tight control of the beam line from cathode to target, and requires multi-disciplined approach with collaboration among nuclear physicists and accelerator physicists/engineers. The approach adopted at Jefferson Lab includes reduction of correlation source, improving low energy beam handling, and monitoring and correcting global transport. This paper will discuss methods adopted to meet the performance criteria imposed by parity experiments, and ongoing research aimed at going beyond current performance.  
 
WEILH03 Industrial Response to RF Power Requirements power-supply, linear-collider, collider, monitoring 202
 
  • M. Wilcox
    e2v technologies, Chelmsford, Essex
  Today, high-energy physics machines are broadly speaking of two kinds. Some machines are dedicated to providing a service using particle acceleration as an intermediate step (light sources, neutron spallation sources, cancer therapy equipment etc.)and occasionally, particle colliders are built in which the particles are used directly to probe the nature and origin of matter. The latter machines have developed to a point where the technology needed is often at the extreme edge of what is understood, let alone of what is currently achievable. In addition the scope of supply and the level of equipment integration demanded of industry is increasing as RF skills become scarcer. This reduces the supplier base so placing greater demands on those remaining. To help offset this problem, companies should be brought 'inside' the project team at an early stage of the machine design so that better account can be taken of limitations, preferences and competing obligations that the companies may have. A more collaborative approach should result in projects being completed in a shorter time, to a lower cost, and with a more certain outcome.  
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WEPKF014 Magnetic Field Tracking Experiments for LHC quadrupole, dipole, injection, power-supply 1621
 
  • V. Granata, J. Billan, F. Bordry, L. Bottura, P. Coutinho Ferreira, E. Effinger, G. Fernqvist, P. Galbraith, Q. King, J. Pett, A. Raimondo, A. Rijllart, H. Thiesen
    CERN, Geneva
  At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN one of the fundamental requirements during the energy ramp is that the ratio between the field produced by the quadrupoles and the field in the dipoles remains constant in order to minimize the variation of the betatron tune that could induce particle loss. With a series of tracking experiments it has been demonstrated that this ratio can be maintained constant to better than 10-4 throughout the same current ramp as foreseen for the LHC. A technique has been developed to optimise the dipole and quadrupole current ramps to obtain the required ratio of B2/B1. Measurements performed by modulating the current with a harmonic function (so-called k-modulation) demonstrated that it is possible to modulate the strength of an individual quadrupole to determine the magnetic center through beam-based measurements.  
 
WEPKF053 Status and Development for the JAERI ERL-FEL for High-Power and Long-Pulse Operation coupling, linac, pick-up, undulator 1723
 
  • M. Sawamura, R. Hajima, N. Kikuzawa, E.J. Minehara, R. Nagai, N. Nishimori
    JAERI/FEL, Ibaraki-ken
  After the success of energy recovery linac (ERL) for the superconducting free-electron laser (FEL) in the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), the JAERI ERL-FEL has been upgrading for high-power and long-pulse operation. The new grid pulser for the thermoionic cathode gun is under development and test to increase the beam current by increasing the repetition rate of 10MHz to 20MHz. The new RF sources of CW mode for higher power for non-energy-recovery parts have been installed and tested for long-pulse operation. The properties of the superconducting linac required for the long-pulse operation were also measured such as pressure in the cryomodule, vibration of frequency and piezo tuner response. The RF control systems have been also upgraded to reduce the fluctuation to less than 0.1% for amplitude and 0.1 deg for phase.  
 
WEPKF055 Design and Implementation of a Switching Mode Bipolar Power Stage of the Correction Power Supply power-supply, synchrotron, synchrotron-radiation, radiation 1729
 
  • C.-Y. Liu, C.H. Kuo, K.-B. Liu
    NSRRC, Hsinchu
  In order to enhance efficiency of the correction power supply, the switching mode bipolar power stage was to implement and to substitute for the original power stage of the correction power supply. To ensure higher efficiency, the programming dc bus voltage of the power stage of the correction power supply must be working in accordance with the output current state and load. A new power conversion stage was constructed and employs power MOSFET operating at higher switching frequency then old 60 Hz energy conversion mode system. This will not only improve the efficiency but also decrease the weight of the correction power supply. The new switching mode power stage supply a bipolar power dc bus power and automatic turning working voltage by the feedback balance circuit. Results and working performance will be presented in this paper.  
 
WEPKF056 Reducing Output Current Ripple of Power Supply with Component Replacement power-supply, instrumentation, background, synchrotron 1732
 
  • K.-B. Liu, C.-S. Fann
    NSRRC, Hsinchu
  Correction magnets of synchrotron storage ring are served with linear power supplies (correction power supply) with 100 ppm output current ripple in National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center. Reducing output current ripple of correction power supply might reduce perturbation of beam position of storage ring. Replace correction power supplies with lower output current ripple ones is straightforward but costs lots of money. Without adding any other circuit and electronic component, some components of correction power supply are replaced by ones with more precious and lower output fluctuation; so that the same circuitry structure of correction power supply is kept without increasing its complexity and could reach 25 ppm output current ripple.  
 
WEPKF084 SPEAR3 LARGE DC MAGNET POWER SUPPLIES power-supply, synchrotron, quadrupole, sextupole 1801
 
  • A.C. de Lira, P. Bellomo
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) has successfully commissioned SPEAR3, its newly upgraded 3-GeV synchrotron light source. First stored beam occurred December 15, 2003 and 100mA operation was reached on January 20, 2004. This paper describes the specification, design, and performance of the SPEAR3 DC magnet large power supplies (LGPS) that consist of tightly-regulated (better than 10 ppm) current sources ranging from 100 A to 225 A and output powers ranging from 70kW to 135kW. A total of 6 LGPS are in successful operation and are used to power strings of quadrupoles, and sextupoles. The LGPS are isolated by a delta/delta-wye 60Hz step-down transformer that provide power to 2 series connected chopper stages operating phase-shifted at a 16 kHz switching frequency to provide for fast output response and high efficiency. Also described are outside procurement aspects, installation, in-house testing, and operation of the power supplies.  
 
