IPAC2012 - List of Keywords (monitoring)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOEPPB011	The Two Methods for Beam Profile Measurement of BEPCⅡ Storage Ring	synchrotron, synchrotron-radiation, coupling, emittance	100
	L. Wang, J. Cao IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	The two method as spatial interferometor and visible light imaging for real time beam profile measurment for BEPCⅡ Storage Ring will be introduced in detail, including optical Magnification measurment, point spread function measurement, image reversion and spatial coherence measurment. the transverse emittance and copouling coefficient was gotten from the result of the beam profile monitor.

MOPPC004	Experiments on the Margin of Beam Induced Quenches for LHC Superconducting Quadrupole Magnet in the LHC	injection, proton, quadrupole, kicker	124
	C. Bracco, W. Bartmann, M. Bednarek, B. Goddard, E.B. Holzer, A. Nordt, M. Sapinski, R. Schmidt, M. Solfaroli Camillocci, M. Zerlauth, E.N. del Busto CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Protection of LHC equipment relies on a complex system of collimators to capture injected or circulating beam in case of LHC injection kicker magnet failures. However, for specific failures of the injection kicker, the beam can graze the injection protection collimators and induce quenches of downstream superconducting magnets. This occurred twice during 2011 operation and can also not be excluded during further operation. Tests were performed during Machine Development periods of the LHC to assess the quench margin of the quadrupole located just downstream of the last injection protection collimator in point 8. In addition to the existing Quench Protection System, a special monitoring instrumentation was installed at this magnet to detect any resistance increase below the quench limit. The correlation between the magnet and Beam Loss Monitor signals was analysed for different beam intensities and magnet current. The results of the experiments are presented in this paper.

MOPPD003	DITANET - An International Network in Beam Diagnostics	diagnostics, emittance, instrumentation, simulation	370
	C.P. Welsch Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom C.P. Welsch The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
	Funding: Work supported by the European Union under contract PITN-GA-2008-215080. DITANET is the largest-ever EU funded research and training network in beam diagnostics. It brings together universities, research centers and industry partners to jointly develop diagnostics methods for a wide range of existing or future particle accelerators. This is achieved through a cohesive approach that allows for the exploitation of synergies, whilst promoting knowledge exchange between partners. In addition to its broad research program, the network organizes a large number of international schools and topical workshops for the beam instrumentation and particle accelerator communities. The project comes to an end in May 2012. This contribution presents some of the network's recent research outcomes and training activities.

MOPPR008	The Beam Loss Monitoring System at ELSA	injection, extraction, electron, booster	786
	D. Proft, A. Balling, F. Frommberger, W. Hillert ELSA, Bonn, Germany
	A new diagnostic tool to monitor beam loss in the storage ring at the Electron Stretcher Facility ELSA has been set up. It enables the investigation of causes for electron loss in real time, providing an essential tool needed to achieve the planned beam current upgrade from 30 mA to 200 mA. The monitoring system consists of 32 pin-diode based radiation detectors spread around the storage ring. Therefore, individual electron loss can be localized after each quadrupole. The readout system was designed to allow an integration of single loss events within 70 μs in order to be able to correlate these events to machine state changes. The used monitoring hardware and readout system will be detailed. Furthermore first measurements of the beam loss during injection, the fast energy ramp during acceleration and the extraction phase will be presented.

MOPPR014	Installation and Test of a Beam Loss Monitor System for the S-DALINAC	electron, controls, background, radiation	804
	R. Stegmann, U. Bonnes, C. Burandt, R. Eichhorn, F. Hug, L.E. Jürgensen, N. Pietralla TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany D. Proft ELSA, Bonn, Germany
	Funding: This work is supported by the DFG through SFB 634. The superconducting Darmstadt linear accelarator S-DALINAC is designed for accelerating electrons up to energies of 130 MeV for measurements in nuclear physics at small momentum transfers. For the purpose of machine protection and in order to increase reliability and efficiency an efficient tool for on-line measurements of beam losses down to electron energies of 1 MeV is desirable. Therefore a system of beam-loss monitors has been developed, installed, and tested. The system consists of commercially availiable PIN-diods and newly developed electronics. Implementation in the S-DALINAC's control system is done via EPICS IOC. We will report on the setup of the beam-loss monitoring system and on its initial performance in first tests.

MOPPR028	Upgrade Plan of BLM System of J-PARC MR	extraction, injection, proton, ion	837
	K. Satou, T. Toyama J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
	The upgrade plan of BLM system of J-PARC Main Ring synchrotron (MR) will be described. Existing proportional chamber beam loss monitors (P-BLMs) have fast signal rise time of about 100ns and high gas gain of about 2·10⁴ at the maximum. These abilities were quite advantageous for the early beam commissioning stage. On the other hand, the gas gain is degraded with increasing output current. The P-BLM is suitable for a measurement of a low level beam loss event, however, vulnerable to a measurement of an accidental beam loss event (fast loss) causing high radiation. To enhance the dynamic range of the system, 1m long Air Ionization Chambers (AICs) will be installed and operated with the P-BLM. Experiments using the real beam loss at collimator area and at the Co60 radiation facility have demonstrated the stable operations up to the radiation level activated by the maximum beam loss power of the collimator area. A new data taking system is now under development, and its performances will also be presented.

MOPPR032	Electron Beam Diagnostics based on Transverse Feedback System at Duke Storage Ring	storage-ring, feedback, electron, FEL	849
	W. Xu, D.H. He USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China J.Y. Li, W. Wu, Y.K. Wu FEL/Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
	Funding: This work is supported in part by the US DOE grant no. DE-FG02-97ER41033. To combat electron beam instabilities, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) based bunch-by-bunch transverse feedback (TFB) has been developed for the Duke storage ring. While it is capable of suppressing transverse beam instabilities for multi-bunch operation, the TFB system has not been needed for typical operation of the Duke storage ring FEL. To explore the great potential of this system, we have focused on the development of TFB based beam diagnostics. A TFB based tune measurement system has been developed using two methods: the tune scan method and tune monitoring method. With the tune monitoring method, a much faster method of the two, we have studied the tune stability of the electron beam in the Duke storage ring. This tune measurement system also allows us to conduct chromaticity measurements more quickly, compared with the existing chromaticity measurement system using a network analyzer. Finally, the TFB based tune system has been used to calibrate the tune knob and chromaticity knob for the Duke storage ring.

MOPPR041	Design and Measurements of the Stripline BPM System of the ESS-BILBAO	controls, pick-up, EPICS, diagnostics	870
	D. Belver, J. Feuchtwanger, N. Garmendia, P.J. González, L. Muguira, S. Varnasseri ESS Bilbao, LEIOA, Spain F.J. Bermejo Bilbao, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain V. Etxebarria, J. Jugo, J. Portilla University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain
	A new design for the Beam Position Monitors (BPMs) diagnostics of ESS-Bilbao, consisting of a whole block of stripline sensors, has been designed and manufactured. The design is based on travelling wave principles to detect the position of the beam in the vacuum chamber. The length of the stripline is 200 mm and the coverage angle is 0.952 rad. The position of the internal tube simulating the beam can be changed with respect to the outer tube within a range of 20 mm approximately for both X and Y axis, with a resolution less than 10 μm. The characteristics of the block with and without beam are measured and evaluated at frequencies of 175 and 352 MHz, using the electronics system developed for the BPM capacitive pick-ups. This electronics system is divided in an Analog Front-End (AFE) unit, where the signals are conditioned and converted to baseband, and a Digital Unit (DU) to sample them and calculate the position and phase of the beam. In this contribution, the performed tests will be fully described and the results also discussed.

