ICALEPCS2023 - Classification: General / Status Reports

Paper	Title	Page
MO1BCO01	The Intelligent Observatory	1
	S.B. Potter, S. Chandra, N. Erasmus, M. Hlakola, R.P. Julie, H. Worters, C. van Gend SAAO, Observatory, South Africa
	The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) has embarked on an ambitious initiative to upgrade its telescopes, instruments, and data analysis capabilities, facilitating their intelligent integration and seamless coordination. This endeavour aims not only to improve efficiency and agility but also to unlock exciting scientific possibilities within the realms of multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy. The program encompasses hardware enhancements enabling autonomous operations, complemented by the development of sophisticated software solutions. Intelligent algorithms have been meticulously crafted to promptly and autonomously respond to real-time alerts from telescopes worldwide and space-based observatories. Overseeing this sophisticated framework is the Observatory Control System, actively managing the observing queue in real-time. This presentation will provide a summary of the program’s notable achievements thus far, with a specific focus on the successful completion and full operational readiness of one of the SAAO telescopes.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO01
About •	Received ※ 31 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 06 December 2023 — Issued ※ 07 December 2023
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MO1BCO02	ITER Controls Approaching One Million Integrated EPICS Process Variables	6
	A. Wallander, B. Bauvir ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
	The ITER Tokamak is currently being assembled in southern France. In parallel, the supporting systems have completed installation and are under commissioning or operation. Over the last couple of years the electrical distribution, building services, liquid & gas, cooling water, reactive power compensation and cryoplant have been integrated, adding up to close to one million process variables. Those systems are operated, or under commissioning, from a temporary main control room or local control rooms close to the equipment using an integrated infrastructure. The ITER control system is therefore in production. As the ITER procurement is 90% in-kind, a major challenge has been the integration of the various systems provided by suppliers from the ITER members. Standardization, CODAC Core System software distribution, training and coaching have all played a positive role. Nevertheless, the integration has been more difficult than foreseen and the central team has been forced to rework much of the delivered software. In this paper we report on the current status of the ITER integrated control system with emphasize on lessons learned from integration of in-kind contributions.
	Slides MO1BCO02 [3.521 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO02
About •	Received ※ 27 September 2023 — Revised ※ 07 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 15 November 2023 — Issued ※ 07 December 2023
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MO1BCO03	LCLS-II Accelerator Control System Status	12
	D. Rogind, S. Kwon SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: US DOE The Linac Coherent Light Source complex at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has been upgraded to add a new superconducting accelerator with beam rates up to 1MHz. Though the majority of the more than twenty accelerator control systems are based on LCLS designs, to accommodate the increase in repetition rate from 120Hz to 1MHz, many of the diagnostics and global control systems are upgraded to high performance platforms with standalone CPUs running linuxRT to host the EPICS based controls. With installation and checkouts for control systems completing in 2022, the phased approach to integration and commissioning recently completed with demonstration of the threshold key performance parameters and first light occurring in the Summer of 2023. This paper provides an overview of the LCLS-II accelerator control system architecture, upgrades, the multi-year installation, checkout, integration, commissioning, and lessons learned.
	Slides MO1BCO03 [2.380 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO03
About •	Received ※ 02 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 19 December 2023 — Issued ※ 21 December 2023
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MO1BCO04	EIC Controls System Architecture Status and Plans	19
	J.P. Jamilkowski, S.L. Clark, M.R. Costanzo, T. D’Ottavio, M. Harvey, K. Mernick, S. Nemesure, F. Severino, K. Shroff BNL, Upton, New York, USA L.R. Dalesio Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City, USA K. Kulmatycski, C. Montag, V.H. Ranjbar, K.S. Smith Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Electron-Ion Collider, Upton, New York, USA
	Funding: Contract Number DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the auspices of the US Department of Energy Preparations are underway to build the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) once Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) beam operations are end in 2025, providing an enhanced probe into the building blocks of nuclear physics for decades into the future. With commissioning of the new facility in mind, Accelerator Controls will require modernization in order to keep up with recent improvements in the field as well as to match the fundamental requirements of the accelerators that will be constructed. We will describe the status of the Controls System architecture that has been developed and prototyped for EIC, as well as plans for future work. Major influences on the requirements will be discussed, including EIC Common Platform applications as well as our expectation that we’ll need to support a hybrid environment covering both the proprietary RHIC Accelerator Device Object (ADO) environment as well as EPICS.
	Slides MO1BCO04 [1.458 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO04
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 November 2023 — Issued ※ 11 December 2023
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TUMBCMO35	The SILF Accelerator Controls Plan	449
	Z.Z. Zhou, L. Hu, M.T. Kang, G.M. Liu, T. Liu, T. Yu, J.H. Zhu IASF, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China
	The Shenzhen Innovation Light Source Facility (SILF) is an accelerator-based multidiscipline user facility planned to be constructed in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Chi-na. This paper introduces controls design outline and progress. Some technical plans and schedules are also discussed.
	Slides TUMBCMO35 [0.747 MB]
	Poster TUMBCMO35 [0.545 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUMBCMO35
About •	Received ※ 28 September 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 06 December 2023 — Issued ※ 15 December 2023
