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State of the art high-current superconducting accelerators require efficient RF sources with a fast dynamic phase and power control. This allows for compensation of the phase and amplitude deviations of the accelerating voltage in the…
The electron cyclotron heating system including four gyrotrons is under developed in the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The filament is an important part of the gyrotron, which is used to heat the cathode. Each…
The protection of accelerator equipment is as old as accelerator technology and was for many years related to high-power equipment. Examples are the protection of powering equipment from overheating (magnets, power converters, high-current…
The gyrotron is the high power millimeter wave source in the electron cyclotron resonance heating system for the tokamak. The cathode power supply is one of the most important ancillary devices for gyrotron. Some interesting transient…
This paper introduces the protection of circular particle accelerators from accidental beam losses. Already the energy stored in the beams for accelerators such as the TEVATRON at Fermilab and Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN could…
The working principle of a electric current transformer is based on electromagnetic induction, mainly composed of a closed iron core and windings. Its primary winding has relatively few turns and is connected in series with the current…
Ultra-thin magnetic tunnel junctions with low resistive MgO tunnel barriers are prepared to examine their stability under large current stress. The devices show magnetoresistance ratios of up to 110 % and an area resistance product of down…
Transition edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeters and bolometers are used for a variety of applications. The sensors are based on the steep temperature-dependent resistance of the normal-to-superconducting transition, and are thus…
The radio-frequency (RF) system is the key element that generates electric fields for beam acceleration. To keep the system reliable, a highly sophisticated protection scheme is required, which also should be designed to ensure a good…
Inverter-interfaced microgrids, owing to the lack of fault current, cannot be protected using traditional over-current protections, while admittance or differential relaying protection schemes are not practical to be implemented. Dynamic…
The rapid increase of distributed energy resources has led to the widespread deployment of microgrids. These flexible and efficient local energy grids are able to operate in both grid-connected mode and islanded mode; they are interfaced to…
A procedure for avoiding the quenching associated to a previously reported method for inducing currents in superconducting rings [H. Gonzalez-Jorge et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 4207 (2002)] is proposed. High persistent currents are induced…
Numerous proposed and developed superconducting fault current limiters and self-limiting transformers limit successfully fault currents but do not provide uninterrupted supplying of consumers. A design investigated in the work combines the…
High field superconducting magnets using high temperature superconductors are being developed for high energy physics, nuclear magnetic resonance and energy storage applications. Although the conductor technology has progressed to the point…
Phase and power control methods that satisfy the requirements of superconducting accelerators to magnetron RF sources were considered by a simplified kinetic model of a magnetron driven by a resonant injected signal. The model predicting…
Grid-interfacing inverters allow renewable resources to be connected to the electric grid and offer fast and programmable control responses. However, inverters are subject to significant physical constraints. One such constraint is a…
Protection of accelerator equipment is as old as accelerator technology and was for many years related to high-power equipment. Examples are the protection of powering equipment from overheating (magnets, power converters, high-current…
Over-Current (OC) protection is one of the pervasive protections in solar-based DC microgrids. Fast operation is a key advantage of its popularity. On the other hand, utilizing OC in DC microgrids has some challenges that are not in AC…
This paper investigates how grid-forming (GFM) and grid-following (GFL) control strategies in inverter-based resources (IBRs) influence line distance and differential protection in converter-dominated transmission systems. A modified IEEE…
Due to the energy crisis and environmental pollution, the installed capacity of inverter-based resources (IBRs) in power grids is rapidly increasing, and grid-following control (GFL) is the most prevalent at present. Meanwhile, grid-forming…