17–22 May 2026
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Recent Developments in RF Stabilization at the SPARC_LAB Facility of LNF–INFN

MOV7003
18 May 2026, 16:00
2h
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Deauville, France
Invited poster MC7.T24: Technology: Timing and Synchronization Poster session

Speaker

Xianghe Fang (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

Description

The plasma wakefield acceleration is becoming the most promising acceleration scheme because of its high accelerating gradient and compactness, but it also suffers from unstable operation since the acceleration is accomplished in a short, steep and nonlinear gradient region. This puts forward a very strict synchronization requirement on the subsystems of the entire facility. For the beam-driven scheme, the RF line phase jitter should be less than 20 fs RMS with respect to the facility’s reference master oscillator (RMO). At SPARC_LAB, the RF stabilization technology on RF power stations has been developed for years. These efforts have successfully reduced the phase jitter of the RF line from hundreds of femtoseconds to tens of femtoseconds RMS relative to the RMO. Recent developments on this technology mainly focus on optimizing the fast feedback loop design, together with upgrades of other necessary LLRF components. Dedicated measurements of the prototypes in S-band and C-band both demonstrate reliable and excellent jitter minimization, satisfying the rigid synchronization requirement of beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators.

Funding Agency

European Union´s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101073480.

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Author

Xianghe Fang (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

Co-authors

Alessandro Gallo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Beatrice Serenellini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Mr Giorgio Scarselletta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati) Luca Piersanti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Dr Marco Bellaveglia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati) Mr Michele Scampati (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati) Mr Riccardo Magnanimi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati) Mr Sergio Quaglia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

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