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The J-PARC linac was consist of 324MHz low-{\beta} section and 972MHz high-{\beta} section. There is a total of 48 stations. And each station was equipped with an independent LLRF (Low-Level Radio Frequency) system to realize an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 S. Li , K. Futatsukawa , Y. Fukui , Z. Fang , S. Shinozaki , Y. Sato , S. Mizobata

The Low-Level RF (LLRF) control circuits of linear accelerators (LINACs) are conventionally realized with heterodyne based architectures, which have analog RF mixers for up and down conversion with discrete data converters. We have…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Chao Liu , Ryan Herbst , Larry Ruckman , Emilio Nanni

The rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) is part of China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). The RCS provides 1.6GeV protons with a repetition rate of 25Hz. The RF system in RCS is mainly composed of a ferrite loaded RF cavity, a high power…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Li Xiao , Sun Hong , Long Wei , Zhao Fa-Cheng , Zhang Chun-Lin

The LLRF of five of TRIUMF's ISAC-1 accelerator cavities have been replaced by 3 similar FPGA based system with different operating frequencies. These LLRF use internal digital phase locked loops for frequency generation and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 K. Fong , X. Fu , Q. W. Zheng , T. Au , R. Leewe , TRIUMF , V6T2A3 , Vancouver , Canada

A precise and stable timing system is necessary for high intensity proton accelerators such as the J-PARC. The original timing system, which was developed during the construction period of the J-PARC, has been working without major issues…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Fumihiko Tamura , Hiroki Takahashi , Norihiko Kamikubota , Yuichi Ito , Naoki Hayashi

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…

High precision Low-level RF (LLRF) control and monitoring systems for future particle accelerators will be a significant technical challenge as the requirements in performance, flexibility and affordability become increasingly stringent. We…

The project of a10MeV PET cyclotron accelerator for medical diagnosis and treatment was started at Amirkabir University of Technology in 2012. The low-level RF system of cyclotron accelerator is designed to stabilize acceleration voltage…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 M. S. Sharifi Asadi Malafeh , M. Ghergherehchi , H. Afarideh , J. S. Chai

Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) aims at a MW-class proton accelerator facility. One of the promising solutions for increasing the beam power of the Main Ring (MR) is converters of the main magnets with new ones for this…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Tetsushi Shimogawa , Yoshinori Kurimoto , Yuichi Morita , Kazuki Miura , Daichi Naito

Normal conducting linear particle accelerators consist of multiple rf stations with accelerating structure cavities. Low-level rf (LLRF) systems are employed to set the phase and amplitude of the field in the accelerating structure, and to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 C. Liu , L. Ruckman , R. Herbst , D. Palmer , V. Borzenets , A. Dhar , D. Amirari , R. Agustsson , R. Berry , E. Nanni

The proposed Next Linear Collider (NLC) contains linac systems operating at L,S,C, and X band. This paper describes a wideband modular low-level RF (LLRF) system applicable for all NLC pulsed RF systems. High speed digital IF techniques are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Corredoura , C. Adolphsen

This work describes the LLRF and control system in use for a novel accelerator structure developed for a compact design operating in C-band developed by SLAC, with collaboration from RadiaBeam and RadiaSoft. This design is a pulsed…

The ISIS synchrotron at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK now routinely uses a dual harmonic RF system to accelerate beam currents in excess of 230uA to run two target stations simultaneously. The acceleration in the ISIS…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Andrew Seville , David B. Allen , Ian S. K. Gardner , Robert J. Mathieson

At the Ibaraki Neutron Medical Research Center, an accelerator-based neutron source for iBNCT (Ibaraki - Boron Neutron Capture Therapy) is being developed using an 8-MeV proton linac and a beryllium-based neutron production target. The…

A compact low-level RF (LLRF) control system based on RF system-on-chip (RFSoC) technology has been designed for the Advanced Concept Compact Electron Linear-accelerator (ACCEL) program, which has challenging requirements in both RF…

The low-level RF (LLRF) systems for linear accelerating structures are typically based on heterodyne architectures. The linear accelerators normally have many RF stations and multiple RF inputs and outputs for each station, so the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 C. Liu , E. Snively , R. Herbst , K. Kim , E. A. Nanni

The first version of digital low level RF (DLLRF) for the Diamond Light Source storage ring and booster was developed with ALBA Synchrotron. Six systems have been built so far. Two of them are in routine operation controlling two normal…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 P Gu , C. Christou , P. Hamadyk , G. B. Christian , D. Spink , A. Tropp

The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) beam power was successfully reached 125 kW with a low beam loss in February 2022. In order to increase beam power, during the summer in 2022, we employ magnetic-alloy (MA) cavity in the rapid…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Yang Liu , Xiang Li , Jian Wu

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

In 2023, we are replacing the LLRF system for the KEK-PF 2.5 GeV ring. The new system is composed of digital boards such as eRTM, AMC, and {\mu}RTM, based on the MTCA.4 standard. In our system, we adopted the non-IQ direct sampling method…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 D. Naito , N. Yamamoto , T. Takahashi , A. Motomura , S. Sakanaka
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