Author: Bowring, D.L.
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MOPOB17 Resonant Frequency Control for the PIP-II Injector Test RFQ: Control Framework and Initial Results 109
 
  • A.L. Edelen, S. Biedron, S.V. Milton
    CSU, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
  • D.L. Bowring, B.E. Chase, J.P. Edelen, D.J. Nicklaus, J. Steimel
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  
  Funding: Work supported by Fermilab Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359.
For the PIP-II Injector Test (PI-Test) at Fermilab, a four-vane radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) is designed to accelerate a 30-keV, 1-mA to 10-mA H' beam to 2.1 MeV under both pulsed and continuous wave (CW) RF operation. The available headroom of the RF amplifiers limit the maximum allowable detuning to 3 kHz, and the detuning is controlled entirely via thermal regulation. Fine control over the detuning, minimal manual intervention, and fast trip recovery is desired. In addition, having active control over both the walls and vanes provides a wider tuning range. For this, we intend to use model predictive control (MPC). To facilitate these objectives, we developed a dedicated control framework that handles higher-level system decisions as well as executes control calculations. It is written in Python in a modular fashion for easy adjustments, readability, and portability. Here we describe the framework and present the first control results for the PI-Test RFQ under pulsed and CW operation. 		 
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MOPOB52 Dielectric Loaded High Pressure Gas Filled RF Cavities for Use in Muon Cooling Channels 177
 
  • B.T. Freemire
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • M. Backfish, D.L. Bowring, A. Moretti, D.W. Peterson, A.V. Tollestrup, K. Yonehara
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • R.P. Johnson
    Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
  • A.V. Kochemirovskiy
    University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Y. Torun
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illlinois, USA
  
  Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
High brightness muon beams require significant six dimensional cooling. One cooling scheme, the Helical Cooling Channel, employs high pressure gas filled radio frequency cavities, which provide both the absorber needed for ionization cooling, and a means to mitigate RF breakdown. The cavities are placed along the beam's trajectory, and contained within the bores of superconducting solenoid magnets. Gas filled RF cavities have been shown to successfully operate within multi-Tesla external magnetic fields, and not be overcome with the loading resulting from beam-induced plasma. The remaining engineering hurdle is to find a way to fit 325 and 650 MHz single cell pillbox cavities within the bores of the magnets using modern technology. One method to accomplish this is to partially fill the cavities with a dielectric material. Alumina (Al2O3) is an ideal dielectric, and the experimental test program to determine its performance under high power in a gas filled cavity has concluded. The final results, and their implications for the design of a muon cooling channel based on gas filled RF cavities will be discussed. 		 
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