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A New RF System for the CEBAF Normal Conducting Cavities
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- C. Hovater, H. Dong, A. Hofler, G. Lahti, J. Musson, T. Plawski
TJNAF, Newport News, Virginia
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The CEBAF Accelerator at Jefferson Lab is a 6 GeV five pass electron accelerator consisting of two superconducting linacs joined by independent magnetic transport arcs. CEBAF also has numerous normal conducting cavities for beam conditioning in the injector and for RF extraction to the experimental halls. The RF systems that presently control these cavities are becoming expensive to maintain, therefore a replacement RF control system is now being developed. For the new RF system, cavity field control is maintained digitally using an FPGA which contains the feedback algorithm. The system incorporates digital down conversion, using quadrature under-sampling at an IF frequency of 70 MHz. The VXI bus-crate was chosen as the operating platform because of its excellent RFI/EMI properties and its compatibility with the EPICS control system. The normal conducting cavities operate at both the 1497 MHz accelerating frequency and the sub-harmonic frequency of 499 MHz. To accommodate this, the new design will use different receiver-transmitter daughter cards for each frequency. This paper discuses the development of the new RF system and reports on initial results.
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The CEBAF RF Separator System Upgrade
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- C. Hovater, M. Augustine, A. Guerra, R. Nelson, R.A. Terrel, M. Wissmann
TJNAF, Newport News, Virginia
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The CEBAF accelerator uses RF deflecting cavities operating at the third sub-harmonic (499 MHz) of the accelerating frequency (1497 MHz) to “kick” the electron beam to the experimental halls. The cavities operate in a TEM dipole mode incorporating mode enhancing rods to increase the cavity’s transverse shunt impedance. As the accelerators energy has increased from 4 GeV to 6 GeV the RF system, specifically the 1 kW solid state amplifiers, have become problematic, operating in saturation because of the increased beam energy demands. Two years ago we began a study to look into replacement for the RF amplifiers and decided to use a commercial broadcast Inductive Output Tube (IOT) capable of 30 kW. The new RF system uses one IOT amplifier on multiple cavities as opposed to one amplifier per cavity originally. In addition the new RF system supports the proposed 12 GeV energy upgrade to CEBAF. Currently we are halfway through the upgrade with two IOTs in operation and two more to be installed. This paper reports on the new RF system and the IOT performance.
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