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The Scalable System for Radioisotope Production (SSRIP) is a new compact linear accelerator developed at IFIN-HH (Măgurele, Romania), coordinated by INFN-LNF within the ELI-NP infrastructure. The accelerator is designed to produce high-brightness electron beams for radioisotope production applications. The SSRIP RF system consists of four independent RF stations, three operating at 2856 MHz (S-band) and one at 5712 MHz (C-band). Each station is equipped with a solid-state pulsed modulator and a high-power klystron amplifier. The RF control system is based on digital, temperature-stabilized and FPGA-controlled Low Level RF (LLRF) units, providing high-resolution amplitude and phase feedback for stable accelerator operation. An automatic RF conditioning procedure was developed to progressively increase the RF power up to the nominal operating level. The procedure continuously monitors vacuum levels and RF waveforms, automatically increasing or reducing the RF power according to the machine status, with minimal operator intervention. The subsequent beam commissioning, completed in July 2026, achieved an electron beam energy of 109 MeV with a bunch charge of 100 pC.
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