IPAC2017 - List of Keywords (database)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
TUPIK109	Accelerators and Their Ghosts	operation, network, target, proton	1975
	M. Reščič, R. Seviour University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom W. Blokland ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	The issue of particle accelerator reliability is a problem that currently is not fully defined, understood nor addressed. Conventional approaches to reliability (e.g. RBDs) struggle due to a lack of data about specific component/system reliability and failure. There is a large body of beam current data retrievable from operating accelerators that contains detailed information about the accelerator behaviour, both before and after a machine trip has occurred. Analysing this data could provide insight and help develop a new approach to address accelerator reliability. In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach to detecting emergent behaviour in particle accelerators. Instead of attempting to identify every possible failure of a machine we propose an alternative approach based around a change in perspective, to knowing the normal default operational behaviour of a machine. Taking action when a ghost in the machine emerges that causes accelerator wide aberrant changes to normal machine behaviour.
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WEPAB018	Engineering Collaboration Experience at the European XFEL	project-management, distributed, monitoring, controls	2604
	L. Hagge, M. Hüning, J. Kreutzkamp DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	The construction of the European XFEL involved a huge internationally distributed and inter-disciplinary engineering effort. This paper discusses examples for good engineering practices which have been successfully developed and applied in the construction of the European XFEL. It addresses appropriate combination of de-/central activities in design collaboration and integration; the use of manufacturing bills of materials for coordinating and tracking contributions, as well as for clarifying responsibilities; the right amount of reviews for keeping activities in synch; some specific needs of and measures for in-kind collaboration; and general methods, tools and practices and spirit for efficient communication and collaboration.
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WEPAB121	Database for NSLS-II Accelerator Operation	interface, operation, controls, software	2854
	J. Choi, R.I. Farnsworth, T.V. Shaftan, G.J. Weiner, X. Yang BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Funding: DOE Contract No: DE-SC0012704 NSLS-II is employing a database and corresponding user interfaces which are used for the accelerator data sharing and management. The database include operation related information such as beam optics parameters, magnet measurement data, survey data and operation summary. To improve the usability, other functionalities are also being added. However, due to the limited scope, the general expectation of the overall facility cannot not be met and, in order to solve the issue, we are in the process of adopting Component Database (ComponentDB) developed at Advanced Photon Source (APS). This paper shows the current status of the process.
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THPAB104	Engineering Documentation and Asset Management for the European XFEL Accelerator	operation, interface, status, SRF	3960
	L. Hagge, J.A. Dammann, T.T. Hongisto, J. Kreutzkamp, D. Käfer, B. List, S. Rohwedder, S. Sühl, N. Welle DESY, Hamburg, Germany A. Frank European XFEL, Schenefeld, Germany
	At the European XFEL, extensive technical documentation has been created during design and construction of the accelerator. It is based on a configuration database (the DESY EDMS), which provides an inventory of major accelerator systems. The configuration database registers components and their used materials, tracks component design and fabrication history, and contains engineering documents and drawings, and work and inspection records. Technical documentation can be accessed through intuitive reports and navigational tree structures, representing specific beamline sections or areas of the facility. Access on mobile devices in the accelerator tunnel is supported by component tags with QR codes. A dedicated front-end has been developed for automatically uploading and cross-linking documents to the configuration database, reducing documentation efforts in the project teams. The configuration database now serves as a foundation for upcoming technical operation and maintenance activities. The paper provides an overview of the available engineering documentation and its access methods, and discusses its expected role and benefits in future maintenance processes.
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THPAB121	The Study of Accelerator Data Archiving and Retrieving Software	EPICS, interface, software, operation	4007
	Y.S. Qiao, G. Lei, Z. Zhao IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	This paper presents a novel archiving and retrieving software designed for BEPC-II and other particle accelerators. At BEPC-II, real-time data are stored as index files recorded by traditional EPICS Channel Archiver. Never-theless, index files are not suitable for long-term maintenance and difficult for data analysis. The NoSQL database MongoDB is used for this new system due to aging technologies, so as to promote the data storage reliability, usability, and possible future advanced data analysis. A cross-platform UI (User Interface) has also been developed to make it quicker and easier to access the database. The writing and query performance are tested for this software.
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THPAB122	Open XAL Development for Xi'an Proton Application Facility	controls, simulation, proton, synchrotron	4010
	Y. Yang, X. Guan, Y. Lei, W. Wang, X.W. Wang, S.X. Zheng TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China M.C. Wang, Z.M. Wang, H.Z. Zhang State Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Radiation Simulation and Effect, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Shannxi, People's Republic of China
	Beam commission tools for Xi'an Proton Application Facility (XiPAF) will be developed based on Open XAL. In this paper, we present preparations made for adopting Open XAL in XiPAF, including a newly designed database schema based on MySQL, modifying db2xal application based on database schema to create optics file automatically. We also add time-dependent nodes in XiPAF's online model to meet the need of energy ramping in synchrotron. A set of high-level applications as well as a new virtual accelerator is under development.
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THPAB145	CERN Accelerators Topology Configuration: Facing the Next Long Shutdown	hardware, status, operation, alignment	4066
	S. Bartolome-Jimenez, T.W. Birtwistle, S. Chemli, N. Gilbert, A.-L. Perrot, J. Piar, V. Simetka, B. Vazquez de Prada Planas CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Configuration and Layout (CL) team at CERN ensures that there is a clear and coherent representation of the status of the CERN underground facilities (about 60 km of equipment) and main accelerator projects at a given point in time. In view of the major equipment changes to be carried out during the extended end of year technical stop (EYETS), the next Long Shutdown (LS2), and to facilitate the associated preparatory work of multiple CERN groups, the CL team has developed an immersive visualisation tool, displaying 360 degree panoramic images of CERN underground facilities. In addition, the CL team is launching a process to manage future layout configurations inside the CERN Layout database in parallel to the current configuration. This paper presents the 360 degree panorama visualisation tool and the parallel configuration process, to view the past, current and future status of the CERN accelerator complex. It highlights their added value for the CERN groups in the preparatory phase for upgrade and consolidation modifications and discusses the potential future improvements.
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Paper

