Beam Trail Tracking at Fermilab

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015

OSTI ID:1250796

Nicklaus, Dennis J. ^[1]; Carmichael, Linden Ralph ^[1]; Neswold, Richard ^[1]; Yuan, Zongwei ^[1]

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1. Fermilab

We present a system for acquiring and sorting data from select devices depending on the destination of each particular beam pulse in the Fermilab accelerator chain. The 15 Hz beam that begins in the Fermilab ion source can be directed to a variety of additional accelerators, beam lines, beam dumps, and experiments. We have implemented a data acquisition system that senses the destination of each pulse and reads the appropriate beam intensity devices so that profiles of the beam can be stored and analysed for each type of beam trail. We envision utilizing this data long term to identify trends in the performance of the accelerators

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1250796
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-15-434-AD; 1414886
• Resource Relation: Conference: 15th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 10/17-10/23/2015
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English