Published 2016 | Version v1
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Control Infrastructure for a Pulsed Ion Accelerator

Creators

  • 1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Description

We report on updates to the accelerator controls for the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II, a pulsed induction-type accelerator for heavy ions. The control infrastructure is built around a LabVIEW interface combined with an Apache Cassandra backend for data archiving. Recent upgrades added the storing and retrieving of device settings into the database, as well as ZeroMQ as a message broker that replaces LabVIEW's shared variables. Converting to ZeroMQ also allows easy access via other programming languages, such as Python.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1377510; http://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1377510; DOE Accepted Manuscript full text, or the publishers Best Available Version will be available free of charge after the embargo period

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1377510; http://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1377510;
DOI
10.1109/TNS.2016.2594243;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Journal Volume
63
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 2677-2681
ISSN
0018-9499

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
48090803
Subject category
S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTER CODES; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; HEAVY IONS; ION BEAMS; ISOCHRONOUS CYCLOTRONS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; BEAMS; CHARGED PARTICLES; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; CYCLOTRONS; IONS; PROCESSING

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC02-05CH11231
Funding organization
USDOE Office of Science - SC, Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) (SC-24) (United States)
Secondary number(s)
OSTIID--1377510