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Justice, T. A.

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WPPA35 The SNS Front End Control System Upgrade 389
 
  • X. Geng, T. A. Justice, J. Y. Tang, D. C. Williams, W. R. DeVan
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
 
  The Spallation Neutron Source Front End (FE) is comprised of a 35-70 mA volume H-source, a multi-element electrostatic LEBT including chopping and steering, a 402.5MHz RFQ with low output emittance, and a 2.5MeV MEBT that also includes chopping. The original control system was designed and built by LBNL during 2000-2002 and commissioned at SNS in 2003. The FE control system design occurred early in the project and preceded finalization of SNS control system standards. The system was implemented based on Allen-Bradley VMEBus Remote I/O Scanners and PLC5s with Flex I/O interfaced via Remote I/O communication. The FE control system is now being upgraded to comply with the SNS standard PLC implementation and to improve reliability and maintainability. Details on the upgrade will be presented in this paper.