Abstract

The Xi’an 200 MeV Proton Application Facility (XiPAF) is a specialized facility designed to simulate space radiation environments. To meet the requirements of space radiation simulation, the proton accelerator must provide a quasi-continuous spill. The facility has achieved this goal by implementing third-order resonance and RF knockout (RF-KO) slow extraction. In this study, the source of the spill ripple at the XiPAF synchrotron was analyzed and a method was developed to calculate the fluctuation ratio of the spill from the spill spectrum. According to the experimental results, the spill quality at XiPAF is mainly affected by the ripple of the magnet power supply. To improve the spill quality, the frequency spectrum of the excitation signal was optimized to suppress the influence of the power supply ripple. We found that the dual-frequency signal, which consists of the two sinusoidal waves corresponding to the extraction and diffusion regions in the third-order resonance, can significantly reduce the influence of the magnet power supply ripple. After adopting the optimized dual-frequency signal, the fluctuation ratio of the spill is reduced from about 0.15 to 0.092 (sample median) at a sampling frequency of 1.24 kHz.

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