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Jonny Ranner (ISIS)11/09/2023, 09:30
The presentation will describe how ISIS neutron and muon source is operated: Layout of accelerator, operation hours/year, structure of operation team, number of operators, shift Schedule, control room layout/occupation, describe the on-call system.
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Spencer Staiger (TRIUMF)11/09/2023, 09:40
TRIUMF currently has four operations groups spread across our site and between them we run 5 cyclotrons, 4 linear accelerators, 2 target stations and an offline ion source. The Driver Control Room operates the 520 MeV Cyclotron and an electron linear accelerator. The Applied Technology Group operates three compact cyclotrons—two TR30s and the CP42—for commercial production of medical isotopes....
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Marc Munoz (ESS)11/09/2023, 09:50
"The European Spallation Source is in the finishing stages of the construction, with large portions of the project being either in the commissioning phase or already in the operational one. This new situation also presents us with new challenges, in particular in the work coordination between the installation of components, the commissioning of parts of the Accelerator and Target, and...
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Grant Bilbrough (CLS)11/09/2023, 10:00
"During the twice annual extended maintenance periods operators at the Canadian Light Source are able to get together as an entire team and spend a few days together in what we refer to as a retreat. These retreats are currently a 5-day collection of activities that encompass training, presentations, team building, and opportunities to talk with operators at other facilities. The retreats are...
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Andreas Stolz (FRIB)11/09/2023, 10:10
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University started operations as a user facility in 2022. The FRIB accelerator is a 400 kW superconducting linear accelerator which can accelerate stable ions up to uranium to energies of at least 200 MeV/u. Rare isotope beams are produced in a graphite target and magnetically separated in the ARIS fragment separator. The facility is...
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Masanori Satoh (KEK)11/09/2023, 10:20
At KEK, the proton accelerator complex in Tokai campus and the lepton accelerator complex in Tsukuba campus are continuously operated for several months except the scheduled maintenance days and the machine troubles. The lepton accelerator complex comprises two light sources, two collider rings, a positron damping ring, and an elec-tron/positron injector linac. The five lepton accelerator...
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Clement TOURNIER (SOLEIL)11/09/2023, 11:30
Synchrotron SOLEIL is the 3rd generation French Synchrotron Radiation light source located south of Paris. It has been in operation since 2007 providing photon beams to 29 beamlines with a maximum intensity of 500 mA, 5000 hours per year. Besides its high overall performance (98.95% beam availability, 139 hours mean time between failure), the SOLEIL accelerators have experienced two major...
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Reid Smith (NSLS-II/BNL)11/09/2023, 12:00
"The NSLS-II Operations group runs with 12 shift-roles, consistently and historically filled by 12 people. This method of running, with operators and floor-coordinators on shift over 100% of 'full time' makes NSLS-II an outlier among large-accelerators. This mode of operations staffing comes with advantages, and disadvantages.
Like most labs, COVID added numerous new stressors to our...
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Jane Shtalenkova (SLAC)11/09/2023, 14:00
"The effective training of accelerator operators is essential for ensuring the smooth functioning of complex scientific facilities. This abstract highlights a successful redesign of the Accelerator Operator Technical Training Program, focusing on the reorganization of training materials, standardization of formats, and implementation of a collaborative content creation process. Recognizing the...
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Junichiro Kaya (ANA)11/09/2023, 16:30
ANA promotes Predictive Maintenance to enhance the prediction as a part of aircraft maintenance. In 1968, with the goal of creating a more efficient maintenance program according to the Logical Decision Processes, the Maintenance Steering Group (MSG) developed a handbook, MSG-1, “Maintenance Evaluation and Program Development" for the B747. Further, the frequent revisions have been made for...
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Bertrand Lefort (CERN)12/09/2023, 09:00
"Machine Learning (ML) is now widely used in the Industry. Applications in robotic and autonomous vehicles have proven that control theories can benefit greatly from these technologies. The same is true in science, Deep Learning (DL) offers great expectations for science and has demonstrated its ability to extract unexpected relationships between inputs and outputs in complex data sets. One of...