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TUPDP010	The Laser Megajoule Facility Status Report	498
	I. Issury, J-P. Airiau, Y. Tranquille-Marques CEA, LE BARP cedex, France
	The Laser MegaJoule, a 176-beam laser facility developed by CEA, is located near Bordeaux. It is part of the French Simulation Program, which combines improvement of theoretical models used in various domains of physics and high performance numerical simulation. It is designed to deliver about 1.4 MJ of energy on targets, for high energy density physics experiments, including fusion experiments. The LMJ technological choices were validated on the LIL, a scale-1 prototype composed of 1 bundle of 4-beams. The first bundle of 8-beams was commissioned in October 2014 with the realisation of the first experiment on the LMJ facility. The operational capabilities are increasing gradually every year until the full completion by 2025. By the end of 2023, 18 bundles of 8-beams will be assembled and 15 bundles are expected to be fully operational. In this paper, a presentation of the LMJ Control System architecture is given. A description of the integration platform and simulation tools, located outside the LMJ facility, is given. Finally, a review of the LMJ status report is detailed with an update on the LMJ and PETAL activities. LMJ: Laser MegaJoule CEA: Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives LIL : Ligne d’Intégration Laser
	Poster TUPDP010 [1.200 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP010
About •	Received ※ 28 September 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 28 November 2023 — Issued ※ 08 December 2023
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TUPDP017	Status of the FAIR Control System and Controls Upgrade Activities at GSI
	R. Bär, F. Ameil, D. Beck, C. Betz, M. Dziewiecki, J. Fitzek, K. Höppner, S. Jülicher, V. Rapp, R. Vincelli GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	The FAIR accelerator complex (Facility for Antiproton and Ion research) is presently under construction at the GSI Helmholtz Centre in Darmstadt. FAIR will extend the present GSI accelerator chain, then being used as injector, and provide antiproton, ion, and rare isotope beams with unprecedented intensity and quality for a variety of research programs. After many years of machine development and civil construction works, the installation and commissioning of FAIR is now imminent. This paper reports about the progress of the FAIR facility in general, the general technical overview and the present status of the new FAIR control system, covering development, deployment, and operational experience at the existing GSI synchrotrons and storage rings. Although not feature-complete for FAIR yet, we will reflect on the experience of already 4 operational beam-times with the new control system. The paper will briefly address other challenges like our parallel activities to retrofit the legacy and obsolete linac control system by deploying the new control system stack at the UNILAC in the next years.
	Poster TUPDP017 [2.522 MB]
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TUPDP029	Architecture of the Control System for the Jülich High Brilliance Neutron Source	565
	H. Kleines, Y. Beßler, O. Felden, R. Gebel, M. Glum, R. Hanslik, S. Janaschke, P. Kämmerling, A. Lehrach, D. Marschall, F. Palm, F. Suxdorf, J. Voigt FZJ, Jülich, Germany J. Baggemann, Th. Brückel, T. Gutberlet, A. Möller, U. Rücker, A. Steffens, P. Zakalek JCNS, Jülich, Germany O. Meusel, H. Podlech IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
	In the Jülich High Brilliance Neutron Source (HBS) project Forschungszentrum Jülich is developing a novel High Current Accelerator-driven Neutron Source (HiCANS) that is competitive to medium-flux fission-based research reactors or spallation neutron sources. The HBS will include a 70 MeV linear accelerator which delivers a pulsed proton beam with an average current of 100 mA to three target stations. At each target station the average power will be 100 kW generating neutrons for at least six neutron instruments. The concept for the control system has been developed and published in the HBS technical design report. Main building blocks of the control system will be Control System Studio, EPICS and Siemens PLC technology (for vacuum, motion, personnel protection…). The timing system will be based on commercially available components from Micro-Research Finland. The accelerator LLRF will rely on MTCA.4 developments of DESY that are commercially available, too. A small fraction of the control system has already been implemented for the new JULIC neutron platform, which is an HBS target station demonstrator that has been developed at the existing JULIC cyclotron at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP029
About •	Received ※ 09 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 October 2023 — Issued ※ 17 October 2023
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TUPDP043	Final Design of Control and Data Acquisition System for the ITER Heating Neutral Beam Injector Test Bed	612
	L. Trevisan, A.F. Luchetta, G. Manduchi, G. Martini, A. Rigoni, C. Taliercio Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy N. Cruz IPFN, Lisbon, Portugal C. Labate, F. Paolucci F4E, Barcelona, Spain
	Funding: This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium funded by the European Union via Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 - EUROfusion) Tokamaks use heating neutral beam (HNB) injectors to reach fusion conditions and drive the plasma current. ITER, the large international tokamak, will have three high-energy, high-power (1MeV, 16.5MW) HNBs. MITICA, the ITER HNB prototype, is being built at the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility, Italy, to develop and test the ITER HNB, whose requirements are far beyond the current HNB technology. MITICA operates in a pulsed way with pulse duration up to 3600s and 25% duty cycle. It requires a complex control and data acquisition system (CODAS) to provide supervisory and plant control, monitoring, fast real-time control, data acquisition and archiving, data access, and operator interface. The control infrastructure consists of two parts: central and plant system CODAS. The former provides high-level resources such as servers and a central archive for experimental data. The latter manages the MITICA plant units, i.e., components that generally execute a specific function, such as power supply, vacuum pumping, or scientific parameter measurements. CODAS integrates various technologies to implement the required functions and meet the associated requirements. Our paper presents the CODAS requirement and architecture based on the experience gained with SPIDER, the ITER full-size beam source in operation since 2018. It focuses on the most challenging topics, such as synchronization, fast real-time control, software development for long-lasting experiments, system commissioning, and integration.
