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BE: Beschleunigerphysik

BE 8: Diagnostics and Instrumentation III

BE 8.9: Talk

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 11:45–12:00, ZEU 255

The Accelerator Control System of the S-DALINAC*
— Michaela Arnold, Thore Bahlo, •Jonny Birkhan, Uwe Bonnes, Christoph Burandt, Florian Hug, Thorsten Kuerzeder, Patrick Nonn, Thomas Schoesser und Norbert Pietralla — Institut fuer Kernphysik, TU Darmstadt

The Superconducting Darmstadt Linear electron Accelerator (S-DALINAC) provides beam energies between 2 MeV and 130 MeV and beam currents up to 20 µA. About 5 years ago the low-level radio frequency control system was replaced by a new digital one, which could be supported best by an EPICS-based control system [1]. This has been the origin for a complete migration to EPICS, which is still in progress. A custom Controller Area Network (CAN) bus device support has been developed for in-house made hardware, which is compatible with EPICS. Also the EPICS stream device support is used for commercial serial communication interfaces. Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) are created with CSS [2], which allows to develop a S-DALINAC specific GUI. Current projects are focused on rotary knob boards for controlling magnet power supplies, digitalization of analog video signals for beam monitoring, alarm handling, and optimization of the data archiver. These projects will be introduced in this talk.
Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System, http://www.aps.anl.gov/epcis/
Control System Studio, http://controlsystemstudio.github.io/ *Work supported by DFG through SFB 634