Performance Results of the Modulator for the 100MeV Proton Linac

The modulator for the 100MeV proton linac has been installed at KOMAC (Korea of Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex) site. The specification of modulator is 5.8MW peak power with 1.5ms pulse width, 60Hz repetition rate. There are total 4 sets of modulator for 100-MeV proton linac including 3-MeV RFQ, 20-MeV DTL and 100-MeV DTL. A modulator drives two or three sets of the klystrons simultaneously. After installation and du mmy test of 4 modulators, it has been operated for 100MeV proton linac. In this paper, the performance results of modulators for the 100MeV proton linac are presented. 4 modulators were installed and tested for the 100MeV proton linac. The modulator was measured to have about less than 1% droops at flat top for 500 us pulse by using pulse frequency modulation droop compensation method. The long term voltage variation measurement showed that the voltage increased up to 0.05% for 8 hours. In future, the voltage droop and variation of modulator should be continuously checked in the high repetition rate