Author: Kaftoosian, A.
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WEC4C2 Multiharmonic Buncher for the Isolde Superconducting Recoil Separator Project 321
 
  • J.L. Muñoz, I. Bustinduy, P.J. González, A. Kaftoosian, L.C. Medina, S. Varnasseri
    ESS Bilbao, LEIOA, Spain
  • I. Martel
    University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
 
  Funding: This work has been supported by the European Union ¿NextGenerationEU program
The ISOLDE Superconducting Recoil Separator (ISRS) is a proposal of building a very compact separator ring as an instrument in the HIE-ISOLDE facility. The injection of the HIE-ISOLDE beam into this ring requires a more compact bunch structure, so a Multi-Harmonic Buncher device is proposed for this task. The MHB will operate at a frequency of 10.128 MHz, which is a 10% of the linac frequency, and would be installed before the RFQ. The MHB is desgined as a two electrodes system, and the MHB signal, composed for the first four harmonics of the fundamental frequency, is fed into the electrodes that are connected to the central conductor of a coaxial waveguides. The full design of the MHB is presented, including electromagnetic optimization of the electrode shape, optimization of the weights of each of the harmonic contribution, mechanical and thermal design of the structure. The RF generation and electronics to power up the device are also presented. A solution that generates directly the composed signal andis then amplified by a solid state power amplifier is also presented in this contribution.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-WEC4C2  
About • Received ※ 29 September 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 09 October 2023 — Issued ※ 27 October 2023
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THBP01 ESS-Bilbao RFQ Power Coupler: Design, Simulations and Tests 433
 
  • I. Bustinduy, A. Conde, D. Fernández-Cañoto, N. Garmendia, P.J. González, G. Harper, A. Kaftoosian, J. Martin, J.L. Muñoz
    ESS Bilbao, Zamudio, Spain
  • A.P. Letchford
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
 
  ESS-Bilbao RFQ power coupler is presented. The RFQ operates at 352.2 MHz and will accelerate the 32 mA proton beam extracted from the ion source up to 3.0MeV. The RFQ will complete the ESS-Bilbao injector, that can be used by the ARGITU neutron source or as a stand-alone facility. The machining of the RFQ is finished, and vacuum tests as well as low power RF measurements have been carried out. The presented power coupler is a first iteration of the device, designed to be of easier and faster manufacturing than what might be needed for future upgrades of the linac. The coupler does not have active cooling and no brazing has been needed to assemble it. It can operate at the RF power required by the RFQ but at lower duty cycles. The dielectric window is made of polymeric material, so it can withhold the assembly using vacuum seals and bolts. Design and manufacturing issues are reported in the paper, as well as the RF tests that have been carried out at medium power. Multipacting calculations compared to measured values during conditioning are also reported. High power tests of the coupler have also been performed in the ISIS-FETS RFQ and are also described here.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-THBP01  
About • Received ※ 29 September 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 11 October 2023 — Issued ※ 28 October 2023
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THBP57 A Novel RF Power Source for the ESS-Bilbao Ion Source 621
 
  • S. Masa, I. Bustinduy, P.J. González, A. Kaftoosian, L.C. Medina, R. Miracoli, S. Varnasseri
    ESS Bilbao, LEIOA, Spain
 
  This paper presents the improvements in the ESS Bilbao Proton Ion Source by replacing the amplified radio frequency (RF) pulse of a Klystron-based amplification system using a Solid-State Power Amplifier (SSPA). This new amplification system is based on a 1kW SSPA (2.7 GHz), a Compact-RIO (cRIO) device, a voltage-controlled RF attenuator and auxiliary electronics. The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) serves as distributed control system (DCS) for controlling and monitoring the data required to achieve a 1.5 ms flat and stable pulse at repetition rate of 14 Hz. The following lines describe the structural and control system changes done in the ion source due to the addition of the SSPA-based amplification system, along with the results of the proton beam extraction tests that demonstrate how this system can serve as a viable substitute for the Klystron-based amplification system.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-THBP57  
About • Received ※ 28 September 2023 — Accepted ※ 09 October 2023 — Issued ※ 26 October 2023  
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