WEPLT019 Towards a Unified General Purpose CAD System at CERN laser 1864
 
  • T. Hakulinen, C. Andrews, B. Feral, P.-O. Friman, M. Mottier, T. Pettersson, C. Sorensen, E. Van Uytvinck
    CERN, Geneva
  Several different CAD systems are in use at CERN today. Most of the 3D design work for the LHC is being done using Euclid from MDTVision. For 2D design work AutoCAD is widely used. Also, various special design tools exist for tasks such as electrical design and schematics. Even though LHC design will be finished with Euclid, it has been clear since several years that a new 3D CAD system will be needed in the future. For this reason CERN carried out a comparison between the currently available 3D CAD software using a set of selection criteria important for CERN. The selected system was CATIA from Dassault together with local data base system SmarTeam. The aim is to use CATIA as a multi-disciplinary general purpose CAD tool which could eventually replace almost all of the other CAD systems at CERN. For this purpose, CATIA and SmarTeam are being integrated with the existing CAD utilities and data base systems developed in-house. Pilot users are using the system for real designs and the digital mock-up features of CATIA are used for integration studies of LHC experiments. The feature list of CATIA and SmarTeam is impressive and experience with the software has so far been almost exclusively positive. This is promising for software with which CERN will likely have to live for the next 20 years or more.  
 
WEPLT020 Installation of A Particle Accelerator: from Theory to Practice. The LHC Example site, collider, vacuum, survey 1867
 
  • C. Hauviller, S. Weisz
    CERN, Geneva
  Installing and commissioning the thousands of equipments constituting a Particle Accelerator is a lengthy and complex process. A large number of multidisciplinary teams are involved over a long period lasting usually many years. Diverse boundary constrains must be taken into account: space, a long and narrow tunnel with few accesses, time, with milestones set many years in advance, and obviously budget. A strict organisation associated with the management tools and the right people is the only way to arrive to a success. The keywords are: Knowledge: A unique and up-to-date database of all the elements and their location, Integration: Study the physical position of the elements, suppress the interferences and define the installation methodology, Prevision: Schedule all the activities and update on-line, In-situ management and supervision: Teams dedicated to follow-up, corrective actions and orphan jobs, Safety. After presenting the planned overall organization, the paper will present practical achievements with the example of the LHC machine installation.  
 
WEPLT035 Capture Loss of the LHC Beam in the CERN SPS injection, beam-losses, impedance, simulation 1906
 
  • E.N. Shaposhnikova, T. Bohl, T.P.R. Linnecar, J. Tuckmantel
    CERN, Geneva
  The matched voltage of the LHC beam at injection into the SPS is 750 kV. However, even with RF feedback and feed forward systems in operation, the relative particle losses on the flat bottom for nominal LHC parameters with this capture voltage can reach the 30% level. With voltages as high as 2 MV these losses are still around 15% pushing the intensity in the SPS injectors to the limit to obtain nominal intensity beam for the LHC. Beam losses grow with intensity and are always asymmetric in energy (lost particles are seen main in front of the batch). The asymmetry can be explained by the energy loss of particles due to the SPS impedance which is also responsible for a non-zero synchronous phase on the flat bottom leading to large gaps between buckets. In this paper the measurements of the dependence of particles loss on the beam and machine parameters are presented and discussed together with possible loss mechanisms.  
 
WEPLT042 Scheduling the Installation of the Large Hadron Collider site, injection, civil-engineering, extraction 1927
 
  • S. Weisz, K. Foraz, H. Gaillard, L. Lari
    CERN, Geneva
  The size and complexity of the LHC project at CERN calls for a strong co-ordination of all installation activities. The detailed installation planning has to take into account many constraints such as the component production rates, the installation contracts or the transport and handling requirements in a narrow tunnel with limited access points. The planning also needs to be flexible enough to cope with aleas that are unavoidable in such a large project that spans over many years. This paper describes the methodology followed by the team responsible for the planning and logistics in order to stay reactive to the actual progress of the installation and to keep optimizing the usage of resources.  
 
WEPLT072 Preliminary Design of the RF Systems for the SPIRAL 2 SC Linac linac, beam-loading, rfq, coupling 2017
 
  • M. Di Giacomo, B. Ducoudret, J.F. Leyge
    GANIL, Caen
  • J.F. Denis, M. Desmons, M. Luong, A. Mosnier
    CEA/DSM/DAPNIA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  In the SPIRAL 2 Linac, a 5 mA, CW , Deuteron beam is accelerated up to 40 MeV, through a normal conducting RFQ and 26 independent-phase SC quarter wave resonators, working at 88,05 MHz. Tube and solid state amplifiers derived from the standard FM transmitter modules are used while a new digital control system has been designed for the feed-back and feed-forward control system. The paper presents the power and low level systems for both the normal and superconducting cavities and results of simulations of the RF system in operating conditions.  
 
WEPLT101 On-line Mechanical Instabilities Measurements and Tuner Development in SC Low-beta Resonators linac, vacuum, injection, resonance 2086
 
  • A. Facco, E. Bissiato, S. Canella, D. Carlucci, M. Lollo, F. Scarpa, D. Zenere
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro, Padova
  The use of high-Q and small rf bandwidth superconducting quarter wave resonators made of bulk niobium put severe requirements to the helium bath pressure stability to avoid cavity detuning. This is not always possible, and cavity detuning caused by slow pressure changes must be precisely followed by the cavity tuner. The LNL philosophy is based on mechanical damping of cavity vibrations and mechanical tuning in feedback for slow frequency compensation. The old-fashioned tuners installed in the ALPI linac had significant performance limitations. To replace them, we have designed, constructed and tested a new tuner which integrates the LNL system and control with the TRIUMF, backlash-free tuner leverage design. The new tuner is designed to compensate pressure changes up to 100 mbar/minute with a precision of 0.5 Hz, and it will be installed in the ALPI resonators. An upgraded prototype for future applications includes a piezoelectric actuator for fast tuning. Tuner characteristics and first test results will be presented. This system is extendable to other low-beta cavity types like superconducting rfqs.  
 
