LLNL, Livermore, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is delivering the Dual-mode Energetic Laser for Plasma and High Intensity Science (DELPHI) system to SLAC as part of the MEC-U project to create an unprecedented platform for high energy density experiments. The DELPHI control system is required to deliver short and/or long pulses at a 10 Hz firing rate with femto/pico-second accuracy sustained over fourteen 12-hour operator shifts to a common shared target chamber. The MEC-U system requires the integration of the control system with SLAC provided controls related to personnel safety, machine safety, precision timing, data analysis and visualization, amongst others. To meet these needs along with the system’s reliability, availability, and maintainability requirements, LLNL is delivering an EPICS based control system leveraging proven SLAC technology. This talk presents the conceptual design of the DELPHI control system and the methods planned to ensure its successful commissioning and delivery to SLAC.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) has been undergoing upgrades for several years now through at least two separate major projects: LCLS-II a DOE 403.13b project responsible for upgrading the accelerator, undulators and some front-end beam delivery systems, and the LCLS-II Strategic Initiative or L2SI project which assumed responsibility for upgrading the experiment endstations to fully utilize the new XFEL machine capabilities to be delivered by LCLS-II. Both projects included scope to design, install and commission a control system prepared to handle the risks associated with the tenfold increase in beam power we will eventually achieve. This paper provides an overview of the new control system architecture from the LCLS-II and L2SI projects and status of its commissioning.