MOPPR046	CLIC Luminosity Monitoring	photon, simulation, luminosity, background	885
	A. Apyan, L.C. Deacon, E. Gschwendtner, T. Lefèvre CERN, Geneva, Switzerland R. Appleby, S.C. Tygier UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
	The CLIC post-collision line is designed to transport the un-collided beams and the products of the collided beams with a total power of 14MW to the main beam dump. Luminosity monitoring for CLIC is based on high energy muons produced by bremsstrahlung photons in the main dump. Threshold Cherenkov counters are proposed for the detection of these muons. The expected rates and layout for these detectors is presented. Another method for luminosity monitoring is to directly detecting the bremsstrahlung photons in the post-collision line; Full Monte Carlo simulation has been performed to address its feasibility.

MOPPR047	Study of the Response of Low Pressure Ionisation Chambers	proton, target, electron, synchrotron	888
	E. Nebot Del Busto, B. Dehning, E. Effinger, V. Grishin, J.F. Herranz Alvarez CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Beam Loss Monitoring System (BLM) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is based on parallel plate Ionization Chambers (IC) with active volume ~1.5l and a nitrogen filling gas at 0.1 bar overpressure. At the largest loss locations, the ICs generate signals large enough to saturate the read-out electronics. A reduction of the active volume and filling pressure in the ICs would decrease the amount of charge collected in the electrodes, and so provide a higher saturation limit using the same electroncis. This makes Little Ionization Chambers (LIC) filled with both reduced pressure and active volume a good candidate for these high radiation areas. In this contribution we present measurements performed with several LIC monitors with reduced active volume and various filling pressures. These detectors were tested under various conditions with different beam setups, with standard LHC ICs used for calibration purposes.

MOPPR054	Beam Size Measurement at Siam Photon Source Storage Ring	synchrotron, storage-ring, radiation, photon	906
	P. Sudmuang, N. Deethae, P. Klysubun, S. Krainara, T. Poolampong, K. Sitisart, N. Suradet SLRI, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
	Synchrotron radiation interferometer and direct imaging setups have been installed and subsequently utilized to investigate transverse beam profile at the Siam Photon Source (SPS). Details of the optical setup as well as the beam sizes determined from the measurement will be presented. Comparison between the measured and theoretical values as established by linear optics calibration will be made and discussed. In order to demonstrate the beam profiling capability of the interferometer and direct imaging systems, measurements with different operating parameters have been carried out and the results will be presented as well.

MOPPR064	Development of a Turn-by-Turn Beam Position Monitoring System for Multiple Bunch Operation of the ATF Damping Ring	extraction, damping, synchrotron, feedback	930
	P. Burrows, R. Apsimon, D.R. Bett, N. Blaskovic Kraljevic, G.B. Christian, M.R. Davis, A. Gerbershagen, C. Perry JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom B. Constance CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Resta-López IFIC, Valencia, Spain
	An FPGA-based monitoring system has been developed to study multi-bunch beam instabilities in the damping ring (DR) of the KEK Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). The system utilises a stripline beam position monitor (BPM) and a single-stage down-mixing BPM processor. The system is designed to record the horizontal and/or vertical positions of up to three bunches in the DR with c. 150ns bunch spacing, or the head bunch of up to three trains in a multi-bunch mode with bunch spacing of 5.6 ns. The FPGA firmware and data acquisition software allow the recording of turn-by-turn data. An overview of the system and performance results will be presented.

MOPPR065	A Low-latency Sub-micron Resolution Stripline Beam Position Monitoring System for Single-pass Beamlines	feedback, linear-collider, extraction, collider	933
	P. Burrows, D.R. Bett, N. Blaskovic Kraljevic, G.B. Christian, M.R. Davis, A. Gerbershagen, C. Perry JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom R. Apsimon, B. Constance CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Resta-López IFIC, Valencia, Spain
	A low-latency, sub-micron resolution stripline beam position monitoring system has been developed for use in single-pass beamlines. The fast analogue front-end signal processor is based on a single-stage RF down-mixer and is combined with an FPGA-based system for digitisation and further signal processing. The system has been deployed and tested with beam at the Accelerator Test Facility at KEK. Performance results are presented on the calibration, resolution and stability of the system. A detailed simulation has been developed that is able to account for the measured performance.

MOPPR069	Use of Waveguide and Beam Pipe Probes as Beam Position and Tilt Monitoring Diagnostics with Superconducting Deflecting Cavities	cavity, dipole, HOM, simulation	945
	X. Sun, T.G. Berenc, G. Decker, G.J. Waldschmidt, G. Wu ANL, Argonne, USA
	Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. Waveguide and beam pipe field probes associated with a superconducting deflecting cavity are explored as beam position and tilt monitoring diagnostics. The superconducting deflecting cavity will be used for the Short-pulse X-rays (SPX) in the Advanced Photon Source (APS) upgrade project. Microwave Studio will be used to simulate the techniques of detecting the fields excited by the beam passing through the cavity and determining how close the beam is on electrical center.

MOPPR076	Using the BRAN Luminosity Detectors for Beam Emittance Monitoring During LHC Physics Runs	luminosity, emittance, interaction-region, proton	966
	A. Ratti, H.S. Matis, M. Placidi, W.C. Turner LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA E. Bravin CERN, Geneva, Switzerland T.E. Lahey SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA E.S.M. McCrory Fermilab, Batavia, USA R. Miyamoto ESS, Lund, Sweden S.M. White BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Funding: This work partially supported by the US Department of Energy through the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP). The BRAN Ionization Chambers installed at the IP1 and IP5 Interaction Points of the LHC provide a relative measurement of the total and bunch-by-bunch luminosities. This information, combined with the logged bunch charges from a fast BCT monitor, offers the possibility of evaluating the Interaction Area in collision for each of the colliding bunch pairs and monitor its time evolution. A Graphic User Interface (GUI) has been implemented to display the interaction area of the proton bunches interacting in IP1 and IP5 during each of the Physics Runs in the attempt of displaying the contribution to the Luminosity time decay originating from possible emittance blow-up when operating the Accelerator close to the beam-beam limit. Early results confirm the ability to characterize the bunch by bunch emittance behavior during the store and study possible differences among bunches in the same fill.

TUPPC048	Online Physics Model Platform	controls, EPICS, lattice, simulation	1275
	P. Chu, Y. Zhang FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA C. Benatti, V. Vuppala NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA D. Dohan, G. Shen BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA J. Wu SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661 For a complex accelerator such as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a transfer matrix based online model might not be sufficient for the entire machine. On the other hand, if introducing another modelling tools, physics applications have to be rewritten for all modelling tools. A platform which can host multiple modelling tools would be ideal for such scenario. Furthermore, the model platform along with infrastructure support can be used not only for online applications but also for offline purposes with multi-particle tracking simulation. In order to achieve such a platform, a set of common physics data structures has to be set. XAL's accelerator hierarchy based data structure is a good choice as the common structure for various models. Application Programming Interface (API) for physics applications should also be defined within a model data provider. A preliminary platform design and prototype is discussed.

TUPPR045	Multi-cell VEP Results: High Voltage, High Q, and Localized Temperature Analysis	cavity, radiation, SRF, controls	1918
	F. Furuta, B. Elmore Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA A.C. Crawford Fermilab, Batavia, USA G.M. Ge, G.H. Hoffstaetter, M. Liepe CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
	We are developing Vertical Electro Polishing (VEP) system for niobium superconducting RF cavity at Cornell University. VEP has been successfully applied on different cell shapes (TESLA and Re-entrant), and single and multi-cell cavities. VEP achieved high gradient of 39MV/m with TESLA shape single cell and of 36MV/m with TESLA shape 9-cell, respectively. Preliminary results of R&D on VEPed cavities show removal dependence on cavity performance. Temperature oscillation asymmetry was also found during the VEP process. We will report these recent results and further R&D plan of Cornell VEP.

