Abort Kicker Power Supply Systems at Fermilab

RHIC Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply System Commissioning Experience and Remaining Issues

The RHIC Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply Systems commissioning experience and the remaining issues will be reported in this paper. The RHIC Blue Ring Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply System initial commissioning took place in June 1999. Its identical system in Yellow Ring was brought on line during Spring 2000. Each of the RHIC Beam Abort Kicker Power Supply Systems consists of five high voltage m...

The Rhic Beam Abort Kicker System*

The energy stored in the RHIC beam is about 200 kJ per ring at design energy and intensity. To prevent quenching of the superconducting magnets or material damage, the beam will be safely disposed of by an internal beam abort system, which includes the kicker magnets, the pulsed power supplies, and the dump absorber. Disposal of heavy ions, such as gold, imposes design constraints more severe t...

Impact of the LHC Beam Abort Kicker Prefire on High Luminosity Insertion and CMS Detector Performance

Slip-stacking Dynamics for High-power Proton Beams at Fermilab

iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I will forever be indebted to my Indiana University doctoral advisor, Shyh-Yuan Lee, who believed in me and provided a foundational role in my accelerator physics education. His dedication, enthusiasm, and insight have made this work possible. I know the entire field of accelerator physics has felt the impact of his life's work and that all of us wish him the best of retirem...

Tackling Power Dissipation in Embedded Systems at the Power Supply Level

The past few years, there has been an immense development in the field of embedded systems. These systems can perform significant number of computations and execute complex applications, which are either specific or general purpose oriented. Examples of these systems are handheld devices etc. The only common factor all these devices have, is the power needed to supply the circuitry to work. At ...