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Title: The new Tevatron beam position monitor front-end software

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OSTI ID:15017065

The Tevatron is a proton anti-proton accelerator collider operating at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The machine is currently delivering beam for the CDF and D0 experiments, which expect increasing luminosity until the conclusion of Run II, planned for 2009. The Laboratory defined a plan for achieving higher luminosity, and one of the tasks is the upgrade of the accelerator's beam position monitor (BPM). The Tevatron was built during the early eighties and some of its control systems, including the BPMs, are still the original ones. This paper describes the front-end software of the Tevatron BPM upgrade, from the requirements to the implementation, and the underlying hardware setup. The front-end software designed is presented, emphasizing its modularity and reusability, allowing it to be applied to other Fermilab machines.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH03000
OSTI ID:
15017065
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-05-229-CD; TRN: US200606%%312
Resource Relation:
Conference: To appear in the proceedings of 14th IEEE - NPSS Real Time Conference 2005 (RT2005), Stockholm, Sweden, 4-10 Jun 2005
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English