| Paper |
Title |
Page |
| MOPLT048 |
High Current Switch-mode Power Converter Prototype for LHC Project 6kA, 8V
|
656 |
| |
- E. Jauregi, J.M. Del Río, J.M. Dela Fuente, M. Tellería, J.R. Zabaleta
JEMA GJ, Lasarte-Oria
- F. Bordry, V. Montabonnet
CERN, Geneva
- E.F. Figueres
E.T.S.I.I., Valencia
|
|
| |
For the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator being constructed on the CERN site, very precise variable DC currents are required. The company JEMA had during year 2002, designed, manufactured and tested a power converter prototype according to CERN specifications, particularly demanding in terms of dc stability and dynamic response. The power converter is formed by four sub-converters 8V, 2kA in parallel. Isolation between mains input and magnet load is at high frequency done, 40 kHz, which means a volume reduction and better mains perturbations rejection. IGBT inverter soft switch-mode power conversion in ZVS operation reduces dramatically commutation losses, increasing total efficiency of the power converter. The sub-converter, regulated by a wide band width current loop in ACC mode, follows the current reference calculated by the overall voltage loop, providing a good sharing of the output currents and high output stability. The design of the water cooled power converter, results in a very reduce volume and modular structure, providing the system a very flexible exchangeability. The power converter was tested and accepted by CERN into year 2003, some minor points were left to be adjusted during the pre-series stage.
|
|
| WEPKF014 |
Magnetic Field Tracking Experiments for LHC
|
1621 |
| |
- V. Granata, J. Billan, F. Bordry, L. Bottura, P. Coutinho Ferreira, E. Effinger, G. Fernqvist, P. Galbraith, Q. King, J. Pett, A. Raimondo, A. Rijllart, H. Thiesen
CERN, Geneva
|
|
| |
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN one of the fundamental requirements during the energy ramp is that the ratio between the field produced by the quadrupoles and the field in the dipoles remains constant in order to minimize the variation of the betatron tune that could induce particle loss. With a series of tracking experiments it has been demonstrated that this ratio can be maintained constant to better than 10-4 throughout the same current ramp as foreseen for the LHC. A technique has been developed to optimise the dipole and quadrupole current ramps to obtain the required ratio of B2/B1. Measurements performed by modulating the current with a harmonic function (so-called k-modulation) demonstrated that it is possible to modulate the strength of an individual quadrupole to determine the magnetic center through beam-based measurements.
|
|