RHIC Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply System commissioning experience and remaining issues

Author

Zhang, W. ; Ahrens, L.A. ; Mi, J. ; Oerter, B. ; Sanders, R. ; Sandberg, J.

Author_Institution

Collider-Accelerator Dept., Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3711

Abstract

The RHIC Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply Systems commissioning experience and the remaining issues will be reported in this paper. The RHIC Blue Ring Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply System initial commissioning took place in June 1999. Its identical system in the Yellow Ring was brought on line during Spring 2000. Each of the RHIC Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply Systems consists of five high voltage modulators and subsystems. These systems are critical devices for RHIC machine protection and environmental protection. They are required to be effective, reliable and operating with sufficient redundancy to safely abort the beam to its beam dump at the end of accumulation or at any time when they are commanded. To deflect 66 GeV ion beam to the beam absorbers, the RHIC Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply Systems were operated at 22 kV level. The RHIC 2000 commissioning run was very successful

Keywords

accelerator magnets; ion accelerators; power supplies to apparatus; storage rings; 22 kV; Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply System; Blue Ring; RHIC; RHIC 2000; Yellow Ring; voltage modulators; Acceleration; Colliding beam devices; Energy storage; Magnetic modulators; Optical modulation; Particle beams; Power supplies; Power system protection; Pulse modulation; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.988228

Filename

988228