FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University is a unique modern user facility composed of a large-scale superconducting linac capable of accelerating heavy-ion beams from oxygen to uranium. An advanced EPICS-based control system is being used to operate this complex facility. High-level physics applications (HLA) developed before and during the staged commissioning of the linac were one of the critical tools that resulted in achieving the commissioning goals quickly, within several shifts. Many of these HLAs are expandable to other EPCIS controlled accelerators. Recent developed HLAs deal with the management of extensive data to achieve the repetitive high performance of ion beams in the entire linac measured by non-destructive diagnostics instruments, and open the possibilities to explore the extra values out of the data. This paper presents our recent significant development and utilization of these HLAs.
* T. Zhang et al. ’High-level Physics Controls Applications Development for FRIB’, ICALEPCS’19, TUCPR07, NY, USA, 2019.