	Poster TUPDP043 [0.621 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP043
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 10 December 2023 — Issued ※ 19 December 2023
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TUPDP046	Beam Operation for Particle Physics and Photon Science with Pulse-to-Pulse Modulation at KEK Injector Linac	627
	K. Furukawa, M. Satoh KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
	The electron and positron accelerator complex at KEK offers unique experimental opportunities in the fields of elementary particle physics with SuperKEKB collider and photon science with two light sources. In order to maximize the experimental performances at those facilities the injector LINAC employs pulse-to-pulse modulation at 50 Hz, injecting beams with diverse properties. The event-based control system effectively manages different beam configurations. This injection scheme was initially designed 15 years ago and has been in full operation since 2019. Over the years, quite a few enhancements have been implemented. As the event-based controls are tightly coupled with microwave systems, machine protection systems and so on, their modifications require meticulous planning. However, the diverse requirements from particle physics and photon science, stemming from the distinct nature of those experiments, often necessitate patient negotiation to meet the demands of both fields. This presentation discusses those operational aspects of the multidisciplinary facility.
	Poster TUPDP046 [2.498 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP046
About •	Received ※ 19 November 2023 — Accepted ※ 10 December 2023 — Issued ※ 11 December 2023
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TUPDP052	The Progress and Status of HEPS Beamline Control System	650
	G. Li, X.B. Deng, X.W. Dong, Z.H. Gao, G. Lei, Y. Liu, C.X. Yin, Z.Y. Yue, D.S. Zhang, Q. Zhang, Z. Zhao, A.Y. Zhou IHEP, Beijing, People’s Republic of China N. Xie IMP/CAS, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China
	HEPS will be the first high-energy (6GeV) synchrotron radiation light source in China which is mainly composed of an accelerator, beamlines and end-stations. In phase I, 14+1 beamlines and corresponding experimental stations will be constructed. The beamline control system design, based on EPICS, has been completed and will soon enter the stage of engineering construction and united commissioning. Here, the progress and status of the beamline control system are presented.
	Poster TUPDP052 [4.531 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP052
About •	Received ※ 01 October 2023 — Revised ※ 11 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 05 December 2023 — Issued ※ 17 December 2023
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TUPDP121	Conceptual Design of the Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade (MEC-U) Rep-Rated Laser Control System	865
	B.T. Fishler, F. Batysta, J. Galbraith, V.K. Gopalan, J. Jimenez, L.S. Kiani, E.S. Koh, J.F. McCarrick, A.K. Patel, R.E. Plummer, B. Reagan, E. Sistrunk, T.M. Spinka, K. Terzi, K.M. Velas LLNL, Livermore, California, USA M.Y. Cabral, T.A. Wallace, J. Yin SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. 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.
	Poster TUPDP121 [1.610 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP121
About •	Received ※ 02 October 2023 — Revised ※ 09 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 04 December 2023 — Issued ※ 17 December 2023
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TUPDP128	The Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade Facility Control System Architecture
	T.A. Wallace SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: This work is supported by Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. The Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade (MECU) project is a DOE 403.13b project designated to be built on the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory campus within this decade. The facility will deliver the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) XFEL in combination with a high energy long pulse (HE-LP) laser system and a rep-rated laser built by two other DOE labs, the Laser Lab for Energetics (LLE) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) respectively to experiment target chambers. The control system design for this facility will utilize EPICS throughout the SLAC, LLE and LLNL major subsystems, and to the extent possible a common hardware and software suite. The effort is a major undertaking in control system design and build via collaboration between the three partner labs of the project. This talk will review the control system architecture concept for MECU, from industrial controls to high-level automation within the context of the concept of operations, as well as status of the project.
	Poster TUPDP128 [1.989 MB]
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TUPDP136	Control Systems Design for STS Accelerator	903
	J. Yan, S.M. Hartman, K.-U. Kasemir ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	Funding: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The Second Target Station (STS) Project will expand the capabilities of the existing Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), with a suite of neutron instruments optimized for long wavelengths. A new accelerator transport line will be built to deliver one out of four SNS pulses to the new target station. The Integrated Control Systems (ICS) will provide remote control, monitoring, OPI, alarms, and archivers for the accelerator systems, such as magnets power supply, vacuum devices, and beam instrumentation. The ICS will upgrade the existing Linac LLRF controls to allow independent operation of the FTS and STS and support different power levels of the FTS and STS proton beam. The ICS accelerator controls are in the phase of preliminary design for the control systems of magnet power supply, vacuum, LLRF, Timing, Machine protection system (MPS), and computing and machine network. The accelerator control systems build upon the existing SNS Machine Control systems, use the SNS standard hardware and EPICS software, and take full advantage of the performance gains delivered by the PPU Project at SNS.
	Poster TUPDP136 [2.403 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP136
About •	Received ※ 27 September 2023 — Revised ※ 09 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 October 2023 — Issued ※ 22 October 2023
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TUSDSC06	Components of a Scale Training Telescope for Radio Astronomy Training	933
	A.C. Linde, X.P. Baloyi, P. Dube, J.L. Lekganyane, AM. Lethole, V. Mlipha, P.J. Pretorius, US. Silere, S.S. Sithole SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa
