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TY - CONF AU - Maesaka, H. AU - Fukui, T. AU - Hara, T. AU - Hasegawa, T. AU - Hosoda, N. AU - Inagaki, T. AU - Kondo, C. AU - Matsubara, S. AU - Morimoto, O. AU - Ohshima, T. AU - Okada, K. AU - Tajiri, Y. AU - Tanaka, H. AU - Tanaka, S. AU - Yamaga, M. AU - Yoshioka, M. ED - Boland, Mark ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi ED - Button, David ED - Dowd, Rohan ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Tan, Eugene TI - On-Demand Beam Route and RF Parameter Switching System for Time-Sharing of a Linac for X-ray Free-Electron Laser as an Injector to a 4th-Generation Synchrotron Radiation Source J2 - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019 CY - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 10 LA - english AB - We have an upgrade plan of the SPring-8 storage ring to provide much more brilliant X-rays with a low-emittance electron beam. Since the upgraded ring requires a low-emittance injection beam, we are planning to timeshare the linac of the X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facility, SACLA, as an injector for the upgraded ring. The SACLA linac delivers low-emittance and short-bunch electron beams to two XFEL beamlines with a 60 Hz repetition rate. The beam route is right now equally changed by a kicker magnet at a switchyard. The beam parameter is also optimized for each XFEL beamline by changing RF parameters pulse-by-pulse with simple software at this moment*. Since the number of beam injection shots to the storage ring is much less frequent than XFEL shots, one of the XFEL shots must be overridden by an injection with on-demand basis. In addition, the beam quality, such as 1 mm mrad normalized emittance, 10 fs bunch length and 10 kA peak current, must be maintained not to deteriorate the XFEL performance. Therefore, we have developed an on-demand beam route and RF parameter switching system with sufficient speed, precision and reliability. A beam route data is transmitted to each accelerator unit by a reflective memory network, and special software changes the parameters of each accelerator unit pulse-by-pulse according to the received data. We tested the on-demand switching system at a test bench and the SACLA linac. The beam parameters were appropriately controlled with a negligible failure rate. The user service of the beam injection from SACLA to SPring-8 is scheduled in 2020 and the on-demand switching system is almost ready for the time-sharing operation of multiple XFEL beamlines and a SPring-8 injection. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 3427 EP - 3430 KW - linac KW - FEL KW - electron KW - injection KW - controls DA - 2019/06 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-208-0 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THYYPLS1 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/thyypls1.pdf ER -