WEPLT167 A Cure for Multipass Beam Breakup in Recirculating Linacs dipole, linac, recirculation, simulation 2218
 
  • B.C. Yunn
    Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
  We investigate a method to control the multipass dipole beam breakup instability in a recirculating linac including energy recovery. Effectiveness of an external feedback system for such a goal is shown clearly in a simplified model. We also verify the theoretical result with a simulation study.  
 
THXCH01 Achieving Sub-micron Stability in Light Sources quadrupole, photon, storage-ring, resonance 211
 
  • M. Böge
    PSI, Villigen
  One of the major goals for present and future light sources is to achieve sub-micron orbit stability of the electron beam at the photon beam source points over a large frequency range. This puts tight constraints on the design of the various accelerator components like girders, magnets, power supplies and diagnostic hardware. Fast orbit feedbacks systems based on high performance RF- and X-BPMs become essential to suppress residual orbit distortions. Furthermore the "top-up" operation mode which guaranties a constant electron beam current and thus a constant heat load in 3rd generation light sources is one of the key ingredients to reach sub-micron stability.  
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THOACH01 SPEAR3 Commissioning dynamic-aperture, closed-orbit, storage-ring, resonance 216
 
  • J.A. Safranek, S. Allison, P. Bellomo, W.J. Corbett, M. Cornacchia, E. Guerra, R.O. Hettel, D. Keeley, N. Kurita, D.J. Martin, P.A. McIntosh, H. Morales, G.J. Portmann, F.S. Rafael, H. Rarback, J.J. Sebek, T. Straumann, A. Terebilo, J. Wachter, C. Wermelskirchen, M. Widmeyer, R. Yotam
    SLAC/SSRL, Menlo Park, California
  • M.J. Boland, Y.E. Tan
    ASP, Melbourne
  • J.M. Byrd, D. Robin, T. Scarvie, C. Steier
    LBNL/ALS, Berkeley, California
  • M. Böge
    PSI, Villigen
  • H.-P. Chang, C.-C. Kuo, H.-J. Tsai
    NSRRC, Hsinchu
  • W. Decking
    DESY, Hamburg
  • M.G. Fedurin, P. Jines
    LSU/CAMD, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • K. Harkay, V. Sajaev
    ANL/APS, Argonne, Illinois
  • S. Krinsky, B. Podobedov
    BNL/NSLS, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • L.S. Nadolski
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • A. Ropert
    ESRF, Grenoble
  • M. Yoon
    POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk
  Starting in April, 2003, the SPEAR2 storage ring was removed and replaced with a new 500 mA, 3 GeV light source, SPEAR3. The SPEAR2 storage ring had been in use for high energy physics, then synchrotron radiation since 1972. Commissioning of SPEAR3 started on December 8, 2003 and synchrotron radiation will be delivered to the first users on March 8, 2004. SPEAR3 commissioning will be reviewed, including discussion of diagnostics, orbit control, optics correction and high current studies.  
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THZCH03 JACoW, a Collaboration Serving the Accelerator Community site, linac, cyclotron 249
 
  • J. Poole, C. Petit-Jean-Genaz
    CERN, Geneva
  The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website started from an idea to publish the conference proceedings on the WWW and has grown to an international collaboration which does much more than just publish the proceedings and is currently supported by seven conference series. Through attendance at Steering Committee meetings and Team Meetings and through active participation in the work of the editorial teams of sister conferences, people with the responsibility for the production of the electronic versions of conference proceedings come together to learn from the experience of colleagues, and to develop common approaches to problems. The activities of the collaboration cover all aspects of electronic publication and have recently extended into conference scientific programme management. This paper reviews the history of the collaboration, describes some of the highlights in the activities during the life of the collaboration and presents the current status and future plans.  
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THOBLH01 Recent Improvement of Slow-extraction at HIMAC Synchrotron extraction, synchrotron, simulation, heavy-ion 267
 
  • T. Furukawa, T. Furukawa, T.H. Uesugi
    Chiba University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba
  • T. Fujimoto, M. Kanazawa, K. Noda, S. Shibuya, E. Takada, S. Yamada
    NIRS, Chiba-shi
  • T. Naruse
    Seikei University, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo
  At HIMAC synchrotron, two kinds of slow-extraction method have been developed and utilized: third-order resonant slow-extraction and that with RF-knockout, not only for ion therapy but also for physics and biological experiments. Thus, the improvements of the extracted beam quality have also been carried out in both methods. One of the improvements is the global spill control. The global spill is improved owing to analytical approach in both methods. Cooperating with the feedback system, the flat spill is easily obtained without gain control of the feedback during the extraction. On the other hand, the effect of longitudinal motion for the bunched beam was studied to suppress the frequency component of the synchrotron oscillation in the spill ripple. Further, the transport of the extracted beam is readjusted for controlling the beam size. In this paper, recent improvement of slow-extraction at HIMAC is presented.  
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THPKF002 Linac RF Control System for CANDLE. Design and Simulation linac, simulation, electron, resonance 2257
 
  • A. Vardanyan, G. Amatuni
    CANDLE, Yerevan
  The design and constructional features of the control system for 500 MHz and 3 GHz RF system of CANDLE linac are presented. The linac includes an electron gun that is modulated by 500 MHz generator to produce 1 ns electron bunches, 500 MHz and 3 GHz bunchers, pre-accelerating cavity and the main accelerating section at 3 GHz. An important feature of the presented control system is a high level synchronization of amplitude-phase characteristics of the sub-systems that provide the required energy-space characteristics of the accelerated beam. This puts strict requirements on RF frequency, amplitude and phase stabilization. A digital feedback system has been adopted to provide flexibility in the control algorithms. The main feature is a 9 MHz sampling rate for the cavity signals and digital I/Q detection. The design was performed using the RF analyze tool, based on MATLAB SIMULINK, which allows the simulation and analyzes of the field regulation quality. The simulation results for CANDLE Linac RF system, based on the output parameters of electron beam are given.  
 
