Author: Molendijk, J.C.
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MOPMW024 Design of the New Wideband RF System for the CERN PS Booster 441
 
  • M.M. Paoluzzi, S.C.P. Albright, M.E. Angoletta, L. Arnaudon, S. Energico, A. Findlay, M. Haase, M. Jaussi, A.J. Jones, D. Landré, J.C. Molendijk, D. Quartullo, E.N. Shaposhnikova
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  For the renovation and upgrade of the CERN PS Booster (PSB) RF systems a development project was launched in 2012. The design, based on a new approach, aimed at replacing the existing tuned, narrowband RF systems with wideband, modular, solid-state driven units. A wide range of issues had to be addressed spanning from RF power production, radiation hardness of solid-state devices, active cancellation of beam-induced voltages, dedicated low-level electronics allowing multi-harmonic operation and beam stability. Following a three-year prototyping and testing campaign and two international reviews, the project endorsement came at the end of year 2015. It foresees the complete removal of present h1, h2 and h10 systems and the deployment of a new one covering all the frequency ranges from 1 MHz to 18 MHz. The four PSB rings will be equipped with 144 identical acceleration cells providing 24 kV total RF voltage per ring. This paper describes the design concepts, the retained solutions, the expected performances and includes the procurement and implementation strategies. This activity is part of the LHC Injectors Upgrade project (LIU).  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-MOPMW024  
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THPMY039 RF Synchronization and Distribution for AWAKE at CERN 3743
 
  • H. Damerau, D. Barrientos, T. Bohl, A.C. Butterworth, S. Döbert, W. Höfle, J.C. Molendijk, S.F. Rey, U. Wehrle
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • J.T. Moody, P. Muggli
    MPI-P, München, Germany
 
  The Advanced Wakefield Experiment at CERN (AWAKE) requires two particle beams and a high power laser pulse to arrive simultaneously in a rubidium plasma cell. A proton bunch from the SPS extracted about once every 30 seconds must be synchronised with the AWAKE laser and the electron beam pulsing at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The latter is directly generated using a photocathode triggered by part of the laser light, but the exact time of arrival in the plasma cell still depends on the phase of the RF in the accelerating structure. Each beam requires RF signals at characteristic frequencies: 6 GHz, 88.2 MHz and 10 Hz for the synchronisation of the laser pulse, 400.8 MHz and 8.7 kHz for the SPS, as well as 3 GHz to drive the accelerating structure of the electron beam. A low-level RF system has been designed to generate all signals derived from a common reference. Additionally precision triggers, synchronous with the arrival of the beams, will be distributed to beam instrumentation equipment. To suppress delay drifts of the several kilometer long optical fibres between AWAKE and the SPS RF systems, a compensated fibre link is being developed.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-THPMY039  
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