TUPPR057	Intrabeam Scattering Studies at the Swiss Light Source	emittance, damping, scattering, storage-ring	1951
	F. Antoniou, Y. Papaphilippou CERN, Geneva, Switzerland M. Aiba, M. Böge, N. Milas, A. Streun Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland T. Demma INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
	The target parameters of modern ultra-low emittance rings are entering into a regime where intra-beam scattering (IBS) becomes important and, in the case of linear collider damping rings, even a limitation for the delivered emittances. The Swiss Light Source (SLS) storage ring, as it has achieved a vertical geometrical emittance of around 2 pm at 2.4 GeV, and it has the ability to run at even lower energies, and the availability of emittance monitoring diagnostics, is an ideal test bed for IBS studies. Simulations using the classical IBS theories and tracking codes are undertaken in order to explore the possibilities and limitations for IBS measurements at the SLS. In this respect, comparison between the theories and codes is first discussed. The dependence of the output emittances, taking into account the effect of IBS, with respect to energy, bunch charge and zero current vertical and longitudinal emittance is also studied, in order to define the regimes where the IBS effect can be significant. First measurement results from the SLS running at lower energies are finally presented.

WEXB03	Protecting Accelerator Control Systems in the Face of Sophisticated Cyber Attacks	controls, target, collider, neutron	2101
	S.M. Hartman ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	Funding: ORNL/SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 Recent events at ORNL and the knowledge of the use of the STUXNET virus in another country illustrate the vulnerability of advanced control systems to increasingly intelligent cyber attacks. The threat is clearly evolving and escalating, and techniques for mitigation are clearly of interest to the broader accelerator community. Risks associated with remote access must be balanced against operational efficiency and operating models. This talk should review the ongoing evolution of system architecture and security that permit effective facility operation while protecting against such harmful intrusions.
	Slides WEXB03 [6.747 MB]

WEOAA02	Inorganic Scintillators for Particle Beam Profile Diagnostics of Highly Brilliant and Highly Energetic Electron Beams	electron, diagnostics, radiation, simulation	2119
	G. Kube, C. Behrens, C. Gerth, B. Schmidt DESY, Hamburg, Germany W. Lauth IKP, Mainz, Germany M. Yan Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
	Transverse beam profile diagnostics in electron linacs are widely based on optical transition radiation (OTR) as standard technique. The experience from modern linac based light sources shows that OTR diagnostics might fail because of coherence effects in the OTR emission process. As consequence, for the new 4th generation light sources as the European X-FEL, new reliable tools for transverse beam profile measurements are required. Scintillating screens are widely used for particle beam diagnostics, especially in transverse profile measurements at hadron machines and low energy electron machines where the intensity of OTR is rather low. Their usage may serve as an alternative way to overcome limitations in OTR based beam diagnostics imposed by the influence of coherent emission. However, there is only little information about scintillator properties for applications with high energetic electrons. Therefore, test experiments have been performed at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) in order to study the screen applicability. The status of these experiments will be presented and the results will be discussed in view of scintillator material properties and observation geometry.
	Slides WEOAA02 [1.648 MB]

WEPPD041	The Strategy between High Precision Temperature Control and Energy Saving for Air-Conditioning System	controls, photon, target, feedback	2603
	Z.-D. Tsai, W.S. Chan, J.-C. Chang, C.S. Chen, Y.-C. Chung, C.W. Hsu, C.Y. Liu NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
	In the Taiwan Light Source (TLS), several studies related to the temperature stability for air conditioning system continued to be in progress. Using new control philosophy can minimize temperature variations effectively. A high precision temperature control within ±0.05°C for air condition system has been conducted to meet the more critical stability requirement. Due to the importance of energy saving issue, the power consumption of air conditioning system was also upgraded and intended to reduce extensively. The paper addresses some experience between high precision temperature control and energy saving about operation of air conditioning system. The significant improvements proven that both targets can achieve simultaneously.

WEPPD061	Quality Control of Modern Linear Accelerator: Dose Stability Long and Short-term	controls, radiation, factory, photon	2660
	T.U. Uddin NICRH, Dhaka, Bangladesh
	Quality Control (QC) data of modern linear accelerators, collected by National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh between the years 2006 and 2010, were analyzed. The goal was to provide information for the evaluation and elaboration of QC of accelerator outputs and to propose a method for QC data analysis. Short- and long-term drifts in outputs were quantified by fitting empirical mathematical models to the QA measurements. Normally, long-term drifts were well (≤1.5%) modeled by either a straight line or a single-exponential function. A drift of 2% occurred in 18 ± 12 months. The shortest drift times of only 2–3 months were observed for some new accelerators just after the commissioning but they stabilized during the first 2–3 years. The short-term reproducibility and the long-term stability of local constancy checks, carried out with a sealed plane parallel ion chamber, were also estimated by fitting empirical models to the QC measurements. The reproducibility was 0.3–0.6% depending on the positioning practice of a device. Long-term instabilities of about 0.3%/month were observed for some checking devices.

WEPPP075	Hyper-V Virtualization at ALS High Level Accelerator Control	controls, EPICS, instrumentation, status	2885
	C.M. Ikami, T.N. Kellogg, C. Lam, H. Nishimura, G.J. Portmann LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
	Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 In an effort to virtualize a windows-based computing infrastructure utilized by the ALS high-level controls system, Microsoft 2008 R2 servers were employed for support of the control room console stations. The Windows 2008 R2 server roles were used to create Hyper-V consoles, streamline console deployment, maintain security updates and other support services behind a secure network filter. In the current phase, the aim is to adopt a cluster-based configuration to provide efficient use of server resources and failover capabilities to multiple virtual machines. The current work will discuss the methods and findings from this study.

WEPPP089	Study of the Combined Controller for Adjusting and Locking a Girder with Micrometer-level at NSRRC	controls, storage-ring, feedback, synchrotron	2921
	H.S. Wang, M.L. Chen, W.Y. Lai, S.Y. Perng, Y.L. Tsai, T.C. Tseng NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan J.-R. Chen NTHU, Hsinchu, Taiwan
	A girder control system is proposed to quickly and precisely adjust the displacement and rotating angle of all girders in the storage ring with little manpower at the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) project at National Synchrotron Research Center (NSRRC). In this control girder system, six motorized cam movers supporting a girder are driven on three pedestals to perform six-axis adjustments of a girder. To increase the nature frequency of a girder, the locking system is applied to promote the stiffness of a girder structure. The locking system consists of six locking mechanisms attached to three inboard pedestals and a locking controller. The study of the girder control system and the locking system control combined are achieving to the positioning with micrometre-level. This paper presents details of the study and tests of the combined controller.

THPPC088	LLRF Control Algorithm for APEX	cavity, controls, LLRF, laser	3488
	G. Huang, K.M. Baptiste, J.M. Byrd, L.R. Doolittle, F. Sannibale LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
	Advanced photo-cathode experiment is an ongoing experiment of a high repetition rate low emittance VHF band gun experiment. A low level RF control and monitor subsystem is developed base on the 5 LLRF4 board. One of them is used for low level RF control and the other 4 are used as interlock and RF monitor at different point of the system. The laser is also controlled by the system to be synced to the RF system. This paper we summarize the control algorithm used in the system firmware.

THPPD026	Splice Resistance Measurements in the LHC Main Superconducting Magnet Circuits by the New Quench Protection System	dipole, background, injection, controls	3557
	Z. Charifoulline, K. Dahlerup-Petersen, R. Denz, A.P. Siemko, J. Steckert CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The interconnections between the LHC main magnets are made of soldered joints (splices) of two superconducting cables stabilized by a copper bus bar. After the 2008 LHC incident, caused by a defective interconnection, a new layer of high resolution magnet circuit quench protection (nQPS) has been developed and integrated with the existing systems. It allowed mapping of the resistances of all superconducting splices during the 2009 commissioning campaign. Since April 2010, when the LHC was successfully restarted at 3.5TeV, every bus bar interconnection is constantly monitored by the nQPS electronics. The acquired data are saved to the LHC Logging Database. The paper will briefly describe the data analysis method and will present the results from the two years of resistance measurements. Although no splice was found with resistance higher than 3.3nOhm and no significant degradation in time was observed so far, the monitoring of splices will stay active till the end of LHC 3.5TeV run. The detected outliers will be repaired during the Splice Consolidation Campaign in 2013-2014.

