Name: PULse POwer for Kicker Systems (PULPOKS) workshop 2018
Start: 2018-03-12T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2018-03-14T11:30:00+01:00
Location: CERN

PULse POwer for Kicker Systems (PULPOKS) workshop 2018

from Monday, 12 March 2018 (08:30) to Wednesday, 14 March 2018 (11:30)

Monday, 12 March 2018
08:30 Welcome
08:30 - 08:50
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

08:30 Welcome - Brennan Goddard (CERN)

08:40 Overview of the workshop - Mike Barnes (CERN)
08:50 Introduction
08:50 - 10:00
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

08:50 Volunteers: up to 3-4 min (1 slide/minute) each to introduce themselves & their labs, and interesting projects
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 6/2-004
10:30 Session 1 : Valve switches
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

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)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Restaurant 2
13:30 Session 2 : HV cables, connectors and feedthroughs
13:30 - 14:30
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

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
14:30 - 15:00
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

14:30 Light Triggering of Thyristors - Janusz Pawel Rodziewicz (CERN)
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 6/2-004
15:30 Session 4 : Pulsed measurements and online monitoring and analysis
15:30 - 17:30
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

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 - Martin Paraliev (Paul Scherrer Institute)
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 22:00
Room: Restaurant "Le Smash"
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
08:30 Session 5 : Solid state switches and modulators
08:30 - 11:30
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

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))

10:40 Inductive Adders for CLIC DR Kickers and FCC Injection Kicker Systems - David Woog (CERN) Janne Holma (CELLS (ES))

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
11:30 - 13:45
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

11:30 CST simulations of speed limitations of inductive adder topology - Christopher Gough (Paul Scherrer Institut) Martin Paraliev (Paul Scherrer Institute) Saldana Dordevic (Paul Scherrer Institut)

13:20 PSpice and Opera-2d modelling: a very brief review - Laurent Sylvain Ducimetiere (CERN) Luc Sermeus (CERN) Mike Barnes (CERN)
13:45 Session 7 : Kicker Systems and Magnets Materials
13:45 - 15:55
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

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

15:30 Experience and procurement of ferrites and alternative materials - Laurent Sylvain Ducimetiere (CERN) Luis Miguel Coralejo Feliciano (CERN) Mike Barnes (CERN) Viliam Senaj (CERN) Wim Weterings (CERN)
15:55 Session 8 : Impedance shielding / Coatings
15:55 - 16:45
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

15:55 Metallization/coating of kicker magnets - Laurent Sylvain Ducimetiere (CERN) Mike Barnes (CERN) Tobias Stadlbauer (CERN)

16:20 Shielding of MKI/MKE kicker magnets - Mike Barnes (CERN) Vasileios Vlachodimitropoulos (CERN)
16:45 Wrap-up
16:45 - 17:30
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

16:45 Feedback: what worked well?, can be done better?
Wednesday, 14 March 2018

08:45 Meet the guides at Restaurant 2
Meet the guides at Restaurant 2
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Restaurant 2

09:00 Visit (AD & LEIR)
Visit (AD & LEIR)
09:00 - 11:30