Status of PLS 2-GeV electron linac

Author

Nam, S.H. ; Han, Y.J. ; Kim, K.R. ; Kim, Y.C.

Author_Institution

Accel. Lab., Pohang Inst. of Sci. & Technol., South Korea

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

3504

Abstract

The 2 GeV electron linac at the Pohang accelerator laboratory (PAL) has been operated continuously as a full energy injector since its completion on December 1994. The linac system has been continuously upgraded to improve overall system stability and reliability, as well as to increase final injection energy to 2.5 GeV. Eight klystron tubes out of 11 tubes have survived since the beginning of linac operation. The average high voltage operation time of the surviving klystrons (E-3712, Toshiba) has been reached near 35,000 hours as of December 1998. Current overall system availability is well over 90%. In this paper, we report the major linac system performance as well as relevant machine statistics, the electron beam parameter measurement, and operational characteristics of cooling water system

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; booster injectors; electron accelerators; klystrons; linear accelerators; 2 GeV; PLS 2-GeV electron linac; Pohang accelerator laboratory; cooling water system; electron beam parameter measurement; full energy injector; klystron tubes; linac system performance; machine statistics; operational characteristics; overall system stability; reliability; Availability; Electron accelerators; Electron beams; Klystrons; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Stability; Statistics; System performance; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5573-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1999.792351

Filename

792351