Thirteenth CW and High Average Power RF Workshop

from Monday, September 9, 2024 (7:30 AM) to Thursday, September 12, 2024 (7:00 PM)
Crowne Plaza Downtown, Knoxville, TN

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 10, 2024
Sep 11, 2024
Sep 12, 2024
AM
7:30 AM
Registration (until 8:30 AM)
8:30 AM
Welcome (until 8:45 AM)
8:45 AM
Session 1a - John Moss (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (until 10:10 AM)
8:45 AM What's new with the last 10 years of operation with the CERN SPS tetrode amplifiers? - Sebastien Jerome Calvo (CERN) Eric Montesinos (CERN)  
9:10 AM NSLS-II Klystron Transmitters - Michael Monteleone  
9:35 AM Overview of the SNS Ring RF Systems and Recent Work - Chip Piller (ORNL)  
10:10 AM --- Break ---
10:40 AM
Session 1b - Markus Schneider (until 12:00 PM)
10:40 AM 130 kW - 500 MHz Amplifiers Commissioning and Operation in Elettra - Dr Cristina Pasotti (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)  
11:05 AM Overview of Tetrode-Based RF System for High-Power Plasma Heating Operation in the 4-9 MHz Range for the MPEX Project at ORNL - Bodo Fritsche  
11:30 AM Status of the 400 kW Solid-State Power Amplifier Station at 352 MHz for the European Spallation Source (ESS) - Dr Dragos Dancila  
8:15 AM
Session 3a - Alessandro Fabris (until 9:55 AM)
8:15 AM Status and upgrade plan of SPring-8 RF system - takashi ohshima (RIKEN)  
8:40 AM Calibration of the analog beam-signal hardware for the beam power limit system at the Proton Power Upgrade Project at the Spallation Neutron Source - Craig Deibele (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
9:05 AM Enhanced RF Window Monitoring and Protection at the Spallation Neutron Source* - George Toby (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
9:30 AM NSLS-II Operations Experiences with our 310 kW Solid State Amplifier - Brian Holub (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
9:55 AM --- Break ---
10:25 AM
Session 3b -Dr Sam Pitman (CERN) (until 12:05 PM)
10:25 AM Current Status and Future Plans of TPS High Power RF System - Dr Chao-Hui Huang (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center)  
10:50 AM New GaN driver amplifier for RHIC 197 MHz rf system - Mark Hoffmann Wallner (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
11:15 AM A High Power 805 MHz RF Amplifier for LANSCE using GaN Devices - Mr John T. M. Lyles (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
11:40 AM PRESENT DAY RF GROUP POWER SYSTEMS AT THE ADVANCED PHOTON SOURCE - Gian Trento (Argonne National Laboratory)  
8:15 AM
Session 5a - James Rose (until 9:55 AM)
8:15 AM Development of a 120kW CWRF Solid State Power Amplifier System at 500MHz - Jens Weber (TRUMPF)  
8:40 AM Installation Of New Solid-State Amplifiers For CEBAF’s Pass 5 Extraction Cavities - Mark Wissmann  
9:05 AM Status of the HIPA Injector 2 upgrade at PSI - Markus Schneider  
9:30 AM Recent Experience with the SNS Ion Source 2 MHz Tube and Solid State RF Systems - Chip Piller (ORNL)  
9:55 AM --- Break ---
10:25 AM
Session 5b - Ming-Chyuan Lin (until 12:05 PM)
10:25 AM High Power RF Load Challenges at ESS - Walther Borg (European Spallation Source)  
10:50 AM S-Band Power Variator for Dual Energy LINACs based on Fast Ferrite Tuners - Dr Carsten Weil (AFT microwave GmbH)  
11:15 AM THE INTERLOCK SYSTEMS FOR HIGH POWER RF SSA SYSTEMS AT ARGONNE APS AND ATLAS - Yong Luo  
11:40 AM LANSCE CCL klystron reliability, evaluation, and path forward - Joseph Bradley, III (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Aditya Waghmare (los alamos national laboratory) John Lyles  
8:15 AM --- Travel to ORNL ---
9:00 AM SNS tour - tour guide (SNS)  
9:45 AM --- Travel to main campus ---
10:00 AM Graphite reactor - tour guide (SNS)  
10:45 AM Super computer - tour guide (SNS)  
11:30 AM --- Lunch ---