THPPD068	Precision sbRIO-based Magnet Power Supply Annunciator and Control Interface for Accelerator Control Systems	controls, power-supply, status, EPICS	3668
	S. Cohen, P. Kowalski Bira, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
	Beam physicists require more data and performance information that is commonly provided by the modern switch-mode power supplies installed at these facilities. We describe single-board RIO (sbRIO)-based* power-supply controller that provides the functionality required for integrating these supplies into control and safety systems at these facilities. The unit allows local control and presents a visual representation of the operational status of each power supply, independent digitized read back of power-supply output current, EPICS control via a Channel Access (CA) server, status information and electrical connections to independent and redundant accelerator safety systems. * National Instruments, Austin, TX, http://www.ni.com/singleboard/ .

THPPD083	Analysis of Kicker Noise Induced Beam Emittance Growth	kicker, emittance, high-voltage, injection	3710
	W. Zhang, L. A. Ahrens, I. Blackler, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, W. Fischer, H. Hahn, H. Huang, N.A. Kling, M. Lafky, G.J. Marr, K. Mernick, J.-L. Mi, M.G. Minty, C. Naylor, T. Roser, J. Sandberg, T.C. Shrey, B. Van Kuik, A. Zelenski BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. Over the last few years, physicists have suspected the presence of noise acting on the RHIC beams observable as occasional emittance growth at high beam energies. While the noise was sporadic in the past, it became more persistent during the run-11 setup period. An investigation diagnosed the source as originating from the RHIC abort kicker system. Once identified the issue was quickly resolved. We report in this paper the investigation result, circuit analysis, measured and simulated waveforms, solutions, and future plans.

THPPD085	Research and Development of RHIC Injection Kicker Upgrade with Nano Second FID Pulse Generator	kicker, injection, high-voltage, pulsed-power	3716
	W. Zhang, W. Fischer, H. Hahn, C.J. Liaw, C. Pai, J. Sandberg, J.E. Tuozzolo BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. Our recent effort to test a 50 kV, 1 kA, 50 ns pulse width, 10 ns pulse rise time FID pulse generator with 250 ft transmission cable, resistive load, and existing RHIC injection kicker magnet has produced unparalleled result. This is the very first attempt to drive a high strength fast kicker magnet with a nanosecond high pulsed power (50 MVA) generator for large accelerator and colliders. The technology is impressive. We report here the result and future plan of RHIC Injection kicker upgrade.

THPPR008	Wireless Network Integration Into EPICS Systems	EPICS, controls, LabView, diagnostics	3978
	I. Badillo, M. Eguiraun, D. Piso ESS-Bilbao, Zamudio, Spain J. Jugo University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain
	Funding: ESS Bilbao Consortium Wired connections are very often irreplaceable in large scientific facilities due to performance and reliability issues. However, those communication links suffer from several disadvantages, such as lack of flexibility during deployment or reconfiguration and deterioration of wires and physical connectors. The goal of the present work is to introduce wireless EPICS sub-networks in a standard general wired EPICS system. This involves the study and selection of a proper wireless technology, architecture, communication strategy and security policy. To ensure the validity of the proposed approach, a thorough study of the results related parameters, such as throughput, security, repeatability and stability of the overall system is needed. Once those are considered, the next step is to decide where and when the replacement of physical connections with Wireless communication systems is suitable. The aim is to eliminate as many wires as possible without decreasing the reliability, security and performance of the current EPICS control network.

THPPR014	FRIB High-level Software Architecture	controls, EPICS, feedback, optics	3996
	P. Chu, T.D. Brown, R. Gaul, S. Peng FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA E.T. Berryman, V. Vuppala NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
	Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661 The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is setting up its high-level application software architecture. The architecture is based on Service Oriented Architecture, and consists of back-end data storage, client/service infrastructure, control system connectivity, supporting libraries and front-end Graphical User Interface (GUI). The architecture provides online models of FRIB as a service and allows for storage of both structured and non-structured data. The model for structured data is implemented using the Integrated Relational Model of Installed Systems (IRMIS). The GUI is based on Control System Studio (CSS) framework. Libraries, service, data access and GUI tools will be available as Application Programming Interface (API) or plug-ins. The infrastructure and technologies chosen here will utilize the robustness and performance for applications, as well as support quick prototyping for physicists. This paper describes FRIB’s high-level application software architecture and some of the current prototypes.

THPPR015	CESR Control System Upgrade to Linux High Availability Cluster	controls, background, status, synchrotron	3999
	M.J. Forster, S.E. Ball, L.Y. Bartnik, D.A. Bougie, R.G. Helmke, M.A. Palmer, S.B. Peck, D.S. Riley, R.J. Sholtys, C.R. Strohman CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
	Funding: Supported by U.S. National Science Foundation, Award PHY-0734867 and Award PHY-1002467, as well as, U.S. Department of Energy, Award DE-FC02-08ER41538. The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) accelerator complex is used to support the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) x-ray user facility and the CESR Test Accelerator (CESRTA) ILC development program. Several hundred electro-magnetic elements as well as several thousand sensors are controlled and monitored in real-time via a Multi-Port Memory device (MPM). MPM access and control programs have used Hewlett Packard (originally DEC) Alpha and VAX computers running OpenVMS since 1988. Due to the demanding throughput, computational and storage requirements of the CESRTA experimental program, as well as a desire to upgrade to more supportable hardware, we have implemented a new Linux control cluster based on an Infortrend 10 GbE Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) storage device and the Red Hat Cluster Suite. This paper will describe the hardware and software changes required to upgrade our VMS cluster to a high availability, high performance, Linux control cluster.

THPPR024	Upgrade of Radiation Monitoring System at SSRF for Top-up Operation	radiation, controls, neutron, injection	4014
	X. Xia, J. Chen, J.J. Lv, W. Shen, T. Wan, W.F. Wu, X.J. Xu, H. Zhao SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
	The radiation monitoring system (RMS) at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, SSRF, is required to upgrade to have dose interlock functions for top-up operation as an important safety issue. This paper describes the basic requirements, design criteria, signal network, and functions of the upgraded radiation monitoring system. Both the prompt dose rate and the accumulative dose alarm were archived for the safety issue after the upgrade. The reliability and stability of the upgraded RMS are in testing for getting operation permission from authority for radiation safety issue.

THPPR028	Telephone Alarm Broadcasting for TPS RF System	SRF, synchrotron, status, storage-ring	4026
	Y.-H. Lin, L.-H. Chang, M.H. Chang, L.J. Chen, F.-T. Chung, M.-C. Lin, Ch. Wang, M.-S. Yeh, T.-C. Yu NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
	The Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) consists of three 500-MHz RF systems: two sets RF systems with KEKB-type single-cell SRF modules are used for the 3-GeV storage ring, and one with five-cell Petra cavities at room temperature is used for booster synchrotron. To monitor the status of the RF systems and to broadcast the error/alarm messages to the RF guys, we develop a telephone alarm broadcasting system. This introduces the hardware and software structure of the alarm broadcasting system.

THPPR040	First Operational Experience with the LHC Machine Protection System when Operating with Beam Energies Beyond the 100 MJ Range	injection, luminosity, feedback, interlocks	4062
	M. Zerlauth, R.W. Assmann, B. Dehning, M. Ferro-Luzzi, B. Goddard, M. Lamont, R. Schmidt, A.P. Siemko, J.A. Uythoven, J. Wenninger CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The LHC made a remarkable progress in luminosity production during 2011 operation. This was made possible by a progressive increase of beam intensities by more than 5 orders of magnitude, reaching stored beam energies beyond 100MJ at the end of the year. The correct functioning of the machine protection systems was vital during initial operation and even more when approaching nominal beam parameters, where an uncontrolled loss of a small fraction of the beam is already sufficient to damage accelerator equipment or the large experimental detectors The machine protection system depends on the interplay of many different elements: beam dumping system, beam interlocks, beam instrumentation, equipment monitoring, collimators and absorbers, etc. The strategy applied during 2011 to allow for an efficient but yet safe increase of the beam intensities is presented along with the associated risks and drawbacks of a too aggressive approach. The experience gained with the key systems will be discussed along with possibilities to further enhance machine availability whilst maintaining the current level of safety.