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Jiaqi Fan (IHEP)12/09/2023, 09:25
For BEPCII, operators need to tune the transverse offset in displacement and angular deviation (x, x’, y, y’) of the two beams at the interaction point (IP) to maintain a high luminosity as the beam current decays in a normal run. Since the optimal offset change with current nonlinearly in a run and varies in each run. It is laborious to keep the best beam offset at IP for high luminosity at...
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Miho Shimada (KEK)12/09/2023, 09:45
Machine learning (ML) is widely used and several tools are accessible for free so we easily tried them in several accelerator operations in KEK. One of the applications of compact ERL is beam tuning for infrared SASE FEL. It is used to maximize the intensity of the FEL light, which requires bunch compression, transverse beam matching at the undulator, small energy spread, and transverse...
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Charles Peters (SNS)12/09/2023, 10:05
"The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a megawatt class neutron production proton accelerator. The facility is undergoing a beam power upgrade from 1.4 MW to 2 MW and increasing the yearly scheduled neutron production operating time from 4500 to 5000 hours. One area of focus is to utilize machine learning to try to help achieve these lofty...
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Serge Massot (CERN)12/09/2023, 11:00
"The SPS accelerates beams at intensities and energies which are potentially damaging to the machine and therefore machine protection interlocks are essential.
A rigid system of hardware interlocks is required to reliably avoid these dangerous circumstances, however, with the multicycling nature of CERN's accelerator complex today a flexible, software based system with more complex logic is...
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Zhanguo ZONG (KEK)12/09/2023, 11:30
"SuperKEKB is an accelerator to collide electron and positron particles with a nano-beam collision scheme and is equipped with two cryostats to accommodate 55 superconducting magnets for final focusing. Each cryostat is cooled by an independent cryogenic system employing a refrigerator of 250 W at 4.41 K and a subcooler to supply subcooled liquid helium (LHe). The cryogenic systems are...
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Geoff Milanovich (SNS)12/09/2023, 12:00
"Operators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) must handle alarms from a diverse set of systems with different response needs. The accelerator systems rely on annunciation and management through Control System Studio's Best Ever Alarm System Toolkit (BEAST) and operator-developed EPICS screens. In addition, there are separate non-EPICS based systems for building...
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Kazuro Furukawa (KEK)12/09/2023, 14:00
The electron and positron accelerator complex at KEK provides experimental opportunities for elementary particle physics with SuperKEKB collider and photon science with two light sources. In order to maximize the experimental performances at those facilities the injector linac delivers beams with widely differing properties in pulse-to-pulse modulation at 50 Hz. Different beam flavors are...
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Frédéric Le Pimpec (CLS)12/09/2023, 14:00
In March 2024, CLS plan is to shutdown its facility to replace its S-Band US frequency injector with a new S-band injector which frequency synchronizes with our Booster and Storage ring ~500MHz. During the first 10 weeks needed to dismantle and install the new injector, the operator group members shall be redeployed to new tasks. While in principle it is obvious, one shall take into...
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Yue Yuan (IHEP)12/09/2023, 14:00
"The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is a large-scale scientific research facility located in Dongguan, China. It is a pulsed neutron source that uses a proton accelerator to produce neutrons, which are then used to study the structure and properties of materials at the atomic and molecular level.
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Dominique GEX (F4E)12/09/2023, 14:00
"Neutron sources will be needed to characterize the material of future fusion reactors. The Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) is a full scale prototype aiming at validating the low energy part of such neutron sources up to their first cryomodule. Built under the Broader Approach (BA) agreement between Japan and Europe, LIPAc will produce a deuteron beam of 125 mA at 9 MeV in...
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Sang-pil Yoon (KOMAC)12/09/2023, 14:00
The Korea Multi-Purpose Accelerator Complex (KOMAC) started operating the 100 MeV proton linac in 2013. Currently, the linac is equipped with four proton irradiation beamlines and it provides 20 MeV and 100 MeV proton beams to a wide range of users. The annual accelerator operation can be divided into beam service running according to a user's request and the machine study run. For the stable...