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TUPIK109

Accelerators and Their Ghosts

operation, network, target, proton

1975

M. Reščič, R. Seviour
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
W. Blokland
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

The issue of particle accelerator reliability is a problem that currently is not fully defined, understood nor addressed. Conventional approaches to reliability (e.g. RBDs) struggle due to a lack of data about specific component/system reliability and failure. There is a large body of beam current data retrievable from operating accelerators that contains detailed information about the accelerator behaviour, both before and after a machine trip has occurred. Analysing this data could provide insight and help develop a new approach to address accelerator reliability. In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach to detecting emergent behaviour in particle accelerators. Instead of attempting to identify every possible failure of a machine we propose an alternative approach based around a change in perspective, to knowing the normal default operational behaviour of a machine. Taking action when a ghost in the machine emerges that causes accelerator wide aberrant changes to normal machine behaviour.

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WEPAB018

Engineering Collaboration Experience at the European XFEL

project-management, distributed, monitoring, controls

2604

L. Hagge, M. Hüning, J. Kreutzkamp
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

The construction of the European XFEL involved a huge internationally distributed and inter-disciplinary engineering effort. This paper discusses examples for good engineering practices which have been successfully developed and applied in the construction of the European XFEL. It addresses appropriate combination of de-/central activities in design collaboration and integration; the use of manufacturing bills of materials for coordinating and tracking contributions, as well as for clarifying responsibilities; the right amount of reviews for keeping activities in synch; some specific needs of and measures for in-kind collaboration; and general methods, tools and practices and spirit for efficient communication and collaboration.

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WEPAB121

Database for NSLS-II Accelerator Operation

interface, operation, controls, software

2854

J. Choi, R.I. Farnsworth, T.V. Shaftan, G.J. Weiner, X. Yang
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Funding: DOE Contract No: DE-SC0012704
NSLS-II is employing a database and corresponding user interfaces which are used for the accelerator data sharing and management. The database include operation related information such as beam optics parameters, magnet measurement data, survey data and operation summary. To improve the usability, other functionalities are also being added. However, due to the limited scope, the general expectation of the overall facility cannot not be met and, in order to solve the issue, we are in the process of adopting Component Database (ComponentDB) developed at Advanced Photon Source (APS). This paper shows the current status of the process.