THPKF009 Orbit Control for the Canadian Light Source storage-ring, power-supply, booster, injection 2275
 
  • R. Berg, L. Dallin, J.M. Vogt
    CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  The orbit control system for the Canadian Light Source storage ring is design to provide both static global orbit correction and active correction up to 100 Hz. The system is made up of 48 button monitors (X and Y), 24 fast correcter magnets (X and Y), and 24 slow correction coils in sextupole magnets (X and Y). To date the system has been use to apply static corrections the to CLS storage ring. While some works remains on the horizontal correction, the vertical orbit has been corrected to an RMS value of less tha 0.75 mm. Future corrections may be augmented by some beam-based magnet re-alignment. The orbit correction system is run on a MATLAB(R) operating system. Singular value decompostion (svd) was used extensively to reduce initial gross mis-alignments.  
 
THPKF012 Operation of the Swiss Light Source: Top-up for Highest Performance injection, linac, booster, beam-losses 2281
 
  • A. Lüdeke
    PSI, Villigen
  The Swiss Light Source (SLS) is now in its third year of user operation. Right from the beginning Top-up has been the standard mode of operation. Operation at a fixed beam current makes many applications easier to implement and allows to push several systems to higher performance. It enabled us to reach an excellent orbit stability and reproducibility and it made our users less sensitive to shortened beam lifetimes. We succeeded to satisfy the high demands on the availability of the injector system and our flexible timing system allows for a parallel usage of the Linac for experiments during Top-up operation. The impact of Top-up operation on the overall performance of the SLS is documented in this paper.  
 
THPKF017 Status of the Synchrotron Light Source DELTA injection, synchrotron, vacuum, radiation 2296
 
  • D. Schirmer, U. Berges, J. Friedl, A. Gasper, M. Grewe, P. Hartmann, R.G. Heine, H. Huck, G. Schmidt, C. Sternemann, M. Tolan, T. Weis, C. Westphal, K. Wille
    DELTA, Dortmund
  Since 1999, the Dortmunder 1.5 GeV electron storage ring DELTA was continuously extended. The facility serves universities and industries as a source of synchrotron radiation on a regional level. The consolidation of the machine was finally completed in 2002. By now, DELTA, operated for 3000 hours per year, has reached a reliability comparable to other facilities in the world. Large improvements have been made in the installation of the beamlines. At present, two undulator beamlines and several dipole beamlines in the range of soft X-rays are in operation. The 5.3 T superconducting asymmetric wiggler (SAW) serves three beamlines in the hard X-ray regime with circular polarized light. Also the accelerator physics research program has been promoted. The vacuum system was revised during the last year to provide extra space for test sections and additional diagnostics. Substantial progress was achieved by SVD based orbit correction and LOCO based optics modelling as well as detailed CBM studies and a new method for fast tune measurements has been implemented. Future developments for machine improvements, such as DSP-based fast local orbit feedback and a frequent injection mode are in preparation.  
 
THPKF018 Study for a Frequent Injection Mode at Delta with Beam Shutters Open injection, radiation, storage-ring, synchrotron 2299
 
  • G. Schmidt, M. Benna, U. Berges, J. Friedl, A. Gasper, M. Grewe, P. Hartmann, R.G. Heine, H. Huck, D. Schirmer, S. Strecker, T. Weis, K. Wille, N. Zebralla
    DELTA, Dortmund
  The Dortmunder Electron Accelerator (DELTA) is a 1.5 GeV synchrotron light source. DELTA is now operated for 3000 h per year including 2000 h beam time for synchrotron radiation use. The maximum beam current is limited by rf power. To increase the average beam current a frequent injection scheme with beam shutters open is discussed for Delta. The peak current is not enlarged but the number of injections is increased to establish a quasi constant beam current. The quasi constant beam current has in addition the advantage of a constant synchrotron radiation heat-load on vacuum chambers and experiments. First tests at Delta have shown the gain in stability of the closed orbit during frequent injection. This article shows the possibility to install a frequent injection mode with beam shutters open during injection at DELTA. The results of measurements and simulations are presented.  
 
THPKF020 Improvements of the Orbit Stability at DORIS III photon, synchrotron, radiation, synchrotron-radiation 2305
 
  • F. Brinker, O. Kaul
    DESY, Hamburg
  Running since 1974, the storage ring DORIS experienced a major modification in 1991 to run as a dedicated synchrotron radiation source since 1993. Since then the increasing requirements of the users on beam stability lead to a series of technical and operational measures to improve the beam conditions. The beam pipe has been mechanically isolated from the magnets, the cooling has been improved and this year a new orbit feedback came to operation which uses positron beam position monitors as well as photon monitors in the beam lines to stabilise the different photon beams. The different measures taken are presented.  
 
THPKF077 A Fiber Optic Synchronization System for LUX laser, controls, linac, undulator 2445
 
  • R.B. Wilcox, L.R. Doolittle, J.W.  Staples
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  The proposed LUX femtotsecond light source will support pump-probe experiments that will need to synchronize laser light pulses with electron-beam-generated X-ray pulses to less than 50fs at the experimenter endstations. To synchronize multiple endstation lasers with the X-ray pulse, we are developing a fiber-distributed optical timing network. A high stability clock signal from a modelocked laser is distributed via fiber to RF cavities (controlling X-ray probe pulse timing) and modelocked lasers at endstations (controlling pump pulse timing). The superconducting cavities are actively locked to the optical clock phase. Most of the RF timing error is contained within a 10kHz bandwidth, so these errors and any others affecting X-ray pulse timing (such as RF gun phase) can be detected and transmitted digitally to correct laser timing at the endstations. The lasers? timing jitter is limited to low frequency, and thus they will follow the controls (clock plus error correction) without adding much wideband error. Time delay through the fibers will be stabilized by comparing a retroreflected pulse from the experimenter endstation end with a reference pulse from the sending end, and actively controlling the fiber length. Numerical simulations and initial synchronization experimental results will be presented.  
 
