RHIC vacuum instrumentation and control system

Author

Lee, R.C. ; Pate, D. ; Smart, L.A. ; Weiss, D. ; Zigrosser, D.

Author_Institution

RHIC Project, Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1348

Abstract

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Project is a nuclear physics research accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) with beam circulation scheduled for May 1999. To achieve the necessary beam lifetime, the vacuum in the two concentric rings must be constantly monitored to isolate problem vacuum regions. One function of the RHIC vacuum instrumentation and control (I&C) system is to operate sector valves with inputs from several hundred gauges and pumps distributed around the 3.8 km circumference of the accelerator rings. The architecture and implementation of the RHIC vacuum I&C system from the pumps and gauges to the remote user interfaces are described

Keywords

accelerator control systems; ion accelerators; storage rings; vacuum control; vacuum gauges; vacuum pumps; RHIC; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; gauges; pumps; sector valves; user interface; vacuum I and C system; vacuum instrumentation and control system; Colliding beam accelerators; Colliding beam devices; Control systems; Instruments; Ion accelerators; Laboratories; Monitoring; Nuclear physics; Particle beams; Vacuum systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5573-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1999.795544

Filename

795544