Test results of the 8.35 kA, 15 kV, 10 pps pulser for the Elettra kickers

Author

Fabris, R. ; Tosolini, P.

Author_Institution

Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 May 1993

Firstpage

1333

Abstract

With reference to the Conceptual Design of ELETTRA, the kicker magnets to be used for the injection into the 2 GeV storage ring Elettra require to be supplied by a high peak pulsed current whose characteristics must be strictly controlled over a long period of operation. A thyratron friendly circuit configuration, based on a capacitor discharge type power pulser with a resistive recovery, has been designed and tested at 8800 A peak current, 10 pps, showing the ability to operate for more than 2 million pulses without any fault firing and with no significant degradation of the thyratron

Keywords

beam handling equipment; electron accelerators; nuclear electronics; power supplies to apparatus; pulsed power technology; storage rings; thyratrons; 15 kV; 2 GeV; 8.35 kA; Elettra kickers; capacitor discharge type power pulser; high peak pulsed current; kicker magnets; resistive recovery; storage ring; thyratron friendly circuit configuration; Anodes; Circuit testing; Electron beams; Inductance; Pulse circuits; Pulse shaping methods; Switched capacitor circuits; Switches; Thyratrons; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1203-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1993.308604

Filename

308604