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| URL | https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2025-TUMG005 |
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| Title | Continuous integration on top of the existing control system of LIPAc, for a RF conditioning test bench |
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| Abstract | Under the Broader Approach agreement between Japan and Europe, the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) aims the validation of the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) accelerator design, to produce a deuteron beam of 125 mA at 9 MeV in continuous wave. In parallel to the installation of a superconductive linear acceleration stage, a high-power test bench was set up for the testing and conditioning of four pairs of radio-frequency (RF) couplers for LIPAc’s RF quadrupole*. Accordingly, the control systems (CS) part was implemented in parallel to the existing CS of LIPAc, benefiting from the tools available while avoiding their modification. Also, additional functionalities and devices were integrated to tackle the test bench specificities. This work was continuously performed during the operations of the test bench, identifying and answering further needs, such as deploying an automated conditioning tool, or enabling slow feedback loops for automatic parameter tuning. Furthermore, this test bench became a testing environment for the modifications foreseen in the LIPAc CS refurbishment plan, such as upgrading the CS framework to EPICS v7, switching to CS-Studio Phoebus and its applications for the operator interfaces, or using Debian 12 as the operating system and ProxMox 8 for the virtualization environment. The experience acquired here will be precious for the IFMIF-DONES Facility Project (DEMO-Oriented NEutron Source) implementation of IFMIF. |
| Paper | download: TUMG005.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 | 05 September 2025 |
| Revised | 25 September 2025 |
| Accepted | 31 October 2025 |
| Issued | 25 November 2025 |
| DOI | 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2025-TUMG005 |
| Pages | 366-371 |
| Copyright | Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |