IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Salom, A.)

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.

MOPC135	IFMIF-EVEDA RF Power System	394
	D. Regidor, A. Arriaga, J.C. Calvo, A. Ibarra, I. Kirpitchev, J. Molla, P. Méndez, A. Salom, M. Weber CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain M. Abs, B. Nactergal IBA, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium P.-Y. Beauvais, M. Desmons, A. Mosnier CEA/DSM/IRFU, France P. Cara Fusion for Energy, Garching, Germany S.J. Ceballos, J. de la Cruz Greenpower Technologies, Sevilla, Spain Z. Cvetkovic, Z. Golubicic, C. Mendez TTI, Santander, Spain J.M. Forteza, J.M. González, C.R. Isnardi Indra Sistemas, San Fernando de Henares, Spain D. Vandeplassche SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium
	The IFMIF/EVEDA Accelerator Prototype will be a 9 MeV, 125 mA CW deuteron accelerator to validate the technical options for the IFMIF accelerator design. The Radiofrequency Quadrupole (RFQ), buncher cavities and Superconducting Radiofrequency Linac (SRF Linac) require continuous wave RF power at 175 MHz with an accuracy of ±1% in amplitude and ±1° in phase. Also the IFMIF/EVEDA RF Power System has to work under pulsed mode operation (during the accelerator commissioning). The IFMIF/EVEDA RF Power System is composed of 18 RF power generators feeding the eight RFQ couplers (200 kW), the two buncher cavities (10⁵ kW) and the eight superconducting half wave resonators of the SRF Linac (10⁵ kW). The main components of each RF power chain are the Low Level Radio Frequency system (LLRF), three amplification stages and a circulator with its load. For obvious standardization and scale economies reasons, the same topology has been chosen for the 18 RF power chains: all of them use the same main components which can be individually tuned to provide different RF output powers up to 200 kW. The studies and the current design of the IFMIF/EVEDA RF Power System are presented in this contribution.

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.

MOPC010	Phase-Modulation SLED Operation Mode at Elettra	83
	C. Serpico, P. Delgiusto, A. Fabris, F. Gelmetti, M.M. Milloch, A. Salom, D. Wang ELETTRA, Basovizza, Italy
	FERMI@Elettra is the soft X-ray, fourth generation light source facility at the Elettra Laboratory in Trieste, Italy. It is based on a seeded FEL, driven by a normal conducting linac that is presently expected to operate at 1.5 GeV. The last seven backward traveling wave structures have been equipped with a SLED system. Due to breakdown problems inside the sections, that was the result of high peak fields generated during conventional SLED operation, the sections experienced difficulties in reaching the desired gradients. To lower the peak field and make the compressed pulse “flatter”, phase-modulation of the SLED drive power will be implemented. A description of the phase modulation of the drive power and the results achieved will be reported in the following paper.

MOPC051	The 100 MHz RF System for the MAX IV Storage Rings	193
	Å. Andersson, E. Elafifi, M. Eriksson, D. Kumbaro, P. Lilja, L. Malmgren, R. Nilsson, H. Svensson, P.F. Tavares MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden J.H. Hottenbacher RI Research Instruments GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany A. Milan CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain A. Salom ELETTRA, Basovizza, Italy
	The construction of the MAX IV facility has started and user operation is scheduled to commence 2015. The facility is comprised of two storage rings optimized for different wavelength ranges, and a linac-based short pulse facility. In this paper the RF systems for the two storage rings are described. The RF systems will be based on either tetrode or solid state amplifiers working at 100 MHz. Circulators will be used to give isolation between cavity and power amplifier. The main cavities are of normal conducting, entire copper, capacity loaded type, where the present cavities at MAX-lab has served as prototypes. For the MAX IV ring operation it is essential to elongate bunches, in order to minimize the influence of intra beam scattering on beam transverse emittances. For this, 3rd harmonic passive (Landau-) cavities are employed. These are of similar type as the main cavities, mainly because the capacity loaded type has the advantage of pushing higher order modes to relatively high frequencies compared to pill-box cavities. Digital low level RF systems will be used, bearing in mind the possibility of post mortem analysis.

