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MOPO036 | Status of the 10 MW MBKs during Commissioning of the European XFEL in DESY | 102 |
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At present 26 RF stations for European XFEL are in operation. Each of the RF stations consists of a HV modulator located in a separate building on the DESY campus, up to 1600 m long 10 kV HV cables that connect the modulator and the HV pulse transformer located in the underground tunnel, 120kV, 3 m long HV cable connecting the HV pulse transformer and the connection module of the horizontal multi-beam klystron. Two RF stations of the injector have already achieved about 20000 hours of operation, RF stations of the XFEL bunch compressor area have operated up to 11000 hours and in the XFEL main linac up to 8000 hours. To increase the lifetime of the klystrons, we use a fast protection system (KLM) that is based on the comparison of the actual RF shape and the expected RF shape. In the case of a difference exceeding a certain margin, for example, in the case of RF breakdown in a klystron or RF breakdown in a waveguide system, the KLM quickly, shorter than 500 ns, switches off the input RF signal. Thus, it does prevents the vacuum level in the klystron worsen too much or it minimizes the RF overvoltage time at the output windows of the klystron in case of breakdown in waveguides. | ||
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Poster MOPO036 [0.658 MB] | |
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-MOPO036 | |
About • | paper received ※ 05 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 19 September 2018 issue date ※ 18 January 2019 | |
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MOPO038 | RF Operation Experience at the European XFEL | 109 |
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After its successful commissioning which took place during the first half of 2017, the European X-ray free electron laser is in now in regular operation delivering photons to users since September 2017. This paper presents an overview on the experience gathered during the first couple of years of operation. In particular, the focus is set on RF operation, maintenance activities, availability and typical failures. A first look on machine performance in terms of RF and beam stability, energy reach, radiation related investigations and microphonics studies will also be presented. | ||
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-MOPO038 | |
About • | paper received ※ 11 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 20 September 2018 issue date ※ 18 January 2019 | |
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MOPO039 | Status Update of the Fast Energy Corrector Cavity at FLASH | 112 |
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Funding: The work is part of EuCARD-2, partly funded by the European Commission, GA 312453. Linear accelerator facilities driving a free-electron laser require femtosecond precision synchronization between external laser systems and the electron beam. Such high precision is required for pump-probe experiments and also for example for the electron bunch injection into a plasma bubble for laser plasma acceleration. An upgrade of the fast intra-train beam-based feedback system is planned at the Free-Electron Laser FLASH in Hamburg, Germany. This linear accelerator is based on superconducting (SRF) technology operating with pulse trains of maximum 1 MHz bunch repetition rate. Arrival time fluctuations of the electron beam are correctable by introducing small energy modulations prior to the magnetic bunch compressor. This contribution focuses on the design and the characterization of a normal-conducting RF (NRF) cavity with large bandwidth, mandatory to correct fast arrival time fluctuations. The cavity has recently been installed in the FLASH beamline. First measurements with the new cavity will be presented. |
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Poster MOPO039 [1.884 MB] | |
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-MOPO039 | |
About • | paper received ※ 13 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 20 September 2018 issue date ※ 18 January 2019 | |
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TUPO132 | Implementation of the Beam Loading Compensation Algorithm in the LLRF System of the European XFEL | 594 |
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In the European XFEL, a maximum number of 2700 electron bunches per RF pulse with beam currents up to 4.5mA can be accelerated. Such large beam currents can cause a significant drop of the accelerating gradients, which results in large energy changes across the macro-pulse. But, the electron bunch energies should not deviate from the nominal energy to guarantee stable and reproducible generation of photon pulses for the European XFEL users. To overcome this issue, the Low Level RF system (LLRF) compensates in real-time the beam perturbation using a Beam Loading Compensation algorithm (BLC) minimizing the transient gradient variations. The algorithm takes the charge information obtained from beam diagnostic systems e.g. Beam Position Monitors (BPM) and information from the timing system. The BLC is a part of the LLRF controller implemented in the FPGA. The article presents the implementation of the algorithm in the FPGA and shows the results achieved with the BLC in the European XFEL. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-TUPO132 | |
About • | paper received ※ 11 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 20 September 2018 issue date ※ 18 January 2019 | |
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