The heavy-ion accelerator facility(HIAF)under construction in China will produce various stable and intense radioactive beams with energies ranging from MeV/u to GeV/u.The ion-linac(iLinac)accelerator,which will serve...The heavy-ion accelerator facility(HIAF)under construction in China will produce various stable and intense radioactive beams with energies ranging from MeV/u to GeV/u.The ion-linac(iLinac)accelerator,which will serve as the injector for the HIAF,is a superconducting heavy-ion accelerator containing 13 cryomodules.It will operate in either continuous wave mode or pulsed mode,with a beam current ranging from 0.01 to 1 emA.The beam position monitor(BPM)is crucial for this high-beam-power machine,which requires precise beam control and a very small beam loss of less than 1 W/m,especially inside the cryomodules of this unique beam instrument.Nearly 70 BPMs will be installed on the iLinac.New digital beam position and phase measurement(DBPPM)electronics based on a heterogeneous multiprocessing platform system-on-chip(MPSoC)has been developed to provide accurate beam trajectory and phase measurements as well as beam interlocking signals for a fast machine protection system(MPS).The DBPPM comprises an analog front-end(AFE)board in field programmable gate array(FPGA)mezzanine-connector(FMC)form factor,along with a digital signal processing board housed within a “2U 19”chassis.To mitigate radio frequency(RF)leakage effects from high-power RF systems in certain scenarios,beam signals undergo simultaneous processing at both fundamental and second-harmonic frequencies.A dynamic range from-65 dBm to 0 dBm was established to accommodate both weak beam commissioning and high-intensity operational demands.Laboratory tests demonstrated that at input power levels exceeding-45 d Bm,the phase resolution surpasses 0.05°,and the position resolution exceeds 5μm.These results align well with the stipulated measurement requirements.Moreover,the newly developed DBPPM has self-testing and self-calibration functions that are highly helpful for the systematic evaluation of numerous electronic components and fault diagnosis equipment.In addition,the DBPPM electronics implements a 2D nonlinear polynomial correction on the FPGA and can collect accurate real-time position measurements at large beam offsets.This newly developed DBPPM electronics has been applied to several Linac machines,and the results from beam measurements show high performance,good long-term stability,and high reliability.In this paper,a detailed overview of the architecture,performance,and proof-of-principle measurement of the beams is presented.展开更多
The mining area deformation monitoring theory and method using precise point positioning （PPP） ambi- guity resolution （AR） were studied, and an ambiguity fixing model with satellite and receiver combina- tion phas...The mining area deformation monitoring theory and method using precise point positioning （PPP） ambi- guity resolution （AR） were studied, and an ambiguity fixing model with satellite and receiver combina- tion phase delay （CPD） was proposed for zero-differenced PPP ambiguity fixing and its corresponding formula derivation was given. The data processing results for I h at six IGS stations in China show that 93% of ambiguities can be fixed within 10 min and all ambiguities can be fixed within 15 min. After ambi- guity fixing, the positioning accuracy is improved by more than 85% in the E and N directions, with abso- lute positioning accuracy reaching millimeter level, and it was improved by 70% in the U direction, reaching centimeter level; the proposed zero-differenced ambiguity fixing model can effectively improve the convergence rate and positioning accuracy in PPP. Data monitoring continuously conducted for half a year at four COPS stations of Shanxi China Coal Pingshuo Group validated the feasibility of using PPP in mining area deformation monitoring.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11975290)。
文摘The heavy-ion accelerator facility(HIAF)under construction in China will produce various stable and intense radioactive beams with energies ranging from MeV/u to GeV/u.The ion-linac(iLinac)accelerator,which will serve as the injector for the HIAF,is a superconducting heavy-ion accelerator containing 13 cryomodules.It will operate in either continuous wave mode or pulsed mode,with a beam current ranging from 0.01 to 1 emA.The beam position monitor(BPM)is crucial for this high-beam-power machine,which requires precise beam control and a very small beam loss of less than 1 W/m,especially inside the cryomodules of this unique beam instrument.Nearly 70 BPMs will be installed on the iLinac.New digital beam position and phase measurement(DBPPM)electronics based on a heterogeneous multiprocessing platform system-on-chip(MPSoC)has been developed to provide accurate beam trajectory and phase measurements as well as beam interlocking signals for a fast machine protection system(MPS).The DBPPM comprises an analog front-end(AFE)board in field programmable gate array(FPGA)mezzanine-connector(FMC)form factor,along with a digital signal processing board housed within a “2U 19”chassis.To mitigate radio frequency(RF)leakage effects from high-power RF systems in certain scenarios,beam signals undergo simultaneous processing at both fundamental and second-harmonic frequencies.A dynamic range from-65 dBm to 0 dBm was established to accommodate both weak beam commissioning and high-intensity operational demands.Laboratory tests demonstrated that at input power levels exceeding-45 d Bm,the phase resolution surpasses 0.05°,and the position resolution exceeds 5μm.These results align well with the stipulated measurement requirements.Moreover,the newly developed DBPPM has self-testing and self-calibration functions that are highly helpful for the systematic evaluation of numerous electronic components and fault diagnosis equipment.In addition,the DBPPM electronics implements a 2D nonlinear polynomial correction on the FPGA and can collect accurate real-time position measurements at large beam offsets.This newly developed DBPPM electronics has been applied to several Linac machines,and the results from beam measurements show high performance,good long-term stability,and high reliability.In this paper,a detailed overview of the architecture,performance,and proof-of-principle measurement of the beams is presented.
基金Financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41074010)the Jiangsu Innovation Works Fund of Postgraduate (No. CXZZ11-0299)the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
文摘The mining area deformation monitoring theory and method using precise point positioning （PPP） ambi- guity resolution （AR） were studied, and an ambiguity fixing model with satellite and receiver combina- tion phase delay （CPD） was proposed for zero-differenced PPP ambiguity fixing and its corresponding formula derivation was given. The data processing results for I h at six IGS stations in China show that 93% of ambiguities can be fixed within 10 min and all ambiguities can be fixed within 15 min. After ambi- guity fixing, the positioning accuracy is improved by more than 85% in the E and N directions, with abso- lute positioning accuracy reaching millimeter level, and it was improved by 70% in the U direction, reaching centimeter level; the proposed zero-differenced ambiguity fixing model can effectively improve the convergence rate and positioning accuracy in PPP. Data monitoring continuously conducted for half a year at four COPS stations of Shanxi China Coal Pingshuo Group validated the feasibility of using PPP in mining area deformation monitoring.
