Wei, Yuan
Investigation and improvement of slow extraction quality at HIRFL-CSRm
The slow extraction experimental users are urgent and imperative for the quasi-consecutive and uniform beam during the spill, generally several seconds. The online monitoring of the beam spot and intensity are also demanded. Recently, a set of slow extraction instruments were upgraded at the HIRFL-CSRm not only for the online monitoring, but also the improvement of the spill quality and the investigation of the micro structure. A new RF knockout (RF-KO) with the equivalent power up to 9 kW was equipped at the CSRm for the third-integer resonance. An online ionization chamber was fixed at the CSR External-target Experiment (CEE) monitoring the pre-target beam spot and intensity. A feedback loop comprises the RF-KO, IC and the home-made electronics, was adopted and demonstrated a significant improvement on the spill quality. A pilot experiment with a SiPM based plastic scintillator at the CEE revealed the sub-ns micro structures. The data acquisition system features 1 Gsps sampling rate and 5s storage, covering the whole spill. The measurement in recent campaigns is presented and the further improvement of the feedback system, the detector design, the electronics parameters is given.
Design and Implementation of Embedded System in HIAF Beam Diagnostics System
The beam diagnostic system of HIAF includes many subsystems, and the self-developed and researched electronic hardware adopts a highly integrated software and hardware architecture.To meet the requirements of beam debugging and measurement as well as user testing and experiments, the author of this paper developed a beam diagnostic embedded system based on EPICS and LACCS.This system fully utilizes whole resources to achieve real-time parameter setting, dynamic monitoring of status quantities, real-time transmission and monitoring of beam waveform data, and processing and storage of beam big data.The system have been online and operate for nearly a thousand sets, and run stably for a long time. The long-term stable operation of the laboratory and the temperature drift is respectively <3 um/℃ and 0.02 °/℃,which meet the beam debugging and operation requirements of the HIAF and other accelerator beam diagnosis systems,like SSC-Linac, LEAF, CAFe and PREF.