IPAC2022 - List of Authors (Senaj, V.)

Paper	Title	Page
THPOST039	SPS Beam Dump System (SBDS) Commissioning After Relocation and Upgrade	2530
	P. Van Trappen, E. Carlier, L. Ducimetière, V. Namora, V. Senaj, F.M. Velotti, N. Voumard CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	In order to overcome several machine limitations, the SBDS has been relocated from LSS1 (Long Straight Section 1) to LSS5 during LS2 (Long Shutdown 2) with an important upgrade of the extraction kicker installation. An additional vertical deflection kicker magnet (MKDV) was produced and installed while the high voltage (HV) pulse generators have been upgraded by changing gas-discharge switches (thyratrons and ignitrons) to semiconductor stacks operating in oil. Furthermore the horizontal sweep generators have been upgraded to allow for a lower kick strengths. The controls, previously consolidated during LS1, went through an additional light consolidation phase with among others the upgrade of the trigger & retrigger distribution system and the installation of a new fast-interlocks detection system. This paper describes the commissioning without and with beam and elaborates on the measured improvements and encountered problems with corrective mitigations.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOST039
About •	Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 June 2022
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THPOTK044	Ultra-Fast Generator for Impact Ionization Triggering	2872
	A.A. del Barrio Montañés, Y. Dutheil, T. Kramer, V. Senaj CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland M. Sack KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
	Impact ionization triggering can be successfully applied to standard thyristors, thus boosting their dI/dt capability by up to 1000x. This groundbreaking triggering requires applying significant overvoltage on the anode-cathode of thyristor with a slew rate > 1kV/ns. Compact pulse generators based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components would allow the spread of this technology into numerous applications, including fast kicker generators for particle accelerators. In our approach, the beginning of the triggering chain is a HV SiC MOS with an ultra-fast super-boosting gate driver. The super boosting of a 1.7kV rated SiC MOS allows to reduce the MOS rise time by a factor of > 25 (datasheet tr = §I{20}{ns} vs. measured tr < 800ps, resulting in an output voltage slew rate > 1kV/ns and an amplitude > 1kV. Additional boosting is obtained by a Marx generator with GaAs diodes, reaching an output voltage slew rate > 11kV/ns. The final stage will be a Marx generator with medium size thyristors triggered in impact ionization mode with sufficient voltage and current rating necessary for the triggering of a big thyristor. This paper presents the impact ionization triggering of a small size thyristor.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOTK044
About •	Received ※ 16 May 2022 — Revised ※ 13 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 06 July 2022
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SPS Beam Dump System (SBDS) Commissioning After Relocation and Upgrade

2530

P. Van Trappen, E. Carlier, L. Ducimetière, V. Namora, V. Senaj, F.M. Velotti, N. Voumard
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

In order to overcome several machine limitations, the SBDS has been relocated from LSS1 (Long Straight Section 1) to LSS5 during LS2 (Long Shutdown 2) with an important upgrade of the extraction kicker installation. An additional vertical deflection kicker magnet (MKDV) was produced and installed while the high voltage (HV) pulse generators have been upgraded by changing gas-discharge switches (thyratrons and ignitrons) to semiconductor stacks operating in oil. Furthermore the horizontal sweep generators have been upgraded to allow for a lower kick strengths. The controls, previously consolidated during LS1, went through an additional light consolidation phase with among others the upgrade of the trigger & retrigger distribution system and the installation of a new fast-interlocks detection system. This paper describes the commissioning without and with beam and elaborates on the measured improvements and encountered problems with corrective mitigations.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOST039

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Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 June 2022

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THPOTK044

Ultra-Fast Generator for Impact Ionization Triggering

2872

A.A. del Barrio Montañés, Y. Dutheil, T. Kramer, V. Senaj
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
M. Sack
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

Impact ionization triggering can be successfully applied to standard thyristors, thus boosting their dI/dt capability by up to 1000x. This groundbreaking triggering requires applying significant overvoltage on the anode-cathode of thyristor with a slew rate > 1kV/ns. Compact pulse generators based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components would allow the spread of this technology into numerous applications, including fast kicker generators for particle accelerators. In our approach, the beginning of the triggering chain is a HV SiC MOS with an ultra-fast super-boosting gate driver. The super boosting of a 1.7kV rated SiC MOS allows to reduce the MOS rise time by a factor of > 25 (datasheet tr = §I{20}{ns} vs. measured tr < 800ps, resulting in an output voltage slew rate > 1kV/ns and an amplitude > 1kV. Additional boosting is obtained by a Marx generator with GaAs diodes, reaching an output voltage slew rate > 11kV/ns. The final stage will be a Marx generator with medium size thyristors triggered in impact ionization mode with sufficient voltage and current rating necessary for the triggering of a big thyristor. This paper presents the impact ionization triggering of a small size thyristor.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOTK044

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Received ※ 16 May 2022 — Revised ※ 13 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 06 July 2022

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