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MOEPPB011

The Two Methods for Beam Profile Measurement of BEPCⅡ Storage Ring

synchrotron, synchrotron-radiation, coupling, emittance

100

L. Wang, J. Cao
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China

The two method as spatial interferometor and visible light imaging for real time beam profile measurment for BEPCⅡ Storage Ring will be introduced in detail, including optical Magnification measurment, point spread function measurement, image reversion and spatial coherence measurment. the transverse emittance and copouling coefficient was gotten from the result of the beam profile monitor.

MOPPC004

Experiments on the Margin of Beam Induced Quenches for LHC Superconducting Quadrupole Magnet in the LHC

injection, proton, quadrupole, kicker

124

C. Bracco, W. Bartmann, M. Bednarek, B. Goddard, E.B. Holzer, A. Nordt, M. Sapinski, R. Schmidt, M. Solfaroli Camillocci, M. Zerlauth, E.N. del Busto
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Protection of LHC equipment relies on a complex system of collimators to capture injected or circulating beam in case of LHC injection kicker magnet failures. However, for specific failures of the injection kicker, the beam can graze the injection protection collimators and induce quenches of downstream superconducting magnets. This occurred twice during 2011 operation and can also not be excluded during further operation. Tests were performed during Machine Development periods of the LHC to assess the quench margin of the quadrupole located just downstream of the last injection protection collimator in point 8. In addition to the existing Quench Protection System, a special monitoring instrumentation was installed at this magnet to detect any resistance increase below the quench limit. The correlation between the magnet and Beam Loss Monitor signals was analysed for different beam intensities and magnet current. The results of the experiments are presented in this paper.

MOPPD003

DITANET - An International Network in Beam Diagnostics

diagnostics, emittance, instrumentation, simulation

370

C.P. Welsch
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
C.P. Welsch
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Funding: Work supported by the European Union under contract PITN-GA-2008-215080.
DITANET is the largest-ever EU funded research and training network in beam diagnostics. It brings together universities, research centers and industry partners to jointly develop diagnostics methods for a wide range of existing or future particle accelerators. This is achieved through a cohesive approach that allows for the exploitation of synergies, whilst promoting knowledge exchange between partners. In addition to its broad research program, the network organizes a large number of international schools and topical workshops for the beam instrumentation and particle accelerator communities. The project comes to an end in May 2012. This contribution presents some of the network's recent research outcomes and training activities.

MOPPR008

The Beam Loss Monitoring System at ELSA

injection, extraction, electron, booster

786

D. Proft, A. Balling, F. Frommberger, W. Hillert
ELSA, Bonn, Germany

A new diagnostic tool to monitor beam loss in the storage ring at the Electron Stretcher Facility ELSA has been set up. It enables the investigation of causes for electron loss in real time, providing an essential tool needed to achieve the planned beam current upgrade from 30 mA to 200 mA. The monitoring system consists of 32 pin-diode based radiation detectors spread around the storage ring. Therefore, individual electron loss can be localized after each quadrupole. The readout system was designed to allow an integration of single loss events within 70 μs in order to be able to correlate these events to machine state changes. The used monitoring hardware and readout system will be detailed. Furthermore first measurements of the beam loss during injection, the fast energy ramp during acceleration and the extraction phase will be presented.

MOPPR014

Installation and Test of a Beam Loss Monitor System for the S-DALINAC

electron, controls, background, radiation

804

R. Stegmann, U. Bonnes, C. Burandt, R. Eichhorn, F. Hug, L.E. Jürgensen, N. Pietralla
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
D. Proft
ELSA, Bonn, Germany

Funding: This work is supported by the DFG through SFB 634.
The superconducting Darmstadt linear accelarator S-DALINAC is designed for accelerating electrons up to energies of 130 MeV for measurements in nuclear physics at small momentum transfers. For the purpose of machine protection and in order to increase reliability and efficiency an efficient tool for on-line measurements of beam losses down to electron energies of 1 MeV is desirable. Therefore a system of beam-loss monitors has been developed, installed, and tested. The system consists of commercially availiable PIN-diods and newly developed electronics. Implementation in the S-DALINAC's control system is done via EPICS IOC. We will report on the setup of the beam-loss monitoring system and on its initial performance in first tests.

MOPPR028

Upgrade Plan of BLM System of J-PARC MR

extraction, injection, proton, ion

837

K. Satou, T. Toyama
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan

The upgrade plan of BLM system of J-PARC Main Ring synchrotron (MR) will be described. Existing proportional chamber beam loss monitors (P-BLMs) have fast signal rise time of about 100ns and high gas gain of about 2·10⁴ at the maximum. These abilities were quite advantageous for the early beam commissioning stage. On the other hand, the gas gain is degraded with increasing output current. The P-BLM is suitable for a measurement of a low level beam loss event, however, vulnerable to a measurement of an accidental beam loss event (fast loss) causing high radiation. To enhance the dynamic range of the system, 1m long Air Ionization Chambers (AICs) will be installed and operated with the P-BLM. Experiments using the real beam loss at collimator area and at the Co60 radiation facility have demonstrated the stable operations up to the radiation level activated by the maximum beam loss power of the collimator area. A new data taking system is now under development, and its performances will also be presented.

MOPPR032

Electron Beam Diagnostics based on Transverse Feedback System at Duke Storage Ring

storage-ring, feedback, electron, FEL

849

W. Xu, D.H. He
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China
J.Y. Li, W. Wu, Y.K. Wu
FEL/Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Funding: This work is supported in part by the US DOE grant no. DE-FG02-97ER41033.
To combat electron beam instabilities, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) based bunch-by-bunch transverse feedback (TFB) has been developed for the Duke storage ring. While it is capable of suppressing transverse beam instabilities for multi-bunch operation, the TFB system has not been needed for typical operation of the Duke storage ring FEL. To explore the great potential of this system, we have focused on the development of TFB based beam diagnostics. A TFB based tune measurement system has been developed using two methods: the tune scan method and tune monitoring method. With the tune monitoring method, a much faster method of the two, we have studied the tune stability of the electron beam in the Duke storage ring. This tune measurement system also allows us to conduct chromaticity measurements more quickly, compared with the existing chromaticity measurement system using a network analyzer. Finally, the TFB based tune system has been used to calibrate the tune knob and chromaticity knob for the Duke storage ring.

MOPPR041

Design and Measurements of the Stripline BPM System of the ESS-BILBAO

controls, pick-up, EPICS, diagnostics

870

D. Belver, J. Feuchtwanger, N. Garmendia, P.J. González, L. Muguira, S. Varnasseri
ESS Bilbao, LEIOA, Spain
F.J. Bermejo
Bilbao, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain
V. Etxebarria, J. Jugo, J. Portilla
University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain

A new design for the Beam Position Monitors (BPMs) diagnostics of ESS-Bilbao, consisting of a whole block of stripline sensors, has been designed and manufactured. The design is based on travelling wave principles to detect the position of the beam in the vacuum chamber. The length of the stripline is 200 mm and the coverage angle is 0.952 rad. The position of the internal tube simulating the beam can be changed with respect to the outer tube within a range of 20 mm approximately for both X and Y axis, with a resolution less than 10 μm. The characteristics of the block with and without beam are measured and evaluated at frequencies of 175 and 352 MHz, using the electronics system developed for the BPM capacitive pick-ups. This electronics system is divided in an Analog Front-End (AFE) unit, where the signals are conditioned and converted to baseband, and a Digital Unit (DU) to sample them and calculate the position and phase of the beam. In this contribution, the performed tests will be fully described and the results also discussed.

