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Commissioning of the 400 MHz LHC RF System
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- E. Ciapala, L. Arnaudon, P. Baudrenghien, O. Brunner, A. Butterworth, T. P.R. Linnecar, P. Maesen, J. C. Molendijk, E. Montesinos, D. Valuch, F. Weierud
CERN, Geneva
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The installation of the 400 MHz superconducting RF system in LHC is finished and commissioning is under way. The final RF system comprises four cryomodules each with four cavities in the LHC tunnel. Also underground in an adjacent cavern shielded from the main tunnel are the sixteen 300 kW klystron RF power sources with their high voltage bunkers, two Faraday cages containing RF feedback and beam control electronics, and racks containing all the slow controls. The system and the experience gained during commissioning will be described. In particular, results from conditioning the cavities and their movable main power couplers and the setting up of the low level RF feedbacks will be presented.
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LHC Transverse Feedback System and its Hardware Commissioning
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- W. Höfle, P. Baudrenghien, F. Killing, Y. A. Kojevnikov, G. Kotzian, R. Louwerse, E. Montesinos, V. Rossi, M. Schokker, E. Thepenier, D. Valuch
CERN, Geneva
- E. V. Gorbachev, N. I. Lebedev, A. A. Makarov, S. Rubtsun, V. Zhabitsky
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
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A powerful transverse feedback system ('damper') has been installed in LHC. It will stabilise coupled bunch instabilities in a frequency range from 3 kHz to 20 MHz and at the same time damp injection oscillations originating from steering errors and injection kicker ripple. The transverse damper can also be used as an exciter for purposes of abort gap cleaning or tune measurement. The power and low-level systems layout are described along with results from the hardware commissioning. The achieved performance is compared with earlier predictions and requirements for injection damping and instability control. Requirements and first measurements of the performance of the low-level system are summarized. The chosen approach for the low-level system using advanced FPGA technology is very flexible allowing implementation of future upgrades of the signal processing without changing the hardware.
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