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Eron Kerstiens (LANL)12/09/2023, 14:00
The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) provides 100 MeV - 800 MeV protons to five experimental facilities, each with different requirements, capabilities, and mission. This presentation will provide information regarding facility background, organization, schedules, staffing, priorities, execution of operations and maintenance, and challenges. Additional emphasis will be placed on...
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Jingdong Liu (IHEP)12/09/2023, 14:00
The High Energy Photon Source is a fourth-generation light source under construction in China and is currently undergoing beam commissioning in the linear accelerator section. It is worth mentioning that the control and data acquisition design for the all-solid-state pulse modulator and the electron gun pulse power supply. It realizes wide range and high precision control of the beam current,...
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Kyle Hazelwood (FNAL)12/09/2023, 14:00
"The current Fermilab Accelerator Division (AD) Electronic Logbook (ADEL) was first released in 2013. Its creation a decade ago represented a marked improvement over the previous electronic logbook (eLog) and brought about the first consolidated Fermilab AD eLog built upon a relational database. Over the past ten years, ADEL has performed admirably, logging nearly one million user entered...
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Toshihiro Mimashi (KEK)12/09/2023, 14:00
"The personal protection system (PPS) of SuperKEKB takes care of many
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accelerators. Since they are closely related with each other, the PPS cannot be modified or updated during the accelerator operation period. The period for the system upgrade suffers great restrictions by the accelerator operation schedule. Fur-thermore, due to the construction of PF-AR/BT line and PDR and Super-KEKB, PPS... -
Lucas Maindive (U-Granada)12/09/2023, 14:00
"Accelerator-based high energy neutron sources are foreseen to characterize the material of future fusion reactors. The Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) is a full-scale prototype aiming at validating the production of a deuteron beam of 125 mA at 9 MeV in continuous wave under the Broader Approach (BA) agreement between Japan and Europe.
Just as an orchestra needs a conductor,...
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SungYun Cho (KOMAC)12/09/2023, 14:00
A control system based on Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) has been implemented for the 100 MeV linear proton accelerator at the Korea Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex (KOMAC). Our control system is operated with over 20,000 Process Variables (PVs) and utilizes several services such as Phoebus alarm, Archiver Appliance and, Channel Access gateway, among others. The...
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Young-gi Song (KOMAC)12/09/2023, 14:00
The 100-MeV proton accelerator has been performing a variety of beam services seamlessly with multiple beamlines for 10 years at KOMAC. An improvement method for repeated operating mistakes during beam service has been applied to the user interface. These efforts have been partially applied to the user interface, and new ideas are still being created and prepared for application. Since...
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Kazami Yamamoto (J-PARC/JAEA)12/09/2023, 14:00
The J-PARC 3-GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) aims to deliver 1 MW proton beam to the materials and life science experimental facility (MLF) and the main ring synchrotron. In such a high intensity beam , there is a possibility to cause a severe radiation accident. To detect and prevent the radiation accident in the accelerator system, we developed the beam diagnostics system in RCS. This...
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Hiroshi Kaji (KEK)12/09/2023, 14:00
At the large accelerator, hundreds of diagnostic systems are installed along the long beamline. And sometimes, we unify the information from the diagnostic systems which are installed separately, and understand the beam condition or anomaly. For this purpose, the synchronization of the timestamp of the individual diagnostic system works effectively to link the necessary information. The...
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Hiromi Iinuma (Ibaraki-U)12/09/2023, 14:00
Demonstration experiment by use of strongly X-Y coupled electron beam into the solenoid magnetic field will be introduced. Our goal is to validate newly developed three-dimensional beam injection scheme and formulate strategy of beam commission for the original experiment “muon g-2/EDM experiment at J-PARC”. In our system, several beam diagnostic methods are available to understand different...
