Author: Pfeiffer, S.
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MOPOPA03 Beam-Transient-Based LLRF Voltage Signal Calibration for the European XFEL 80
 
  • N. Walker, V. Ayvazyan, J. Branlard, S. Pfeiffer, Ch. Schmidt
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  The European XFEL linac consists of 25 superconducting RF (SRF) stations. With the exception of the first station which is part of the injector, each station comprises 32 1.3-GHz SRF TESLA cavities, driven by a single 10-MW klystron. A sophisticated state-of-the-art low-level RF (LLRF) system maintains the complex vector sum of each RF station. Monitoring and maintaining the calibration of the cavity electric field (gradient) probe signals has proven critical in achieving the maximum energy performance and availability of the SRF linac. Since there are no dedicated diagnostics for cross-checking calibration of the LLRF system, a procedure has been implemented based on simultaneously measuring the beam transient in open-loop operation of all cavities. Based on methods originally developed at FLASH, the European XFEL procedure makes use of automation and the XFEL LLRF DAQ system to provide a robust and relatively fast (minutes) way of extracting the transient data, and is now routinely scheduled once per week. In this paper, we will report on the background, implementation, analysis methods, typical results, and their subsequent application for machine operation.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-MOPOPA03  
About • Received ※ 13 August 2022 — Revised ※ 23 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 27 September 2022
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THPOJO03 RF Performance of a Next-Generation L-Band RF Gun at PITZ 699
 
  • M. Krasilnikov, Z. Aboulbanine, G.D. Adhikari, N. Aftab, P. Boonpornprasert, M.E. Castro Carballo, G.Z. Georgiev, J. Good, M. Groß, A. Hoffmann, C. Koschitzki, X.-K. Li, A. Lueangaramwong, D. Melkumyan, R. Niemczyk, A. Oppelt, B. Petrosyan, S. Philipp, M. Pohl, H.J. Qian, C.J. Richard, J. Schultze, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko, T. Weilbach
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
  • M. Bousonville, F. Brinker, M. Hoffmann, K. Knebel, D. Kostin, S. Lederer, L. Lilje, S. Pfeiffer, R. Ritter, S. Schreiber, H. Weise, J. Ziegler
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • G. Shu
    IHEP, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
  • M. Wenskat
    University of Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany
 
  A new generation of normal conducting 1.3GHz RF gun was developed to provide a high-quality electron source for superconducting linac driven free-electron lasers like FLASH and European XFEL. Compared to the Gun4 series, Gun5 aims for a 50% increase of the duration of the RF pulse (up to 1 ms at 10 Hz repetition rate) combined with high gradients (up to ~60 MV/m at the cathode). In addition to the improved impedance, the new cavity is equipped with an RF probe to measure and control the amplitude and phase of the RF field inside the gun. The first prototype of the new RF gun was manufactured at DESY and installed at the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY in Zeuthen (PITZ) in October 2021. In mid-October 2021 the RF conditioning began, aiming for achieving the aforementioned RF parameters. The conditioning procedure involves a slow gradual increase in repetition rate, RF pulse duration and peak power while carefully monitoring vacuum conditions and signals from interlock sensors. The results of RF conditioning will be reported.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPOJO03  
About • Received ※ 26 August 2022 — Revised ※ 31 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 03 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 September 2022
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