Technology development for RF accelerators

Accelerator Control Division (ACnD) is having mandate for the design and development of key technologies in RF particle accelerators and for specialized applications in the field of RF Power, Controls, Magnetism, Superconductivity, Beam diagnostics and magnetic and electric field measurements. The activities being carried out in ACnD are mainly divided into three sectors, viz. (1) The Indian Accelerator program, (2) Accelerator development in collaboration with international laboratories and (3) specialized and specific applications for physics and material science applications. For the LEHIPA project at BARC, ACnD is involved in the development of Low level RF control systems, RF protection interlock systems, RF power systems and transmission lines, Drift Tube Linac and Permanent Magnets Based Drift Tubes. ACnD is also working in collaboration with international laboratories like Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), USA and GANIL, France. Under these collaborations, ACnD is responsible for the design and delivery of Low level RF controls and interlock systems, Solid state RF power amplifiers, Beam handling systems including warm quadrupoles and Superconducting focusing magnets and Beam diagnostics elements. ACnD is also working in specialized fields including high field magnets for MHD studies, magnetic sensors and magnetic flow meters for ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor); focusing magnets for miniature klystron for mission critical applications, Field press and Pulsed field magnetizers for permanent magnets development, and High uniformity magnets for heavy ion penning traps. (author)