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Fermilab is planning the construction of a prototype front end of the Project X linac. The Project X Injector Experiment (PXIE) is expected to accelerate 1 mA cw H- beam up to 30 MeV. Some of the major goals of the project are to test a cw…

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FLASH and the European XFEL are SASE-FEL user facilities, at which superconducting TESLA cavities are operated in a pulsed mode to accelerate long bunch-trains. Several cavities are powered by one klystron. While the low-level rf system is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 Thorsten Hellert , Martin Dohlus , Winfried Decking

The FLASH L-band (1.3 GHz) superconducting accelerator facility at DESY has a Low Level RF (LLRF) system that is similar to that envisioned for ILC. This system has extensive monitoring capability and was used to gather performance data…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-03-10 Shilun Pei , Chris Adolphsen , John Carwardine

The LIGHT (Linac for Image-Guided Hadron Therapy) project was initiated to develop a modular proton accelerator delivering beam with energies up to 230 MeV for cancer therapy. The machine consists of three different kinds of accelerating…

Electronic systems are becoming more and more ubiquitous as our world digitises. Simultaneously, even basic components are experiencing a wave of improvements with new transistors, memristors, voltage/current references, data converters,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Patrick Foster , Jinqi Huang , Alex Serb , Spyros Stathopoulos , Christos Papavassiliou , Themis Prodromakis

The LCLS2 Free Electron Laser FEL will generate xray pulses to beamline experiments at up to 1Mhz These experimentals will require new ultrahigh rate UHR detectors that can operate at rates above 100 kHz and generate data throughputs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-01 Ryan Herbst , Ryan Coffee , Nathan Fronk , Kukhee Kim , Kuktae Kim , Larry Ruckman , J. J. Russell

A multi-MW proton facility, Project X has been proposed and is currently under development at Fermilab. As part of this development program, we are constructing a prototype of the front end of the Project X linac at Fermilab. The…

A new powerful longitudinal diagnostics is being developed for the two CERN's antiproton machines, the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) and the Extra Low ENergy ANtiproton (ELENA) ring. The longitudinal diagnostics receives data from the…

The upgrade of the normal conducting (NC) Radioactive Ion Beam EXperiment (REX)-ISOLDE heavy ion accelerator at CERN, under the High Intensity and Energy (HIE)-ISOLDE framework, proposes the use of superconducting (SC) quarter-wave…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 M. A. Fraser , M. Pasini , R. M. Jones , M. Lindroos

We report on the development of a radio frequency (RF) linear accelerator (linac) for multiple-ion beams that is made from stacks of low cost wafers. The accelerator lattice is comprised of RF-acceleration gaps and electrostatic quadrupole…

We have developed high-efficiency normal-conducting RF accelerating structures by combining H-mode resonator cavities and a transverse beam focusing by permanent-magnet quadrupoles (PMQ), for beam velocities in the range of a few percent of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 Sergey S. Kurennoy , Lawrence J. Rybarcyk , James F. O'Hara , Eric R. Olivas , Thomas P. Wangler

A 20 GHz LLRF system is being built using a two-board(RF Front End + ADC/DAC/FPGA) architecture. The RF Front End provides 8 down-converting channels and 3 up-converting channels (5.5-20 GHz RF to 0.05-3 GHz IF). Separate, phase locked,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-29 A. Rohlev

The low level rf (LLRF) control system for the rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) started its operation in 2007. The key functions of the LLRF control system are the dual harmonic auto…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Fumihiko Tamura , Yasuyuki Sugiyama , Masahito Yoshii , Masatsugu Ryoshi

A LLRF control and data acquisition system for the 8-cavity cryomodule1 at the ILCTA has been implemented using three 33-channel ADC boards in a VXI mainframe. One card each is dedicated to the cavity probes for vector control, forward…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 P. Varghese , B. Chase , B. Barnes , J. Branlard , E. Cullerton , P. Joireman , V. Tupikov

Hardware acceleration has emerged as a key research topic for supporting computationally intensive signal processing and artificial intelligence applications in 6G research and development studies. This paper presents an RF Network on Chip…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 A. Oguz Kislal , Osman Mert Yilmaz , Bengu Bilgic Keskin , Ibrahim Hokelek , Ali Gorcin

The first generation Low-Level radio frequency(LLRF) control system independently developed by IMPCAS, the operating frequency is 162.5MHz for China ADS, which consists of superconducting cavity amplitude stability control, phase stability…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 Zhenglong Zhu , Xianwu Wang , Lianghua Wen , Wei Chang , Ruifeng Zhang , Zheng Gao , Qi Chen

This paper describes the construction and operational status of an accelerator test facility for Project X. The purpose of this facility is for Project X component development activities that benefit from beam tests and any development…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 J. Steimel , R. Webber , R. Madrak , D. Wildman , R. Pasquinelli , E. Evans-Peoples

The advance in laser plasma acceleration techniques pushes the regime of the resulting accelerated particles to higher energies and intensities. In particular the upcoming experiments with the FLAME laser at LNF will enter the GeV regime…

Many modern and future particle accelerators employ high gradient superconducting RF (SRF) to generate beams of high energy, high intensity and high brightness for research in high energy and nuclear physics, basic energy sciences, etc. In…

The commissioning of two cryomodule components is underway at Fermilab's Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) Accelerator Test Facility. The research at this facility supports the next generation high intensity linear accelerators such as…

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