Author: Quaglia, S.
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TUPOST015 Commissioning and First Results of an X-Band LLRF System for TEX Test Facility at LNF-INFN 876
 
  • L. Piersanti, D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, S. Bini, B. Buonomo, F. Cardelli, C. Di Giulio, E. Di Pasquale, M. Diomede, L. Faillace, A. Falone, G. Franzini, A. Gallo, G. Giannetti, A. Liedl, D. Moriggi, S. Pioli, S. Quaglia, L. Sabbatini, M. Scampati, G. Scarselletta, A. Stella, S. Tocci, L. Zelinotti
    LNF-INFN, Frascati, Italy
 
  Funding: Latino is a project co-funded by Regione Lazio within POR-FESR 2014-2020 program
In the framework of LATINO project (Laboratory in Advanced Technologies for INnOvation) funded by Lazio regional government, the commissioning of the TEst stand for X-band (TEX) facility has started in 2021 at Frascati National Laboratories of INFN. Born as a collaboration with CERN to test high gradient accelerating structures, during 2022 TEX aims at feeding the first EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB X-band structure prototype. During 2021 the commissioning has been successfully carried out up to 48 MW. The power unit is driven by an X-band low level RF system, that employs a commercial S-band (2.856 GHz) Libera digital LLRF (manufactured by Instrumentation Technologies), with an up/down conversion stage and a reference generation and distribution system able to produce coherent frequencies for the American S-band and European X-band (11.994 GHz), both designed and realized at LNF. The performance of the system, with a particular focus on amplitude and phase resolution, together with klystron and driver amplifier jitter measurements, will be reviewed in this paper. Moreover, considerations on its suitability and main limitations in view of EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB project will be discussed.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOST015  
About • Received ※ 20 May 2022 — Revised ※ 13 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 17 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 28 June 2022
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TUPOPT061 Status and Commissioning of the First X-Band RF Source of the TEX Facility 1148
 
  • F. Cardelli, D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, S. Bini, M. Ceccarelli, C. Di Giulio, A. Falone, G. Franzini, A. Gallo, L. Piersanti, L. Sabbatini
    INFN/LNF, Frascati, Italy
  • B. Buonomo, G. Catuscelli, R. Ceccarelli, A. Cecchinelli, R. Clementi, E. Di Pasquale, A. Liedl, D. Moriggi, G. Piermarini, S. Pioli, S. Quaglia, L.A. Rossi, M. Scampati, G. Scarselletta, S. Strabioli, S. Tocci, R. Zarlenga
    LNF-INFN, Frascati, Italy
 
  In 2021 started the commissioning of the TEX (Test stand for X-band) facility at the Frascati National laboratories of INFN. This facility has been founded in the framework of the LATINO (Laboratory in Advanced Technologies for INnOvation) project. The current facility layout includes an high power X-band (11.994 GHz) RF source, realized in collaboration with CERN, which will be used for validation and development of the X-band RF high gradient technology in view of the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB project. The RF source is based on a CPI VKX8311 Klystron and a solid state ScandiNova k400 modulator to generate a maximum RF output power of 50 MW at 50 Hz, that will be mainly used for accelerating structure conditioning and waveguide components testing. In this paper the layout, the installation, commissioning and stability measurements of this source are described in detail. The test stand will be soon operative and ready to test the first X-band accelerating structure prototype.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOPT061  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 11 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 15 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 10 July 2022
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