NSRRC, Hsinchu
Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) is a low emittance third-generation light source which is currently under construction in the NSRRC site in Taiwan. TPS consists of 24 double-bend cells and its circumference is 518.4 m. A 496.8-m booster with multi-bend structure is designed. The alternative lattices, such as high/low betax, chicanes with double-vertical-waists in the long straights, and short bunches with low momentum compactions, etc., are investigated. Orbit and coupling corrections and stability issues are studied. Touschek lifetime and effects due to insertion devices are simulated. Works on impedance estimation and instability simulations are performed.
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) is the new accelerator complex currently under construction at JINR. The facility is aimed to provide collider experiments with heavy ions up to uranium (gold at the beginning stage) with a centre of mass energy up to 11 GeV/u and an average luminosity up to 1027 cm-2 s-1. The collisions of polarized deuterons and protons are foreseen also. The accelerator complex includes two injector linacs, a superconducting booster synchrotron, a 6 GeV/u superconducting synchrotron (existing Nuclotron) and a collider consisting of two storage rings. Different modifications of superferric magnets based on a hollow composite NbTi cable operating at 4.5 K is proposed to be used for the NICA booster and collider rings. The twin-aperture collider dipole consists of two vertically assembled cold masses placed inside a common thermal shield and a common cryostat. The dipole good field aperture is fixed to 60 mm. The 2 T option, which design is very similar to the Nuclotron's one, was fixed as basis for the collider of 350 m long. R&D work on a curved 4 T Cosine(θ)-dipoles based on a hollow Nuclotron-type cable is proposed to be continued.
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
JINR/LHE, Moscow
The main goal of the Nuclotron booster construction are following: accumulation up to 4·10+9 Au32+ ions; acceleration of the ions up to energy of 600 MeV/u that is sufficient for stripping of the ions to the bare nucleus state; simplification of the requirements to the vacuum conditions in the Nuclotron; forming of the required beam emittance at the energy of 100 MeV/u with electron cooling system. The features of this booster, the requirement to the main synchrotron systems and their parameters are presented.
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
JINR/LHE, Moscow
The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is the new accelerator complex being constructed at JINR aimed to provide collider experiments with heavy ions up to uranium at the center of mass energy from 4 to 11 GeV/u. It includes 6 Mev/u linac, 600 MeV/u booster, upgraded SC synchrotron Nuclotron and collider consisting of two SC rings, which provide average luminosity of the level of 1027cm-2s-1.
CERN, Geneva
Since the CERN PS Booster cannot simultaneously provide the beam brightness and intensity required, the nominal (25ns bunch spacing) proton beam for the LHC involves double-batch filling of the PS machine. Linac 4, which is under construction, will eventually remove this restriction. In the meantime, the request for 50 and 75ns bunch spacings to mitigate electron cloud effects has lowered the intensity demand such that the Booster can meet this in a single batch without compromising beam brightness. Single-batch transfer means providing two bunches from each of three Booster rings and, in turn, that the bunch spacing is modified by the addition of an h=1 rf component to the h=2 in the Booster in order to fit the h=7 rf buckets waiting in the PS (whilst leaving one bucket empty for kicker purposes). Following the first experiments performed in 2008, the rf manipulations in the Booster have been refined and those in the PS have been modified to cope with single-batch beams. This latest work is presented for both the 50 and 75ns variants.
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
Thirty two Bergoz Beam Position Monitors are located in the Australian Synchrotron booster ring. They currently suffer from a poor signal-to-noise ratio and a low sample rate data acquisition (DAQ) system, provided by a portable DAQ device. This architecture is being upgraded to offer better performance. Phase matched low attenuation cables are being pulled and readout electronics will be located in two sites to reduce cable length. Data acquisition will be upgraded using a high accuracy PCI DAQ board. The board's trigger, originally delivered by a Delay Generator, will be generated by an Event Receiver output following our recent upgrade of the timing system. The new Linux driver will be EPICS-based, for consistency with our control system.
