The new Tevatron beam position monitor front-end software

Author

Piccoli, Luciano ; Votava, Margaret ; Zhang, Dehong

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., USA

Volume

53

Issue

3

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

963

Lastpage

969

Abstract

The Tevatron is a proton anti-proton accelerator collider operating at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The machine is currently delivering beams for the CDF and D0 experiments, which expect increasing luminosity until the conclusion of Run II planned for 2009. The Laboratory defined a plan for achieving higher luminosity, and one of the tasks is the upgrade of the accelerator´s beam position monitor (BPM). The Tevatron was built during the early eighties and some of its control systems, including the BPMs, are still the original ones. This paper describes the front-end software of the Tevatron BPM upgrade, from the requirements to the implementation, and the underlying hardware setup. The design of the front-end software focuses on its modularity and reusability, allowing it to be applied to other Fermilab machines.

Keywords

beam handling techniques; particle beam diagnostics; proton accelerators; synchrotrons; CDF experiments; DO experiments; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Tevatron beam position monitor; accelerator measurement systems; control systems; front-end software design; hardware setup; luminosity; modularity; particle beam measurements; proton antiproton accelerator collider; reusability; Colliding beam accelerators; Frequency; Hardware; Laboratories; Monitoring; Particle beam measurements; Particle beams; Position measurement; Proton accelerators; Structural beams; Accelerator measurement systems; beam position monitor; particle beam measurements;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2006.873314

Filename

1644973