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| THPCH106 | ISAC II RF Controls - Status and Commissioning | 3047 |
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| The rf control system for the 20 ISAC II superconducting cavities is a hybrid analogue/digital design which has undergone several iterations in the course of its development. In the current design, the cavity operates in a self-excited feedback loop, while phase locked loops are used to achieve frequency and phase stability. One digital signal processor provides amplitude and phase regulation, while a second is used for mechanical cavity tuning control. The most recent version has been updated to incorporate newer hardware and software technology, as well as to allow for improved manufacturability and diagnostics. Operating firmware and software can be updated remotely, if the need arises and system security permits. This paper describes the RF control system, outlines the status of the system, and details the commissioning experience gained in operating this system with the first four-cavity cryomodule. | ||
| THPCH107 | Upgrade of TRIUMF's 2C STF Control System | 3050 |
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| One of TRIUMF's isotope production facilities, the 2C Solid Target Facility (STF), is being upgraded. This installation is located on a primary beamline of TRIUMF's 500 MeV Cyclotron. As a part of this upgrade project, the STF Control System is also being revised. Changes to the STF are meant to enhance reliability and maintainability. The existing STF controls have run very reliably and have provided the required functionality but were implemented in part using different technology to that used for the majority of the cyclotron's Central Control System. The new hardware and software controls should provide a simpler, more easily maintained configuration. Additional goals are to modify the user interface to more closely resemble the interface used for running the 500 MeV Cyclotron, to enhance the event annunciation, and to increase the number of parameters logged. | ||
| THPCH108 | Status of SOLEIL Control Systems | 3053 |
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| The SOLEIL light source is a 2.75 GeV third generation synchrotron radiation facility under construction near Paris Storage ring commissioning is scheduled for April 2006 and 10 BL operation for the end of 2006. This paper will describe the technical solution choosen for the control systems of accelerators and beamlines, and will give the status of the deployment. On the hardware side, the SOLEIL Controls team has implemented an industrial approach using PLCs, standard Motion Controlers and CPCI Systems. The details of our technical choices and architectures will be described in this paper. On the software side, the SOLEIL Controls team has worked closely with ESRF's one on the TANGO framework since 2002. A quick tour on the TANGO software components used for SOLEIL Controls will be detailed. On the supervision layer, SOLEIL has choosen Java as the core technology, using javabeans components provided by the TANGO toolkit within an industrial SCADA (GlobalScreen). These tools and components for Graphical User Interface development will be presented. At last, an overview of the deployment of these systems on our installation will conclude this document. | ||
| THPCH109 | Control Applications for SOLEIL Commissioning and Operation | 3056 |
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| Synchrotron SOLEIL, the French third generation light source being commissioned in 2006, is the first facility using TANGO as a full control system. Control applications for operation and Beam Physics Dynamics have being developed using two major tools: the Matlab Middle Layer adapted from ALS and Spear3, and GlobalSCREEN, commercial SCADA software. Both tools are fully interfaced with the TANGO control system. In this paper, a sketch of the software architecture is shown. Then Storage Ring applications developed in house are presented. Finally configuration and database related applications (archiving, snapshot) are briefly described. | ||
| THPCH110 | The New Control System for the Future Low-emittance Light Source PETRA 3 at DESY | 3059 |
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| At DESY, the existing high-energy physics booster synchrotron PETRA 2 will be transformed into a 3rd-generation light source (PETRA 3) after the final shutdowm of HERA operation mid 2007. In addition, the technical systems and components of the pre-accelerators LINAC 2 and DESY 2 will be improved. Within the scope of this project, the control system and the front-end electronics will be upgraded. Key elements of the conceptual design are TINE (Threefold Integrated Network Environment) as integrating software bus to provide efficient data communication mechanisms and support services, control room applications based on the thick-client model for optimum visualization and performance and Java as programming language to ensure platform independence, server-side control APIs in various languages to allow choice of the language that is best suited for the control task to be done, a common device interface for generic access to various field buses, and CANopen as interface standard for device electronics to ensure long-term maintenance. The complete conceptual design and the current project status will be presented. | ||
| THPCH111 | Digital Master Oscillator for the ISIS Synchrotron | 3062 |