Nagoya University, Nagoya
UVSOR, Okazaki
Sokendai - Okazaki, Okazaki, Aichi
Central Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Facility which provides synchrotron radiation for a large community of users is under construction in the Aichi prefecture, Japan. The light source accelerator complex consists of a linac, a booster synchrotron and a storage ring. We have developed beam monitor systems which play important role especially in the commissioning stage of the accelerators. An RF knockout system to observe betatron tune of the electron beam in the booster synchrotron and the storage ring has been designed. We paid special attention in an RF source fed to a shaker to realize efficient measurement of the tune of electron beam during acceleration. We made a test experiment using electron beam of a booster synchrotron of the UVSOR facility. We have also developed a BPM system which enables a single path beam monitoring. The signal processing is based on a fast digital oscilloscope and a simple preprocessor circuit which was developed to improve position resolution. The performance was evaluated using an injection beam pulse to the storage ring of the UVSOR.
SESAME, Amman
SESAME machine consists of a 22.5 MeV microtron, 800 MeV booster and a 2.5 GeV storage ring. The electron beam diagnostics will play a major rule during the commisioning and normal operation with different modes of single bunch and multi bunch operations. Furthermore the beam parameteres during injection, acceleration and storing the beam will be measured, monitored and integrated into other subsystems. The major diagnostics components and the general design for booster and storage ring are reported in this paper.
Fermilab, Batavia
In fast ramping synchrotrons, like the Fermilab Booster, the usual methods for evaluating the betatron tunes from the spectrum of turn-by-turn data may fail due to fast decoherence of particle motion or rapid tune changes, in addition to the BPM noise. We propose a technique based on phasing of the signals from different BPMs. Although the number of the Fermilab Booster BPMs is limited to 48 per plane, this method allows to detect the beam tunes in conditions where the other algorithms were unsuccessful. In this paper we describe the method and its implementation in the Fermilab Booster control system. Results of measurements are also presented.
KURRI, Osaka
University of Fukui, Faculty of Engineering, Fukui
World's first ADSR experiments which use spallation neutrons produced by high energy proton beams accelerated by the FFAG synchrotron has started since March 2009 at KURRI. In these experiments, the prompt and delayed neutrons which indicate neutron multiplication caused by external source have been detected. The accelerator complex for ADSR study in KURRI consists of three FFAG proton rings. It delivers the 100MeV proton beam to the W target located in front of the subcritical nuclear fuel system constructed in the reactor core of KUCA (Kyoto University Critical Assembly) at 30Hz repetition rate. Current status of the facility and the future plans of ADSR system and high intensity pulsed spallation neutron source which employ a newly added 700MeV FFAG synchrotron to the existing FFAG complex in KURRI will be presented.
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
A new beam extraction scheme from a synchrotron is put forward. The main difference from other schemes of extraction is the use of a magnetic shields instead of a septum. Magnetic shields are located in the central dipole magnets of a pulsed chicane. The magnetic shield is a multi-layer copper-iron tube. Numerical simulations and experimental results for the magnetic shield are presented. A good accordance between them has shown. The advantages of the new scheme are easy technical implementation and compactness. The area of application is extraction from a synchrotron. The proposed scheme will be used in a new synchrotron radiation source in Novosibirsk.
