Conveners
Session 1a
- John Moss (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The talk will cover operation and operational aspects of megawatt CW tetrode amplifiers, summarizing the following topics:
- What are the typical faults and problems and their impact on availability.
- What do we need to do as preventive maintenance to reduce the down time in operation.
- What is the level of remote diagnostics and how much we can "fix remotely".
- What is a typical...
Brookhaven National Lab’s NSLS-II storage ring currently utilizes two 310kW Klystron Transmitters and one 310kW Solid State Amplifier (SSA) to support its operations. Each Klystron Transmitter is comprised of a 310kW klystron, a 50 kV cathode power supply, several commercially available power supplies along with controls and interlock systems. These Klystron Transmitters have been in...
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, TN, USA completed the proton power upgrade (PPU) project in 2024 and is operating with 1.7 MW of beam power on target (August 2024). A ~1 ms long H- beam pulse produced by the RF-driven SNS Front-End Ion Source is accelerated to 1.3 GeV in the SNS linear accelerator (linac) and transported to...