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| Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxfordshire is home to an 800MeV synchrotron particle accelerator called ISIS. Its main function is to direct a beam of protons into a heavy metal target to produce neutrons for scientists to analyse condensed matter. A second harmonic system is being developed to upgrade the beam current from 200uA to 300uA in order to drive a second target station. This is being achieved by the inclusion of four second harmonic cavities to increase the width of the RF bucket. In the past the six fundamental cavities were driven by an analogue master oscillator but the extra cavities will bring more difficultly in the phasing of the system. This could be more easily and precisely controlled by embedding a Direct Digital Synthesis core into an FPGA chip as the heart of a new digital Master Oscillator. This paper describes the initial research and feasibility of such a system for the setting up, phasing and synchronisation of the ten cavities in the ring. It also describes how more of the controls to the oscillator can be encompassed by digital means. | ||
| THPCH112 | High-level Software for Diamond Commissioning and Operation | 3065 |
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| The Diamond accelerator complex is controlled with EPICS. While generic applications are provided by the EPICS toolkit, accelerator physics application for the commissioning and operation of the Diamond booster, storage ring and transfer line are mainly developed with MATLAB. The MATLAB Middle Layer tools developed at ALS and SPEAR3 have been extensively used and extended with many new applications. Experience using these tools during the commissioning of the Diamond booster, transfer lines and storage ring are reported. | ||
| THPCH113 | The Diamond Light Source Control System | 3068 |
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| Diamond is a new 3rd generation synchrotron light source currently being commissioned in the UK. The control system for Diamond will be a site-wide monitoring and control system for the accelerators, beamlines and conventional facilities. This paper presents the design and implementation of the Diamond control system, which is based on the EPICS control system toolkit. It will present the detailed choice of hardware and software, the solutions realised for interfacing and control of the major technical systems of Diamond, together with progress on installation and commissioning. | ||
| THPCH115 | Timing System Upgrade for Top-up Injection at KEK Linac | 3071 |
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| KEK Linac provides electrons and positrons to Photon Factory (PF) and B-Factory (KEKB). Because of the nature of those factory machines both quantity and quality of the beams are required. In order to improve the injections, quasi top-up injections of electrons to PF and KEKB rings have been planned and a new beam transport line was built. Fast beam switching mechanisms are being developed and installed. The timing and control system is also reinforced to realize fast (50Hz) switching of rf timing pulses, low-level rf, beam instrumentation parameters, and beam feedback parameters. The present timing system provides precise (jitters down to 5ps) timing pulses to 150 devices. Many of the signals will be upgraded to enable the fast switching scheme with an event system. At the same time a double-fold synchronization between asynchronous Linac and PF rf signals was developed to achieve precise injection timing mainly because both rings have independent circumference correction systems. | ||
| THPCH116 | Continuous Circumference Control and Timing System for Simultaneous Electron-positron Injection at the KEKB | 3074 |
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| We have continuously controlled ring circumference with a new method of synthesizer control at the KEKB. The new method stands for continuous controlling of reference frequency of synthesizers. Due to the new circumference control, we stabilized the KEKB circumference within about 6 micrometers. In Fall 2006, KEKB will introduce simultaneous electron-positron injection scheme. We have to change the timing system of KEKB to control the injection phase with pulse-to-pulse injection. We show the plan of the new timing system due to the simultaneous injection scheme. | ||
| THPCH117 | Synchronized Data Monitoring and Acquisition System for J-PARC RCS | 3077 |
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J-PARC RCS* is a proton synchrotron with an extreme high power of 1MW, and delicate care must be taken to suppress radiation due to beam loss. The RCS injects each beam pulse of 25 Hz into the MLF** and the MR*** in a predefined order. Furthermore, the different beam control parameters are required for the MLF and the MR. Therefore, in order to reduce beam loss, synchronicity of data is indispensable. For this reason, control data monitoring and acquisition must be made separately for each beam pulse, distinguishing the destination in the control system. The data, which require synchronicity monitoring and acquisition, are such as beam position data (BPM**** data). We select mainly these data, and we are developing the synchronized data monitoring and acquisition system based on RM*****, WER******. The status of development and some test results for this system will be presented in this report.
