PULse POwer for Kicker Systems (PULPOKS) workshop 2018

from Monday 12 March 2018 (08:30) to Wednesday 14 March 2018 (11:30)
CERN (6/2-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 Mar 2018
13 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018
AM
08:30
Welcome (until 08:50)
08:30 Welcome - Brennan Goddard (CERN)  
08:40 Overview of the workshop - Mike Barnes (CERN)  
08:50
Introduction (until 10:00)
08:50 Volunteers: up to 3-4 min (1 slide/minute) each to introduce themselves & their labs, and interesting projects  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Session 1 : Valve switches - Laurent Sylvain Ducimetiere (CERN) (until 12:00)
10:30 Electrostatic chopper for Super MuSR muon beamline - Jonny Ranner (STFC)  
11:00 Pulsing Kickers by Thyratrons at Elettra (1990...2018)performance during operations of ELLETRA - Piergiorgio Tosolini (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)  
11:30 Statistical Life-Time Analysis of Thyratrons in CERN Kicker Systems - Luc Sermeus (CERN)  
08:30
Session 5 : Solid state switches and modulators - Mike Barnes (CERN) (until 11:30)
08:30 Superfast Thyristor-Based Switches Operating in Impact-Ionization Wave Mode - Anton Gusev (Institute of Electrophysics)  
08:55 Experience in rad hard tests of LBDS - Viliam Senaj (CERN)  
09:20 Experience of Solid-state modulators for HV kickers and septa at SOLEIL - Patrick Alexandre (Synchrotron SOLEIL)  
09:45 Marx generators for kickers - Luis Manuel Dos Santos Redondo (ISEL Instituto Superior de Engenharia (PT))  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Inductive Adders for CLIC DR Kickers and FCC Injection Kicker Systems - Janne Holma (CELLS (ES)) David Woog (CERN)  
11:05 The Ultra-Fast Kicker Strip-line with a FID Pulse Generator + Prototype for the New EBS Kicker Magnet, using Solid-state Switches - Marc Dubrulle (ESRF)  
11:30
Session 6 : Modelling software and simulation - Martin Paraliev (Paul Scherrer Institute) (until 13:45)
11:30 CST simulations of speed limitations of inductive adder topology - Martin Paraliev (Paul Scherrer Institute) Christopher Gough (Paul Scherrer Institut) Saldana Dordevic (Paul Scherrer Institut)  
11:55 --- Lunch ---
13:20 PSpice and Opera-2d modelling: a very brief review - Luc Sermeus (CERN) Laurent Sylvain Ducimetiere (CERN) Mike Barnes (CERN)  
08:45 Meet the guides at Restaurant 2   (Restaurant 2)
09:00 Visit (AD & LEIR)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Session 2 : HV cables, connectors and feedthroughs - Jonny Ranner (STFC) (until 14:30)
13:30 Experience with HV cables and connectors - Christopher Jensen  
14:00 Overview of HV Cables and Connectors, Cable Procurement and Future Work - Thomas Kramer (CERN)  
14:30
Session 3 : Triggering - Piergiorgio Tosolini (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste) (until 15:00)
14:30 Light Triggering of Thyristors - Janusz Pawel Rodziewicz (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Session 4 : Pulsed measurements and online monitoring and analysis - Etienne Carlier (CERN) (until 17:30)
15:30 Internal Post-Operation Check (IPOC) System for Kicker Magnet Current Waveform Surveillance - Nicolas Magnin (CERN)  
16:00 Pulsed measurements and online monitoring and analysis - Nuria Ayala (ALBA-CELLS synchrotron)  
16:30 Pulse Current Monitoring for Fast Pulsed Magnets at BESSY II and MLS Light Sources - Olaf Dressler (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)  
17:00 High stability resonant kicker system for Swiss Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL) at Paul Scherrer Institute - Dr Martin Paraliev (Paul Scherrer Institute)  
19:30 --- Dinner ---
13:45
Session 7 : Kicker Systems and Magnets Materials - Montse Pont (CELLS-ALBA) (until 15:55)
13:45 NLK designed by Soleil and MAX-IV and recently installed at MAX-IV - Patrick Alexandre (Synchrotron SOLEIL)  
14:10 FAIR SIS-100 Kicker Systems - Sebastian Heberer (GSI)  
14:35 Magnetic materials - Christopher Jensen  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 Experience and procurement of ferrites and alternative materials - Wim Weterings (CERN) Laurent Sylvain Ducimetiere (CERN) Mike Barnes (CERN) Viliam Senaj (CERN) Luis Miguel Coralejo Feliciano (CERN)  
15:55
Session 8 : Impedance shielding / Coatings - Marc Dubrulle (ESRF) (until 16:45)
15:55 Metallization/coating of kicker magnets - Tobias Stadlbauer (CERN) Mike Barnes (CERN) Laurent Sylvain Ducimetiere (CERN)  
16:20 Shielding of MKI/MKE kicker magnets - Mike Barnes (CERN) Vasileios Vlachodimitropoulos (CERN)  
16:45
Wrap-up (until 17:30)
16:45 Feedback: what worked well?, can be done better?