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Alexander Nikolaichuk (CLS)12/09/2023, 14:00
Visual aids play a crucial role in the operation of Canadian Light Source, providing valuable information to scientists, engineers, and operators. Multiple screens represent real time data about the machine's status, its parameters, and diagnostics in an easy to read and understandable form. These visual aids allow operators in particular to monitor and control various aspects of the...
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Akito Uchiyama (RIKEN)12/09/2023, 14:00
"At RIKEN RIBF, a large number of electromagnet power supplies are implemented. In the control system, these electromagnet power supplies are managed in a database on a per-experimental-beamline basis, and programs are created based on this database. However, during operation, it took much work to determine the location of the controlled power supplies and what was used for the control...
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Kenta Kaneko (SHI)12/09/2023, 14:00
At the RIKEN Nishina Center, a superconducting RIKEN Linear Accelerator (SRILAC) project was started in 2019 to synthesize a new superheavy element 119 and above. This project's control system is constructed based on Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS). To store the data for SRILAC operation, the Archiver Appliance (AA) has been introduced as a new data archive system...
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Stephan Reimann (FAIR/GSI)12/09/2023, 14:00
"The FAIR International Accelerator Facility, one of the largest science projects in the world, is being built at the GSI Helmholtz Center in Darmstadt, Germany. With construction work on the main buildings and accelerator tunnels for the FAIR first science stage nearing completion, the project is soon entering its final phase. Installation of the accelerator components will begin next year,...
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Minwoong Oh (BNL)12/09/2023, 14:00
Accelerator operators expose to various knowledge that composes an accelerator complex, making operators a versatile workforce. The versatility is enhanced with additional accelerator physics knowledge and can benefit the duties in accelerator operation. Such knowledge can be intuitively obtained by involving in projects led by accelerator physicists. In this presentation, my involvement in...
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Martin Murphy (FNAL)12/09/2023, 14:00
"Fermilab is working to make the highest power proton beam for neutrino production. To that end we have committed to building a superconducting RF linac (aka PIP-II) to replace the existing Linac. On the experimental end we are building new detector enclosures and beam line (DUNE/LBNF) from the FNAL Main Injector (MI). The goal of the projects is to produce and utilize a 1.2 MW proton beam...
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Thomas Sanders (AS/ANSTO)12/09/2023, 14:00
In 2017 the Australian Synchrotron secured funding to build 8 new beamlines to accompany the existing 10 that have been in operation since 2007. After initial delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic many of these beamlines have started to come online in some capacity over the past 12 months. The accelerator operators have been actively involved in this process, which has included: commissioning...
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Peter Naffziger (LANL)12/09/2023, 14:00
The LANSCE accelerator has been in operation since the early 1970’s at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in the past running up to 4 beams of different charge, current and flavors to 800 MeV. Much of this operation has been accomplished by iterative tuning following the primary physics tune that occurs initially at machine start up. Initially, physicists and operators utilize emittance...
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Xiang He (IHEP)12/09/2023, 14:00
In theory, a 180° hybrid bridge can be used as a variable power divider and combiner. This study focuses on applying the variable power divider and combiner to a high-vacuum and high-power environment, aiming at realizing future applications in particle accelerators. Beginning from theoretical derivation, it reports the design of an S-band variable waveguide power divider and combiner based on...
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Matt Gibbs (SLAC)12/09/2023, 14:00
SLAC now operates four large particle accelerators (LCLS, LCLS-II, FACET-II, and SPEAR3). These four machines are somewhat independent, but share some infrastructure (water cooling systems, electrical power distribution, networking, etc). As the user availability demands increase for these accelerators, planning outages for preventative maintenance and upgrades becomes quite challenging. In...
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Yoshitaka Iwasaki (SAGA-LS)12/09/2023, 14:00
The SAGA Light Source (SAGA-LS) is a compact synchrotron radiation facility. The SAGA-LS accelerator complex consists of a 255 MeV linac and a 1.4 GeV electron storage ring of 75.6 m in circumference. The accelerator research group is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the accelerator system. The annual operation time for synchrotron radiation experiments has been around 1700...
