| Title |
Adaptable Control System for the Photon Beamlines at the European XFEL: Integrating New Devices and Technologies for Advanced Research |
| Authors |
- B. Rio, M. Dommach, D. Finze, M. Petrich, H. Sinn, V. Strauch, A. Trapp, J.R. Villanueva Guerrero
EuXFEL, Schenefeld, Germany
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| Abstract |
The European XFEL is an X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) facility located in Schenefeld, in the vicinity of Hamburg, Germany. With a total length of 3.4 kilometers, the facility provides seven scientific instruments with extremely intense X-ray flashes ranging from the soft to the hard X-ray regime. The dimension of the beam transport and the technologies used to make this X-ray FEL unique have led to the design and buildup of a challenging and adaptable control system based on a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). Six successful years of user operation, which started in September 2017, have required constant development of the beam transport in order to provide new features and improvements for the scientific community to perform their research activities. The framework of this contribution is focused on the photon beamline, which starts at the undulator section and guides the X-ray beam to the scientific instruments. In this scope, the control system topology and this adaptability to integrate new devices through the PLC Management System (PLCMS) are described. In 2022, a new distribution mirror was installed in the SASE3 beam transport system to provide photon beams to the seventh and newest scientific instrument, named Soft X-ray Port (SXP). To make the scope of this paper more practical, this new installation is used as an example. The integration in the actual control system of the vacuum devices, optic elements, and interlock definition are described.
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| Conference |
ICALEPCS2023 |
| Series |
International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (19th) |
| Location |
Cape Town, South Africa |
| Date |
09-13 October 2023 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Andy Götz (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Johan Venter (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa); Karen White (SNS, Oak Ridge, TN, USA); Marie Robichon (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Vivienne Rowland (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-238-7 |
| Online ISSN |
2226-0358 |
| Received |
05 October 2023 |
| Revised |
25 October 2023 |
| Accepted |
10 December 2023 |
| Issued/td>
| 14 December 2023 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP022 |
| Pages |
1349-1353 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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