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WEP2PO001 Upgraded Transverse Feedback for the CERN PS Booster betatron, feedback, kicker, hardware 256
 
  • A. Blas, G. Kotzian
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  A new transverse feedback system is being used for the 4 rings of the CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB). In addition to transverse instabilities mitigation - within the range of 100 kHz to 100 MHz - the system allows for controlled beam emittance blow-up, machine tune measurement and other optic studies. The system was upgraded in order to multiply by 8 its power (800 W instead of 100 W on each of the 4 kicker electrodes) and in order for its electronic core to employ a digital processing. The transverse feedback adapts automatically to a factor 3 change in the beam revolution period and to any change of the machine tune. It includes an excitation source that combines up to 9 selectable harmonics of the revolution frequency with a selectable amplitude for each. The excitation may be dipolar or quadrupolar. Future possible upgrades will be presented including a setup to tackle half-integer tune values and a digital processing using a fixed clock frequency instead of the revolution frequency clock.  
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WEP2PO010 Fermilab - The Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) proton, linac, cavity, operation 287
 
  • F.G. Garcia, S. Chaurize, C.C. Drennan, K. E. Gollwitzer, V.A. Lebedev, W. Pellico, J. Reid, C.-Y. Tan, R.M. Zwaska
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  The Fermilab Proton Source is composed of three machines: an injector line, a normal conducting Linac and a Booster synchrotron. The proton improvement plan was proposed in 2012 to address the necessary accelerator upgrades and hardware modification to allow an increase in proton throughput, while maintaining acceptable activation levels, ensuring viable operation of the proton source to sustain the laboratory HEP program. A summary of work performed and respective results will be presented.  
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THP1WC01 MEBT Laser Notcher (Chopper) for Booster Loss Reduction laser, linac, injection, cavity 416
 
  • D.E. Johnson, C.M. Bhat, S. Chaurize, K.L. Duel, T.R. Johnson, P.R. Karns, W. Pellico, B.A. Schupbach, K. Seiya, D. Slimmer
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
The Fermilab Booster, which utilizes multi-turn injection and adiabatic capture, the extraction gap (aka "notch") has been created in the ring at injection energy using fast kickers which deposit the beam in a shielded absorber within the accelerator tunnel. This process, while effective at creating the extraction notch, was responsible for a significant fraction of the total beam power loss in the Booster tunnel and created significant residual activation within the Booster tunnel in the absorber region and beyond. With increasing beam demand from the Experimental Program, the Fermilab Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) initiated an R&D project to build a laser system to create the notch within a linac beam pulse at 750 keV, where activation in not an issue. This talk will discuss moving from R&D to an operational laser system and its integration into the accelerator complex. We will also cover the loss reduction in the Booster, increased efficiency, and increased proton throughput. We will touch on other potential applications for this bunch-by-bunch neutralization approach.
 
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THP1WC03 Design of 162-MHz CW Bunch-by-Bunch Chopper and Prototype Testing Results kicker, injection, linac, ECR 428
 
  • A.V. Shemyakin, C.M. Baffes, J.-P. Carneiro, B.E. Chase, A.Z. Chen, J. Einstein-Curtis, D. Frolov, B.M. Hanna, V.A. Lebedev, L.R. Prost, G.W. Saewert, A. Saini, D. Sun
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • C.J. Richard
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • D. Sharma
    RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India
 
  Funding: This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics
The PIP-II program of upgrades proposed for the Fermilab accelerator complex, is centered around a 800 MeV, 2 mA CW SRF linac. A unique feature of the PIP-II linac is the capability to form a flexible bunch structure by removing a pre-programmed set of bunches from a long-pulse or CW 162.5 MHz train, coming from the RFQ, within the 2.1-MeV Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) section. The MEBT chopping system consists of two travelling-wave kickers working in sync followed by a beam absorber. The prototype components of the chopping system, two design variants of the kickers and a 1/4-size absorber, have been installed in the PIP-II Injector Test (PIP2IT) accelerator and successfully tested with beam of up to 5 mA. In part, one of the kickers demonstrated a capability to create an aperiodic pulse sequence suitable for synchronous injection into the Booster while operating at 500 V and average switching frequency of 44 MHz during 0.55 ms bursts at 20 Hz. This report presents the design of the PIP-II MEBT chopping system and results of prototypes testing at PIP2IT.
 
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THP2WC01 The FNAL Booster Second Harmonic RF Cavity cavity, solenoid, impedance, cathode 434
 
  • R.L. Madrak, J.E. Dey, K.L. Duel, M.R. Kufer, J. Kuharik, A.V. Makarov, R.D. Padilla, W. Pellico, J. Reid, G.V. Romanov, M. Slabaugh, D. Sun, C.-Y. Tan, I. Terechkine
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DEAC02- 07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
A second harmonic RF cavity which uses perpendicularly biased garnet for frequency tuning is currently being constructed for use in the Fermilab Booster. The cavity will operate at twice the fundamental RF frequency, from ~76 - 106 MHz, and will be turned on only during injection, and transition or extraction. Its main purpose is to reduce beam loss as required by Fermilab's Proton Improvement Plan (PIP). After three years of optimization and study, the cavity design has been finalized and all constituent parts have been received. We discuss the design aspects of the cavity and its associated systems, component testing, and status of the cavity construction.
 
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