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Kenji Hayashi (UVSOR)12/09/2023, 14:00
We present the current status of UVSOR-III electron storage ring. It is a 750 MeV machine dedicated to synchrotron radiation in UV, VIS, IR and SX region, including LCS gamma-rays. We are accepting about 4,000 person-day researchers yearly from nationwide and outside Japan. The accelerator complex consists of a 15 MeV linear accelerator, a 750 MeV booster synchrotron and a storage ring of 53 m...
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Ken Takahashi (Tohoku-U)12/09/2023, 14:00
60 MeV electron linac has been used for radioisotope (RI) production via photo-nuclear reaction at Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH) at Tohoku University. Operation hours of the linac is 834 hours in 2022 despite refurbished former 300 MeV linac built in 1967. Four engineers together with researchers in beam physics and radiochemistry are in charge of accelerator operation and...
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Steven Young (TRIUMF)12/09/2023, 14:00
Control rooms rely on alarms to alert operators of abnormal conditions and failures. In the event of major failures, it is essential that operators identify the causes and respond quickly. The ATG control room at TRIUMF routes all alarms to a physical consolidated alarm panel. As the centrepiece of the control room, the panel clearly indicates the system(s) in alarm state, allows all alarms to...
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Didier TREVARIN (SOLEIL)12/09/2023, 14:00
"The SOLEIL synchrotron radiation facility was commissioned in 2006 and today supplies photon beams to 29 beamlines, with a maximum intensity of 500 mA during 5000 hours per year. Over the last few years the operation group, with the help of the Acquisition and Control Systems Engineering group, has been heavily involved in the fine integration of the new PANIC alarm management system into the...
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Joseph Snyder (LANL)12/09/2023, 14:00
The LANSCE accelerator facility has been in operation for 51 years, and the Fast Protect System has been monitoring systems site-wide since the early 80’s. The premise of Fast Protect is to provide machine protection by monitoring all critical devices at the facility on a pulse-by-pulse basis. In the event of a malfunction, beam is terminated prior to acceleration to minimize activation of...
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Jonathan Warren (SLAC)12/09/2023, 14:00
"Effectively responding to alarms and warnings is paramount for ensuring safety and mitigating potential risks. This talk will shed light on the practices employed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to promptly and cohesively respond to critical alerts.
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1. Identify the Source: Quickly identify the source of the alarm or warning. Determine whether it is a false alarm or an actual threat.... -
Keita Fukushima (AEC)12/09/2023, 14:00
"Cooling water leakage occurred in the vacuum chamber of an ECR ion source. It has
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taken plenty of time to determine the cause of the pressure increase and realize the
cooling-water leakage in the vacuum chamber, because there were a lot of possibility to
cause the pressure increase, such as a vacuum leak from air and the gas lines. The delay
time to realize the water leakage led to... -
Ian Blackler (BNL)12/09/2023, 14:00
RHIC Run 23 faced numerous challenges, largely caused by running in the heat of the summer. This talk covers the plethora of unexpected issues experienced during the run, and our attempts to address and mitigate them.
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Mike Heimann (CNSC)12/09/2023, 14:00
"Canadian nuclear facilities of all types are migrating from nuclear substances to accelerator-based facilities, mirroring the trend first observed in the medical sector in the 1980’s and 90’s. This shift has been motivated by the need for more flexible and higher throughput facilities, as well as a desire to move away from nuclear-substance-based facilities that may require more thorough...
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Oksana Geithner (GSI)12/09/2023, 14:00
Accelerator operation is very manpower demanding. Control system tools could overtake repetitive tasks during commissioning and beamtime like device scanning, beam optimization or device steering nowadays. A Sequencer tool has been developed to automate accelerator devices steering for different purposes. Main use cases up to now cover HW Commissioning and Power Saving. We report on software...
