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- A. Pandey, G.K. Chaudhari, R.N. Dutt, S. Ghosh, D. Kanjilal, J. Karmakar, D.S. Mathuria, P. Patra, A. Rai, A. Roy, B.K. Sahu, S.K. Saini
IUAC, New Delhi, India
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The existing phase locking scheme of the quarter wave resonators used in superconducting linear accelerator of Inter University Accelerator Centre consists of a fast (electronic) and a slow time scale (pneumatic) control. Presently, helium gas operated mechanical tuners are being used to phase lock the resonators against the master oscillator frequency and different ion beams have been accelerated and delivered to conduct experiments. The present pneumatic frequency tuner has two limitations: (a) no proportional flow control in vacuum condition (b) large hysteresis problem in the proportional valve responsible for gas flow control. Due to these limitations, the system becomes non-linear and the response time is very slow (~sec). Using the existing system, phase locking of a resonator becomes delicate and time consuming. In addition, it was found to be difficult to implement auto phase locking mechanism on the resonator. To overcome these problems and to improve the dynamics of the existing tuner, a new pneumatic tuning system has been adopted. Details of the existing tuning mechanism and the modified tuning system along with the test results will be presented in the paper.
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