*Rapid-cycling Synchrotron **Materials and Life Science Facility ***50 GeV Main Ring ****Beam Position Monitor *****Reflective Memory ******Wave Endless Recorder |
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| THPCH118 | Development of the Event Notice Function for PLC | 3080 |
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| A lot of equipment which controls in J-PARC accelerator composition machinery using PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) exists. The transmitting method to upper control systems, such as interlock information on accelerator composition apparatus, state changes information, and information on the right of control operation, is not performed by polling. The event notice function is used and it transmits to the upper control system. In the case of polling, information is transmitted to the upper control system to a number "msec" order. In the case where the event notice function is used, an event can be interrupted at the time of event generating, and information can be transmitted to a target to the upper control system at it. By the J-PARC control system, it makes it possible to transmit the information on state change (event) to the upper control system immediately from PLC by using the rudder sequence program which the rudder sequence program for apparatus control detected change of a state, and mounted the event notice by using this event notice function. The J-PARC control system which mounted the event notice function is reported. | ||
| THPCH120 | Development of a General Purpose Power System Control Board | 3083 |
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| As high frequency switching solid state devices are replacing tube devices and linear devices, power systems become more compact and modular. In those systems, it is desirable to have a high quality and multi-function control board per each power system module. In order to maintain reliable operation of the power system module, the control board requires having multiple and complex functions. Moreover, the control board needs to be compact and low power consuming. It also needs to have a fast communication with the main control station. However, there is no such control board available commercially. Therefore, a general purpose power system control board (PSCB) has been under development since 2005 as a collaboration effort between PAL and SLAC. The PSCB is an embedded, interlock supervisory, diagnostic, timing, and set-point control board. It is designed to use in various power systems such as sequenced kicker pulsers, solid state RF modulators, simple DC magnet power supplies, etc. The PSCB has the Ethernet communication with the TCP/IP Modbus protocol. This paper will describe detail functions and preliminary test results of the PSCB. | ||
| THPCH121 | Development of Machine Interlock System HMI for PLS | 3086 |
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| The Machine Interlock System (MIS) for the Pohang Light Source (PLS) is used for the monitoring and control of machine devices and equipments for operation and maintenance, and protects machine devices and equipments by interlock chain program at fault status. The MIS consists of one central system unit and seven remote local system units, and is implemented mainly using GE-FANUC's Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). Using information and data in the MIS, a human-machine interface (HMI) for the MIS is developed for the operator and system manager to efficiently control and monitor the MIS and also to log various event, trip, fault data automatically. Wonder's FactorySuite is used for the HMI development software. The HMI is developed under PC environments, which communicates with the MIS through RS-485 serial link. | ||
| THPCH123 | New Control System for Nuclotron Main Power Supplies | 3089 |
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| New control and monitoring system for Nuclotron main power supplies was designed in order to substantially extend functionality of the existing equipment and software. The lattice bending (BM), focusing (QF) and defocusing (QD) magnets are powered by two supplies. The BM magnetic field shape is set by pulse function generator that produces a reference burst (Bo-train) with 0.1 Gs resolution. This train controls pattern analog function generator based on a 18-bit DAC. A real B-train from the reference magnet and corresponding analog function are used for feedback loop. The current magnetic field of BM is used as reference function for the focusing and defocusing magnets. A scaling 16-bit multiplied DAC is used to set required ratio IBM/IQFD during accelerator cycle. A 16-bit data acquisition card provides measurement of all analog signals. Digital I/O boards are applied to set and read status of the power supplies, accompanying subsystems and interlocks. Timing modules provide the trigger pulses both for the system internal needs and for synchronizing of the accelerator subsystems and experimental setups. | ||
| THPCH125 | Inter-laboratory Synchronization for the CNGS Project | 3092 |