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José Franco Campos (QST)12/09/2023, 14:00
Accelerator-based high energy neutron sources are studied to characterize future fusion reactors material. The Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) is a full-scale prototype aiming at validating the production of a deuteron beam of 125 mA at 9 MeV in continuous wave in an international collaboration between Japan and the European Union. The accelerator is located in Rokkasho, Japan,...
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Shuhei IWABUCHI (KEK)12/09/2023, 14:00
"It is important to measure and control the temperature and humidity in the accelerator tunnel to keep this accelerator component healthy.
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We have developed the inexpensive measurement system in the tunnel consisting of a Raspberry Pi and an I2C sensor with temperature and humidity.
This compact system can measure humidity as well as temperature in real time based on EPICS system and is easy... -
Tetsuya Kobayashi (KEK)12/09/2023, 14:00
"SuperKEKB aims for high luminosity on the order of 10^35 cm^-2s^-1 with high beam currents of 2.6 A for electron and 3.6 A for positron to search a new physics beyond the Standard Model in the B meson regime. In recent operations, we achieved new record of the luminosity of 4.7x10^34 cm^-2s^-1 with 1.1 A for electron and 1.3 A for positron.
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GuangHui Chen (IHEP)12/09/2023, 14:00
"The BEPCII is designed as an e+/e- attenuating operational collider. In order to improve the BESIII data acquisition, BEPCII has carried out an upgrade project of topup injection operation of high-energy physics experiments. Based on the injection rate, injection interval, beam lifetime and luminance evolution of e+ and e-, the optimized data acquisition time can be calculated. The collision...
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Christian Schmidt (GSI)12/09/2023, 14:00
"During the beam time a failure can occur at any time and the operators have to solve it as fast as possible. If they are not able to solve the problem, they need the support of an expert and during the normal working hours at GSI they can use the existing pager system. A call is initiated by simply pressing a button on a keypad in the main control room.
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Tatsuki Goto (AEC)12/09/2023, 14:00
"At the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), carbon-ion therapy has been carried out since 1994, and a total of more than 15,000 patients have been treated to date. Japan, where QST is located, is prone to disasters such as earthquakes and storms, which can cause equipment failures: Earthquakes can cause misalignment in equipment, and storms can cause power outages due...
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Javier Bañuelos Sánchez (ALBA)12/09/2023, 14:00
A method to measure relative changes of the bunch length based on the spectrum of the induced voltage on a BPM button has been developed at ALBA. The bunch length has been calibrated using a Streak Camera for different filling patterns and beam currents. The idea is to have an alternative, redundant and readily available measurements of the bunch length during machine operation, avoiding the...
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Markus Vossberg (GSI)12/09/2023, 14:00
The GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research is known for its parallel operation, in which up to 8 experiments are simultaneously supplied with beams from up to 4 different ion sources. The beamtime blocks of the last few years were about 6 months long and packed with weekly changing experiments and intensities. During the beam times at GSI, there are always unexpected failures of devices,...
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ALESSANDRO CORONICA (Elettra)12/09/2023, 14:00
For the First machine Elettra we used and optical method and reached a presion of tenths of millimetres. For Elettra 2.0 we Will use Absolute tracker, a network for inserting objects and an appropriate software. In this case we would reach a centesimal millimetres precision.
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Gilles Chazot (ESRF)12/09/2023, 14:00
"Since the start of ESRF, the tasks entrusted to machine operators have not been only confined to operating, monitoring and ensuring the safety of installations.
Depending on their level of computer knowledge and availability, they develop interfaces and servers to control equipment (in collaboration with the experts), and complement those created by the dedicated group.These in-house...
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Ikuro Nagasawa (Tohoku-U)12/09/2023, 14:00
Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH) of Tohoku University operates three electron linear accelerators (linacs) and an electron synchrotron for various scientific fields, such as radioisotope production, proton radius measurement, and hadron physics experiments. One of the linacs, operational since 1967, is outdated and frequently malfunctions. Our team of about eight people,...