I-Tech, Solkan
ESRF, Grenoble
Initially, the Libera Brilliance Single Pass was intended for beam position monitoring at injector system for the FEL machines, this was afterwards followed by the idea of using it on transfer lines on the 3rd generation light sources. The device can be used on pickup buttons and on striplines. The measurement principles and results of Libera Brilliance Single Pass at ESRF, as beam-charge monitor and injection-efficiency monitor, are presented.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu
The test results of a dual one-turn coils configuration for Taiwan Light Source (TLS) booster extraction kicker is presented in this report. The achieved capability of the test unit demonstrates that the rise-time of the kicker current pulse has been improved for beam extraction optimization. This improved performance is mainly accomplished by reducing the load inductance effectively with a dual one-turn coils configuration. The measured result of rise-time variation versus the corresponding load inductance change is briefly discussed.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Life Imaging Technology, Palo Alto, California
As SPEAR3 moves closer to trickle-charge topup injection, the complex phase-space dynamics of the injected beam becomes increasingly important for capture efficiency and machine protection. In the horizontal plane the beam executes ~12mm betatron oscillations and begins to filament within 10's of turns. In the vertical plane the beam is more stable but a premium is placed on flat-orbit injection through the Lambertson septum and the correct optical match. Longitudinally, energy spread in the booster is converted to arrival-time dispersion by the strong R56 component in the transfer line. In this paper, we report on turn-by-turn imaging of the injected beam in both the transverse plane and in the longitudinal direction using a fast-gated ccd and streak camera, respectively.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) is a state of the art 3 GeV third generation light source currently under construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The NSLS-II injection system consists of a 200 MeV linac and a 3 GeV booster synchrotron. The injection system needs to deliver 7.5 nC in 80 - 150 bunches to the storage ring every minute to achieve current stability goals in the storage ring. This is a very stringent requirement that has not been demonstrated at an operating light source, though it should be achievable. To alleviate the charge requirement on the linac, we have designed a scheme to stack two bunch trains in the booster. In this paper we discuss this stacking scheme. The performance of the stacking scheme is studied in detail at injection and through a full booster ramp. We show the the ultimate performance of the stacking scheme is similar to a single bunch train in the booster if the linac emittance meets the requirements. Increasing the emittance of the linac beam degrades the performance, but still allows an overall increase of train charge vs. one bunch train.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
The NSLS-II injection system consists of a 200 MeV linac and a 3 GeV booster synchrotron and associated transport lines. The transport lines need to transport the beam from the linac to the booster and from the booster to the storage ring in a way that provide high injection efficiency. In this paper we discuss progress on specifying and prototyping the NSLS-II transfer lines including diagnostics, magnet specifications, and safety systems. Commissioning plans are also discussed.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Booster extraction presents a number of problems that include strengths and waveforms of the pulsed magnets and design of the vacuum chamber. Instabilities in the booster extraction may compromise the extracted beam quality deteriorating value of high-performance injector design. Here we discuss requirements and tolerances for the extraction system components and methods of increasing its performance.
CERN, Geneva
PSI, Villigen
The performance of the CERN PS Booster (PSB) synchrotron is believed to be limited mainly by direct space charge effects at low energy. The main motivation to construct Linac4 is to raise the PSB injection energy to mitigate direct space charge effects. At present, simulation of the injection and the ow energy part of the cycle aim at defining Investigations on the influence of parameters of the injected beam on the performance of the PSB are described.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
In this paper, we present an overview of the impact of collective effects upon the performance of the NSLS-II booster.
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen
DESY, Hamburg
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin
Uni HH, Hamburg
The PITZ facility is established for the development and testing of electron sources for FELs like FLASH and the European XFEL. The facility has been upgraded during the shutdown starting in summer 2007 to extend the capability of the facility to produce and characterize low emittance electron beams. The upgraded setup mainly includes a photo cathode L-band RF gun with solenoid magnets for space charge compensation, a post acceleration booster cavity and several diagnostic systems. The diagnostic systems consist of charge and beam profile monitors, emittance measurement systems and spectrometers with related diagnostics in dispersive arms after the gun and the booster cavities. RF gun operation with an accelerating gradient of 60 MV/m at the cathode is realized with this setup. A new photo cathode laser system with broader spectral bandwidth was installed for optimizing the temporal distribution of the laser pulses regarding to electron beam properties. Experimental results with this setup demonstrated very high electron beam quality as required for the photoinjector source of the European XFEL. In this contribution, the PITZ facility setup in year 2008-2009 will be presented.
*for the PITZ Collaboration
SINAP, Shanghai
The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), a 3.5GeV storage ring based third generation light source, started its user operation with 7 beamlines in May 2009. During the passed year, the facility reliably operated about 4000 hours for user experiments. This paper presents the operational status of the SSRF in the first year and its future performance improvement plans.
SESAME, Amman
The construction of SESAME, a 2.5 GeV, and 3rd generation synchrotron-light source is under progress. The first electron beam from the Microtron at low energy (less than 10 MeV) could be obtained on July, 14th, 2009 and reproduced several times. The tests of the injection and extraction system as well as the hydraulically and electrical tests of the main magnets of the Booster are complete and the vacuum chambers tests are underway. The Booster RF cavity and its plunger have been conditioned successfully by 1.7 kW CW RF power. The installation of the Booster is expected to start after the completion of the shielding. The design of the completely new storage ring is finalised and the Phase 1 beamlines is updated.
