PSI Large Research Facilities Status

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PSI Large Research Facilities Status

• SLS, Proton Facility, PROSCAN, PSI-XFEL

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EPICS Usage at PSI
XFEL 250 MeV Injector Test
XFEL LowEmittanceGun Test
PSI-XFEL
PROSCAN
Proton Superbuncher
UCN Timing
He Liquefaction
SLS
Operations Building
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New Operations Building

• New "combined function" control room
• SLS
• Proton facility
• PROSCAN
• XFEL
• New server room
• New offices
• New cafeteria

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SLS Filling Pattern Feedback

• Better charge distribution
• Improved beam stability
• Separate talk

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SLS Beamline IT Infrastructure Upgrade

• Old SLS control room became new server room for
  beamlines
• New data storage
• Up to 30 TB per beamline
• New network topology
• Separate talk

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Other SLS (PX) Beamline Improvements

• High precision rotation stage
• separate talk
• Sample mounting robot
• separate talk
• Pilatus 6M detector

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ProtonFacility
Optis Eye Cancer Therapy
SINQ Spallation Neutron Source
Ring Cyclotron
UCN Ultra Cold Neutrons
Gantry 1
PROSCAN Proton Therapy
Optis 2
Gantry 2
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Cyclotron Upgrade

• New cavities for beam current upgrade to 3 mA
• Replace old CAMAC with new VME hardware
• New superbuncher runs with EPICS
• Long term future plans
• Replace complete control system with EPICS
• Integrate pion/muon beamlines
• Upgrade network infrastructure

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UCN (Ultra Cold Neutrons)

• Spallation source under construction (start
  2009)
• 5K cold deuterium moderator
• neutrons lt1µeV, 7m/s, 25km/h
• Proton beam time structure is controlled with
  EPICS

1. Lead target
2. D2O moderator
3. Solid D2 moderator
4. UCN guide
5. Valve
6. To experiments
7. Storage tank

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PROSCAN

• Dedicated accelerator for cancer treatment with
  protons
• Over one year in operation
• At the moment Trying to replace accelerator
  control system with EPICS
• Problem Can test only on weekends
• Early 2009 Optis 2
• Partially EPICS
• Patient treatment system is not EPICS
• Late 2009 Gantry 2

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PSI-XFEL
Experiment Building
Tunnel is a bridge here !
Low Emittance Gun
Aare
SLS
800 m tunnel
400 m Linac
80 m Undulators
farm land
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PSI-XFEL Schedule

• 500 keV gun test dismantled
• Setup of 4 MeV test
• Building for 250 MeV test linac under
  construction
• Milestone Proof of principle in October 2010
• XFEL construction start in 2011
• XFEL operation start in 2016

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Firewire Camera Server

• Linux IOC with embedded HTTP server
• Used for beam diagnostics at SLS, XFEL,
• See Miroslaw Dach's talk at PCaPAC

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Other controls activities

• Upgrade of PCs to Scientific Linux 5
• Many unexpected problems
• Adaption of SLS controls tools for XFEL
• Build up IT infrastructure for XFEL
• Evaluation of embedded Linux IOCs
• Evaluation of remote control (web access) for SLS
  beamlines
• Planned Upgrade of SLS IOCs to EPICS 3.14