Complete RFQ control system

Category: System installation

Posted by Georg Hulla on November 03, 2024 · 1 min read

Place of installation: Mirrotron laboratory in Martonvásár/Hungary

Background: The Mirrotron Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) is part of a compact neutron source that is being built in Martonvásár Hungary.

The 2.5 MeV RFQ designed and built by Time Co, Ltd., Japan is a pulsed accelerator that can support 1.25 mS pulses at a rate of 40 Hz for a maximum duty factor of 5% . The RFQ can accelerate a peak beam current of 20 mA with an input RF power 260 kW at 200 MHz. providing an average beam power of 2.5 kW. The loaded cavity Q is 10,000 which results in a cavity bandwidth of 20 kHz.

The RFQ accelerator system can be divided into 5 major subsystems

  • RF source (LLRF)
  • Timing system
  • 200 MHz RF power amplifier
  • Vacuum system
  • Cooling system
  • Implementation: (a more detailed description of the control system can be found here).

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    Benefit:

    Our offering: A complete RFQ control system consisting of the above mentioned subsystems.