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
European industry has participated in the LHC Project for technology development, component design and system construction. A good relationship in academia-industry collaboration has led to successful results for the project. Industry plays an important role for component design, manufacture and system construction in the XFEL project. The long history of academia-industry collaboration in the accelerator field in Europe is presented.
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
The Australian Synchrotron has been running normal operations for beamlines since April 2007. The high degree of beam availability has allowed for an extensive accelerator physics program to be developed. The main points of this program will be presented, including student involvement at different levels and developments being made in anticipation of moving to top-up mode injections.
Monash University, Faculty of Science, Victoria
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
The Australian Synchrotron booster synchrotron accelerates electrons from 100 MeV to 3 GeV in 600 ms. The fractional tune components that were measured are presented in two graphical formats showing the time-resolved measurement of the horizontal and vertical tunes. This experiment demonstrated that the current in the booster was extremely sensitive to the ratio of BF to BD combined-function magnets. Large variations of the fractional tunes were found to follow the differences in the gradients of the BD and BF combined-function magnet ramping curves and with this knowledge, alterations were made to the ramping table increasing the efficiency of the booster by on average 40%. Rapid fluctuation of the tunes meant that it could not be distinguished during the first 80ms of the ramp. Multiple side bands to the revolution harmonic were visible during a minimal sweep time of 2.5ms, during this first 80ms.
IPM, Tehran
An overview of the 3 GeV Synchrotron radiation source, which is under design in Iran will be presented with emphasis on site location studies, user demands and general parameters of the machine. The background to the proposed facility and different aspects of the machine design also is reported. Operating this third generation light source with 3 GeV storage ring and beam currents of up to 400mA, will result in a source of very intense light over a broad range of photon energies from the IR to hard X-rays to a community that is expected to exceed 500 users a few years after the start of operation in 2015 .
ELETTRA, Basovizza
Elettra established top-up operations taking advantage of its new full energy injector. The safety simulations and personnel safety conditions, the radiation measurements, the implementation and the operations of the whole system are presented and discussed.
HSRC, Higashi-Hiroshima
Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
SHI, Tokyo
The HiSOR is a synchrotron radiation (SR) source of Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center (HSRC), Hiroshima University, established in 1996. HiSOR is a compact racetrack-type storage ring having 21.95 m circumference, and 400-nmrad natural emittance, which is not so small compared with those of other medium~large storage rings. There are 14 beamlines on HiSOR, but the ring has only two straight sections for undulators which are obviously not compatible with modern SR facilities. Therefore, we are planning to construct a compact storage ring, 'HiSOR-II' in which undulators are dominant light sources. We refer to the electron storage ring MAX-III as the best models to design HiSOR-II lattice. This 700 MeV storage ring is designed that the circumference is equal to or less than 50 m so that it can fit in our existing site. It has several straight sections for undulators, and its natural emittance is about 14nmrad. The booster ring aiming for the top-up injection is constructed on the inside basement of HiSOR-II. This layout brings advantages in radiation shielding and prevention of magnetic field interference between two rings.
Nagoya University, Nagoya
KEK, Ibaraki
UVSOR, Okazaki
SAGA, Tosu
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
Central Japan Synchrotron Radiation (SR) Research Facility is under construction in the Aichi area, and the service will start from FY2012. Aichi Science & Technology Foundation is responsible for the operation and management, and Nagoya University SR Research Center is responsible to run the facility and support the users technically and scientifically. The accelerators consists of an injector linac, a booster synchrotron and an 1.2 GeV electron storage ring with the circumference of 72 m. To save construction expenses, the 50 MeV linac and the booster with the circumference of 48 m are built at inside of the storage ring. The beam current and natural emittance of the storage ring are 300 mA and 53 nmrad. The magnetic lattice consists of four triple bend cells and four straight sections 4 m long. The bending magnets at the centers of the cells are 5 T superbends and the critical energy of the SR is 4.8 keV. More than ten hard X-ray beam-line can be constructed. One variable polarization undulator will be installed in the first phase. The electron beam will be injected from the booster with the full energy and the top-up operation will be introduced as early as possible.