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Jonathan Rye (SNS)12/09/2023, 14:00
"Tools developed for the control room need to be fast, effective, and modular. At the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), operators have developed software to test tuner motors on the superconducting linac and a graphical user interface (gui)-based application to automatically tune beam losses and lower residual activation levels in the tunnels. Future plans include an app to automatically...
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Ferran Fernandez (ALBA)12/09/2023, 16:00
"ALBA is a third generation 3GeV synchrotron light source. As soon as the operation started in 2012, the Accelerator team has required new GUIs and control tools. The amount of work in the Controls group made many of these requests to pile up in the “to do” list. On the other hand, eight operators are in charge of running the accelerator 6000 h/year, leaving 50% of their time to work for...
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Juan Luisa Fernandez Hernando (ISIS)12/09/2023, 16:30
The control system of the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is being moved to EPICS from the current Vsystem control system. This transition affects many different areas of the control system from servers to hardware interfaces. But the most relevant for users and operators are the areas concerning the control screens, alarm displays and data archiving. Early involvement from machine physicists and...
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Shunto Ogasawara (KEK)12/09/2023, 17:00
SuperKEKB is an e-/e+ collider which targets the world highest luminosity. It recently achieved a new world record luminocity 4.71 × 10^34 /cm^2/s with beam current 1.4 A. In the future, beam current will be increased further to aim at the design value 3.6A. The RF system consists of 38 cavities (30 klystron stations), which share the huge beam loading brought by the high current beam. It is...
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Matthias Kronberger-Mayerhofer (MedAustron)13/09/2023, 09:00
"The MedAustron Ion Therapy Center is an ambulatory for tumour treatment located in the city of Wiener Neustadt, Austria, Europe. The applied therapeutical beams are delivered by the MedAustron Particle Therapy Accelerator (MAPTA), a synchrotron-based and CE-certified medical accelerator providing 60-250 MeV proton and 120-400 MeV/u carbon ion beams to three treatment rooms. Outside of the...
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Satoshi Hatori (WERC)13/09/2023, 09:30
"At the Wakasa Wan Energy Research Center (WERC), we had constructed an accelerator system with a 5 MV tandem accelerator, which is an injector for a 200 MeV proton synchrotron.
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After completion of the construction in 2000, we have operated the accelerator system for the ion beam analysis, irradiation for the material and biological sciences. In the period from 2002 to 2009, the study... -
Brian O'Rourke (AIST)13/09/2023, 10:00
A compact, electron accelerator-based neutron facility has been developed and is now operational at AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) in Tsukuba, Japan. The facility is called AISTANS (Analytical facility for Industrial Science and Technology using Accelerator based Neutron Source)[1,2] and began operations in 2020. AISTANS uses a S-band linear electron...
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Hikaru Souda (Yamagata-U)13/09/2023, 11:00
A database system for operation and maintenance of the accelerator and irradiation system for particle therapy was developed. The main function is to record and search detailed information of machine troubles. Each actual “trouble event” was entered into the database and aggregated into a higher level concept of “trouble class”. Trouble frequency analysis and progress management including...
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francesco tripaldi (Elettra)13/09/2023, 11:20
"Elettra Synchrotron Trieste is a multidisciplinary research center that welcomes the global research community. It specializes in producing high-quality synchrotron and free-electron laser light and applying them in the fields of materials and life sciences. The research center boasts two advanced light sources: the electron storage ring Elettra (2.0 – 2.4GeV) and the free-electron laser...
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Blair Stringer (TRIUMF)13/09/2023, 11:40
During operation of a particle accelerator, frequent diagnostic checks along the beam path using multiple devices are needed to determine the quality and properties of the delivered beam. A high-level application (HLA) has been built that automates this process, moving devices in and out while collecting and saving diagnostic data, beam properties and all relevant optics settings into a...
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Rutger Nieuwenhuis (MAX-IV)13/09/2023, 12:00
"MAX IV is a synchrotron radiation facility based on a 3 GeV linear accelerator, which powers a soft and hard x-ray storage ring, as well as a short pulse facility. At MAX IV, an extensive set of tools developed by operators assists in all aspects of operations. Operator-developed tools are often more targeted and faster implemented than tools developed by a software team. Different tools used...
