OPTIMIZATION OF RF PHASE AND BEAM LOADING DISTRIBUTION
AMONG RF STATIONS IN SuperKEKB
S. Ogasawara†, K. Akai, T. Kobayashi, K. Nakanishi, M. Nishiwaki,
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract
SuperKEKB is the e-/e+ collider which targets the world
highest luminosity. In recent operation, SuperKEKB
achieved a new world record of for
luminosity with the beam current of 1.4 A. In the future,
the beam current will be increased further to aim at the de-
sign value of 3.6 A and much higher luminosity. The RF
system consists of 38 cavities (30 klystron stations), which
share the huge beam loading brought by high current beam
with each other cavities. For beam stability and power ef-
ficiency, it is important to distribute the beam loading
properly among RF cavities. It is equivalent to adjust the
acceleration phase of each cavity. However, it is difficult to
evaluate the acceleration phase using only the pickup sig-
nal. Therefore, we established a method to evaluate the
beam loading balance among RF stations from the RF
power measurement for each cavity, and to adjust the ac-
celeration phase. This report introduces the method for
evaluating and optimizing the beam loading (acceleration
phase) among stations in SuperKEKB, which has a large
number of RF stations, and its operation.
OVERVIEW
SuperKEKB is an e-/e+ collider upgraded from KEKB,
which targets the world highest luminosity [1]. In recent
operation, we achieved a new world record luminosity with
the beam current of 1.4 A [2]. SuperKEKB consists of two
rings, 7-GeV electron ring (High Energy Ring, HER) and
4-GeV positron ring (Low Energy Ring, LER). To achieve
higher luminosity, the beam current is designed as a large
value, 3.6 A (LER). Due to the huge beam current, the huge
RF power (beam loading) is required.
The RF system consists of two-types 38 cavities in two
rings [3,4]. The number of RF (klystron) stations is 30 with
three types of station. In order to accumulate the high cur-
rent beam stably and efficiently, it is important to optimize
the beam loading balance among RF stations with consid-
ering the difference of station types. The optimization of
the beam loading corresponds to adjust the station phase.
This paper introduces a method for evaluating and opti-
mizing the beam loading among the RF stations in
SuperKEKB.
THE RF SYSTEM
Table 1 shows RF-related operation parameters. Figure
1 shows an arrangement of RF stations in SuperKEKB
rings. There are three acceleration (RF) sections at each
ring (total six sections for the two rings). The RF frequency
is 508.9 MHz
Table 1: Operation Parameters of RF System. [3-5]
*: design value
Figure 1: Arrangement of RF stations in SuperKEKB
SuperKEKB has two types of cavities: normal conduct-
ing “ARES” cavity and superconducting cavity (SCC) [6].
ARES cavity is a unique cavity system specialized for
KEKB [7]. SCC is applied to only HER. HER has eight
ARES cavities and eight SCCs. LER has 22 ARES cavities.
The RF system has three station types of “ARES-1:1”,
“ARES-1:2” and “SCC”. ARES-1:1 means that one klys-
tron (KLY) [8] drives one ARES cavity, and ARES-1:2
means that one KLY drives two cavities. SCC station has
one cavity driven by one KLY. For the design of
SuperKEKB, the 1:1 configuration will be applied to all
ARES stations in HER. However, the present state is at the
halfway stage of the upgrade for the design.