10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

SRF cavity instability detection with machine learning at CEBAF

TUCN03
12 Aug 2025, 15:10
20m
Parallel Session #2 (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Parallel Session #2

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Contributed Oral Presentation MC6 - Beam Instrumentation, Controls, AI/ML, and Operational Aspects Beam Instrumentation, Controls, AI/ML, and Operational Aspects (Contributed)

Speaker

Dennis Turner (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Description

During the operation of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), one or more unstable superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities often cause beam loss trips while the unstable cavities themselves do not necessarily trip off. The present RF controls for the legacy cavities report at only 1 Hz, which is too slow to detectfast transient instabilities during these trip events. These challenges make the identification of an unstable cavity out of the hundreds installed at CEBAF a difficult and time-consuming task. To tackle these issues, a fast data acquisition system (DAQ) for the legacy SRF cavities has been developed, which records the sample at 5 kHz. An unsupervised learning framework has been developed to identify anomalous SRF cavity behavior. We will discuss the present status of the DAQ system and our framework, along with recent successes in detecting anomalous cavity behavior. Overall, our method offers a practical solution for identifying unstable SRF cavities, contributing to increased beam availability and machine reliability.

Funding Agency

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under contract DE-AC05-06OR23177.

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Author

Dennis Turner (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Co-authors

Ramakrishna Bachimanchi (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility) Adam Carpenter (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility) Hal Ferguson (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility) James Latshaw (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility) Chris Tennant (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility) Dillon Thomas (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

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