	To establish the engineering and science background of radio astronomy in SKA African partner countries, a need was identified to develop a training telescope which would serve as a vehicle for demonstrating the principles. The Scale Training Telescope (STT) will be used as an interactive teaching tool for the basics of antenna structure and antenna control, both in the design, assembly and operation of the radio antenna. The antenna aims to work as closely to a real radio telescope antenna as possible. The STT allows students at various academic levels in different educational institutions the ability to access an antenna design that can be assembled and operated by the students. The paper will describe the mechanical, electrical and software elements of the STT. The mechanical elements range from the structural base to the rotating dish of the radio telescope antenna. The electrical elements incorporate the electromechanical components used to move the antenna as well as the wiring and powering of the antenna. The software is used to control the antenna system as well as collect, process and visualise the resulting data. A software-based user interface will allow the students to control and monitor the antenna system. The PLC-based (Programmable Logic Controller) control system facilitates the motion control of the antenna, in both the azimuth and elevation axes.
	Poster TUSDSC06 [0.760 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUSDSC06
About •	Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 09 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 29 November 2023 — Issued ※ 09 December 2023
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WEWBCO01	Workshop Summaries
	K.S. White ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	TDB
	Slides WEWBCO01 [14.780 MB]
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FR1BCO01	Status of the European Spallation Source Controls	1600
	T. Korhonen ESS, Lund, Sweden
	The European Spallation Source has made substantial progress in the recent years. Similarly, the control system has taken shape and has gone through the first commissioning and is now in production use. While there are still features and services in preparation, the central features are already in place. The talk will give an overview of the areas where the control system is used, our use and experience with the central technologies like MTCA.4 and EPICS 7, plus an overview of the next steps. The talk will also look at what was planned and reported in ICALEPCS 2015 and how our system of today compares with them, and the evolution from green field project to an operating organization.
	Slides FR1BCO01 [2.354 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-FR1BCO01
About •	Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 12 December 2023 — Issued ※ 15 December 2023
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FR1BCO02	Controls at the Fermilab PIP-II Superconducting Linac	1607
	D.J. Nicklaus, P.M. Hanlet Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	PIP-II is an 800 MeV superconducting RF linac under development at Fermilab. As the new first stage in our accelerator chain, it will deliver high-power beam to multiple experiments simultaneously and thus drive Fermilab’s particle physics program for years to come. In a pivot for Fermilab, controls for PIP-II are based on EPICS instead of ACNET, the legacy control system for accelerators at the lab. This paper discusses the status of the EPICS controls work for PIP-II. We describe the EPICS tools selected for our system and the experience of operators new to EPICS. We introduce our continuous integration / continuous development environment. We also describe some efforts at cooperation between EPICS and ACNET, or efforts to move towards a unified interface that can apply to both control systems.
	Slides FR1BCO02 [4.528 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-FR1BCO02
About •	Received ※ 04 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 10 December 2023 — Issued ※ 11 December 2023
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FR1BCO03	SKA Project Status Update	1610
	N.P. Rees SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
	The SKA Project is a science mega-project whose mission is to build the world’s two largest radio telescopes with sensitivity, angular resolution, and survey speed far surpassing current state-of-the-art instruments at relevant radio frequencies. The Low Frequency telescope, SKA-Low, is designed to observe between 50 and 350 MHz and will be built at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. The Mid Frequency telescope, SKA-Mid, is designed to observe between 350 MHz and 15 GHz and will be built in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Each telescope will be delivered in a number of stages, called Array Assemblies. Each Array Assembly will be a fully working telescope which will allow us to understand the design and potentially improve the system to deliver a better scientific instrument for the users. The final control system will consist of around 2 million control points per telescope, and the first Array Assembly, known as AA0.5, is being delivered at the time of ICALEPCS 2023.
	Slides FR1BCO03 [38.177 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-FR1BCO03
About •	Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 19 November 2023 — Issued ※ 05 December 2023
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FR1BCO04	The Controls and Science IT Project for the SLS 2.0 Upgrade	1616
	A. Ashton, H.-H. Braun, S. Fries, X. Yao, E. Zimoch PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	Operation of the Swiss Light Source (SLS) at the Paul Scherrer Institue (PSI) in Switzerland began in 2000 and it quickly became one of the most successful synchrotron radiation facilities worldwide, providing academic and industry users with a suite of excellent beamlines covering a wide range of methods and applications. To maintain the SLS at the forefront of synchrotron user facilities and to exploit all of the improvement opportunities, PSI prepared a major upgrade project for SLS, named SLS 2.0. The Controls and Science IT (CaSIT) subproject was established to help instigate a project management structure to facilitate new concepts, increased communication, and clarify budgetary responsibility. This article focusses on the progress being made to exploit the current technological opportunities offered by a break in operations whilst taking into consideration future growth opportunities and realistic operational support within an academic research facility.
	Slides FR1BCO04 [6.389 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-FR1BCO04
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 20 November 2023 — Issued ※ 17 December 2023
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FRCBCO01	Closing Session
	K.S. White ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	Closing session summary.
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The Intelligent Observatory

