IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Perez, F.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPC045	Commissioning of the ALBA Storage Ring RF System	178
	F. Pérez, B. Bravo, A. Salom, P. Sanchez CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	ALBA is a 3 GeV, 400 mA, 3rd generation Synchrotron Light Source that is under commissioning in Cerdanyola, Spain. The RF System has to provide 3.6 MV of accelerating voltage and restore up to 540 kW of power to the electron beam. For that six RF plants, working at 500 MHz, are foreseen. The RF plants include several new developments: DAMPY cavity; the normal conducting HOM damped cavity developed by BESSY and based in the EU design; six are installed. CaCo; a cavity combiner to add the power of two 80 kW IOTs to produce the 160 kW needed for each cavity. WATRAX; a waveguide transition to coaxial, specially designed to feed the DAMPY cavities due to the geometrical and cooling constrains. Digital LLRF; fully designed at ALBA using commercial components. This paper shortly describes these systems and reports their performance during the ALBA commissioning.

MOPC046	CaCo: A Cavity Combiner for IOTs Amplifiers	181
	B. Bravo, F. Mares, F. Pérez, P. Sanchez CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain M.L. Langlois ESRF, Grenoble, France
	The ALBA storage ring uses six room temperature cavities; each one fed by two 80 kW IOTs amplifiers at 499.654 MHz. The power of the pair of transmitters is combined by a cavity combiner, CaCo. One of the design requirements of CaCo was that it continued working safely and with a good efficiency in the case of an IOT failure (asymmetrical mode). During the first asymmetric full power tests, in May 2010, with an active IOT and the other passive, the result was dramatic, the passive IOT broke in two parts after few hours of operation. This paper presents the experimental results and the electromagnetic field simulations of the asymmetrical operation mode of CaCo, i.e. one active IOT and the other passive, and analyze why the ceramic of the output tube of the passive IOT broke during the first performance of this mode. Also, it reports a possible solution to solve this problem.

MOPC160	Digital LLRF for IFMIF-EVEDA	457
	A. Salom, A. Arriaga, J.C. Calvo, I. Kirpitchev, P. Méndez, D. Regidor, M. Weber CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain A. Mosnier CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France F. Pérez CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The IFMIF-EVEDA project aims to build a prototype accelerator (deuteron, 9MeV, 125mA) to be located at Rokkasho, Japan, for design validation of the IFMIF Accelerator. CIEMAT from Madrid, Spain, is in charge of providing the RF systems for this prototype accelerator. The LLRF will adjust the phase and amplitude of the RF drive and the resonance frequency of the cavities. This paper summarizes its main characteristics and Control System integrated in EPICS. The hardware is based on a commercial FPGA board, an analog front end and a local timing system. Each LLRF system will control and diagnose two RF chains and it will handle the RF fast Interlocks (vacuum, arcs, reflected power and multipacting). A specific LLRF will be developed for the special case of the RFQ cavity, with one Master LLRF and three Slave LLRFs to feed the 8 RF chains of the cavity. The conceptual design and other capabilities of the system like automatic conditioning, frequency tuning for startup and field flatness of the RFQ, etc, will be shown in this paper together with the first low power test results of the LLRF prototype and the performance of the Control System.

THPC057	Operation of the ALBA Injector	3023
	M. Pont, U. Iriso, R. Muñoz Horta, F. Pérez CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The ALBA injector made of a 100 MeV linac, operating at 110 MeV, and a full energy (3 GeV) booster synchrotron has been routinely in operation since October 2010. The stability of the linac and of the booster on reliability and performance is examined. Also results on the beam performance obtained with the installed diagnostic equipment will be discussed.

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Commissioning of the ALBA Storage Ring RF System

178

F. Pérez, B. Bravo, A. Salom, P. Sanchez
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

ALBA is a 3 GeV, 400 mA, 3rd generation Synchrotron Light Source that is under commissioning in Cerdanyola, Spain. The RF System has to provide 3.6 MV of accelerating voltage and restore up to 540 kW of power to the electron beam. For that six RF plants, working at 500 MHz, are foreseen. The RF plants include several new developments: DAMPY cavity; the normal conducting HOM damped cavity developed by BESSY and based in the EU design; six are installed. CaCo; a cavity combiner to add the power of two 80 kW IOTs to produce the 160 kW needed for each cavity. WATRAX; a waveguide transition to coaxial, specially designed to feed the DAMPY cavities due to the geometrical and cooling constrains. Digital LLRF; fully designed at ALBA using commercial components. This paper shortly describes these systems and reports their performance during the ALBA commissioning.

MOPC046

CaCo: A Cavity Combiner for IOTs Amplifiers

181

B. Bravo, F. Mares, F. Pérez, P. Sanchez
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
M.L. Langlois
ESRF, Grenoble, France

The ALBA storage ring uses six room temperature cavities; each one fed by two 80 kW IOTs amplifiers at 499.654 MHz. The power of the pair of transmitters is combined by a cavity combiner, CaCo. One of the design requirements of CaCo was that it continued working safely and with a good efficiency in the case of an IOT failure (asymmetrical mode). During the first asymmetric full power tests, in May 2010, with an active IOT and the other passive, the result was dramatic, the passive IOT broke in two parts after few hours of operation. This paper presents the experimental results and the electromagnetic field simulations of the asymmetrical operation mode of CaCo, i.e. one active IOT and the other passive, and analyze why the ceramic of the output tube of the passive IOT broke during the first performance of this mode. Also, it reports a possible solution to solve this problem.

MOPC160

Digital LLRF for IFMIF-EVEDA

457

A. Salom, A. Arriaga, J.C. Calvo, I. Kirpitchev, P. Méndez, D. Regidor, M. Weber
CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
A. Mosnier
CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
F. Pérez
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The IFMIF-EVEDA project aims to build a prototype accelerator (deuteron, 9MeV, 125mA) to be located at Rokkasho, Japan, for design validation of the IFMIF Accelerator. CIEMAT from Madrid, Spain, is in charge of providing the RF systems for this prototype accelerator. The LLRF will adjust the phase and amplitude of the RF drive and the resonance frequency of the cavities. This paper summarizes its main characteristics and Control System integrated in EPICS. The hardware is based on a commercial FPGA board, an analog front end and a local timing system. Each LLRF system will control and diagnose two RF chains and it will handle the RF fast Interlocks (vacuum, arcs, reflected power and multipacting). A specific LLRF will be developed for the special case of the RFQ cavity, with one Master LLRF and three Slave LLRFs to feed the 8 RF chains of the cavity. The conceptual design and other capabilities of the system like automatic conditioning, frequency tuning for startup and field flatness of the RFQ, etc, will be shown in this paper together with the first low power test results of the LLRF prototype and the performance of the Control System.

THPC057

Operation of the ALBA Injector

3023

M. Pont, U. Iriso, R. Muñoz Horta, F. Pérez
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The ALBA injector made of a 100 MeV linac, operating at 110 MeV, and a full energy (3 GeV) booster synchrotron has been routinely in operation since October 2010. The stability of the linac and of the booster on reliability and performance is examined. Also results on the beam performance obtained with the installed diagnostic equipment will be discussed.