| Title |
A Hybrid Approach to Upgrade Hardware for the Proton Storage Ring Fast Kicker |
| Authors |
- T. Ramakrishnan, J.I. Duran, H.A. Watkins
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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| Abstract |
The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) Proton Storage Ring (PSR) needs precise timing to ensure successful extraction of the bunched protons. The current control system¿s hardware is obsolete and unmaintainable. The task was to replace the 1980¿s era CAMAC control and timing system for the PSR extraction kickers. This included a system which halts charging of the kickers after a duration without firing to prevent equipment damage. A hybrid approach was taken to integrate a Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation (BNC) pulse generator that was controlled by a soft input/output controller (IOC) and National Instrument compact Reconfigurable Input/Output (cRIO) IOC. This allowed for flexibility and modularity of the software and hardware development. This approach built the framework to streamline robust deployment of hybrid systems and develop a solution for upgrades of other LANSCE kickers.
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| Funding |
Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, contract no. 89233218CNA000001. LA-UR-23-25123 |
| Paper |
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| Conference |
IBIC2023 |
| Series |
International Beam Instrumentation Conference (12th) |
| Location |
Saskatoon, Canada |
| Date |
10-14 September 2023 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Tonia Batten (CLS, Saskatoon, Canada); Michael Bree (CLS, Saskatoon, Canada); Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland); Darren Hunter (CLS, Saskatoon, Canada) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-236-3 |
| Online ISSN |
2673-5350 |
| Received |
06 September 2023 |
| Revised |
08 September 2023 |
| Accepted |
13 September 2023 |
| Issue Date |
18 September 2023 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2023-TUP029 |
| Pages |
250-253 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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