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
The Synchrotron Light source ALBA is entering the commissioning period and beam should be provided to the users by the end of 2010. The installation of the full energy 3 GeV booster is finished, with the commissioning taking place in January 2010. The installation of the storage ring is almost finished and the commissioning should take place in summer 2010. The detailed milestones of the project are presented.
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
The commissioning of the booster for the synchrotron light source ALBA should take place in the period December 2009-January 2010. In this paper, the beam dynamics aspects of the commissioning are described, including the studies performed, the main problems find during the commissioning and a comparison of the measured beam parameters to the design one. A description of the software tools used and developed for the task is included.
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
The Booster of the ALBA synchrotron light source will inject, in top up mode, up to 2 mA of current at 3Hz into the storage ring. The booster ramps the energy from 100 MeV (Linac) up to the 3 GeV of the storage ring. The RF system of the booster consist of a 80 kW IOT amplifier, a WR1800 waveguide system, a 5-cell Petra cavity and a Digital LLRF system. In this paper we will present a short description of the system, its performance during the commissioning phase and the results of operation with beam.
FEL/Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
The light source research program at the Duke Free-Electron Laser Laboratory (DFELL) is focused on the development of accelerator-driven light sources, including storage ring based free-electron lasers (FELs) and Compton gamma-ray source, the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIGS). The HIGS is the most intense Compton gamma-ray source currently available with an energy tuning range from 1 to 100 MeV. The accelerator physics program at the DFELL covers a wide range of activities, from nonlinear dynamics research, to the study of beam instability with advanced feedback systems, to FEL research and development. In this paper, we will report our recent progress in accelerator physics research and light source development to meet new challenges of today's and future accelerators.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The recent progress at the SPEAR3 were the increase in stored current from 100 mA to 200 mA maximum and the top-off injection to allow beamlines to stay open during injection. Presently the booster injects 3.0 GeV beam to SPEAR3 three times a day. The stored beam decays to about 150 mA between the injections. The growing user demands are to increase stored current to the design value of 500 mA, and to maintain it at a constant value within a percent or so. To achieve this goal the booster must inject once every few minutes. For improved injection efficiency, all RF systems at the linac, booster and SPEAR3 need to be phase-locked. These requirements entail a booster RF system upgrade to a scaled down version of the SPEAR3 RF system running at 476.3 MHz with a 1.2 MW cw output power capability. The present booster RF system is basically a copy of the SPEAR2 RF system operating at 358.5 MHz with 80 kW peak power to a 5-cell RF cavity for 1.2 MV gap voltage. We will analyze each subsystem option for their merits within budgetary and geometric space constraints. A substantial portion of the system will come from the decommissioned PEP-II RF stations.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
The booster synchrotron for NSLS-II accepts beam with 200 MeV from a linac and raises its energy up to 3 GeV. In order to raise beam energy up to 3 GeV, a 7-cell PETRA cavity is installed. Beam instabilities related with the cavity are discussed. In particular, in order to avoid coupled-bunch instability, we consider that cooling water temperature for the cavity should be changed to shift frequencies of higher order modes (HOM) to avoid beam revolution lines. To obtain the relation between the temperature dependence of amount of frequency shift in each HOM and cavity body temperature, we carried out the measurement by changing cavity body temperature. From the measurement data, we calculate the required temperature variation. We summarize the results and describe the system design.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
We discuss status and plans of development of the NSLS-II injector. The injector consists of 200 MeV linac, 3-GeV booster, transport lines and injection straight section. The system design is now nearly completed and the injector development is in the procurement phase. The injector commissioning is planned to take place in 2012.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook
Model Independent Analysis (MIA) is an essential approach for measuring optical properties of accelerators. In the paper, we evaluate its application in the context of the NSLS-II Light Source storage ring. It is the first application of the new high-level application environment based on the EPICS-DDS middle layer. Using a full-scale virtual accelerator, the paper explores the tolerance of the MIA approach against the different conditions such as measurement noise in the beam position monitors, magnet errors, misalignments, etc.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
TRIUMF, Vancouver
The low beam emittance requirement in the NSLS-II storage ring imposes a very tight constraint on its acceptance. This requires the injected beam emittance to be very small, for which a reliable scheme of measurement to determine the phase space and momentum characteristics of the beam coming out the booster is necessary. The original scheme based on the booster-to-dump transport line was hampered by the difficulty in decoupling betatron oscillation from dispersion, due to high concentration of dipoles and limited number of quads after the booster. This paper will describe the alternative method being planned to use the booster extraction line to measure the beam emittance and energy spread, as well as the associated errors.
