Automatic tuning of the LBL SuperHILAC third-injector transport line

Conference · Tue Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6004767

Pines, H

Testing of a new automatic tuning procedure in an LBL SuperHILAC beam transport line has been conducted with the third injector microcomputer control system. This technique is an advance over the sequential station-by-station automatic tuning method developed for the Bevalac transfer line. The computer now performs steering/focusing adjustments simultaneously on a number of quadrupole and dipole magnets comprising multiple-station sections of the injection line. New magnet currents are computed from equations governing beam optics in a real-time simulation of the beam line. The key to this emittance utilizing the same control magnets and beam profile monitors used for manual tuning of the line. This emittance calculation requires high resolution beam profile measurements using multi-wire profile monitors recently installed in the third injector line.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 6004767
• Report Number(s): LBL-15209; CONF-830311-163; ON: DE83012901
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACCELERATORS
BEAM INJECTION
BEAM PROFILES
COMPUTERS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS
HILACS
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
MICROPROCESSORS
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
SUPERHILAC
TUNING