Author: Nicklaus, D.J.
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MOPOB17 Resonant Frequency Control for the PIP-II Injector Test RFQ: Control Framework and Initial Results 109
 
  • A.L. Edelen, S. Biedron, S.V. Milton
    CSU, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
  • D.L. Bowring, B.E. Chase, J.P. Edelen, D.J. Nicklaus, J. Steimel
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Fermilab Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359.
For the PIP-II Injector Test (PI-Test) at Fermilab, a four-vane radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) is designed to accelerate a 30-keV, 1-mA to 10-mA H' beam to 2.1 MeV under both pulsed and continuous wave (CW) RF operation. The available headroom of the RF amplifiers limit the maximum allowable detuning to 3 kHz, and the detuning is controlled entirely via thermal regulation. Fine control over the detuning, minimal manual intervention, and fast trip recovery is desired. In addition, having active control over both the walls and vanes provides a wider tuning range. For this, we intend to use model predictive control (MPC). To facilitate these objectives, we developed a dedicated control framework that handles higher-level system decisions as well as executes control calculations. It is written in Python in a modular fashion for easy adjustments, readability, and portability. Here we describe the framework and present the first control results for the PI-Test RFQ under pulsed and CW operation.
 
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TUPOA19 50-MeV Run of the IOTA/FAST Electron Accelerator 326
 
  • D.R. Edstrom, C.M. Baffes, C.I. Briegel, D.R. Broemmelsiek, K. Carlson, B.E. Chase, D.J. Crawford, E. Cullerton, J.S. Diamond, N. Eddy, B.J. Fellenz, E.R. Harms, M.J. Kucera, J.R. Leibfritz, A.H. Lumpkin, D.J. Nicklaus, E. Prebys, P.S. Prieto, J. Reid, A.L. Romanov, J. Ruan, J.K. Santucci, T. Sen, V.D. Shiltsev, Y.-M. Shin, G. Stancari, J.C.T. Thangaraj, R.M. Thurman-Keup, A. Valishev, A. Warner, S.J. Wesseln
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • A.T. Green
    Northern Illinois Univerity, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  • A. Halavanau, D. Mihalcea, P. Piot
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  • J. Hyun
    Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan
  • P. Kobak
    BYU-I, Rexburg, USA
  • W.D. Rush
    KU, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
 
  Funding: Supported by the DOE contract No.DEAC02-07CH11359 to the Fermi Research Alliance LLC.
The low-energy section of the photoinjector-based electron linear accelerator at the Fermilab Accelerator Science & Technology (FAST) facility was recently commissioned to an energy of 50 MeV. This linear accelerator relies primarily upon pulsed SRF acceleration and an optional bunch compressor to produce a stable beam within a large operational regime in terms of bunch charge, total average charge, bunch length, and beam energy. Various instrumentation was used to characterize fundamental properties of the electron beam including the intensity, stability, emittance, and bunch length. While much of this instrumentation was commissioned in a 20 MeV running period prior, some (including a new Martin-Puplett interferometer) was in development or pending installation at that time. All instrumentation has since been recommissioned over the wide operational range of beam energies up to 50 MeV, intensities up to 4 nC/pulse, and bunch structures from ~1 ps to more than 50 ps in length.
 
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TUPOA31 Fermilab Cryomodule Test Stand RF Interlock System 355
 
  • T.B. Petersen, J.S. Diamond, D. McDowell, D.J. Nicklaus, P.S. Prieto, A. Semenov
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  An interlock system has been designed for the Fermilab Cryomodule Test Stand (CMTS), a test bed for the cryomodules to be used in the upcoming Linac Coherent Light Source 2 (LCLS-II) project at SLAC. The interlock system features 8 independent subsystems, consisting of a superconducting RF cavity, a coupler, and solid state amplifier (SSA). Each system monitors several devices to detect fault conditions such as arcing in the waveguides or quenching of the SRF system. Additionally each system can detect fault conditions by monitoring the RF power seen at the cavity coupler through a directional coupler. In the event of a fault condition, each system is capable of removing RF signal to the amplifier (via a fast RF switch) as well as turning off SSA. Additionally, each input signal is available for remote viewing and recording via a Fermilab designed digitizer board.  
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