THPLT016 LHC Orbit Feedback Tests at the SPS dipole, damping, closed-orbit, alignment 2499
 
  • J. Wenninger, J. Andersson, L.K. Jensen, R.O. Jones, M. Lamont, R. Steinhagen
    CERN, Geneva
  The real-time orbit feedback system foreseen for the LHC will be an essential component for reliable and safe machine operation. A test setup including a number of beam position monitors equipped with the LHC acquisition and readout system have been installed in the SPS ring to perform prototyping work on such an orbit feedback. A closed loop digital feedback was implemented and tested with LHC beams on the SPS during the 2003 machine run. The feedback loop was tested successfully at up to 100 Hz. The performance of the feedback loop and of its constituents will be described.  
 
THPLT019 Commissioning Results of the Multi Bunch Feedback System at SLS diagnostics, storage-ring, kicker, betatron 2508
 
  • M. Dehler, R. Kramert, P. Pollet, T. Schilcher
    PSI, Villigen
  • D. Bulfone, M. Lonza
    ELETTRA, Basovizza, Trieste
  Within the frame of the project for a multi bunch feedback system for the Swiss Light Source (SLS), a new family of 500 MS/s analog to digital and digital to analog conversion boards with an 8 bit resolution has been developed, containing on board MUX and DEMUX circuitry to reduce data rates to approximately 20 MS/s using up to ten Front Panel Data Port (FPDP) ports. Using six quad processor DSP boards, full bandwidth bunch by bunch feedbacks in the transverse and longitudinal planes are set up to provide bunch by bunch correction kicks with a 2 nsec resolution. We report on the hardware setup and properties as well as feedback performance in the SLS storage ring.  
 
THPLT020 The DSP-based Betatron Tune Feedback of the Ramped 1.5 GeV Electron Storage Ring BoDo betatron, optics, power-supply, injection 2511
 
  • B. Keil
    PSI, Villigen
  • K. Wille
    DELTA, Dortmund
  The ramped storage ring BoDo is the full energy injector of the 1.5 GeV synchrotron light source DELTA. All ramped booster magnet power supplies, RF power and beam diagnostics of BoDo are handled by a distributed VME-based DSP (digital signal processor) multiprocessing system developed at DELTA. The VME DSP boards of this system are interconnected by DeltaNet, a novel reflective memory ring network. DeltaNet transmits the measurement data from each DSP board to all other boards in real-time via fibre optic links. The generic hardware and software architecture of the system allows the implementation of different kinds of global real-time feedbacks with correction rates in the range from some 100 Hz to some 10 kHz. This paper presents architecture and performance of a real-time betatron tune feedback that was implemented with the DSP system. The betatron tune is measured and corrected in both planes at a rate of typically 700 Hz for arbitrary beam optics and energy ramps of BoDo. In combination with the global Bodo orbit feedback, the tune feedback increases the performance of Bodo both as an injector and as a testbed for machine studies and newly developed accelerator components.  
 
THPLT021 A DSP-Based Fast Orbit Feedback System for the Synchrotron Light Source DELTA storage-ring, booster, power-supply, quadrupole 2514
 
  • B. Keil
    PSI, Villigen
  • K. Wille
    DELTA, Dortmund
  A DSP-based Fast Orbit Feedback (FOFB) system has been designed for the synchrotron light facility DELTA. DELTA consists of a 60 MeV linac, the ramped storage ring BoDo as full-energy injector and the 1.5 GeV storage ring Delta. BoDo and Delta have the same dipole, quadrupole and corrector magnet design, the same beam pipe design and the same BPM RF frontends, therefore BoDo was used as a testbed for the newly developed FOFB hardware and software. Using the fast corrector magnet power supplies of BoDo, the FOFB could damp orbit perturbations up to 90 Hz. The envisaged future use of the FOFB for the Delta storage ring will require either the partial or full replacement of the present slow (1 Hz bandwidth) Delta corrector power supplies, or additional fast power supplies with dedicated FOFB corrector magnets. A first test of the FOFB in Delta for local orbit stabilization at one beamline is in preparation. This paper presents the results of a successful test of the FOFB at BoDo, where it achieves a correction rate of 4 kHz for a global SVD-based feedback in both planes. The FOFB is based on the "DeltaDSP" VMEbus DSP boards that are also used for the BoDo betatron tune feedback.  
 
THPLT022 The Generic VME PMC Carrier Board: A Common Digital Hardware Platform for Beam Diagnostics and Feedbacks at PSI diagnostics, proton, fibre-optics, instrumentation 2517
 
  • B. Keil, C. Buehler, P.-A. Duperrex, U. Greuter, R. Kramert, P. Pollet, V. Schlott, N. Schlumpf, P. Spuhler
    PSI, Villigen
  Rapid progress in digital electronics allows digitization of monitor signals at a very early stage of the signal processing chain, providing optimum performance and maximum flexibility for today's accelerator instrumentation. While the analog front-ends of such systems are usually specific for each monitor type, the subsequent digital part of the processing chain can be unified for many different measurement tasks. The "VME generic PMC Carrier board" (VPC) was developed to achieve this unification at the PSI electron and proton accelerator diagnostics and fast data acquisition and feedback systems. The core of the VME64x board consists of two Virtex2Pro FPGAs with two PowerPCs each, a floating point DSP and RAM. The FPGAs can acquire and process measurement data from the VMEbus P0/P2 connectors or from two application-dependent PMC mezzanine modules. Two 2 GBaud fibre optics transceivers may also be used to aquire or distribute measurement data. Envisaged applications include digital beam position (DBPM) and current monitors for proton beams, data processing for a muon decay experiment, and general beam diagnostics as well as global feedbacks at SLS accelerators and beamlines.  
 