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S.B. Potter, S. Chandra, N. Erasmus, M. Hlakola, R.P. Julie, H. Worters, C. van Gend
SAAO, Observatory, South Africa

The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) has embarked on an ambitious initiative to upgrade its telescopes, instruments, and data analysis capabilities, facilitating their intelligent integration and seamless coordination. This endeavour aims not only to improve efficiency and agility but also to unlock exciting scientific possibilities within the realms of multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy. The program encompasses hardware enhancements enabling autonomous operations, complemented by the development of sophisticated software solutions. Intelligent algorithms have been meticulously crafted to promptly and autonomously respond to real-time alerts from telescopes worldwide and space-based observatories. Overseeing this sophisticated framework is the Observatory Control System, actively managing the observing queue in real-time. This presentation will provide a summary of the program’s notable achievements thus far, with a specific focus on the successful completion and full operational readiness of one of the SAAO telescopes.

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MO1BCO02

ITER Controls Approaching One Million Integrated EPICS Process Variables

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A. Wallander, B. Bauvir
ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France

The ITER Tokamak is currently being assembled in southern France. In parallel, the supporting systems have completed installation and are under commissioning or operation. Over the last couple of years the electrical distribution, building services, liquid & gas, cooling water, reactive power compensation and cryoplant have been integrated, adding up to close to one million process variables. Those systems are operated, or under commissioning, from a temporary main control room or local control rooms close to the equipment using an integrated infrastructure. The ITER control system is therefore in production. As the ITER procurement is 90% in-kind, a major challenge has been the integration of the various systems provided by suppliers from the ITER members. Standardization, CODAC Core System software distribution, training and coaching have all played a positive role. Nevertheless, the integration has been more difficult than foreseen and the central team has been forced to rework much of the delivered software. In this paper we report on the current status of the ITER integrated control system with emphasize on lessons learned from integration of in-kind contributions.

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Received ※ 27 September 2023 — Revised ※ 07 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 15 November 2023 — Issued ※ 07 December 2023

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MO1BCO03

LCLS-II Accelerator Control System Status

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D. Rogind, S. Kwon
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: US DOE
The Linac Coherent Light Source complex at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has been upgraded to add a new superconducting accelerator with beam rates up to 1MHz. Though the majority of the more than twenty accelerator control systems are based on LCLS designs, to accommodate the increase in repetition rate from 120Hz to 1MHz, many of the diagnostics and global control systems are upgraded to high performance platforms with standalone CPUs running linuxRT to host the EPICS based controls. With installation and checkouts for control systems completing in 2022, the phased approach to integration and commissioning recently completed with demonstration of the threshold key performance parameters and first light occurring in the Summer of 2023. This paper provides an overview of the LCLS-II accelerator control system architecture, upgrades, the multi-year installation, checkout, integration, commissioning, and lessons learned.

