2011 Particle Accelerator Conference - List of Authors (Smith, B.G.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOP233	LANSCE-R Wire-scanner System	545
	M.E. Gruchalla URS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA P. Chacon, J.D. Gilpatrick, D. Martinez, S. Rodriguez Esparza, F.D. Sattler, J.D. Sedillo, B.G. Smith LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: US Department of Energy The National Instruments cRIO platform is used for the new LANSCE-R wire-scanner systems. All wire-scanner electronics are integrated into a single BiRa BiRIO 4U cRIO chassis specifically designed for the cRIO crate and all interface electronics. The BiRIO chassis, actuator and LabVIEW VIs provide a complete wire-scanner system integrated with EPICS. The new wire-scanner chassis includes an 8-slot cRIO crate with Virtex-5 LX 110 FPGA and Power-PC real-time controller, the LANL-developed cRIO 2-axis wire-sensor analog interface module (AFE), NI9222 cRIO 4-channel 16-bit digitizer, cRIO resolver demodulator, cRIO event receiver, front-panel touch panel display, motor driver, and all necessary software, interface wiring, connectors and ancillary components. This wire-scanner system provides a complete, turn-key, 2-axis wire-scanner system including 2-channel low-noise sense-wire interface with variable DC wire bias and wire-integrity monitor, 16-bit signal digitizers, actuator motor drive and control, actuator position sensing, limit-switch interfaces, event receiver, LabVIEW and EPICS interface, and both remote operation and full stand-alone operation using the touch panel.

MOP235	LANSCE Wire Scanning Diagnostics Device Prototype	551
	S. Rodriguez Esparza, Y.K. Batygin, J.D. Gilpatrick, M.E. Gruchalla, A.J. Maestas, C. Pillai, J.L. Raybun, F.D. Sattler, J.D. Sedillo, B.G. Smith LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	The Accelerator Operations & Technology Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory operates a linear particle accelerator which utilizes 110 wire scanning diagnostics devices to gain position and intensity information of the proton beam. In the upcoming LANSCE improvements, 51 of these wire scanners are to be replaced with a new design, up-to-date technology and off-the-shelf components. This document outlines the requirements for the mechanical design of the LANSCE wire scanner and presents the recently developed linac wire scanner prototype. Additionally, this document presents the design modifications that have been implemented into the fabrication and assembly of this first linac wire scanner prototype. Also, this document will present the design for the second and third wire scanner prototypes being developed. These last two prototypes belong to a different section of the particle accelerator and therefore have slightly different design specifications. Lastly, the paper concludes with a plan for future work on the wire scanner development.

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LANSCE-R Wire-scanner System

545

M.E. Gruchalla
URS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
P. Chacon, J.D. Gilpatrick, D. Martinez, S. Rodriguez Esparza, F.D. Sattler, J.D. Sedillo, B.G. Smith
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: US Department of Energy
The National Instruments cRIO platform is used for the new LANSCE-R wire-scanner systems. All wire-scanner electronics are integrated into a single BiRa BiRIO 4U cRIO chassis specifically designed for the cRIO crate and all interface electronics. The BiRIO chassis, actuator and LabVIEW VIs provide a complete wire-scanner system integrated with EPICS. The new wire-scanner chassis includes an 8-slot cRIO crate with Virtex-5 LX 110 FPGA and Power-PC real-time controller, the LANL-developed cRIO 2-axis wire-sensor analog interface module (AFE), NI9222 cRIO 4-channel 16-bit digitizer, cRIO resolver demodulator, cRIO event receiver, front-panel touch panel display, motor driver, and all necessary software, interface wiring, connectors and ancillary components. This wire-scanner system provides a complete, turn-key, 2-axis wire-scanner system including 2-channel low-noise sense-wire interface with variable DC wire bias and wire-integrity monitor, 16-bit signal digitizers, actuator motor drive and control, actuator position sensing, limit-switch interfaces, event receiver, LabVIEW and EPICS interface, and both remote operation and full stand-alone operation using the touch panel.

MOP235

LANSCE Wire Scanning Diagnostics Device Prototype

551

S. Rodriguez Esparza, Y.K. Batygin, J.D. Gilpatrick, M.E. Gruchalla, A.J. Maestas, C. Pillai, J.L. Raybun, F.D. Sattler, J.D. Sedillo, B.G. Smith
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

The Accelerator Operations & Technology Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory operates a linear particle accelerator which utilizes 110 wire scanning diagnostics devices to gain position and intensity information of the proton beam. In the upcoming LANSCE improvements, 51 of these wire scanners are to be replaced with a new design, up-to-date technology and off-the-shelf components. This document outlines the requirements for the mechanical design of the LANSCE wire scanner and presents the recently developed linac wire scanner prototype. Additionally, this document presents the design modifications that have been implemented into the fabrication and assembly of this first linac wire scanner prototype. Also, this document will present the design for the second and third wire scanner prototypes being developed. These last two prototypes belong to a different section of the particle accelerator and therefore have slightly different design specifications. Lastly, the paper concludes with a plan for future work on the wire scanner development.