THPLT023 The Use of Photon Monitors at the Swiss Light Source photon, insertion, insertion-device, undulator 2520
 
  • J. Krempasky, M. Böge, T. Schilcher, V. Schlott, T. Schmidt
    PSI, Villigen
  The photon beam position monitors (PBPM) in a synchrotron radiation facility are important tools for beam-line and machine diagnostics since they deliver position and angle information directly from the radiation source point. In the last two years a number of PBPMs have been installed and commissioned at the Swiss Light Source (SLS). Their readouts have been systematically studied and the results have been correlated with data from the digital beam position monitor (DBPM) system. It turns out that the PBPMs help understanding the influence of insertion device gap changes on photon beam position and thus on photon flux and/or energy resolution near the beam-line experimental stations. In addition to the global fast orbit feedback (FOFB), a local slow feedback based on PBPM data has been implemented to remove the remaining systematic effects of the DBPM system and to stabilize the photon beam to a micron level at the experimental station.  
 
THPLT024 Commissioning and Operation of the SLS Fast Orbit Feedback photon, storage-ring, electron, booster 2523
 
  • T. Schilcher, M. Böge, B. Keil, P. Pollet, V. Schlott
    PSI, Villigen
  The SLS Fast Orbit Feedback (FOFB) was successfully commissioned in 2003. Since November 2003 it runs during user operation of the accelerator. Taking into account 72 Digital Beam Position Monitors (DBPMs), the FOFB applies SVD-based global orbit corrections for 72 horizontal (x) and 72 vertical (y) correctors at a rate of 4 kHz, compared to ~0.5 Hz for the Slow Orbit Feedback (SOFB) that was used so far. While the SOFB was important for the elimination of orbit drifts due to temperature changes and slowly moving insertion device (ID) gaps, the FOFB is also able to damp orbit oscillations that are caused by fast changes of ID gaps or magnets, by ground and girder vibrations, 3 Hz booster crosstalk and power supply noise. This report presents experience from commissioning and user operation of the FOFB.  
 
THPLT053 Fast Orbit Feedback Developments at ELETTRA electron, power-supply, insertion, insertion-device 2604
 
  • D. Bulfone, R. De Monte, M. Ferianis, V. Forchi', M. Lonza
    ELETTRA, Basovizza, Trieste
  A number of fast local orbit feedback stations are being sequentially installed at ELETTRA to improve the stability of the electron beam at the Insertion Device source points. They rely on Beam Position Monitors equipped with digital detector electronics that provides high precision and readout rate. The local feedback stations will be integrated in a fast global orbit feedback system, which is the goal of the ongoing developments. The performance and the operational experience gained with the local feedback systems are presented together with the planned road map towards the global system.  
 
THPLT056 Horizontal Instability and Feedback Performance in DAFNE e+ Ring damping, pick-up, positron, injection 2613
 
  • A. Drago
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  In DAFNE, after the 2003 shutdown for the installation of FINUDA, a strong horizontal multibunch instability was found to limit the positron beam current at the level of ~450 mA. We have performed transverse grow-damp measurements in order to estimate the instability growth rates as well as the feedback damping rates for each bunch at different beam currents and to evaluate the tune shift along the bunch train. In particular, a strong dependence of oscillation amplitudes on the relative position of the bunch in the train has been observed. In this paper we describe the setup for multibunch oscillation amplitude recording, discuss the transverse feedback performance and summarize some observations on the transverse instability. The feedback rises the threshold by about a factor of two, depending on the machine configuration.  
 
THPLT068 Transverse Bunch-by-bunch Feedback System for the SPring-8 Storage Ring damping, storage-ring, injection, emittance 2649
 
  • T. Nakamura, S. Daté, T. Ohshima
    JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo
  • K. Kobayashi
    SES, Hyogo-pref.
  A transverse bunch-by-bunch feedback system is developed for the SPring-8 storage ring. An analog de-multiplexer is developed to slice out every six-bunch signal for high-resolution 12-bit ADCs of clock frequency 85MHz, one-sixth of 508MHz RF frequency. Six commercial ADC-FPGA-DAC boards are used for processing the signal from the de-multiplexer. A custom FPGA board is used to multiplex the output signals from those boards. The feedback system is installed in the ring and working with the damping time of 0.5~2.5ms in 30kHz-254MHz and can suppress multi-bunch instabilities driven by impedances of resistive-wall of in-vacuum insertion devices and cavity HOMs at low chromaticity operation.  
 
THPLT084 Test Result of Slow Global Orbit Feedback using MATLAB at PLS power-supply, photon, insertion, insertion-device 2694
 
  • H.-S. Kang, J. Choi, K.M. Ha, E.-H. Lee, T.-Y. Lee, W.W. Lee
    PAL, Pohang
  A slow global orbit feedback using MATLAB has been tested to control the slow orbit movement for the PLS. The feedback program uses MATLAB tools such as matrix algebra, mathematical functions, and graphic display, and uses the SVD (singular value decomposition) method. The PLS uses 70 corrector magnets with the maximum angle of 2-mrad for each plane among which 11 use the 16-bit DAC power supplies for the insertion device orbit control and others the 12-bit corrector power supplies with the minimum step of 1-micro-rad, and thus the orbit feedback is not acceptable to beamline users. For the best performance of the feedback, the major hardware components have been upgraded: the replacement of 12-bit BPMs with 16-bit was completed, and the upgrade of corrector power supplies from DAC 12-bit to 18-bit or higher will be completed soon. In this paper, the orbit feedback test result using the current corrector power supplies is presented and the upgrade plan of orbit feedback is described.  
 
