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- P. Baudrenghien, G. Hagmann, J.C. Molendijk, R. Olsen, A. Rohlev, V. Rossi, D. Stellfeld, D. Valuch, U. Wehrle
CERN, Geneva
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The LHC RF consists in eight 400 MHz superconducting cavities per ring, with each cavity independently powered by a 300 kW klystron, via a circulator. The challenge for the Low Level is to cope with both very high beam current (more than 1A RF component) and excellent beam lifetime (emittance growth time in excess of 25 hours). For each cavity we have a Cavity Controller rack with two VME crates implementing a strong RF Feedback, a Tuner Loop with a new algorithm, a Klystron Ripple Loop and a Conditioning system. In addition each ring has a Beam Control system (four VME crates) including Frequency Program, Phase Loop, Radial Loop and Synchronization Loop. A Longitudinal Damper (dipole and quadrupole mode) acting via the 400 MHz cavities is included to reduce emittance blow-up due to filamentation following phase and energy errors at injection. Finally an RF Synchronization system implements the bunch into bucket transfer from the SPS into each LHC ring. When fully installed in 2007 the whole system will count over three hundreds home-designed VME cards of twenty-three different models installed in fourty-five VME crates.
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