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Deibele, C.

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TH6REP085 Design and Analysis of a Mixed-Signal Feedback Damper System for Controlling Electron-Proton Instabilities 4156
 
  • Z.P. Xie, M.J. Schulte
    UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
  • C. Deibele
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
 
 

Funding: *Work performed under the auspices of ORNL/SNS, ORNL/SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725


An electron-proton (e-p) instability is observed with increased beam intensity at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) in Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This paper presents a wide-band, mixed-signal system for active damping of the e-p instability. It describes techniques used for feedback damping, data acquisition, and analysis. The paper also describes analysis strategies to monitor system performance. The mixed-signal feedback damper system includes anti-aliasing low-pass filters, power amplifiers (PAs), analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), reconfigurable field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware and digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The system will provide feedback damping, system monitoring, and offline analysis capabilities. The digital portion of the system features programmable gains and delays, and equalizers that are implemented using parallel comb filters and finite impulse response (FIR) filters. These components perform timing adjustments, compensate for gain mismatches, correct for ring harmonics, and equalize magnitude and phase dispersions from cables and amplifiers.