Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
The Fermilab Booster accelerates bunches and accelerates proton beams from 400 MeV to 8 GeV. During the acceleration the Radio Frequency (RF) cavities are swept from 38MHz to 52.8MHz and requires crossing through transition where accelerating phase is shifted 90 degrees. In order to keep the beam stable and minimize losses and emittance growth a longitudinal damping system is required. This has traditionally been done by dedicated analog electronics designed to operate on specific beam modes for frequencies of instabilities. A complete digital implementation has been developed for this same purpose. The new digital system features and performance are detailed.
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
Northern Illinois Univerity, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan
BYU-I, Rexburg, USA
KU, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
The low-energy section of the photoinjector-based electron linear accelerator at the Fermilab Accelerator Science & Technology (FAST) facility was recently commissioned to an energy of 50 MeV. This linear accelerator relies primarily upon pulsed SRF acceleration and an optional bunch compressor to produce a stable beam within a large operational regime in terms of bunch charge, total average charge, bunch length, and beam energy. Various instrumentation was used to characterize fundamental properties of the electron beam including the intensity, stability, emittance, and bunch length. While much of this instrumentation was commissioned in a 20 MeV running period prior, some (including a new Martin-Puplett interferometer) was in development or pending installation at that time. All instrumentation has since been recommissioned over the wide operational range of beam energies up to 50 MeV, intensities up to 4 nC/pulse, and bunch structures from ~1 ps to more than 50 ps in length.
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
The PIP-II injector test accelerator is an integrated systems test for the front-end of a proposed CW-compatible, pulsed H− superconducting RF linac. This linac is part of Fermilab's Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) upgrade. This injector test accelerator will help minimize the technical risk elements for PIP-II and validate the concept of the front-end. Major goals of the injector accelerator are to test a CW RFQ and H− source, a bunch-by-bunch MEBT beam chopper and stable beam acceleration through low-energy superconducting cavities. Operation and characterization of this injector places stringent demands on the types and performance of the accelerator beam diagnostics. This paper discusses the beam intensity monitor systems as well as early commissioning measurements of beam transport through the Medium-Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) beamline.
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
The Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) injector test accelerator is an integrated systems test for the front-end of a proposed continuous-wave (CW) compatible, pulsed H− superconducting RF linac. This linac is part of Fermilab's PIP-II upgrade. This injector test accelerator will help minimize the technical risk elements for PIP-II and validate the concept of the front-end. Major goals of the injector accelerator are to test a CW RFQ and H− source, a bunch-by-bunch Medium-Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) beam chopper and stable beam acceleration through low-energy superconducting cavities. Operation and characterization of this injector places stringent demands on the types and performance of the accelerator beam diagnostics. A beam position monitor (BPM) system has been developed for this application and early commissioning measurements have been taken of beam transport through the beamline.