MOPPR046

CLIC Luminosity Monitoring

photon, simulation, luminosity, background

885

A. Apyan, L.C. Deacon, E. Gschwendtner, T. Lefèvre
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
R. Appleby, S.C. Tygier
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom

The CLIC post-collision line is designed to transport the un-collided beams and the products of the collided beams with a total power of 14MW to the main beam dump. Luminosity monitoring for CLIC is based on high energy muons produced by bremsstrahlung photons in the main dump. Threshold Cherenkov counters are proposed for the detection of these muons. The expected rates and layout for these detectors is presented. Another method for luminosity monitoring is to directly detecting the bremsstrahlung photons in the post-collision line; Full Monte Carlo simulation has been performed to address its feasibility.

MOPPR047

Study of the Response of Low Pressure Ionisation Chambers

proton, target, electron, synchrotron

888

E. Nebot Del Busto, B. Dehning, E. Effinger, V. Grishin, J.F. Herranz Alvarez
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Beam Loss Monitoring System (BLM) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is based on parallel plate Ionization Chambers (IC) with active volume ~1.5l and a nitrogen filling gas at 0.1 bar overpressure. At the largest loss locations, the ICs generate signals large enough to saturate the read-out electronics. A reduction of the active volume and filling pressure in the ICs would decrease the amount of charge collected in the electrodes, and so provide a higher saturation limit using the same electroncis. This makes Little Ionization Chambers (LIC) filled with both reduced pressure and active volume a good candidate for these high radiation areas. In this contribution we present measurements performed with several LIC monitors with reduced active volume and various filling pressures. These detectors were tested under various conditions with different beam setups, with standard LHC ICs used for calibration purposes.

MOPPR054

Beam Size Measurement at Siam Photon Source Storage Ring

synchrotron, storage-ring, radiation, photon

906

P. Sudmuang, N. Deethae, P. Klysubun, S. Krainara, T. Poolampong, K. Sitisart, N. Suradet
SLRI, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

Synchrotron radiation interferometer and direct imaging setups have been installed and subsequently utilized to investigate transverse beam profile at the Siam Photon Source (SPS). Details of the optical setup as well as the beam sizes determined from the measurement will be presented. Comparison between the measured and theoretical values as established by linear optics calibration will be made and discussed. In order to demonstrate the beam profiling capability of the interferometer and direct imaging systems, measurements with different operating parameters have been carried out and the results will be presented as well.

MOPPR064

Development of a Turn-by-Turn Beam Position Monitoring System for Multiple Bunch Operation of the ATF Damping Ring

extraction, damping, synchrotron, feedback

930

P. Burrows, R. Apsimon, D.R. Bett, N. Blaskovic Kraljevic, G.B. Christian, M.R. Davis, A. Gerbershagen, C. Perry
JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
B. Constance
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Resta-López
IFIC, Valencia, Spain

An FPGA-based monitoring system has been developed to study multi-bunch beam instabilities in the damping ring (DR) of the KEK Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). The system utilises a stripline beam position monitor (BPM) and a single-stage down-mixing BPM processor. The system is designed to record the horizontal and/or vertical positions of up to three bunches in the DR with c. 150ns bunch spacing, or the head bunch of up to three trains in a multi-bunch mode with bunch spacing of 5.6 ns. The FPGA firmware and data acquisition software allow the recording of turn-by-turn data. An overview of the system and performance results will be presented.

MOPPR065

A Low-latency Sub-micron Resolution Stripline Beam Position Monitoring System for Single-pass Beamlines

feedback, linear-collider, extraction, collider

933

P. Burrows, D.R. Bett, N. Blaskovic Kraljevic, G.B. Christian, M.R. Davis, A. Gerbershagen, C. Perry
JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
R. Apsimon, B. Constance
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Resta-López
IFIC, Valencia, Spain

A low-latency, sub-micron resolution stripline beam position monitoring system has been developed for use in single-pass beamlines. The fast analogue front-end signal processor is based on a single-stage RF down-mixer and is combined with an FPGA-based system for digitisation and further signal processing. The system has been deployed and tested with beam at the Accelerator Test Facility at KEK. Performance results are presented on the calibration, resolution and stability of the system. A detailed simulation has been developed that is able to account for the measured performance.

MOPPR069

Use of Waveguide and Beam Pipe Probes as Beam Position and Tilt Monitoring Diagnostics with Superconducting Deflecting Cavities

cavity, dipole, HOM, simulation

945

X. Sun, T.G. Berenc, G. Decker, G.J. Waldschmidt, G. Wu
ANL, Argonne, USA

Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
Waveguide and beam pipe field probes associated with a superconducting deflecting cavity are explored as beam position and tilt monitoring diagnostics. The superconducting deflecting cavity will be used for the Short-pulse X-rays (SPX) in the Advanced Photon Source (APS) upgrade project. Microwave Studio will be used to simulate the techniques of detecting the fields excited by the beam passing through the cavity and determining how close the beam is on electrical center.

MOPPR076

Using the BRAN Luminosity Detectors for Beam Emittance Monitoring During LHC Physics Runs

luminosity, emittance, interaction-region, proton

966

A. Ratti, H.S. Matis, M. Placidi, W.C. Turner
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
E. Bravin
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
T.E. Lahey
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
E.S.M. McCrory
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
R. Miyamoto
ESS, Lund, Sweden
S.M. White
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Funding: This work partially supported by the US Department of Energy through the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP).
The BRAN Ionization Chambers installed at the IP1 and IP5 Interaction Points of the LHC provide a relative measurement of the total and bunch-by-bunch luminosities. This information, combined with the logged bunch charges from a fast BCT monitor, offers the possibility of evaluating the Interaction Area in collision for each of the colliding bunch pairs and monitor its time evolution. A Graphic User Interface (GUI) has been implemented to display the interaction area of the proton bunches interacting in IP1 and IP5 during each of the Physics Runs in the attempt of displaying the contribution to the Luminosity time decay originating from possible emittance blow-up when operating the Accelerator close to the beam-beam limit. Early results confirm the ability to characterize the bunch by bunch emittance behavior during the store and study possible differences among bunches in the same fill.

TUPPC048

Online Physics Model Platform

controls, EPICS, lattice, simulation

1275

P. Chu, Y. Zhang
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
C. Benatti, V. Vuppala
NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
D. Dohan, G. Shen
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
J. Wu
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661
For a complex accelerator such as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a transfer matrix based online model might not be sufficient for the entire machine. On the other hand, if introducing another modelling tools, physics applications have to be rewritten for all modelling tools. A platform which can host multiple modelling tools would be ideal for such scenario. Furthermore, the model platform along with infrastructure support can be used not only for online applications but also for offline purposes with multi-particle tracking simulation. In order to achieve such a platform, a set of common physics data structures has to be set. XAL's accelerator hierarchy based data structure is a good choice as the common structure for various models. Application Programming Interface (API) for physics applications should also be defined within a model data provider. A preliminary platform design and prototype is discussed.

TUPPR045

Multi-cell VEP Results: High Voltage, High Q, and Localized Temperature Analysis

cavity, radiation, SRF, controls

1918

F. Furuta, B. Elmore
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
A.C. Crawford
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
G.M. Ge, G.H. Hoffstaetter, M. Liepe
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA

We are developing Vertical Electro Polishing (VEP) system for niobium superconducting RF cavity at Cornell University. VEP has been successfully applied on different cell shapes (TESLA and Re-entrant), and single and multi-cell cavities. VEP achieved high gradient of 39MV/m with TESLA shape single cell and of 36MV/m with TESLA shape 9-cell, respectively. Preliminary results of R&D on VEPed cavities show removal dependence on cavity performance. Temperature oscillation asymmetry was also found during the VEP process. We will report these recent results and further R&D plan of Cornell VEP.