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THPAB104

Engineering Documentation and Asset Management for the European XFEL Accelerator

operation, interface, status, SRF

3960

L. Hagge, J.A. Dammann, T.T. Hongisto, J. Kreutzkamp, D. Käfer, B. List, S. Rohwedder, S. Sühl, N. Welle
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
A. Frank
European XFEL, Schenefeld, Germany

At the European XFEL, extensive technical documentation has been created during design and construction of the accelerator. It is based on a configuration database (the DESY EDMS), which provides an inventory of major accelerator systems. The configuration database registers components and their used materials, tracks component design and fabrication history, and contains engineering documents and drawings, and work and inspection records. Technical documentation can be accessed through intuitive reports and navigational tree structures, representing specific beamline sections or areas of the facility. Access on mobile devices in the accelerator tunnel is supported by component tags with QR codes. A dedicated front-end has been developed for automatically uploading and cross-linking documents to the configuration database, reducing documentation efforts in the project teams. The configuration database now serves as a foundation for upcoming technical operation and maintenance activities. The paper provides an overview of the available engineering documentation and its access methods, and discusses its expected role and benefits in future maintenance processes.

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THPAB121

The Study of Accelerator Data Archiving and Retrieving Software

EPICS, interface, software, operation

4007

Y.S. Qiao, G. Lei, Z. Zhao
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China

This paper presents a novel archiving and retrieving software designed for BEPC-II and other particle accelerators. At BEPC-II, real-time data are stored as index files recorded by traditional EPICS Channel Archiver. Never-theless, index files are not suitable for long-term maintenance and difficult for data analysis. The NoSQL database MongoDB is used for this new system due to aging technologies, so as to promote the data storage reliability, usability, and possible future advanced data analysis. A cross-platform UI (User Interface) has also been developed to make it quicker and easier to access the database. The writing and query performance are tested for this software.

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THPAB122

Open XAL Development for Xi'an Proton Application Facility

controls, simulation, proton, synchrotron

4010

Y. Yang, X. Guan, Y. Lei, W. Wang, X.W. Wang, S.X. Zheng
TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China
M.C. Wang, Z.M. Wang, H.Z. Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Radiation Simulation and Effect, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Shannxi, People's Republic of China

Beam commission tools for Xi'an Proton Application Facility (XiPAF) will be developed based on Open XAL. In this paper, we present preparations made for adopting Open XAL in XiPAF, including a newly designed database schema based on MySQL, modifying db2xal application based on database schema to create optics file automatically. We also add time-dependent nodes in XiPAF's online model to meet the need of energy ramping in synchrotron. A set of high-level applications as well as a new virtual accelerator is under development.

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THPAB145

CERN Accelerators Topology Configuration: Facing the Next Long Shutdown

hardware, status, operation, alignment

4066

S. Bartolome-Jimenez, T.W. Birtwistle, S. Chemli, N. Gilbert, A.-L. Perrot, J. Piar, V. Simetka, B. Vazquez de Prada Planas
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Configuration and Layout (CL) team at CERN ensures that there is a clear and coherent representation of the status of the CERN underground facilities (about 60 km of equipment) and main accelerator projects at a given point in time. In view of the major equipment changes to be carried out during the extended end of year technical stop (EYETS), the next Long Shutdown (LS2), and to facilitate the associated preparatory work of multiple CERN groups, the CL team has developed an immersive visualisation tool, displaying 360 degree panoramic images of CERN underground facilities. In addition, the CL team is launching a process to manage future layout configurations inside the CERN Layout database in parallel to the current configuration. This paper presents the 360 degree panorama visualisation tool and the parallel configuration process, to view the past, current and future status of the CERN accelerator complex. It highlights their added value for the CERN groups in the preparatory phase for upgrade and consolidation modifications and discusses the potential future improvements.

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