European Pulsed Power Conference 2009 <br><p><font size=-1><font color=#ffffff> Incorporating the CERN Klystron Modulator Workshop</font>

from Monday, 21 September 2009 (14:00) to Friday, 25 September 2009 (16:00)
CERN (503/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Sept 2009
22 Sept 2009
23 Sept 2009
24 Sept 2009
25 Sept 2009
AM
08:00 --- Coffee and registration ---
09:00
Opening Ceremony (until 09:10) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:15 Welcome from Rolf-Dieter HEUER, Director-General of CERN   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:30 The Large Hadron Collider by Dr. Steve MYERS, Director for Accelerators and Technology, CERN   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
Slides
10:00 Invited Talk I : Overview of HPM and Pulsed Power related work at FOI - Dr Sten Nyholm (Deputy Research Director, Swedish Defence Agency (FOI))   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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10:30 Invited Talk II : Recent pulsed-power experiments for controlled plasma fusion at VNIIEF - Prof. Victor Selemir (VNIEEF)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
SESSION 1 : Pulsed Power Technology (I) (until 13:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:30 1.1 - High Power Reverse Conducting Solid State Closing Switch for Environmental Applications - S. Gekenidis (ABB Switzerland Ltd, Semiconductors) A. Welleman R. LEUTWYLER   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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11:50 1.2 - SLIM, Short-pulse Technology for High Gradient Induction Accelerators - A. Krasnykh (SLAC National Accelerator Lab, USA) A. Kardo-Sysoev (Ioffe PTI, St. Petersburg, Russia) A. Floyd (DTI, Bedford, United States)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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12:10 1.3 - Generation of a High Pulsed Magnetic Field in a Single Turn Coil using a Low Inductance Surface Switch - J. Larour (LPP CNRS Ecole Polytechnique, France) P. Auvray (LPP CNRS Ecole Polytechnique, France) S.D. Moustaizis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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12:30 1.4 - A miniature, GW-power, Plasma Opening Switch - B. NOVAC (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) C. Greenwood (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) P. Sarkar (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) I.R. Smith (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) R. Kumar (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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12:50 1.5 - A Novel High Voltage Topology Based on a Switch-Capacitor Unit Configuration for Pulsed Power Systems - F. Zare (QUT, Australia) S. Zabihi (QUT, Australia)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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08:30 Invited Talk III : High-Energy-Density Science Research on the Upgraded Z Facility - Mr John PORTER (Z Facility Director, Sandia National Laboratories,United States)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:00 Invited Talk IV : Pulsed Power Supplies for Driving High Power Microwave Sources - Prof. A. Phelps (Physics Department, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:30 Invited Talk V : Status of Pulsed Power in the UK - Dr M. Sinclair (AWE, United Kingdom)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:20
SESSION 3 : Pulsed Power Applications (II) (until 12:00) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:20 3.1 - Recent Pulsed-Power Technology Advances in the Pulsed Power Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories - J.L. Porter (Sandia National Laboratories, United States)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:40 3.2 - A Novel and Non-Invasive Pulsed Electric Field technique for industrial food processing - I.R. Smith (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:00 3.3 - Wire Explosion Fed by a 32-kJ XRAM Generator Switched By Semiconductor Elements   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:20 3.4 - Improvement of Impedance Matching between ns Pulsed Generator and Discharge Reactor   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:40 3.5 - Experiments of a 30 GW, 100 ns Compact E-beam Accelerator   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
08:58
Klystron Modulator Workshop (until 09:00) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:00 Invited Talk VI : Development and power device reliability assessment of a long pulse resonant converter modulator - Mr Fabio CARASTRO (University of Nottingham)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:30 Invited Talk VII : Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) - Roberto Corsini (CERN)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
SESSION 5 : Klystron Modulator Technology (until 12:10) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:30 5.1 - A Klystron Power System for the ISIS Front End Test Stand   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:50 5.2 - A Solid State High Voltage Klystron Anode Modulator Design – An Alternative to Tetrode Solutions   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
Slides
11:10 12 GHz RF Test Stand   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:30 5.4 - The Bouncer Modulators at DESY   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:50 5.5 - Test of a Bouncer Modulator with Pulse Cable at FLASH   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:30
Workshop : Round table discussions (until 10:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50
