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DOI:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-MOPGF080
Title Control System of RF Stations for NICA Booster
Authors
  • G.A. Fatkin, A.M. Batrakov, I.V. Ilyin, M.Yu. Vasilyev
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • G.A. Fatkin
    NSU, Novosibirsk, Russia
Abstract NICA (Nuclotron based Ion Collider fAcility) is an accelerator complex, which is being built in JINR (Dubna, Russia). The system described in this paper is controlling the RF stations of booster, the first element of the NICA complex. The two devices are parts of the Control System: Intellectual Controller and Tester module. The first one is designed for precise measurement of magnetic field, generation of the acceleration frequency in accordance with measured field and control RF power and pre-amplifiers. Intellectual Controller is a real-time feed-forward system with 20 ums loop time. It is based on ARM microcontroller and bare-metal control programs are used to reach maximum performance. Approaches that were used to achieve maximum performance are elaborated and presented in this paper. The second part of system - Tester is a simulator for tuning and checking the RF stations before start of operations or in absence of real accelerator. The achieved accuracy in chain 'magnetic field' - 'acceleration frequency' is better than 5*10⁻⁵. Plans on feedback incorporation to stabilize ion beam behavior via frequency and phase tuning are discussed.
Paper download MOPGF080.PDF [0.854 MB / 4 pages]
Poster download MOPGF080_POSTER.PDF [15.320 MB]
Conference ICALEPCS2015, Melbourne, Australia
Series International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (15th)
Proceedings Link to full ICALEPCS2015 Proccedings
Session Poster session
Date 19-Oct-15   17:30–18:30
Main Classification Feedback Systems, Tuning
Keywords controls, booster, interface, Ethernet, operation
Publisher JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Lou Corvetti (AS, Clayton, Australia); Kathleen Riches (SLSA, Clayton, Australia); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
ISBN 978-3-95450-148-9
Published December 2015
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