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| URL | https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-MOP011 |
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| Title | Automated RF phase adjustment for beam stabilization in the Fermilab Linac |
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| Abstract | The Fermilab Linac delivers 400 MeV H- beam. Variations in environmental factors and Ion Source output result in day-to-day longitudinal phase drift leading to increased beam loss. Traditionally, phase drift is corrected by manual RF cavity phase adjustments, a process that is labor-intensive and suboptimal. This work explores machine learning-based automation of drift correction using data-driven modeling of the Linac behavior. After extensive experimentation with single-layer, multi-layer, and convolutional neural networks (CNN+NN), we now adopt a prototype-based classification approach to identify optimal correction strategies. The model leverages a reduced 34-dimensional feature set comprising 7 RF cavity settings and 27 Beam Position Monitor (BPM) phase readings. To model the beam longitudinal response, we construct a 7×27 response matrix by varying the 7 cavity phases. Due to the limited set real-world data, synthetic data generation from the response matrix is also being explored to enhance model training. This enables the simulation of diverse drift scenarios and improves the generalizability of learned corrections. Finally, in addition to the prototypical loss framework, we incorporate a surrogate energy-consistent loss that penalizes inconsistencies between predicted phase corrections and changes in beam energy—estimated from the 27 BPM readings—alongside a temporal smoothness constraint that discourages abrupt prediction shifts across sequential readings. |
| Paper | download: MOP011.pdf |
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| Conference | 6th North American Particle Accel. Conf. (NAPAC2025) |
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| Location | Sacramento, CA, USA |
| Date | 10-15 Aug 2025 |
| Publisher | JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board | Tor O. Raubenheimer (SLAC), Roark A. Marsh (LLNL), Eric Prebys (UC Davis), Ling Wang (MSU), Petr M. Anisimov (LANL), Kip Bishofberger (LANL), Gustavo Bruno (ANL), Zhichu Chen (SARI), Jan Chrin (PSI), Kelly Jaje (ANL), Jaeyu Lee (POSTECH), Magdalena Montes-Loera (SLAC), Mary Saethre (PHENOTYPE), Tasha Summers (SLAC), Kent Wootton (ANL) |
| Online ISBN | 978-3-95450-261-5 |
| Online ISSN | 2673-7000 |
| Received | 08 August 2025 |
| Revised | 13 August 2025 |
| Accepted | 14 August 2025 |
| Issued | 28 January 2026 |
| DOI | 10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-MOP011 |
| Pages | 68-71 |
| Copyright | Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |