A prototype of a beam steering assistant tool for accelerator operations

Conference · Tue Oct 24 04:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:893787

Bickley, M; Chevtsov, P

The CEBAF accelerator provides nuclear physics experiments at Jefferson Lab with high quality electron beams. Three experimental end stations can simultaneously receive the beams with different energies and intensities. For each operational mode, the accelerator setup procedures are complicated and require very careful checking of beam spot sizes and positions on multiple beam viewers. To simplify these procedures and make them reproducible, a beam steering assistant GUI tool has been created. The tool is implemented as a multi-window control screen. The screen has an interactive graphical object window, which is an overlay on top of a digitized live video image from a beam viewer. It allows a user to easily create and edit any graphical objects consisting of text, ellipses, and lines, right above the live beam viewer image and then save them in a file that is called a beam steering template. The template can show, for example, the area within which the beam must always be on the viewer. Later, this template can be loaded in the interactive graphical object window to help accelerator operators steer the beam to the specified area on the viewer.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84ER40150
• OSTI ID: 893787
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACO-06-555; DOE/ER/40150-4076
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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