THPLT090 The Operating of Digital Beam Position Monitor in NSRRC closed-orbit, diagnostics, betatron, storage-ring 2706
 
  • C.H. Kuo, J. Chen, K.-T. Hsu, K.H. Hu, D. Lee
    NSRRC, Hsinchu
  The digital beam position monitors are configured to operation system in the NSRRC now. This integration includes of multi-channel access, channel calibration, gain control, and parameter control to meet various operation condition, perform functionality and performance evaluation. The programmability nature of DBPM system is essential for multi-mode high precision beam position measurement. The system will support high performance beam position, turn-by-turn beam position, tune and other diagnostic measurements. Control system interface was implemented to support the operation of DBPM system. T various aspects will be discussed and presented in this report.  
 
THPLT095 Nuclotron Extracted Beam Spill Control extraction, power-supply, monitoring, quadrupole 2718
 
  • V. Volkov, V. Andreev, E. Frolov, V. Karpinsky, A. Kirichenko, A.D. Kovalenko, V.A. Mikhaylov, S. Romanov, B. Vasilishin, A. Volnov
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
  The first experiments with the Nuclotron Beam Slow Extraction System (BES) were carried out in December 1999. After the BES commissioning, the development of the system was continued together with experiments on relativistic nuclear physics. To realize the constant-current-beam or the constant-time-length spill and to suppress the low frequency spill structure in the range up to several hundred hertz, a spill control subsystem was designed and put into operation. It consists of a feedback loop in parallel with a feed-forward control. In the feedback loop the extracted particle flux is measured with beam current monitor and is compared with the request flux. The resulting error signal is fed into a feedback controller. The controller is an analog unit in which integration, differentiation and gain can be adjusted separately. The output control signal is added to the extraction quadrupoles power supply pattern generated by the corresponding function generator. The beam spill control subsystem has been improved in stages since its commissioning in 2000. The beam spill duration of more than 10s and the beam spill uniformity of about 0.9 were achieved in recent Nuclotron runs.  
 
THPLT130 Synchronization of the Fermilab Booster and Main Injector for Multiple Batch Injection booster, injection, extraction, proton 2771
 
  • R.M. Zwaska, S.E. Kopp
    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
  • W. Pellico, R.C. Webber
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  To date, the 120 GeV Fermilab Main Injector accelerator has accelerated a single batch of protons from the 8 GeV rapid-cycling Booster synchrotron for production of antiprotons for Run II. In the future, the Main Injector must accelerate 6 or more Booster batches simultaneously; the first will be extracted to the antiproton source, while the remaining are extracted for the NuMI/MINOS neutrino experiment. Performing this multi-batch operation while avoiding unacceptable radioactivation of the beamlines requires a previously unnecessary synchronization between the accelerators. We describe a mechanism and present results of advancing or retarding the longitudinal progress of the Booster beam by active feedback radial manipulation of the beam during the acceleration period.  
 
THPLT133 Simulation of RF Control of a Superconducting Linac for Relativistic Particles linac, simulation, beam-loading, proton 2774
 
  • M. Huening, P. Bauer, G.W. Foster
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  We present a code to simulate the rf field and field control in a superconducting linac for relativistic heavy particles. In such a linac the field stability is strongly influenced by the longitudinal beam dynamics. So the code has to simulate both the field and the beam dynamics with the resulting varying beam loading. Other effects included in the simulation are Microphonics and Lorentz force. The code can simulate both single cavity and vector sum control.  
 
THPLT141 Operational Experience Integrating Slow and Fast Orbit Feedbacks at the ALS insertion, insertion-device, storage-ring, pick-up 2786
 
  • C. Steier, E.E. Domning, T. Scarvie, E. Williams
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  A fast global orbit feedback system has been implemented at the ALS and is being used during user operation since this year. The system has two main purposes. The first is to meet the demands of some users for even improved (submicron) short term orbit stability. The second is to enable the use of more sophisticated insertion device compensation schemes (e.g. tune, beta-beating, coupling) for fast moving insertion devices like elliptically polarizing undulators, without deteriorating the orbit stability. The experience of routine user operation with the fast orbit feedback will be presented, as well as the overall feedback performance and how the integration issues with the already existing slow orbit feedback were solved.  
 
THPLT155 Development and Testing of a Low Group-delay Woofer Channel for PEP-II damping, impedance, diagnostics, synchrotron 2822
 
  • J.D. Fox, L. Beckman, D. Teytelman, D. Van Winkle, A. Young
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  The PEP-II HER and LER require active longitudinal feedback to control coupled-bunch instabilities. The PEP-II RF systems use direct and comb loop feedback to reduce the cavity fundamental impedance, though the remaining low-mode impedance is providing the fastest growing unstable modes in both rings. Since commissioning the longitudinal feedback systems have used a dedicated "woofer" channel to apply the low-frequency correction kick via the RF system. The performance of this original controller is limited by the maximum gain that can be supported due to the processing delay (group delay), as well as the difficulty in configuring a common correction controller that acts via two correction paths. A dedicated low-mode signal processing system has been developed to allow higher damping rates. It is a digital processing channel, operating at a 10 MHz sampling rate, and implementing flexible 5 to 10 tap FIR control filters. The design of the channel and initial control filters is presented, as are initial machine experiments quantifying the damping and noise floor of this low group delay woofer system.  
 
THPLT156 Simulations of IP Feedback and Stabilization in the NLC luminosity, simulation, site, ground-motion 2825
 
  • L. Hendrickson, J.C. Frisch, T.M. Himel, T.O. Raubenheimer, A. Seryi, M. Woodley
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • G.R. White
    Queen Mary University of London, London
  Keeping nanometer-sized beams in collision is an essential component in achieving design luminosity in a linear collider. The NLC stabilization strategy is conservative by including enough redundancy so that if some piece doesn't work to specification or the incoming beam motion is worse than expected, the beams will still be kept in collision. We show simulation results with both realistic and pessimistic assumptions about the response of the ground motion, inertial stabilization, interbunch and intertrain feedback systems. By providing backup systems, and by assuming that some systems may perform more poorly than expected, we can achieve a high level of confidence in our ability to successfully stabilize the beams.  
 