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MO1BCO04

EIC Controls System Architecture Status and Plans

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J.P. Jamilkowski, S.L. Clark, M.R. Costanzo, T. D’Ottavio, M. Harvey, K. Mernick, S. Nemesure, F. Severino, K. Shroff
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
L.R. Dalesio
Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City, USA
K. Kulmatycski, C. Montag, V.H. Ranjbar, K.S. Smith
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Electron-Ion Collider, Upton, New York, USA

Funding: Contract Number DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the auspices of the US Department of Energy
Preparations are underway to build the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) once Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) beam operations are end in 2025, providing an enhanced probe into the building blocks of nuclear physics for decades into the future. With commissioning of the new facility in mind, Accelerator Controls will require modernization in order to keep up with recent improvements in the field as well as to match the fundamental requirements of the accelerators that will be constructed. We will describe the status of the Controls System architecture that has been developed and prototyped for EIC, as well as plans for future work. Major influences on the requirements will be discussed, including EIC Common Platform applications as well as our expectation that we’ll need to support a hybrid environment covering both the proprietary RHIC Accelerator Device Object (ADO) environment as well as EPICS.

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TUMBCMO35

The SILF Accelerator Controls Plan

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Z.Z. Zhou, L. Hu, M.T. Kang, G.M. Liu, T. Liu, T. Yu, J.H. Zhu
IASF, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

The Shenzhen Innovation Light Source Facility (SILF) is an accelerator-based multidiscipline user facility planned to be constructed in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Chi-na. This paper introduces controls design outline and progress. Some technical plans and schedules are also discussed.

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Poster TUMBCMO35 [0.545 MB]

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Received ※ 28 September 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 06 December 2023 — Issued ※ 15 December 2023

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TUPDP010

The Laser Megajoule Facility Status Report

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I. Issury, J-P. Airiau, Y. Tranquille-Marques
CEA, LE BARP cedex, France

The Laser MegaJoule, a 176-beam laser facility developed by CEA, is located near Bordeaux. It is part of the French Simulation Program, which combines improvement of theoretical models used in various domains of physics and high performance numerical simulation. It is designed to deliver about 1.4 MJ of energy on targets, for high energy density physics experiments, including fusion experiments. The LMJ technological choices were validated on the LIL, a scale-1 prototype composed of 1 bundle of 4-beams. The first bundle of 8-beams was commissioned in October 2014 with the realisation of the first experiment on the LMJ facility. The operational capabilities are increasing gradually every year until the full completion by 2025. By the end of 2023, 18 bundles of 8-beams will be assembled and 15 bundles are expected to be fully operational. In this paper, a presentation of the LMJ Control System architecture is given. A description of the integration platform and simulation tools, located outside the LMJ facility, is given. Finally, a review of the LMJ status report is detailed with an update on the LMJ and PETAL activities.
LMJ: Laser MegaJoule
CEA: Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
LIL : Ligne d’Intégration Laser

Poster TUPDP010 [1.200 MB]

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Received ※ 28 September 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 28 November 2023 — Issued ※ 08 December 2023

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TUPDP017

Status of the FAIR Control System and Controls Upgrade Activities at GSI

R. Bär, F. Ameil, D. Beck, C. Betz, M. Dziewiecki, J. Fitzek, K. Höppner, S. Jülicher, V. Rapp, R. Vincelli
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

The FAIR accelerator complex (Facility for Antiproton and Ion research) is presently under construction at the GSI Helmholtz Centre in Darmstadt. FAIR will extend the present GSI accelerator chain, then being used as injector, and provide antiproton, ion, and rare isotope beams with unprecedented intensity and quality for a variety of research programs. After many years of machine development and civil construction works, the installation and commissioning of FAIR is now imminent. This paper reports about the progress of the FAIR facility in general, the general technical overview and the present status of the new FAIR control system, covering development, deployment, and operational experience at the existing GSI synchrotrons and storage rings. Although not feature-complete for FAIR yet, we will reflect on the experience of already 4 operational beam-times with the new control system. The paper will briefly address other challenges like our parallel activities to retrofit the legacy and obsolete linac control system by deploying the new control system stack at the UNILAC in the next years.

