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Article
Title	The Spallation Neutron Source RF Reference System
Author(s)	Piller, Maurice ; Champion, Mark ; Crofford, Mark ; Doolittle, Lawrence ; Ma, Hengjie
Affiliation	(LBNL, Berkeley) ; (ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
Publication	2005
In:	21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.3573
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) RF Reference System includes the master oscillator (MO), local oscillator(LO) distribution, and Reference RF distribution systems. Coherent low noise Reference RF signals provide the ability to control the phase relationships between the fields in the front-end and linear accelerator (linac) RF cavity structures. The SNS RF Reference System requirements, implementation details, and performance are discussed.