Title :
The new vacuum control system for the SPS
Author_Institution :
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Abstract :
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN was put into service in 1976. The vacuum control equipment is located mainly in six surface buildings which are at distances of about 1.5 km from each other. Maintenance and repair of major parts of the vacuum control system has become very expensive, if not impossible. A description is given of the hard- and software choices which have been made to replace the existing control system, taking the limitations of the already installed control equipment into account and being based on available and proven technologies.<>
Keywords :
control systems; proton accelerators; synchrotrons; vacuum control; CERN; SPS; Super Proton Synchrotron; maintenance; software; surface buildings; vacuum control system; Buildings; Communication standards; Communication system control; Computer networks; Control equipment; Control systems; Hardware; Instruments; Protocols; Vacuum systems;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0135-8
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1991.164688