SINAP, Shanghai
SSRF control system is a hierarchical standard accelerator control system based on EPICS. The VME 64X system, special embedded controller and PLCs are used for low level devices control or interlocks system. Using a uniform 1000Base-T backbone redundancy control network instead of field bus for mostly device controller with VLAN technique adopted, and integrate with EPICS using soft IOC. Digital technology such as digital power supply control system, new event timing system and digital phase control system are used and also integrated with some embedded EPICS IOC. An uniform System development and run time environment of hardware and software is adopted at the whole process. The high level physical application environment using MatLab 2007a with Accelerator Toolbox (AT) & middle layer with MatLab CA (Channel Access) connected component MCA/LabCA. The high level physical application can be integrated with the control system easily and conveniently. With the SSRF centre database, an enhanced distributed archive engine based on RDBS with native XML data type is been testing.
SINAP, Shanghai
Soft IOC is an ideal solution for high level global application of accelerator control and beam diagnostics due to easy online modification and rebooting. SSRF beam diagnostics system employees two soft IOCs to handle global tasks such as BPMs group access, orbit performance analyze and online data reliability analyze, which are hardly performed in bottom level IOC side and OPI side. This paper introduces the current status and future upgrade plan.
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
CITCEA-UPC, Barcelona
ALBA is a 3 GeV third generation synchrotron light source under construction in Spain. The injection system is composed of a 100 MeV Linac as pre-injector followed by a full energy booster synchrotron. The booster requires AC power converters operating at 3.125 Hz with a sinusoidal current waveform. All converters are switched mode with full digital regulation and a common control interface. The design specifications have been demonstrated and early tests on the Booster commissioning with beam will be presented
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
ALBA is a 3 GeV third generation synchrotron light source under construction in Spain. The injection system is composed of a 100 MeV Linac as pre-injector followed by a full energy booster synchrotron which shares the same tunnel as the storage ring. With a circumference of 249.6 m and a magnetic lattice based on combined magnets an emittance of 9 nm.rad has been predicted. At present time we are in an intensive sub-system commissioning testing with the aim to start the commissioning with beam early in January 2010.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
CMS/ITRI, Hsinchu
Based on the requirement of beam stability for the third-generation synchrotron radiation light source is more stringent, lower ripple and higher bandwidth of output current of corrector magnet power converters should be developed to implement the closed orbit correction of Taiwan Photo Source (TPS). The ±10A/±50V corrector magnet power converter uses a full bridge configuration, the switching frequency of power MOSFET is 40 kHz, in that each bridge leg has its own independent PWM controller and the output current bandwidth is 1 kHz when connected with the corrector magnet load. Using a DCCT as the current feedback component the output current ripple of this converter could be lower than 5 ppm. In this paper, we will describe the hardware structure and control method of the corrector magnet power converter and the test results will be demonstrated.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu
A test unit of a pulse-forming-network (PFN) kicker power supply has been designed and fabricated for Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) beam injection/extraction of the booster ring. In order to fulfill the requirements, the performance of the designed unit has been bench tested and the results are examined for evaluation purpose. The pulse-to-pulse stability and the flattop specifications are specified according to the beam injection/extraction requirements. Effort has been made to enhance the rise/fall time of the delivered pulse current. The engineering evaluation and its possible application for beam diagnostics purpose are briefly discussed.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
NEXANS Deutschland Industries AG & Co. KG, Moenchengladbach
The National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center is constructing the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS), a 3-GeV synchroton facility. The superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavity modules are selected as the accelerating cavities in the electron storage ring. A test area for the SRF modules is established in the RF laboratory, which includes cryogenic environment, RF transmitter, low level RF control system, and radiation shielded space. The liquid helium is transferred from the cryogenic plant in the experimental area of the Taiwan Light Source (TLS), which is not only far from the RF laboratory but also characterized by a complicated route of 205 meters. The main concerns on the cryogenic transfer are the installation difficulty, heat loss, two-phase flow, and pressure loss. Instead of a multi-channel transfer line, which would request a long installation period on radiation-restrict area, flexible cryogenic transfer lines from Nexans were chosen. The installation period was dramatically reduced to one week. With a test Dewar in the RF lab and valve boxes on both ends of the transfer lines, a long distance cryogenic transfer system was completed and proved to work functional.
