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TUPA47 Upgrade from ADCs with Centrally Scheduled Triggers to Continually Triggered Waveform Digitizers EPICS, controls, FPGA, experiment 452
 
  • S.A. Baily, B.C. Atencio, A.J. Braido, C.D. Hatch, J.O. Hill, S.M. Johnson, L.S. Kennel, M. Pieck, L.E. Walker, H.A. Watkins, E.E. Westbrook, K. Xu, D.D. Zimmermann
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) control system includes many data channels that are timed and flavored, i.e., users can specify the species of beam and time within the beam pulse at which data are reported. The legacy LANSCE control system accom-plished this task by queuing up application software-initiated requests and scheduling Analog to Digital Con-verter (ADC) readout with custom programmable time-delay gated and multiplexed Remote Information and Control Equipment (RICE). This year we upgraded this system to a new Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) system that includes signal ded-icated waveform digitizer. An appropriate subset of the data is then returned as specified by each client. This is made possible by improvements to EPICS software, a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Mezzanine Card (FMC) based ADC and a COTS VPX FPGA card with EPICS embedded on a soft-core processor. This year we upgraded over 1200 waveform channels from RICE to the new TDAQ (Timed/flavored Data Acquisition) system.
LA-UR-22-27932
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-TUPA47  
About • Received ※ 02 August 2022 — Revised ※ 08 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 10 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 05 October 2022
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TUPA62 LANSCE Control System’s 50th Anniversary controls, EPICS, network, data-acquisition 482
 
  • M. Pieck, C.D. Hatch, J.O. Hill, H.A. Watkins, E.E. Westbrook
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  After almost exactly 50 years in service, the LANSCE (Los Alamos Neutron Science Center) control system has achieved a major milestone, replacing its original and reliable RICE (Remote Instrumentation and Control Equipment) with a modern customized control system. The task of replacing RICE was challenging because of its technology (late 1960’s), number of channels (>10,000), unique characteristics (all-modules data takes, timed/flavored data takes) and that it was designed as an integral part of the whole accelerator. We discuss the history, RICE integral architecture, upgrade efforts, and the new system providing cutting-edge capabilities. The boundary condition was that upgrades only could be implemented during the annual four-month accelerator maintenance outage. This led to a multi-phased project which turned out to be about an 11-year effort.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-TUPA62  
About • Received ※ 02 August 2022 — Revised ※ 09 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 10 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 25 September 2022
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WEPA62 Design and Commissioning of the ASU CXLS RF System klystron, laser, electron, linac 764
 
  • B.J. Cook, G.I. Babic, J.R.S. Falconer, W.S. Graves, M.R. Holl, S.P. Jachim, R.E. Larsen
    Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported in part by NSF award #1935994.
The Compact X-ray Light Source (CXLS) uses inverse Compton scattering of a high intensity laser off a bright, relativistic electron beam to produce hard x-rays. The accelerator consists of a photoinjector and three standing-wave linac sections, which are powered by two 6-MW klystrons operating at 9.3 GHz with a repetition rate of 1 kHz. This paper presents the design and commissioning of the CXLS RF systems consisting of both high-power RF structures and low-power diagnostics. The high-power RF system is comprised of two solid state amplifier and klystron modulator sets, various directional couplers, and three phase shifter power dividers. The low-level system consists of a master oscillator and laser phase lock, IQ modulators, IQ demodulators, and downconverters. We present measurements of the low-level and high-power RF phase and amplitude stability showing RMS timing jitter in the tens of femtoseconds and amplitude jitter below 0.1% at high power.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-WEPA62  
About • Received ※ 29 July 2022 — Revised ※ 03 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 06 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 19 August 2022
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WEPA81 Time-Resolved Experiments at NSLS II: Motivation and Machine Capabilities operation, experiment, electron, storage-ring 826
 
  • G.M. Wang, B. Bacha, G. Bassi, G.L. Carr, Y. Hidaka, Y. Hu, Y. Li, C. Mazzoli, D. Padrazo Jr, R.S. Rainer, J. Rose, J.T. Sadowski, V.V. Smaluk, Y. Tian, L. Wiegart, G. Williams, X. Yang
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
 
  NSLS-II is a 3-GeV third-generation synchrotron light source at Brookhaven National Lab. The storage ring has been in routine operations for over six years and hosts 28 operating beamlines. The storage ring performance has continuously improved, including 500-mA with limited insertion devices closed, and routine 400-mA top off operation with 90% uniform filling pattern. Recently, we are exploring different operation modes, uniform multi single-bunch mode, and camshaft mode with a high single-bunch charge, to support timing-resolved user experiments. In this paper, we explore the potential for scientific experiments using the pulsed nature of the NSLS, summarize the user requirements on the beam parameters and the progress of accelerator studies.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-WEPA81  
About • Received ※ 04 August 2022 — Revised ※ 12 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 13 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 22 August 2022
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