THPLT157 Beam-based Feedback for the NLC Linac linac, emittance, simulation, ground-motion 2828
 
  • L. Hendrickson, N. Phinney, A. Seryi, P. Tenenbaum, M. Woodley
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  The NLC linac train-by-train feedback system is designed to stabilize the beam trajectory, but is also a valuable element in the strategy for emittance preservation. New simulations employ improved strategies [*], allowing beam steering to be performed significantly less often than without the feedback system. Additional simulations indicate that the linac feedback can contribute towards successful operation at noisier sites.

* Beam-based Feedback Simulations for the NLC Linac, L. Hendrickson et al., LINAC, Monterey, California (2000)

 
 
THPLT160 Measurements of Transverse Coupled-bunch Instabilities in PEP-II damping, diagnostics, betatron, impedance 2834
 
  • D. Teytelman, R. Akre, J.D. Fox, S.A. Heifets, A. Krasnykh, D. Van Winkle, U. Wienands
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  At the design currents the PEP-II High and Low Energy Rings operate above the coupled-bunch instability thresholds in horizontal and vertical planes. Both machines have used analog bunch-by-bunch feedback systems to stabilize the beams since commissioning. Here we present a measurement technique that uses the capabilities of the PEP-II programmable digital longitudinal feedback system to provide transient diagnostics in X or Y directions. This technique allows one to measure instability growth or damping rates as well as oscillation frequencies in both open-loop and closed-loop conditions. Based on these measurements the configuration of the relevant transverse feedback channel can be optimized. The technique will be illustrated with instability measurements and feedback optimization examples. Comparisons of the measured modal patterns and growth rates to the theoretical predictions will be presented.  
 
THPLT163 High-temperature Kicker Electrodes for High-beam-current Operation of PEP-II kicker, impedance, vacuum, radiation 2843
 
  • U. Wienands, R. Akre, D.E. Anderson, S. Debarger, K. Fant, D. Kharakh, R.E. Kirby, A. Krasnykh, A. Kulikov, J. Langton
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  The strip line electrodes of the kickers used in the transverse bunch-by-bunch feedback systems see significant power deposition by beam and HOM-induced currents. This leads to elevated temperatures of the aluminum electrodes and will ultimately become a limit for the beam current in the Low Energy Ring. Heat is transported to the environment primarily by radiation from the blackened surface of the electrodes. In order to extend the beam-current range of these kickers, new electrodes have been fabricated from molybdenum which are able to run at significantly higher temperature, thus greatly increasing the efficiency of the radiative cooling of the electrodes. Blackening of the electrodes is achieved by oxidation in air at 1000°F using a recipe first applied in aviation research for supersonic aircraft. Emissivity was measured on coupons and a whole electrode to be about 0.6. In addition, the match at the terminations of the electrodes is improved following field calculations and measurements on a model of the kicker.  
 
THPLT167 SNS Laser Profile Monitor Progress laser, ion, electron, optics 2852
 
  • W. Blokland, A.V. Aleksandrov, S. Assadi, C. Deibele, W. Grice, S. Henderson, T. Hunter, P. Ladd, G.R. Murdoch, J. Pogge, K. Potter, T.J. Shea, D. Stout
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • V. Alexandrov
    BINP SB RAS, Protvino, Moscow Region
  SNS will use a Nd:YAG laser to measure transverse profiles in the 186-1000 MeV super-conducting LINAC (SCL) and Ti:Sapphire modelock laser to measure longitudinal profiles in the 2.5 MeV Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT). The laser beam is scanned across the H- beam to photo-neutralize narrow slices. The liberated electrons are collected to provide a direct measurement of the transverse or longitudinal beam profile. We have successfully measured the transverse profile with a prototype system on the MEBT beam. The final SCL system uses an optical transport line that is installed alongside the 300 meter super-conducting LINAC to deliver laser light at 8 locations. Possible vibrations in the optical transport system can lead to inaccuracies in the profile measurement. We will use an active feedback system on a mirror to correct any vibration up to 2 KHz. In this paper we describe our vibration studies and vibration cancellation system as well as the progress in the design, installation and testing of various subsystems for both the transverse and the longitudinal profiles.  
 
THPLT171 Stochastic Cooling Studies in RHIC, II kicker, scattering, pick-up, proton 2861
 
  • M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, J. Wei
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  Intra-beam scattering is unavoidable for highly charged heavy ions and causes emittance growth during the store for collision physics. A longitudinal bunched beam stochastic cooling system will confine the bunch within the RF bucket increasing the useful luminosity. A single bunch, Palmer cooling system is under investigation. We present data and compare them with theory.  
 
THPLT186 Bunch Pattern Control in Top-up Mode at the SLS storage-ring, controls, injection, diagnostics 2885
 
  • B. Kalantari, T. Korhonen, V. Schlott
    PSI, Villigen
  One of the crucial issues in the advanced third generation light sources is the bunch pattern control in the storage ring, where various filling patterns are of interests for different experiments. The most important step is to keep a uniform charge distribution over all (electron) bunches during the top-up operation. Such a bunch pattern control has been implemented at the Swiss Light Source (SLS). It provides a filling pattern with bunch-to-bunch fluctuation of a few percent. Since a dependency of the medium term orbit stability on the actual filling pattern was observed in the past, the stability could significantly be improved. Three major ingredients have made the implementation possible: precise timing system, flexible control system and sophisticated diagnostics. The method is being used in the user operation recently and proved to be reliable. This paper describes the hardware and software involved in the mentioned technique.