Study on transient beam loading compensation for China ADS proton linac injector II

• Published in: Chinese physics C Vol. 40; no. 5; pp. 106 - 110
• Main Author: 高郑 何源 王贤武 常玮 张瑞锋 朱正龙 张生虎 陈奇 Tom Powers
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.05.2016
• Subjects: ADS; Algorithms; Beams (radiation); Compensation; Control theory; Holes; Injectors; Integrals; Prototypes; 中国科学院; 反馈控制算法; 束流负载; 注入器; 瞬态效应; 负载补偿; 质子直线加速器
• ISSN: 1674-1137; 0254-3052
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/5/057005

Significant transient beam loading effects were observed during beam commissioning tests of prototype II of the injector for the accelerator driven sub-critical （ADS） system, which took place at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, between October and December 2014. During these tests experiments were performed with continuous wave （CW） operation of the cavities with pulsed beam current, and the system was configured to make use of a prototype digital low level radio frequency （LLRF） controller. The system was originally operated in pulsed mode with a simple proportional plus integral and deviation （PID） feedback control algorithm, which was not able to maintain the desired gradient regulation during pulsed 10 mA beam operations. A unique simple transient beam loading compensation method which made use of a combination of proportional and integral （PI） feedback and feedforward control algorithm was implemented in order to significantly reduce the beam induced transient effect in the cavity gradients. The superconducting cavity field variation was reduced to less than 1.7% after turning on this control algorithm. The design and experimental results of this system are presented in this paper.