IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a demonstration experiment to prove the viability of cooling a beam of muons for use in a Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider. The MICE cooling channel is a section of a modified Study II cooling channel which will provide a 10% reduction in beam emittance. In order to ensure a reliable measurement, we intend to measure the beam emittance before and after the cooling channel at the level of 1%, or an absolute measurement of 0.001. This renders MICE as a precision experiment which requires strict controls and monitoring of all experimental parameters in order to control systematic errors. The MICE Controls and Monitoring system is based on EPICS and integrates with the DAQ, detector, environment, and data monitoring systems. A description of this system, its implementation, and performance during recent muon beam data collection will be discussed.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
An internal R&D program has been undertaken at BNL to develop a sub-micron RF Beam Position Monitor (BPM) for the NSLS-II 3rd generation light source that is currently under construction. The BPM R&D program started in August 2009. Successful beam tests were conducted 15 months from the start of the program. The NSLS-II RF BPM has been designed to meet all requirements for the NSLS-II Injection system and Storage Ring. Housing of the RF BPMs in ±0.1C thermally controlled racks provide sub-micron stabilization without active correction. An active pilot-tone has been incorporated to aid long-term (8hr min) stabilization to 200nm RMS.
URS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The beam commissioning software framework of NSLS-II project adopts a client/server based architecture to replace the more traditional monolithic high level application approach. It is an open structure platform, and we try to provide a narrow API set for client application. With this narrow API, existing applications developed in different language under different architecture could be ported to our platform with small modification. This paper describes a detailed client API design, and latest progress.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The beam commissioning software framework of NSLS-II project adopts a client/server based architecture to replace the more traditional monolithic high level application approach. The server development is ongoing, and adopts a sourceforge open project so-called epics-pvdata, which consists of pvData, pvAccess, pvEngine, and pvService. Some services have being demonstrated as one service under pvService module such as itemFinder service, gather service, and lattice manager, and each service runs as one standalone server using pvData to store in-memory transient data, pvService to transfer data over network, and pvEngine as service engine. This paper describes a detailed development, latest progress, and performance analysis.
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL is in the process of upgrading the control system for the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) linear accelerator. The 38 year-old data acquisition and control equipment is being replaced with COTS hardware. An overview of the current system requirements and how the National Instruments cRIO system meets these requirements will be given, as well as an update on the installation and operation of a prototype system in the LANSCE LINAC.
LANL Release Number: LA-UR 10-06605
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
There are several refurbishment projects underway at the Los Alamos National Laboratory LANSCE linear accelerator. Systems involved are: RF, water cooling, networks, diagnostics, timing, controls, etc. The Drift Tube Linac (DTL) portion of the accelerator consists of four DTL tanks, each with three independent water control systems. The systems are about 40 years old, use outdated and non-replaceable equipment and NIM bin control modules, are beyond their design life and provide unstable temperature control. Insufficient instrumentation and documentation further complicate efforts at maintaining system performance. Detailed design of the replacement cooling systems is currently in progress. Previous design experience on the SNS accelerator water cooling systems will be leveraged. Plans call for replacement of water piping, manifolds, pumps, valves, mix tanks, instrumentation (flow, pressure and temperature) and control system hardware and software. This presentation will focus on the control system design with specific attention on planned use of the National Instruments Compact RIO platform with the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) software toolkit.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
ICST, Harbin, People's Republic of China
UMiss, University, Mississippi, USA
We describe the recent progress on the design and fabrication of the RFCC (RF and Coupling Coil) module for the international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE). The MICE cooling channel has two RFCC modules; each has four 201-MHz normal conducting RF cavities and one superconducting solenoid magnet. The magnet is designed to be cooled by three cryocoolers. Fabrication of the RF cavities is complete; design and fabrication of the magnets are in progress. The first magnet is expected to be finished by the end of 2011.
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
Taking advantage of modern graphical editor software technology, a new Operator Interface (OPI) editor and runtime - Best OPI, Yet (BOY) - was developed by the Control System Studio (CSS) collaboration. It uses the Eclipse Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) to provide modern graphical editor functions, which makes it easy and intuitive to edit OPIs. Combined with Javascript and configurable rules, it is also easy to create powerful OPIs with complicated client-side logic. By simply providing the name of a Process Variable (PV), it will automatically handle the network connections. The graphical layer is decoupled from the data connection layer, conceptually allowing BOY to connect to arbitrary data sources, with current support including EPICS Channel Access and simulation PVs. BOY is integrated with the CSS platform, which provides inter-operability with other CSS tools. Fundamentally, it could also be integrated with other Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications due to its plugin mechanism. We have several screens deployed at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), where BOY has proven to be stable in support of SNS operation.
ESS Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
ESS-Bilbao, Zamudio, Spain
University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
ANL, Argonne, USA
An efficient means was developed to manage multi-author documents using software components not usually run together that are both freely available and free of cost: Concurrent Version Software (CVS), LaTeX typesetting software, and the Unix make utility. Together they solve the main problem with multi-author documents: losing track of "latest" version, tracking author contributions, and a strict enforcement of document format. APS has used this system for two large documents with about a dozen authors each: a 2007 white paper (150 pages) on a ERL proposal and a chapter (200 pages) of the APS Upgrade CDR. We stress the use of LaTeX because the plain-text format is amenable to version comparisons and the macro-based system allows last-minute global format changes. Several contributions from APS to this conference actually use this system.