Author: Shishlo, A.P.
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MOPHA013 Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity Degradation Due to Errant Beam 805
 
  • C.C. Peters, D. Curry, G.D. Johns
    ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
  • A.V. Aleksandrov, W. Blokland, M.T. Crofford, C. Deibele, G.W. Dodson, J. Galambos, T.A. Justice, S.-H. Kim, T.A. Pelaia II, M.A. Plum, A.P. Shishlo
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  Funding: ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05- 00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy.
In 2009, the Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) began to experience significant operational degradation [1]. The source of the degradation was found to be repeated striking of cavity surfaces with errant beam pulses. The Machine Protection System (MPS) was designed to turn the beam off during a fault condition in less than 20 μseconds [2] as these errant beam pulses were not unexpected. Unfortunately an improperly operating MPS was not turning off the beam within the designed 20 μseconds, and the SRF cavities were being damaged. The MPS issues were corrected, and the SRF performance was restored with cavity thermal cycling and RF processing. However, the SRF cavity performance has continued to degrade, though at a reduced rate compared to 2009. This paper will detail further study of errant beam frequency, amount lost per event, causes, and the corrective actions imposed since the initial event.
 
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MOPWI027 Open XAL Control Room Experience 1214
 
  • C.P. Chu, D.G. Maxwell, Y. Zhang
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • C.K. Allen, T.A. Pelaia II, A.P. Shishlo
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661 and DE-AC05-00OR22725, the State of Michigan and Michigan State University.
This paper reports the control room experience, lessons learned, and quick deployment approach for the Open XAL application environment. Open XAL is a java-based framework for building high-level accelerator applications, it is a major revision of the XAL framework which was developed at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). Open XAL is site neutral and may be deployed at multiple accelerator facilities. Currently, Open XAL is installed at SNS and at the Re-Accelerator facility of Michigan State University. At SNS we are in the final process of replacing the old XAL environment with Open XAL; we describe the upgrade process and our accelerator operations experience using Open XAL. At Michigan State, Open XAL has been tested during a cryomodule commissioning and result will be shown.
 
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MOPWI050 Open XAL Status Report 2015 1270
 
  • T.A. Pelaia II, C.K. Allen, A.P. Shishlo, A.P. Zhukov
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
  • Y.-C. Chao, C. Gong, F.W. Jones, R. Newhouse
    TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
  • P. Chu, D.G. Maxwell, Y. Zhang
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • R. Fearn, L. Fernández, E. Laface, M. Muñoz
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
  • J.M. Freed
    University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
  • P. Gillette, P. Laurent, G. Normand
    GANIL, Caen, France
  • H.R. Hale
    University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
  • Y. Li
    IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  • I. List, M. Pavleski
    Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • P. Scruggs
    East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA
 
  Funding: ORNL/SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725
Open XAL is an accelerator physics software platform developed in collaboration among several facilities around the world. The Open XAL collaboration was formed in 2010 to port, improve and extend the successful XAL platform used at the Spallation Neutron Source for use in the broader accelerator community and to establish it as the standard platform for accelerator physics software. The site-independent core is complete, active applications have been ported, and now we are in the process of verification and transitioning to using Open XAL in production. This paper will present the current status and a roadmap for this project.
 
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