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TUPDP029

Architecture of the Control System for the Jülich High Brilliance Neutron Source

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H. Kleines, Y. Beßler, O. Felden, R. Gebel, M. Glum, R. Hanslik, S. Janaschke, P. Kämmerling, A. Lehrach, D. Marschall, F. Palm, F. Suxdorf, J. Voigt
FZJ, Jülich, Germany
J. Baggemann, Th. Brückel, T. Gutberlet, A. Möller, U. Rücker, A. Steffens, P. Zakalek
JCNS, Jülich, Germany
O. Meusel, H. Podlech
IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

In the Jülich High Brilliance Neutron Source (HBS) project Forschungszentrum Jülich is developing a novel High Current Accelerator-driven Neutron Source (HiCANS) that is competitive to medium-flux fission-based research reactors or spallation neutron sources. The HBS will include a 70 MeV linear accelerator which delivers a pulsed proton beam with an average current of 100 mA to three target stations. At each target station the average power will be 100 kW generating neutrons for at least six neutron instruments. The concept for the control system has been developed and published in the HBS technical design report. Main building blocks of the control system will be Control System Studio, EPICS and Siemens PLC technology (for vacuum, motion, personnel protection…). The timing system will be based on commercially available components from Micro-Research Finland. The accelerator LLRF will rely on MTCA.4 developments of DESY that are commercially available, too. A small fraction of the control system has already been implemented for the new JULIC neutron platform, which is an HBS target station demonstrator that has been developed at the existing JULIC cyclotron at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

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TUPDP043

Final Design of Control and Data Acquisition System for the ITER Heating Neutral Beam Injector Test Bed

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L. Trevisan, A.F. Luchetta, G. Manduchi, G. Martini, A. Rigoni, C. Taliercio
Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy
N. Cruz
IPFN, Lisbon, Portugal
C. Labate, F. Paolucci
F4E, Barcelona, Spain

Funding: This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium funded by the European Union via Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 - EUROfusion)
Tokamaks use heating neutral beam (HNB) injectors to reach fusion conditions and drive the plasma current. ITER, the large international tokamak, will have three high-energy, high-power (1MeV, 16.5MW) HNBs. MITICA, the ITER HNB prototype, is being built at the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility, Italy, to develop and test the ITER HNB, whose requirements are far beyond the current HNB technology. MITICA operates in a pulsed way with pulse duration up to 3600s and 25% duty cycle. It requires a complex control and data acquisition system (CODAS) to provide supervisory and plant control, monitoring, fast real-time control, data acquisition and archiving, data access, and operator interface. The control infrastructure consists of two parts: central and plant system CODAS. The former provides high-level resources such as servers and a central archive for experimental data. The latter manages the MITICA plant units, i.e., components that generally execute a specific function, such as power supply, vacuum pumping, or scientific parameter measurements. CODAS integrates various technologies to implement the required functions and meet the associated requirements. Our paper presents the CODAS requirement and architecture based on the experience gained with SPIDER, the ITER full-size beam source in operation since 2018. It focuses on the most challenging topics, such as synchronization, fast real-time control, software development for long-lasting experiments, system commissioning, and integration.

Poster TUPDP043 [0.621 MB]

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TUPDP046

Beam Operation for Particle Physics and Photon Science with Pulse-to-Pulse Modulation at KEK Injector Linac

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K. Furukawa, M. Satoh
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan

The electron and positron accelerator complex at KEK offers unique experimental opportunities in the fields of elementary particle physics with SuperKEKB collider and photon science with two light sources. In order to maximize the experimental performances at those facilities the injector LINAC employs pulse-to-pulse modulation at 50 Hz, injecting beams with diverse properties. The event-based control system effectively manages different beam configurations. This injection scheme was initially designed 15 years ago and has been in full operation since 2019. Over the years, quite a few enhancements have been implemented. As the event-based controls are tightly coupled with microwave systems, machine protection systems and so on, their modifications require meticulous planning. However, the diverse requirements from particle physics and photon science, stemming from the distinct nature of those experiments, often necessitate patient negotiation to meet the demands of both fields. This presentation discusses those operational aspects of the multidisciplinary facility.

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TUPDP052

The Progress and Status of HEPS Beamline Control System

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G. Li, X.B. Deng, X.W. Dong, Z.H. Gao, G. Lei, Y. Liu, C.X. Yin, Z.Y. Yue, D.S. Zhang, Q. Zhang, Z. Zhao, A.Y. Zhou
IHEP, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
N. Xie
IMP/CAS, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China

HEPS will be the first high-energy (6GeV) synchrotron radiation light source in China which is mainly composed of an accelerator, beamlines and end-stations. In phase I, 14+1 beamlines and corresponding experimental stations will be constructed. The beamline control system design, based on EPICS, has been completed and will soon enter the stage of engineering construction and united commissioning. Here, the progress and status of the beamline control system are presented.

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TUPDP121

Conceptual Design of the Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade (MEC-U) Rep-Rated Laser Control System

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B.T. Fishler, F. Batysta, J. Galbraith, V.K. Gopalan, J. Jimenez, L.S. Kiani, E.S. Koh, J.F. McCarrick, A.K. Patel, R.E. Plummer, B. Reagan, E. Sistrunk, T.M. Spinka, K. Terzi, K.M. Velas
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
M.Y. Cabral, T.A. Wallace, J. Yin
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.
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.

