2011 Particle Accelerator Conference - List of Authors (Shrey, T.C.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOP249	Improved Alarm Tracking for Better Accountability	579
	S. Nemesure, T. D'Ottavio, L.R. Hammons, P.F. Ingrassia, N.A. Kling, G.J. Marr, T.C. Shrey 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. An alarm system is a vital component of any accelerator, as it provides a warning that some element of the system is not functioning properly. The severity and age of the alarm may sometimes signify whether urgent or deferred attention is required. For example, older alarms may inadvertently be given a lower priority if an assumption is made that someone else is already investigating it, whereas those that are more current may indicate the need for an immediate response. The alarm history also provides valuable information regarding the functionality of the overall system, thus careful tracking of these data is likely to improve response time and remove uncertainty about the current status. Since one goal of every alarm display is to be free of alarms, a clear and concise presentation of an alarm along with useful historic annotations can help the end user address the warning more quickly. By defining a discrete set of very specific alarm states and by utilizing database resources to maintain a complete and easily accessible alarm history, we anticipate a decrease in down time due to more efficient operator response and management of alarms.

WEP261	Performance of the New EBIS Preinjector	1966
	J.G. Alessi, E.N. Beebe, S. Binello, C.J. Gardner, O. Gould, L.T. Hoff, N.A. Kling, R.F. Lambiase, V. LoDestro, R. Lockey, M. Mapes, A. McNerney, J. Morris, M. Okamura, A. Pendzick, D. Phillips, A.I. Pikin, D. Raparia, J. Ritter, T.C. Shrey, L. Smart, L. Snydstrup, C. Theisen, M. Wilinski, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA U. Ratzinger, A. Schempp IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy, and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The construction and initial commissioning phase of a new heavy ion preinjector was completed at Brookhaven in September, 2010, and the preinjector is now operational. This preinjector, using an EBIS source to produce high charge state heavy ions, provided helium and neon ion beams for use at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory in the Fall of 2010, and gold and uranium beams are being commissioned during the 2011 run cycle for use in RHIC. The EBIS operates with an electron beam current of up to 10 A, to produce mA level currents in 10 to 40 μs beam pulses. The source is followed by an RFQ and IH linac to accelerate ions with q/m > 0.16 to an energy of 2 MeV/amu, for injection into the Booster synchrotron. The performance of the preinjector is presented, including initial operational experience for the NASA and RHIC programs.

THP054	Medium Energy Heavy Ion Operations at RHIC	2220
	K.A. Drees, L. A. Ahrens, M. Bai, J. Beebe-Wang, I. Blackler, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, J.J. Butler, C. Carlson, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, W. Fischer, W. Fu, D.M. Gassner, M. Harvey, T. Hayes, H. Huang, R.L. Hulsart, P.F. Ingrassia, N.A. Kling, M. Lafky, J.S. Laster, R.C. Lee, V. Litvinenko, Y. Luo, W.W. MacKay, M. Mapes, G.J. Marr, A. Marusic, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, J. Morris, C. Naylor, S. Nemesure, F.C. Pilat, V. Ptitsyn, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, P. Sampson, T. Satogata, V. Schoefer, C. Schultheiss, F. Severino, T.C. Shrey, K.S. Smith, S. Tepikian, P. Thieberger, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, M. Wilinski, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno, S.Y. Zhang 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. As part of the search for a phase transition or critical point on the QCD phase diagram, an energy scan including 5 different energy settings was performed during the 2010 RHIC heavy ion run. While the top beam energy for heavy ions is at 100 GeV/n and the lowest achieved energy setpoint was significantly below RHICs injection energy of approximately 10 GeV/n, we also provided beams for data taking in a medium energy range above injection energy and below top beam energy. This paper reviews RHIC experience and challenges for RHIC medium energy operations that produced full experimental data sets at beam energies of 31.2 GeV/n and 19.5 GeV/n.

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Improved Alarm Tracking for Better Accountability

579

S. Nemesure, T. D'Ottavio, L.R. Hammons, P.F. Ingrassia, N.A. Kling, G.J. Marr, T.C. Shrey
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.
An alarm system is a vital component of any accelerator, as it provides a warning that some element of the system is not functioning properly. The severity and age of the alarm may sometimes signify whether urgent or deferred attention is required. For example, older alarms may inadvertently be given a lower priority if an assumption is made that someone else is already investigating it, whereas those that are more current may indicate the need for an immediate response. The alarm history also provides valuable information regarding the functionality of the overall system, thus careful tracking of these data is likely to improve response time and remove uncertainty about the current status. Since one goal of every alarm display is to be free of alarms, a clear and concise presentation of an alarm along with useful historic annotations can help the end user address the warning more quickly. By defining a discrete set of very specific alarm states and by utilizing database resources to maintain a complete and easily accessible alarm history, we anticipate a decrease in down time due to more efficient operator response and management of alarms.

WEP261

Performance of the New EBIS Preinjector

1966

J.G. Alessi, E.N. Beebe, S. Binello, C.J. Gardner, O. Gould, L.T. Hoff, N.A. Kling, R.F. Lambiase, V. LoDestro, R. Lockey, M. Mapes, A. McNerney, J. Morris, M. Okamura, A. Pendzick, D. Phillips, A.I. Pikin, D. Raparia, J. Ritter, T.C. Shrey, L. Smart, L. Snydstrup, C. Theisen, M. Wilinski, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
U. Ratzinger, A. Schempp
IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy, and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The construction and initial commissioning phase of a new heavy ion preinjector was completed at Brookhaven in September, 2010, and the preinjector is now operational. This preinjector, using an EBIS source to produce high charge state heavy ions, provided helium and neon ion beams for use at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory in the Fall of 2010, and gold and uranium beams are being commissioned during the 2011 run cycle for use in RHIC. The EBIS operates with an electron beam current of up to 10 A, to produce mA level currents in 10 to 40 μs beam pulses. The source is followed by an RFQ and IH linac to accelerate ions with q/m > 0.16 to an energy of 2 MeV/amu, for injection into the Booster synchrotron. The performance of the preinjector is presented, including initial operational experience for the NASA and RHIC programs.

THP054

Medium Energy Heavy Ion Operations at RHIC

2220

K.A. Drees, L. A. Ahrens, M. Bai, J. Beebe-Wang, I. Blackler, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, J.J. Butler, C. Carlson, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, W. Fischer, W. Fu, D.M. Gassner, M. Harvey, T. Hayes, H. Huang, R.L. Hulsart, P.F. Ingrassia, N.A. Kling, M. Lafky, J.S. Laster, R.C. Lee, V. Litvinenko, Y. Luo, W.W. MacKay, M. Mapes, G.J. Marr, A. Marusic, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, J. Morris, C. Naylor, S. Nemesure, F.C. Pilat, V. Ptitsyn, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, P. Sampson, T. Satogata, V. Schoefer, C. Schultheiss, F. Severino, T.C. Shrey, K.S. Smith, S. Tepikian, P. Thieberger, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, M. Wilinski, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno, S.Y. Zhang
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.
As part of the search for a phase transition or critical point on the QCD phase diagram, an energy scan including 5 different energy settings was performed during the 2010 RHIC heavy ion run. While the top beam energy for heavy ions is at 100 GeV/n and the lowest achieved energy setpoint was significantly below RHICs injection energy of approximately 10 GeV/n, we also provided beams for data taking in a medium energy range above injection energy and below top beam energy. This paper reviews RHIC experience and challenges for RHIC medium energy operations that produced full experimental data sets at beam energies of 31.2 GeV/n and 19.5 GeV/n.