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ris citation export for WEPB018: ESS RF power station (400 kW @ 352 MHz) for spokes: issues identified due to soak testing and operational insights


TY - CONF
AU - Yogi, R.
AU - Sadeghzadeh, M.
AU - Mastrokalou, P.
AU - Göransson, G.
AU - Danared, H.
ED - 
TI - ESS RF power station (400 kW @ 352 MHz) for spokes: issues identified due to soak testing and operational insights
J2 - Proc. of ipac2025, Taipei, Taiwan, 01-06 June 2025
CY - Taipei, Taiwan
T2 - IPAC'25 - 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 16
LA - English
AB - The first section of the ESS superconducting linac is the Spoke Linac, which raises the beam energy from 90 MeV to 216 MeV. This is achieved by 26 superconducting spoke cavities, housed in 13 cryomodules. These cavities are powered by Spoke RF Power Stations (RFPS), each delivering a maximum power output of 400 kW at 352 MHz. This power is generated by combining the outputs of two tetrode TH595A-based amplifiers using a hybrid combiner.
The RFPS units are supplied by Elettra as part of Italy's in-kind contribution to the ESS. To date, 27 RFPS units have been delivered to ESS, with 26 installed and commissioned in the ESS gallery. The RFPS units have been utilized to test and qualify various systems. The interfaces for the Personal Protection System (PSS) and the Machine Protection System (MPS), both critical for beam operation, have also been successfully validated. Additionally, the RFPS units were employed in the warm and cold coupler conditioning of the spoke cavities. They will continue to be used for cold cavity conditioning and beam commissioning.
This paper addresses the issues identified during soak testing and the corresponding mitigations that were implemented.
PB - JACoW Publishing
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 1761
EP - 1763
KW - 
DA - 2025/06
PY - 2025
SN - 2673-5490
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC25-WEPB018
UR - https://indico.jacow.org/event/81/contributions/8567
ER -