TUPPR057

Intrabeam Scattering Studies at the Swiss Light Source

emittance, damping, scattering, storage-ring

1951

F. Antoniou, Y. Papaphilippou
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
M. Aiba, M. Böge, N. Milas, A. Streun
Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
T. Demma
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy

The target parameters of modern ultra-low emittance rings are entering into a regime where intra-beam scattering (IBS) becomes important and, in the case of linear collider damping rings, even a limitation for the delivered emittances. The Swiss Light Source (SLS) storage ring, as it has achieved a vertical geometrical emittance of around 2 pm at 2.4 GeV, and it has the ability to run at even lower energies, and the availability of emittance monitoring diagnostics, is an ideal test bed for IBS studies. Simulations using the classical IBS theories and tracking codes are undertaken in order to explore the possibilities and limitations for IBS measurements at the SLS. In this respect, comparison between the theories and codes is first discussed. The dependence of the output emittances, taking into account the effect of IBS, with respect to energy, bunch charge and zero current vertical and longitudinal emittance is also studied, in order to define the regimes where the IBS effect can be significant. First measurement results from the SLS running at lower energies are finally presented.

WEXB03

Protecting Accelerator Control Systems in the Face of Sophisticated Cyber Attacks

controls, target, collider, neutron

2101

S.M. Hartman
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Funding: ORNL/SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725
Recent events at ORNL and the knowledge of the use of the STUXNET virus in another country illustrate the vulnerability of advanced control systems to increasingly intelligent cyber attacks. The threat is clearly evolving and escalating, and techniques for mitigation are clearly of interest to the broader accelerator community. Risks associated with remote access must be balanced against operational efficiency and operating models. This talk should review the ongoing evolution of system architecture and security that permit effective facility operation while protecting against such harmful intrusions.

Slides WEXB03 [6.747 MB]

WEOAA02

Inorganic Scintillators for Particle Beam Profile Diagnostics of Highly Brilliant and Highly Energetic Electron Beams

electron, diagnostics, radiation, simulation

2119

G. Kube, C. Behrens, C. Gerth, B. Schmidt
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
W. Lauth
IKP, Mainz, Germany
M. Yan
Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany

Transverse beam profile diagnostics in electron linacs are widely based on optical transition radiation (OTR) as standard technique. The experience from modern linac based light sources shows that OTR diagnostics might fail because of coherence effects in the OTR emission process. As consequence, for the new 4th generation light sources as the European X-FEL, new reliable tools for transverse beam profile measurements are required. Scintillating screens are widely used for particle beam diagnostics, especially in transverse profile measurements at hadron machines and low energy electron machines where the intensity of OTR is rather low. Their usage may serve as an alternative way to overcome limitations in OTR based beam diagnostics imposed by the influence of coherent emission. However, there is only little information about scintillator properties for applications with high energetic electrons. Therefore, test experiments have been performed at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) in order to study the screen applicability. The status of these experiments will be presented and the results will be discussed in view of scintillator material properties and observation geometry.

Slides WEOAA02 [1.648 MB]

WEPPD041

The Strategy between High Precision Temperature Control and Energy Saving for Air-Conditioning System

controls, photon, target, feedback

2603

Z.-D. Tsai, W.S. Chan, J.-C. Chang, C.S. Chen, Y.-C. Chung, C.W. Hsu, C.Y. Liu
NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan

In the Taiwan Light Source (TLS), several studies related to the temperature stability for air conditioning system continued to be in progress. Using new control philosophy can minimize temperature variations effectively. A high precision temperature control within ±0.05°C for air condition system has been conducted to meet the more critical stability requirement. Due to the importance of energy saving issue, the power consumption of air conditioning system was also upgraded and intended to reduce extensively. The paper addresses some experience between high precision temperature control and energy saving about operation of air conditioning system. The significant improvements proven that both targets can achieve simultaneously.

WEPPD061

Quality Control of Modern Linear Accelerator: Dose Stability Long and Short-term

controls, radiation, factory, photon

2660

T.U. Uddin
NICRH, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Quality Control (QC) data of modern linear accelerators, collected by National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh between the years 2006 and 2010, were analyzed. The goal was to provide information for the evaluation and elaboration of QC of accelerator outputs and to propose a method for QC data analysis. Short- and long-term drifts in outputs were quantified by fitting empirical mathematical models to the QA measurements. Normally, long-term drifts were well (≤1.5%) modeled by either a straight line or a single-exponential function. A drift of 2% occurred in 18 ± 12 months. The shortest drift times of only 2–3 months were observed for some new accelerators just after the commissioning but they stabilized during the first 2–3 years. The short-term reproducibility and the long-term stability of local constancy checks, carried out with a sealed plane parallel ion chamber, were also estimated by fitting empirical models to the QC measurements. The reproducibility was 0.3–0.6% depending on the positioning practice of a device. Long-term instabilities of about 0.3%/month were observed for some checking devices.

WEPPP075

Hyper-V Virtualization at ALS High Level Accelerator Control

controls, EPICS, instrumentation, status

2885

C.M. Ikami, T.N. Kellogg, C. Lam, H. Nishimura, G.J. Portmann
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231
In an effort to virtualize a windows-based computing infrastructure utilized by the ALS high-level controls system, Microsoft 2008 R2 servers were employed for support of the control room console stations. The Windows 2008 R2 server roles were used to create Hyper-V consoles, streamline console deployment, maintain security updates and other support services behind a secure network filter. In the current phase, the aim is to adopt a cluster-based configuration to provide efficient use of server resources and failover capabilities to multiple virtual machines. The current work will discuss the methods and findings from this study.

WEPPP089

Study of the Combined Controller for Adjusting and Locking a Girder with Micrometer-level at NSRRC

controls, storage-ring, feedback, synchrotron

2921

H.S. Wang, M.L. Chen, W.Y. Lai, S.Y. Perng, Y.L. Tsai, T.C. Tseng
NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
J.-R. Chen
NTHU, Hsinchu, Taiwan

A girder control system is proposed to quickly and precisely adjust the displacement and rotating angle of all girders in the storage ring with little manpower at the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) project at National Synchrotron Research Center (NSRRC). In this control girder system, six motorized cam movers supporting a girder are driven on three pedestals to perform six-axis adjustments of a girder. To increase the nature frequency of a girder, the locking system is applied to promote the stiffness of a girder structure. The locking system consists of six locking mechanisms attached to three inboard pedestals and a locking controller. The study of the girder control system and the locking system control combined are achieving to the positioning with micrometre-level. This paper presents details of the study and tests of the combined controller.

THPPC088

LLRF Control Algorithm for APEX

cavity, controls, LLRF, laser

3488

G. Huang, K.M. Baptiste, J.M. Byrd, L.R. Doolittle, F. Sannibale
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

Advanced photo-cathode experiment is an ongoing experiment of a high repetition rate low emittance VHF band gun experiment. A low level RF control and monitor subsystem is developed base on the 5 LLRF4 board. One of them is used for low level RF control and the other 4 are used as interlock and RF monitor at different point of the system. The laser is also controlled by the system to be synced to the RF system. This paper we summarize the control algorithm used in the system firmware.

THPPD026

Splice Resistance Measurements in the LHC Main Superconducting Magnet Circuits by the New Quench Protection System

dipole, background, injection, controls

3557

Z. Charifoulline, K. Dahlerup-Petersen, R. Denz, A.P. Siemko, J. Steckert
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The interconnections between the LHC main magnets are made of soldered joints (splices) of two superconducting cables stabilized by a copper bus bar. After the 2008 LHC incident, caused by a defective interconnection, a new layer of high resolution magnet circuit quench protection (nQPS) has been developed and integrated with the existing systems. It allowed mapping of the resistances of all superconducting splices during the 2009 commissioning campaign. Since April 2010, when the LHC was successfully restarted at 3.5TeV, every bus bar interconnection is constantly monitored by the nQPS electronics. The acquired data are saved to the LHC Logging Database. The paper will briefly describe the data analysis method and will present the results from the two years of resistance measurements. Although no splice was found with resistance higher than 3.3nOhm and no significant degradation in time was observed so far, the monitoring of splices will stay active till the end of LHC 3.5TeV run. The detected outliers will be repaired during the Splice Consolidation Campaign in 2013-2014.

