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Title	Adaptive Feed Forward Beam Loading Compensation Experience at the Spallation Neutron Source Linac
Author(s)	Kasemir, Kay-Uwe ; Champion, Mark ; Crofford, Mark ; Ma, Hengjie
Affiliation	(ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
Publication	2005
In:	21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.1467
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	When initial beam studies at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) indicated a need for better compensation of the effects of beam loading, a succession of rapid-prototyping and experimentation lead to the development of a simple yet successful adaptive feed forward technique within a few weeks. We describe the process and first results.