IPAC2012 - List of Authors (Pillai, C.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPPR080	Wire Scanner Beam Profile Measurements: LANSCE Facility Beam Development	975
	J.D. Gilpatrick, Y.K. Batygin, F. Gonzales, M.E. Gruchalla, V.G. Kutac, D. Martinez, C. Pillai, S. Rodriguez Esparza, J.D. Sedillo, B.G. Smith LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) is replacing Wire Scanner (WS) beam profile measurement systems. Three beam development tests have taken place to test the new wire scanners under beam conditions. These beam development tests have integrated the WS actuator, cable plant, electronics processors and associated software and have used H⁻ beams of different beam energy and current conditions. In addition, the WS measurement-system beam tests verified actuator control systems for minimum profile bin repeatability and speed, checked for actuator backlash and positional stability, tested the replacement of simple broadband potentiometers with narrow band resolvers, and tested resolver use with National Instruments Compact Reconfigurable Input and Output (cRIO) Virtual Instrumentation. These beam tests also have verified how trans-impedance amplifiers react with various types of beam line background noise and how the cable plants can be simplified without generating unwanted noise currents. This paper will describe these beam development tests and show some resulting data.

MOPPR081	Wire Scanner Beam Profile Measurements for the LANSCE Facility	978
	J.D. Gilpatrick, M.E. Gruchalla, D. Martinez, C. Pillai, S. Rodriguez Esparza, J.D. Sedillo, B.G. Smith LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) is replacing beam profile measurement systems, commonly known as Wire Scanners (WS’s). Using the principal of secondary electron emission, the WS measurement system moves a wire or fiber across an impinging particle beam, sampling a projected multi-bin distribution. Because existing WS actuators and electronic components are either no longer manufactured or home-built with antiquated parts, a new wire scanner beam profile measurement is being designed, fabricated, and tested. The goals for these new wire scanner include using off-the-shelf components while eliminating antiquated components, providing quick operation while allowing for easy maintainability, and tolerating external radioactivation. The WS measurement system consists of beam line actuators, a simple cable plant, an electronics processor chassis, and software located both in the electronics chassis (National Instruments LabVIEW) and in the Central Control Room (EPICS-based software). This WS measurement system will measure the more common H⁻ and H⁺ LANSCE-facility beams and will also measure less common beams. This paper describes these WS measurement systems.

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Wire Scanner Beam Profile Measurements: LANSCE Facility Beam Development

975

J.D. Gilpatrick, Y.K. Batygin, F. Gonzales, M.E. Gruchalla, V.G. Kutac, D. Martinez, C. Pillai, S. Rodriguez Esparza, J.D. Sedillo, B.G. Smith
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) is replacing Wire Scanner (WS) beam profile measurement systems. Three beam development tests have taken place to test the new wire scanners under beam conditions. These beam development tests have integrated the WS actuator, cable plant, electronics processors and associated software and have used H⁻ beams of different beam energy and current conditions. In addition, the WS measurement-system beam tests verified actuator control systems for minimum profile bin repeatability and speed, checked for actuator backlash and positional stability, tested the replacement of simple broadband potentiometers with narrow band resolvers, and tested resolver use with National Instruments Compact Reconfigurable Input and Output (cRIO) Virtual Instrumentation. These beam tests also have verified how trans-impedance amplifiers react with various types of beam line background noise and how the cable plants can be simplified without generating unwanted noise currents. This paper will describe these beam development tests and show some resulting data.

MOPPR081

Wire Scanner Beam Profile Measurements for the LANSCE Facility

978

J.D. Gilpatrick, M.E. Gruchalla, D. Martinez, C. Pillai, S. Rodriguez Esparza, J.D. Sedillo, B.G. Smith
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) is replacing beam profile measurement systems, commonly known as Wire Scanners (WS’s). Using the principal of secondary electron emission, the WS measurement system moves a wire or fiber across an impinging particle beam, sampling a projected multi-bin distribution. Because existing WS actuators and electronic components are either no longer manufactured or home-built with antiquated parts, a new wire scanner beam profile measurement is being designed, fabricated, and tested. The goals for these new wire scanner include using off-the-shelf components while eliminating antiquated components, providing quick operation while allowing for easy maintainability, and tolerating external radioactivation. The WS measurement system consists of beam line actuators, a simple cable plant, an electronics processor chassis, and software located both in the electronics chassis (National Instruments LabVIEW) and in the Central Control Room (EPICS-based software). This WS measurement system will measure the more common H⁻ and H⁺ LANSCE-facility beams and will also measure less common beams. This paper describes these WS measurement systems.