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HITOMI IKEDA (KEK)13/09/2023, 16:00
In order to protect the hardware components of the SuperKEKB accelerator against the high beam currents, we installed the controlled abort system. Beam abort monitor systems were prepared aiming to monitor the machine operation and to diagnose the hardware components in each hardware group. Each monitor takes the data at that moment for each abort and confirms the cause of the abort. As a...
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Ahmed Osman (SLAC)13/09/2023, 16:30
"Solenoid focusing can be used to compensate for space charge induced emittance growth at low beam energies. However, misalignment of the solenoid field with respect to the beam trajectory will introduce steering effects and poor emittance compensation.
I will present a scheme for the beam-based measurement of solenoid misalignments, using matrix expressions for transport through a rotated,...
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Kota Ueshima (QST)13/09/2023, 17:00
NanoTerasu is a new 3 GeV compact soft X-ray (SX) light source with a circumference of 350m and an MBA lattice in Japan. The target brilliance is 1021 photons/sec/mm2/mrad2/0.1% b.w. To achieve the highly brilliant source, the storage ring was designed for a stored beam current of 400 mA and a horizontal beam emittance of 1nm rad. The injector linac and the storage ring commissioning was...
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Darren Crawford (FNAL)14/09/2023, 09:00
The Proton Improvement Plan II, or PIP-II, project is an essential upgrade to Fermilab’s accelerator complex to enable the world’s most intense high-energy beam of neutrinos for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility, and a broad physics program, powering new discoveries for many decades to come. PIP-II features a Warm Front End,...
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Yoichi Sato (J-PARC/KEK)14/09/2023, 09:20
"In the J-PARC Main Ring (MR), beam commissioning has been carried out to increase the beam power to achieve 1.3 MW by JFY2028. For this purpose, it is essential to make safe and reliable judgments on the beam and equipment environments. The MR-status-monitoring-system (CSS-based) has been developed and establied, based on the criteria to find the MR status for beam tuning and stablilizing...
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Carrie Elliott (SNS)14/09/2023, 09:40
"Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), a high-power linear H- accelerator, is increasing its power capability from 1.4 to 2.8 MW and beam energy from 1 to 1.3 GeV through a long-term project called the Proton Power Upgrade (PPU). With an increase in power and energy, there is even more emphasis to reduce errant beam loss and residual activation in the accelerator...
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Alessandro Facchetti (PSI)14/09/2023, 10:00
"At the Paul Scherrer Institute, we have been operating three very different particle accelerators with a common pool of full time operators for more than a decade. A high intensity proton facility, a proton therapy facility and an electron storage ring.
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Incorporating our new free electron laser SwissFEL into this operation framework and transitioning it from commissioning into regular user... -
Dakota Christian (JLAB)15/09/2023, 09:00
The SBIR funded Helium Mass Flow Monitor System, developed by Jefferson Lab (CEBAF) and Hyperboloid LLC, is designed to provide real-time measurements of cavity health (Q0) within a Superconducting Radio Frequency Cryomodule. The device uses a component made of superconducting material that is cooled by a 2 K super-fluid helium bath. By varying the current of the heater our superconducting...
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Sean Nord (ALS/LBNL)15/09/2023, 09:30
Accelerator Safety Configuration Control (ASCC) is a novel, web-based application developed over the last several years by the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in partnership with Softtek, a leading IT company based in Mexico, to aid operators with controlling and managing accelerator safety processes. ASCC replaces outdated paper-based configuration management...
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Feng QIU (IMP)15/09/2023, 10:00
The Chinese ADS Front-end demo superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) linac, CAFe, successfully conducted a 10 mA, 200 kW continuous wave proton beam commissioning in 2021. However, the governing portion (~70%) of total beam trips was attributed to RF cavity faults. When these faults occur, an acquisition process records 8 RF waveforms using digital low-level radio-frequency (LLRF) systems. In...
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