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| CERN will start sending a neutrino beam to Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy in May 2006. This beam will cover a distance of around 730 km through the crust of the earth from an extraction line in CERN's SPS to dedicated detectors in Gran Sasso. This paper describes the technological choices made to fulfill the specification of inter-laboratory synchronization in the region of 100 ns, as well as some preliminary results. The common time standard is UTC as disseminated by the GPS system, and the techniques are similar to those used by national metrology laboratories for the manufacturing of UTC itself. In addition, real-time messages sent through the Internet allow the detectors in Gran Sasso to go into calibration mode when no beam is being sent. Data concerning the delay and determinism of this international network link is also presented. | ||
| THPCH126 | System Development of a Time-of-flight Spectrometer for Surface Analysis of Materials | 3095 |
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| To study on design the time-of-flight Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (TOF-RBS) technique for nano-material surface analysis with high resolution. At Fast Neutron Research Facility, FNRF, upgrading of the existing pulsed-beam accelerator from 150-keV of D+$ to 280 keV of He+ was proposed to use for the most powerful method of a near-surface characterization of materials utilizing TOF-RBS. The beam transport was redesigned based on the multicusp ion source which was designed the extraction and focusing system for optimization by the computer program KOBRA, and the existing beam pulsing system to provide He+ ion beam with a few nano-second width and 280-keV acceleration energy. Simulation was done by the computer program Beam Optics, resulting in the beam size at the target position of 1 mm in diameter. The measured beam size was 6 mm in diameter. The optimization of the target position was done by the PARMELA program, to be at 3.14 m from the middle point of the buncher. Components, beam transport characteristics, beam optic simulation, and role of quadrupole magnet were explained. Design and test of the scattering chamber for TOF-RBS were shown and measured by the MCP detector. The quadrupole triplet was designed and constructed at FNRF. Development of TOF-RBS system was implemented in this study. Designing component, fabrication and installation to the accelerator system were completed. Beam extraction and He-scattering tests were done. | ||
| THPCH127 | Development of MATLAB-based Data Logging System at Siam Photon Source | 3098 |
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| New data logging and retrieval systems are currently under development at Siam Photon Source. The systems are written entirely with MATLAB language and utilize two MATLAB toolboxes to handle data communications. The two toolboxes are Open Process Control Toolbox, which is used to carry out communications with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) via Open Process Control Data Access (OPCDA), and Data Acquisition Toolbox, which handles communications with other systems via RS-232 and IEEE-488 interconnections. The interface with the database is handled by the MATLAB Database Toolbox. These MATLAB-based logging and retrieval systems enable accelerator physicists to easily import the logged data to accelerator modeling tools for studies of the accelerator optics. Beamline researchers and users can also write their own retrieval programs to access only the data they need. In this paper we describe the concept, the current status of the systems, and the planned improvements to be carried out in the future. | ||
| THPCH128 | Portable SDA (Sequenced Data Acquisition) with a Native XML Database | 3101 |
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| SDA is a general logging system for a repeated, complex process. It has been used as one of the main logging facility for the Tevatron Collider during Run II. It creates a time abstraction in terms understood by everyone and allows for common time tick across different subsystems. In this article we discuss a plan to re-implement this highly successful FNAL system in a more general way so it can be used elsewhere. Latest technologies, namely a native XML database and AJAX, are used in the project and discussed in the article. | ||
| THPCH130 | Design and Implementation of Analog Feedback Damper System for an Electron-proton Instability at the Los Alamos Proton Storage Ring | 3104 |
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| The PSR (Proton Storage Ring) at LANSCE has observed an E-P (electron-proton) instability. A wideband analog feedback damper system was designed and implemented that has shown it is possible to correct this instability. The damper system consists of two 180 degree hybrids, low level amplifiers, a delay line, comb filter, power amplifiers, and adjustable delay lines. The system bandwidth is about between 10-300 MHz, and was developed and implemented in stages showing improvement in the e-p threshold of the buncher voltage. The system takes advantage of fiber optic technology for delays as well as for the comb filter. A system description and some measurement results are presented. |