The Fermilab accelerator control system
For many years the Fermilab physics program has been dominated by the superconducting Tevatron accelerator producing beams for many fixed target and the proton-antiproton colliding beam experiments CDF and D0. More recently, major experiments have used beam from intermediate accelerators. The MiniBooNE and MINOS experiments use 8 and 120 GeV beam respectively for neutrino oscillation studies. Several other experiments and test beams have also used 120 GeV beam. This paper describes the control system for the accelerator complex that was originally developed for the start of Tevatron operation in 1983. This system is common to all accelerators in the chain, and has been successfully evolved to accommodate new hardware, new software platforms, new accelerators, and increasingly complex modes of operation.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 948193
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-08-605-AD; TRN: US0901597
- Journal Information:
- ICFA Beam Dyn.Newslett.47:106-124,2008, Vol. 47
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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