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Beam Chopper Development for Next Generation High Power Proton Drivers. Michael A. Clarke-Gayther. RAL / FETS / HIPPI. Outline. Overview Fast Pulse Generator (FPG) Slow Pulse Generator (SPG) Slow – wave electrode designs Summary. Mike Clarke-Gayther (WP4 Fast Beam Chopper & MEBT).
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Beam Chopper Development forNext GenerationHigh Power Proton Drivers Michael A. Clarke-Gayther RAL / FETS / HIPPI
Outline • Overview • Fast Pulse Generator (FPG) • Slow Pulse Generator (SPG) • Slow – wave electrode designs • Summary
Mike Clarke-Gayther (WP4 Fast Beam Chopper & MEBT) Maurizio Vretenar (WP Coordinator) Alessandra Lombardi (WP4 Leader) Luca Bruno, Fritz Caspers Frank Gerigk, Tom Kroyer Mauro Paoluzzi Edgar Sargsyan, Carlo Rossi Chris Prior (WP Coordinator) Ciprian Plostinar (WP2 & 4 N-C Structures / MEBT) Christoph Gabor (WP5 / Beam Dynamics
Mike Clarke-Gayther (Chopper / MEBT) Adeline Daly (HPRF sourcing & R8) Dan Faircloth (Ion source) Alan Letchford (RFQ / (Leader) Jürgen Pozimski (Ion source / RFQ) Chris Thomas (Laser diagnostics) Aaron Cheng (LPRF) Simon Jolly (LEBT Diagnostics) Ajit Kurup (RFQ) David Lee (Diagnostics) Jürgen Pozimski (Ion source/ RFQ) Peter Savage (Mechanical Eng.) Christoph Gabor (Laser diagnostics) Ciprian Plostinar (MEBT / DTL) John Back (LEBT)
A Fast Beam chopper for Next Generation Proton Drivers / Motivation • To reduce beam loss at trapping and extraction • Enable ‘Hands on’ maintenance (1 Watt / m) • To support complex beam delivery schemes • Enable low loss ‘switchyards’ and duty cycle control • To provide beam diagnostic function • Enable ‘low risk’ accelerator development
The RAL Front-End Test Stand (FETS) Project / Key parameters
3.0 MeV MEBT Chopper (RAL FETS Scheme A) 4.6 m Chopper 1 (fast transition) Beam dump 1 Chopper 2 (slower transition) Beam dump 2 ‘CCL’ type re-buncher cavities
3.0 MeV MEBT Chopper (RAL FETS Scheme A) 2.3 m Chopper 1 (fast transition) ‘CCL’ type re-buncher cavities Beam dump 1 (low duty cycle)
3.0 MeV MEBT Chopper (RAL FETS Scheme A) 2.3 m Chopper 2 (slower transition) Beam dump 2 (high duty cycle) ‘CCL’ type re-buncher cavities
FETS Scheme A / Beam-line layout and GPT trajectory plots Voltages: Chop 1: +/- 1.28 kV (20 mm gap) Chop 2: +/- 1.42 kV (18 mm gap) Losses: 0.1 % @ input to CH1, 0.3% on dump 1 0.1% on CH2, 0.3% on dump 2
High peak power loads Control and interface Power supply 9 x Pulse generator cards 1.7 m 9 x Pulse generator cards Combiner 9 x Pulse generator cards 9 x Pulse generator cards FPG / Front View
SPG beam line layout and load analysis Slow chopper electrodes Beam 16 close coupled ‘slow’ pulse generator modules
Prototype 8 kV SPG euro-cassette module / Side view Axial cooling fans Air duct High voltage feed-through (output port) 0.26 m 8 kV push-pull MOSFET switch module Low-inductance HV damping resistors
SPG waveform measurement / HTS 41-06-GSM-CF-HFB (4 kV) Tr =12.0 ns Tf =10.8 ns • SPG waveforms at ± 4 kV peak & 50 μs / div. • SPG waveforms at ± 4 kV peak & 50 ns / div.
‘E-field chopping / Slow-wave electrode design The relationships for field (E), and transverse displacement (x), where q is the electronic charge, is the beam velocity, m0 is the rest mass, z is the effective electrode length, is the required deflection angle, V is the deflecting potential, and d is the electrode gap, are: Where: Transverse extent of the beam: L2 Beam transit time for distance L1: T(L1) Pulse transit time in vacuum for distance L2: T(L2) Pulse transit time in dielectric for distance L3: T(L3) Electrode width: L4 For the generalised slow wave structure: Maximum value for L1 = V1 (T3 - T1) / 2 Minimum Value for L1 = L2 (V1/ V2) T(L1) = L1/V1 = T(L2) + T(L3)
Strategy for the development of RAL slow–wave structures • Modify ESS 2.5 MeV helical and planar designs • Reduce delay to enable 3 MeV operation • Increase beam aperture to ~ 20 mm • Maximise field coverage and homogeneity • Simplify design - minimise number of parts • Investigate effects of dimensional tolerances • Ensure compatibility with NC machining practise • Identify optimum materials • Modify helical design for CERN MEBT • Shrink to fit in 95 mm ID vacuum vessel
RAL Planar A2 / Pre-prototype Coaxial interface adapter Extended dielectricconnector (SMA)
Helical structure B2 / Prototype UT-390 semi-rigid coaxial delay lines
Helical structure B2 / Pre-prototype Coaxial interface adapter Extended dielectricconnector (SMA)
FPG • Meets key specifications • SPG • 4 kV version looks promising • Slow-wave electrode designs • Planar and Helical designs now scaled to 3.0 MeV • Beam aperture increased to 19.0 mm • HF models of components with trim function • Analysis of coverage factor • Analysis of effect of dimensional tolerances • Identification of optimum materials / metallisation • Identification of coaxial components and semi-rigid cable • Designs compatible with NC machining practice
Some final comments and the next steps The development of FETS optical scheme A has lowered the working voltage requirement for the FPG and SPG. The existing FPG is now compliant, and the results of recent tests on a 4 kV SPG switch module are promising. Modification of the existing 8 kV euro-cassette design will enable the 4 kV switch to be tested at the specified duty cycle. The RAL slow wave electrode designs are mechanically more complex than the CERN design, but simulations indicate that E-field coverage factor and transverse uniformity should be superior. The design of planar and helical pre-prototype modules is nearing completion, and results of HF tests should be available by the year end.
HIPPI WP4: The RAL† Fast Beam Chopper Development Programme Progress Report for the period: July 2005 – December 2006 M. A. Clarke-Gayther † † STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK
M Clarke-Gayther, ‘Slow-wave chopper structures for Next Generation High Power Proton Drivers’, Proc of PAC 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 25th – 29th June, 2007, pp.1637-1639 M Clarke-Gayther, ‘Slow-wave electrode structures for the ESS 2.5 MeV fast chopper’, Proc. of PAC 2003, Portland, Oregon, USA, 12th - 16th May, 2003, pp. 1473-1475 M Clarke-Gayther, G Bellodi, F Gerigk, ‘A fast beam chopper for the RAL Front-End Test Stand’, Proc. of EPAC 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 26th - 30th June, 2006, pp. 300-302. F Caspers, A Mostacci, S Kurennoy, ‘Fast Chopper Structure for the CERN SPL’, Proc. of EPAC 2002, Paris, France, 3-7 June, 2002, pp. 873-875. F Caspers, ‘Review of Fast Beam Chopping’, Proc. of LINAC 2004, Lubeck, Germany, 16-20 August, 2004, pp. 294-296.