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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.

MOPC135

IFMIF-EVEDA RF Power System

394

D. Regidor, A. Arriaga, J.C. Calvo, A. Ibarra, I. Kirpitchev, J. Molla, P. Méndez, A. Salom, M. Weber
CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
M. Abs, B. Nactergal
IBA, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
P.-Y. Beauvais, M. Desmons, A. Mosnier
CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
P. Cara
Fusion for Energy, Garching, Germany
S.J. Ceballos, J. de la Cruz
Greenpower Technologies, Sevilla, Spain
Z. Cvetkovic, Z. Golubicic, C. Mendez
TTI, Santander, Spain
J.M. Forteza, J.M. González, C.R. Isnardi
Indra Sistemas, San Fernando de Henares, Spain
D. Vandeplassche
SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium

The IFMIF/EVEDA Accelerator Prototype will be a 9 MeV, 125 mA CW deuteron accelerator to validate the technical options for the IFMIF accelerator design. The Radiofrequency Quadrupole (RFQ), buncher cavities and Superconducting Radiofrequency Linac (SRF Linac) require continuous wave RF power at 175 MHz with an accuracy of ±1% in amplitude and ±1° in phase. Also the IFMIF/EVEDA RF Power System has to work under pulsed mode operation (during the accelerator commissioning). The IFMIF/EVEDA RF Power System is composed of 18 RF power generators feeding the eight RFQ couplers (200 kW), the two buncher cavities (10⁵ kW) and the eight superconducting half wave resonators of the SRF Linac (10⁵ kW). The main components of each RF power chain are the Low Level Radio Frequency system (LLRF), three amplification stages and a circulator with its load. For obvious standardization and scale economies reasons, the same topology has been chosen for the 18 RF power chains: all of them use the same main components which can be individually tuned to provide different RF output powers up to 200 kW. The studies and the current design of the IFMIF/EVEDA RF Power System are presented in this contribution.

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.

MOPC010

Phase-Modulation SLED Operation Mode at Elettra

83

C. Serpico, P. Delgiusto, A. Fabris, F. Gelmetti, M.M. Milloch, A. Salom, D. Wang
ELETTRA, Basovizza, Italy

FERMI@Elettra is the soft X-ray, fourth generation light source facility at the Elettra Laboratory in Trieste, Italy. It is based on a seeded FEL, driven by a normal conducting linac that is presently expected to operate at 1.5 GeV. The last seven backward traveling wave structures have been equipped with a SLED system. Due to breakdown problems inside the sections, that was the result of high peak fields generated during conventional SLED operation, the sections experienced difficulties in reaching the desired gradients. To lower the peak field and make the compressed pulse “flatter”, phase-modulation of the SLED drive power will be implemented. A description of the phase modulation of the drive power and the results achieved will be reported in the following paper.

MOPC051

The 100 MHz RF System for the MAX IV Storage Rings

193

Å. Andersson, E. Elafifi, M. Eriksson, D. Kumbaro, P. Lilja, L. Malmgren, R. Nilsson, H. Svensson, P.F. Tavares
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
J.H. Hottenbacher
RI Research Instruments GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
A. Milan
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
A. Salom
ELETTRA, Basovizza, Italy

The construction of the MAX IV facility has started and user operation is scheduled to commence 2015. The facility is comprised of two storage rings optimized for different wavelength ranges, and a linac-based short pulse facility. In this paper the RF systems for the two storage rings are described. The RF systems will be based on either tetrode or solid state amplifiers working at 100 MHz. Circulators will be used to give isolation between cavity and power amplifier. The main cavities are of normal conducting, entire copper, capacity loaded type, where the present cavities at MAX-lab has served as prototypes. For the MAX IV ring operation it is essential to elongate bunches, in order to minimize the influence of intra beam scattering on beam transverse emittances. For this, 3rd harmonic passive (Landau-) cavities are employed. These are of similar type as the main cavities, mainly because the capacity loaded type has the advantage of pushing higher order modes to relatively high frequencies compared to pill-box cavities. Digital low level RF systems will be used, bearing in mind the possibility of post mortem analysis.