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| URL | https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2025-THPD018 |
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| Title | The ESS fast beam interlock system history buffer for post-mortem analysis and accelerator statistics |
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| Abstract | The European Spallation Source (ESS), is a linear accelerator located in Lund, Sweden. It is currently under completion and will be the most powerful neutron source. A key system ensuring the safe operation of the machine is the Fast Beam Interlock System (FBIS), which is the brain of the Machine Protection System (MPS) at the ESS, gathering all information to make decision on keeping or stopping beam production. Being the only system stopping the Beam, it is the central point where transit all Beam stop requests. The latter, with a multitude of events, are recorded to be used for the so-called post-mortem analysis. This consists of keeping an history of events preceding a Beam Stop, identifying what was its root cause, then ensuring the machine can be reliably restarted. To achieve such an analysis with events from fast systems, a resolution of few nanoseconds is necessary and some firmware component have to be used for the data collection. This component is called history buffer and is present is each of the 56 FPGAs of the FBIS actually in operation. This paper explains what are the history buffers, their implementation, and how to exploit their information for post-mortem analysis and accelerator statistics. |
| Paper | download: THPD018.pdf |
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| Conference | 20th Int. Conf. Accel. Large Exp. Phys. Control Syst. (ICALEPCS'25) |
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| Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
| Date | 20-26 Sep 2025 |
| Publisher | JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board | Kent Wootton (ANL), Jeffery Biss (FNAL), Gustavo Bruno (ANL), Jeff Kirchman (ANL), Kelly Jaje (ANL), Denise Skiadopoulos (ANL), SuYin Grass Wang (ANL) |
| Online ISBN | 978-3-95450-255-4 |
| Online ISSN | 2226-0358 |
| Received | 06 September 2025 |
| Revised | 18 September 2025 |
| Accepted | 24 October 2025 |
| Issued | 25 November 2025 |
| DOI | 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2025-THPD018 |
| Pages | 1609-1614 |
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