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
The mechanical installation of the booster synchrotron of ALBA started in January 2009 and finished by having the system under vacuum in April 2009. The preparation of the booster vacuum system for the installation (partial assembly with the pumps and instrumentation, bakeout, etc) started already in September 2008. For the storage ring, the main mechanical installation was done from May to September 2009. The average pressure in the booster synchrotron is in the range of low 10-9 mbar and in the storage ring is in the low 10-10 mbar. The preparation of the installation, the installation and the present performance will be presented in this contribution. The first round of the booster commissioning took place at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010. The first data of the booster vacuum system commissioning are presented as well.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
The design of the utility system for the 3.0 GeV Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) has been finished and the construction engineering has been contracted out in the end of 2009. This paper presents the TPS utility system, including the electrical power, cooling water and air conditioning system, which were designed to meet requirements of high reliability and stability. The TPS construction site is located adjacent to TLS. Even some areas of TPS and TLS are overlapped. The whole utility system construction will be finished in the end of 2012. Therefore, the construction engineering of the TPS utility system is a challenge to finish on a tight schedule and keep the TLS in operation during the construction. Some management schemes of the construction engineering are also presented in this paper.
Fermilab, Batavia
The NOνA Experiment will construct a detector optimized for electron neutrino detection in the existing Neutrino at Main Injector (NuMI) beamline. The NuMI beamline is capable of operating at 400 kW of primary beam power and the upgrade will allow up to 700 kW. Ceramic beam tubes are utilized in numerous kicker magnets in different accelerator rings at Fermilab. Kovar flanges are brazed onto each beam tube end, since kovar and high alumina ceramic have similar expansion curves. The tube, kovar flange, end piece, and braze foil alloy brazing material are stacked in the furnace and then brazed. The most challenging aspect of fabricating kicker magnets in recent years have been making hermetic vacuum seals on the braze joints between the ceramic and flange. Numerous process variables can influence the robustness of conventional metal/ceramic brazing processes. The ceramic-filler metal interface is normally the weak layer when failure does not occur within the ceramic. Differences between active brazing filler metal and the moly-manganese process will be discussed along with the applicable results of these techniques used for Fermilab production kicker tubes.
Fermilab, Batavia
The NOνA Experiment will construct a detector optimized for electron neutrino detection in the existing Neutrino at Main Injector (NuMI) beamline. This beamline is capable of operating at 400 kW of primary beam power and the upgrade will allow up to 700 kW. The cavities will operate at 53 MHz and three of them will be installed in the Recycler beamline. Thermal stability of the cavities is crucial since this affects the tuning. Results of finite element thermal and structural analysis involving the copper RF cavity will be presented.
CERN, Geneva
UMAN, Manchester
The first phase of the HIE-ISOLDE project at CERN consists of a superconducting (SC) linac upgrade in order to increase the energy of post-accelerated radioactive ion beams from 2.8 MeV/u to over 10 MeV/u (for A/q = 4.5). In preparation for the upgrade, we present beam dynamics studies of the booster section of the normal conducting (NC) REX-ISOLDE linac, focused on the longitudinal development of the beam in the 101.28 MHz IH cavity, employing a Combined Zero Degree Structure* (KONUS), pulsing at a high gradient of over 3 MV/m. The evolution of the transverse emittance in the superconducting linac depends critically on the injected phase space distribution of particles from the existing linac and, with a better understanding of the longitudinal beam dynamics upstream, the performance of the upgrade can be optimised. Data taken during the commissioning phase of the REX-ISOLDE linac is analysed to understand the properties of the beam in the booster and combined with beam dynamics simulations which include the realistic fields of the IH structure, determined from both simulation and perturbation measurement. The matching of the NC and SC machines is also discussed.
*Ratzinger, U., "The IH-structure and its capability to accelerate high current beams," Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991.