Anderson, D.E.

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WEOBCH02	Design, Construction, and Initial Operation of the SNS MEBT Chopper System	150
	R.A. Hardekopf, S.S. Kurennoy, J. Power LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico A.V. Aleksandrov, D.E. Anderson ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
	The chopper system for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) provides a gap in the beam for clean extraction from the accumulator ring. It consists of a pre-chopper in the low-energy beam transport (LEBT) and a faster chopper in the medium-energy beam transport (MEBT). We report here on the final design, fabrication, installation, and first beam tests of the MEBT chopper. The traveling-wave deflector is a meander-line design that matches the propagation of the deflecting pulse with the velocity of the beam at 2.5 MeV, after the radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) acceleration stage. The pulser uses a series of fast-risetime MOSFET transistors to generate the deflecting pulses of ± 2.5 kV with rise and fall times of 10 ns. We describe the design and fabrication of the meander line and pulsers and report on the first operation during initial beam tests at SNS.
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THPLT163	High-temperature Kicker Electrodes for High-beam-current Operation of PEP-II	2840
	U. Wienands, R. Akre, D.E. Anderson, S. Debarger, K. Fant, D. Kharakh, R.E. Kirby, A. Krasnykh, A. Kulikov, J. Langton SLAC, Menlo Park, California
	The strip line electrodes of the kickers used in the transverse bunch-by-bunch feedback systems see significant power deposition by beam and HOM-induced currents. This leads to elevated temperatures of the aluminum electrodes and will ultimately become a limit for the beam current in the Low Energy Ring. Heat is transported to the environment primarily by radiation from the blackened surface of the electrodes. In order to extend the beam-current range of these kickers, new electrodes have been fabricated from molybdenum which are able to run at significantly higher temperature, thus greatly increasing the efficiency of the radiative cooling of the electrodes. Blackening of the electrodes is achieved by oxidation in air at 1000°F using a recipe first applied in aviation research for supersonic aircraft. Emissivity was measured on coupons and a whole electrode to be about 0.6. In addition, the match at the terminations of the electrodes is improved following field calculations and measurements on a model of the kicker.