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Session 2a - Douglas Horan (Argonne National Laboratory) (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM Spallation Neutron Source RF - Past, Present, and Future - Mr John Moss (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
2:25 PM Ten Years of RF Operation with the TH628L Diacrode at LANSCE - John Lyles  
2:50 PM Development of new solid-state RF amplifiers at SIRIUS - Vitor Freire (CNPEM)  
3:15 PM Status and operational readiness of the ESS RF Systems - morten jensen (European Spallation Source ERIC)  
3:40 PM --- Break ---
4:10 PM
Session 2b - morten jensen (European Spallation Source ERIC) (until 5:30 PM)
4:15 PM Modifications of the Storage Ring RF systems to support APS-U - Aditya Goel (Argonne National Lab)  
4:40 PM Testing and Improvements on the 27 MHz RF System for plasma generation at the Spallation Neutron Source - Amith Hulikal Narayan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
5:05 PM Vertical test on a 2-cell 1.5-GHz SRF cavity - Ming-Chyuan Lin  
5:30 PM
Industry session 1 (until 6:00 PM)
5:30 PM Challenges and breakthroughs in recent RF Solid State PA design by Radian Combiner design with Initiatives for SDGs - Mr Riichiro Kobana (R&K Company Limited)  
6:00 PM --- Reception ---
12:05 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Session 4a -Prof. Daniel Valuch (CERN) (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM Progress Report -- Transition from Klystrons to Solid State RF at the Advanced Photon Source - Douglas Horan (Argonne National Laboratory)  
2:25 PM Klystrons at CERN: operational experience and plans for the future - Chiara Marrelli (CERN)  
2:50 PM Klystron Commissioning Experience at ESS - Dr Patrick Krämer (European Spallation Source ERIC)  
3:15 PM Direct Cavity Combiner - Kathleen Quinlan (Diversified Technologies, Inc.)  
3:40 PM --- Break ---
4:10 PM
Session 4b - Patrick Krämer (European Spallation Source ERIC) (until 5:25 PM)
4:10 PM Status update and operational experience of the 200 MHz SSPA system for the CERN SPS. - Dr Sam Pitman (CERN)  
4:35 PM Plan for 8kW and 13 kW Klystron Tests and Commissioning at CEBAF - Xavier Gomez (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)  
5:00 PM RF Conditioning Operations and System Updates of the High-Power RF Test Facility in the Spallation Neutron Source - Sung-Woo Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
5:30 PM
Industry session 2 (until 6:00 PM)
5:30 PM Circulator Compensation & New Developments of IR Based Compensation - Jacob Sturgis (Microwave Techniques)  
12:05 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Session 6a - Chiara Marrelli (CERN) (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM AR RF HPA 60 kW CW Factory Acceptance Test results and installation activities status at LBNL, USA - Shree Subhasish Basak (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA)  
2:25 PM Commissioning of the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator High-power CW RF system - Kouki Hirosawa (QST)  
2:45 PM Design and Testing of Solid State Amplifier for the FRIB RFQ - Eleazar T Gutierrez (Radio Frequency Engineer)  
2024 Presentation
3:10 PM CWRF Workshop BNL Abstract – Solid State Amplifier Two Design and Implementation - Roger Borger  
3:40 PM --- Break ---
4:10 PM
Session 6b - John Moss (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (until 5:30 PM)
4:10 PM A Protection Method for Solid State Amplifiers from High Voltage Transients - Daniel Lukach (Brookhaven National Lab)  
4:35 PM Bead-Pull Measurement and Re-tuning of SNS RFQ02 - Dr Haitao Ren (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
5:00 PM High Power RF Test Facilities at FNAL - Victor Grzelak (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
6:00 PM
Banquet (until 9:00 PM)