The LEDA control system

Author

Dalesio, L. ; Kerstiens, D. ; McGehee, P. ; Pieck, M. ; Stettler, M. ; Wright, R. ; Moore, D. ; Floersch, D.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

652

Abstract

The accelerator production of tritium (APT) Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator (LEDA) is a CW linac comprised of a 75 KV, 110 mA H⁺ injector, followed by an 8 m long, 350 MHz, 6.7 MeV RFQ, a short beam transport section and a cooled beam dump. The control system is based upon the popular EPICS distributed control system toolkit. In addition to monitoring and control of the injector, vacuum systems, resonance control loops, high power radio-frequency system, beam control magnet power supplies and beam instrumentation, the control system performs overall timing and synchronisation and equipment protection functions. There are a total of 12 distributed input-output controllers (IOCs) which are VME-, VXI- or PC-based. This paper reports on experience with the new PC-based IOCs, with interfaces to vendor-supplied programmable logic controllers, with a new archiver developed for this application, and discusses a number of lessons learned

Keywords

accelerator control systems; computerised control; distributed control; linear accelerators; programmable controllers; proton accelerators; synchronisation; 350 MHz; 6.7 MeV; 75 kV; EPICS; LEDA; Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator; accelerator production of tritium; control system; distributed control system; input-output controllers; programmable logic controllers; protection; synchronisation; timing; Control systems; Distributed control; Linear particle accelerator; Monitoring; Particle beams; Production; Radio control; Radio frequency; Resonance; 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.1999.795310

Filename

795310