Workshop : Conclusions (until 12:15) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
PM
14:00
Registration and Exhibition Set Up (until 18:00) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
14:00 --- Coffee Break ---
19:00 --- Welcome reception ---
13:30 --- Lunch & Poster Session 1 : Pulsed Power Technology ---
14:40
SESSION 2 : Pulsed Power Applications (until 17:45) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:40 2.1 : Precision High Energy Liner Implosion Experiments - PHELIX - W. Reass (Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States) J.R. Griego (Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States) R.E. Reinovsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States) C.L. Rousculp (Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States) P.J. Turchi (Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
Slides
15:00 2.2 - An Industrial Scale Corona Plasma for Flue Gas De-SO2/NOx Technique by High Frequency AC+DC Power Supply with a Semi-wet flow - X. DJiang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Z. Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) A.J. Pemen (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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15:20 2.3 - Performance of a Hexagonal, Segmented Railgun - S. Hundertmark (French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis, France) G. Vincent (French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis, France)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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15:40 2.4 - Solid-State Tetrode Test Stand - M.P.J Gaudreau (Diversified Technologies, Inc, United States) D. Robinson (Diversified Technologies, Inc, United States) R. Phillips (Diversified Technologies, Inc, United States) K. Schrock (Diversified Technologies, Inc, United States) M.A. Kempkes (Diversified Technologies, Inc, United States)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 2.5 - Transportable Pulsed-Power Source for High-Energy Experimentation - B.M. Novac (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) I.R. Smith (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) C. Greenwood (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) P. Senior (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) G. Louverdis (DSTL, United Kingdom)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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16:50 2.6 - H-bridge Modules as Box-level Pulsed Power Components - J. Gilbrech (Applied Energetics, United States) R.J. Adler (Applied Energetics, United States) V. Weeks (Applied Energetics, United States) M. Hope (Applied Energetics, United States)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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17:10 2.7 - Solid-State Marx Type Circuit for the ISOLDE Voltage Target Modulator - N. Ferrão (Nuclear Physics Center - Lisbon University, Portugal) H. Canacsinh (Nuclear Physics Center - Lisbon University, Portugal) J.F. Silva (Nuclear Physics Center - Lisbon University, Portugal) L.M. Redondo (Nuclear Physics Center - Lisbon University, Portugal) C. Mendes (Nuclear Physics Center - Lisbon University, Portugal) J. Schipper (PS Kicker Magnets Section, TE Department, CERN, Switzerland) R. SOARES (PS Kicker Magnets Section, TE Department, CERN, Switzerland) Tony FOWLER (PS Kicker Magnets Section, TE Department, CERN, Switzerland)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
Slides
17:30 --- End of Day 2 ---
12:00 --- Lunch & Poster Session 2 : Pulsed Power Applications ---
13:30
SESSION 4 : Pulsed Power Technology (II) (until 14:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
13:30 4.1 - A Compact High Power Microwave (HPM) Source   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
13:50 4.2 - Theoretical Design and Particle Simulation of a Novel Compact P-Band Magnetically Insulated Transmission Line Oscillator   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:10 4.3 - High Voltage Subnanosecond Pulse Former Based On High Performance Energy Compression Unit With Low Impedance Forming Line   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:30 --- Coffee Break ---
14:45 Pre-Technical Tour Presentation   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:00 Technical Tours - ATLAS visit Group 1 and CLIC visit Group 2   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
16:00 Technical Tours - ATLAS visit Group 2 and CLIC visit Group 1   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
19:30 --- Banquet ---
12:10 --- Lunch & Poster Session 3 : Klystrons Modulator Technology ---
13:40
SESSION 6 : Klystron Modulator Technology (until 16:00) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
13:40 6.1 - Pulsed Klystrons With Feedback Controlled Mod-Anode Modulators   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:00 Future Klystron Modulator Requirements at CERN   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:20 6.3 - Development and Test of XFEL Modulator Prototypes   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:40 6.4 - New Generation Polyphase Resonant Converter-Modulators for the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:20 6.5 -   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:40 6.6 -   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
12:15
Chairman’s Final Addresss (until 12:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
12:30 --- Exhibitor Buffet Lunch & "Thank you !" Session ---
14:00
End of Pulsed Power Conference (until 14:01) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)