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TY - CONF AU - Catalán Lasheras, N. AU - Argyropoulos, T. AU - Esperante Pereira, D. AU - Eymin, C.F. AU - Giner Navarro, J. AU - McMonagle, G. AU - Rey, S.F. AU - Solodko, A. AU - Syratchev, I. AU - Volpi, M. AU - Woolley, B.J. AU - Wuensch, W. ED - Yamazaki, Yoshishige ED - Facco, Alberto ED - McCausey, Amy ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Commissioning of XBox-3: A Very High Capacity X-band Test Stand J2 - Proc. of LINAC2016, East Lansing, MI, USA, 25-30 September 2016 C1 - East Lansing, MI, USA T2 - Linear Accelerator Conference T3 - 28 LA - english AB - The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) beam-based acceleration baseline uses high-gradient travelling wave accelerating structures at a frequency of 12 GHz. In order to prove the performance of these structures at high peak power and short pulse width RF, two klystron-based test facilities have been put in operation in the last years. The third X-band testing facility at CERN (Xbox3) has recently been commissioned and has tripled the number of testing slots available. Xbox3 uses a novel way of combining relatively low peak power (6 MW) but high average power klystron units whose power is steered to feed four testing slots with RF to the required power with a repetition rate of up to 400 Hz. Besides the repetition rate, peak power, pulse length and pulse shape can be customized to fit the test requirements. This novel way of combining pulsed RF high power can eventually be used for many other applications where multiple test slots are required. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 568 EP - 571 KW - klystron KW - LLRF KW - controls KW - detector KW - FPGA DA - 2017/05 PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-95450-169-4 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2016-TUPLR047 UR - http://jacow.org/linac2016/papers/tuplr047.pdf ER -