THPPD068

Precision sbRIO-based Magnet Power Supply Annunciator and Control Interface for Accelerator Control Systems

controls, power-supply, status, EPICS

3668

S. Cohen, P. Kowalski
Bira, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Beam physicists require more data and performance information that is commonly provided by the modern switch-mode power supplies installed at these facilities. We describe single-board RIO (sbRIO)-based* power-supply controller that provides the functionality required for integrating these supplies into control and safety systems at these facilities. The unit allows local control and presents a visual representation of the operational status of each power supply, independent digitized read back of power-supply output current, EPICS control via a Channel Access (CA) server, status information and electrical connections to independent and redundant accelerator safety systems.
* National Instruments, Austin, TX, http://www.ni.com/singleboard/ .

THPPD083

Analysis of Kicker Noise Induced Beam Emittance Growth

kicker, emittance, high-voltage, injection

3710

W. Zhang, L. A. Ahrens, I. Blackler, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, W. Fischer, H. Hahn, H. Huang, N.A. Kling, M. Lafky, G.J. Marr, K. Mernick, J.-L. Mi, M.G. Minty, C. Naylor, T. Roser, J. Sandberg, T.C. Shrey, B. Van Kuik, A. Zelenski
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Over the last few years, physicists have suspected the presence of noise acting on the RHIC beams observable as occasional emittance growth at high beam energies. While the noise was sporadic in the past, it became more persistent during the run-11 setup period. An investigation diagnosed the source as originating from the RHIC abort kicker system. Once identified the issue was quickly resolved. We report in this paper the investigation result, circuit analysis, measured and simulated waveforms, solutions, and future plans.

THPPD085

Research and Development of RHIC Injection Kicker Upgrade with Nano Second FID Pulse Generator

kicker, injection, high-voltage, pulsed-power

3716

W. Zhang, W. Fischer, H. Hahn, C.J. Liaw, C. Pai, J. Sandberg, J.E. Tuozzolo
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Our recent effort to test a 50 kV, 1 kA, 50 ns pulse width, 10 ns pulse rise time FID pulse generator with 250 ft transmission cable, resistive load, and existing RHIC injection kicker magnet has produced unparalleled result. This is the very first attempt to drive a high strength fast kicker magnet with a nanosecond high pulsed power (50 MVA) generator for large accelerator and colliders. The technology is impressive. We report here the result and future plan of RHIC Injection kicker upgrade.

THPPR008

Wireless Network Integration Into EPICS Systems

EPICS, controls, LabView, diagnostics

3978

I. Badillo, M. Eguiraun, D. Piso
ESS-Bilbao, Zamudio, Spain
J. Jugo
University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain

Funding: ESS Bilbao Consortium
Wired connections are very often irreplaceable in large scientific facilities due to performance and reliability issues. However, those communication links suffer from several disadvantages, such as lack of flexibility during deployment or reconfiguration and deterioration of wires and physical connectors. The goal of the present work is to introduce wireless EPICS sub-networks in a standard general wired EPICS system. This involves the study and selection of a proper wireless technology, architecture, communication strategy and security policy. To ensure the validity of the proposed approach, a thorough study of the results related parameters, such as throughput, security, repeatability and stability of the overall system is needed. Once those are considered, the next step is to decide where and when the replacement of physical connections with Wireless communication systems is suitable. The aim is to eliminate as many wires as possible without decreasing the reliability, security and performance of the current EPICS control network.

THPPR014

FRIB High-level Software Architecture

controls, EPICS, feedback, optics

3996

P. Chu, T.D. Brown, R. Gaul, S. Peng
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
E.T. Berryman, V. Vuppala
NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is setting up its high-level application software architecture. The architecture is based on Service Oriented Architecture, and consists of back-end data storage, client/service infrastructure, control system connectivity, supporting libraries and front-end Graphical User Interface (GUI). The architecture provides online models of FRIB as a service and allows for storage of both structured and non-structured data. The model for structured data is implemented using the Integrated Relational Model of Installed Systems (IRMIS). The GUI is based on Control System Studio (CSS) framework. Libraries, service, data access and GUI tools will be available as Application Programming Interface (API) or plug-ins. The infrastructure and technologies chosen here will utilize the robustness and performance for applications, as well as support quick prototyping for physicists. This paper describes FRIB’s high-level application software architecture and some of the current prototypes.

THPPR015

CESR Control System Upgrade to Linux High Availability Cluster

controls, background, status, synchrotron

3999

M.J. Forster, S.E. Ball, L.Y. Bartnik, D.A. Bougie, R.G. Helmke, M.A. Palmer, S.B. Peck, D.S. Riley, R.J. Sholtys, C.R. Strohman
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA

Funding: Supported by U.S. National Science Foundation, Award PHY-0734867 and Award PHY-1002467, as well as, U.S. Department of Energy, Award DE-FC02-08ER41538.
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) accelerator complex is used to support the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) x-ray user facility and the CESR Test Accelerator (CESRTA) ILC development program. Several hundred electro-magnetic elements as well as several thousand sensors are controlled and monitored in real-time via a Multi-Port Memory device (MPM). MPM access and control programs have used Hewlett Packard (originally DEC) Alpha and VAX computers running OpenVMS since 1988. Due to the demanding throughput, computational and storage requirements of the CESRTA experimental program, as well as a desire to upgrade to more supportable hardware, we have implemented a new Linux control cluster based on an Infortrend 10 GbE Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) storage device and the Red Hat Cluster Suite. This paper will describe the hardware and software changes required to upgrade our VMS cluster to a high availability, high performance, Linux control cluster.

THPPR024

Upgrade of Radiation Monitoring System at SSRF for Top-up Operation

radiation, controls, neutron, injection

4014

X. Xia, J. Chen, J.J. Lv, W. Shen, T. Wan, W.F. Wu, X.J. Xu, H. Zhao
SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

The radiation monitoring system (RMS) at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, SSRF, is required to upgrade to have dose interlock functions for top-up operation as an important safety issue. This paper describes the basic requirements, design criteria, signal network, and functions of the upgraded radiation monitoring system. Both the prompt dose rate and the accumulative dose alarm were archived for the safety issue after the upgrade. The reliability and stability of the upgraded RMS are in testing for getting operation permission from authority for radiation safety issue.

THPPR028

Telephone Alarm Broadcasting for TPS RF System

SRF, synchrotron, status, storage-ring

4026

Y.-H. Lin, L.-H. Chang, M.H. Chang, L.J. Chen, F.-T. Chung, M.-C. Lin, Ch. Wang, M.-S. Yeh, T.-C. Yu
NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan

The Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) consists of three 500-MHz RF systems: two sets RF systems with KEKB-type single-cell SRF modules are used for the 3-GeV storage ring, and one with five-cell Petra cavities at room temperature is used for booster synchrotron. To monitor the status of the RF systems and to broadcast the error/alarm messages to the RF guys, we develop a telephone alarm broadcasting system. This introduces the hardware and software structure of the alarm broadcasting system.

THPPR040

First Operational Experience with the LHC Machine Protection System when Operating with Beam Energies Beyond the 100 MJ Range

injection, luminosity, feedback, interlocks

4062

M. Zerlauth, R.W. Assmann, B. Dehning, M. Ferro-Luzzi, B. Goddard, M. Lamont, R. Schmidt, A.P. Siemko, J.A. Uythoven, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The LHC made a remarkable progress in luminosity production during 2011 operation. This was made possible by a progressive increase of beam intensities by more than 5 orders of magnitude, reaching stored beam energies beyond 100MJ at the end of the year. The correct functioning of the machine protection systems was vital during initial operation and even more when approaching nominal beam parameters, where an uncontrolled loss of a small fraction of the beam is already sufficient to damage accelerator equipment or the large experimental detectors The machine protection system depends on the interplay of many different elements: beam dumping system, beam interlocks, beam instrumentation, equipment monitoring, collimators and absorbers, etc. The strategy applied during 2011 to allow for an efficient but yet safe increase of the beam intensities is presented along with the associated risks and drawbacks of a too aggressive approach. The experience gained with the key systems will be discussed along with possibilities to further enhance machine availability whilst maintaining the current level of safety.