Poster TUPDP121 [1.610 MB]

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TUPDP128

The Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade Facility Control System Architecture

T.A. Wallace
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: This work is supported by Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
The Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade (MECU) project is a DOE 403.13b project designated to be built on the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory campus within this decade. The facility will deliver the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) XFEL in combination with a high energy long pulse (HE-LP) laser system and a rep-rated laser built by two other DOE labs, the Laser Lab for Energetics (LLE) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) respectively to experiment target chambers. The control system design for this facility will utilize EPICS throughout the SLAC, LLE and LLNL major subsystems, and to the extent possible a common hardware and software suite. The effort is a major undertaking in control system design and build via collaboration between the three partner labs of the project. This talk will review the control system architecture concept for MECU, from industrial controls to high-level automation within the context of the concept of operations, as well as status of the project.

Poster TUPDP128 [1.989 MB]

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TUPDP136

Control Systems Design for STS Accelerator

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J. Yan, S.M. Hartman, K.-U. Kasemir
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Funding: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE).
The Second Target Station (STS) Project will expand the capabilities of the existing Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), with a suite of neutron instruments optimized for long wavelengths. A new accelerator transport line will be built to deliver one out of four SNS pulses to the new target station. The Integrated Control Systems (ICS) will provide remote control, monitoring, OPI, alarms, and archivers for the accelerator systems, such as magnets power supply, vacuum devices, and beam instrumentation. The ICS will upgrade the existing Linac LLRF controls to allow independent operation of the FTS and STS and support different power levels of the FTS and STS proton beam. The ICS accelerator controls are in the phase of preliminary design for the control systems of magnet power supply, vacuum, LLRF, Timing, Machine protection system (MPS), and computing and machine network. The accelerator control systems build upon the existing SNS Machine Control systems, use the SNS standard hardware and EPICS software, and take full advantage of the performance gains delivered by the PPU Project at SNS.

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Received ※ 27 September 2023 — Revised ※ 09 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 October 2023 — Issued ※ 22 October 2023

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TUSDSC06

Components of a Scale Training Telescope for Radio Astronomy Training

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A.C. Linde, X.P. Baloyi, P. Dube, J.L. Lekganyane, AM. Lethole, V. Mlipha, P.J. Pretorius, US. Silere, S.S. Sithole
SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa

To establish the engineering and science background of radio astronomy in SKA African partner countries, a need was identified to develop a training telescope which would serve as a vehicle for demonstrating the principles. The Scale Training Telescope (STT) will be used as an interactive teaching tool for the basics of antenna structure and antenna control, both in the design, assembly and operation of the radio antenna. The antenna aims to work as closely to a real radio telescope antenna as possible. The STT allows students at various academic levels in different educational institutions the ability to access an antenna design that can be assembled and operated by the students. The paper will describe the mechanical, electrical and software elements of the STT. The mechanical elements range from the structural base to the rotating dish of the radio telescope antenna. The electrical elements incorporate the electromechanical components used to move the antenna as well as the wiring and powering of the antenna. The software is used to control the antenna system as well as collect, process and visualise the resulting data. A software-based user interface will allow the students to control and monitor the antenna system. The PLC-based (Programmable Logic Controller) control system facilitates the motion control of the antenna, in both the azimuth and elevation axes.

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Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 09 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 29 November 2023 — Issued ※ 09 December 2023

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WEWBCO01

Workshop Summaries

K.S. White
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

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FR1BCO01

Status of the European Spallation Source Controls

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T. Korhonen
ESS, Lund, Sweden

The European Spallation Source has made substantial progress in the recent years. Similarly, the control system has taken shape and has gone through the first commissioning and is now in production use. While there are still features and services in preparation, the central features are already in place. The talk will give an overview of the areas where the control system is used, our use and experience with the central technologies like MTCA.4 and EPICS 7, plus an overview of the next steps. The talk will also look at what was planned and reported in ICALEPCS 2015 and how our system of today compares with them, and the evolution from green field project to an operating organization.

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Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 12 December 2023 — Issued ※ 15 December 2023

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FR1BCO02

Controls at the Fermilab PIP-II Superconducting Linac

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D.J. Nicklaus, P.M. Hanlet
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

PIP-II is an 800 MeV superconducting RF linac under development at Fermilab. As the new first stage in our accelerator chain, it will deliver high-power beam to multiple experiments simultaneously and thus drive Fermilab’s particle physics program for years to come. In a pivot for Fermilab, controls for PIP-II are based on EPICS instead of ACNET, the legacy control system for accelerators at the lab. This paper discusses the status of the EPICS controls work for PIP-II. We describe the EPICS tools selected for our system and the experience of operators new to EPICS. We introduce our continuous integration / continuous development environment. We also describe some efforts at cooperation between EPICS and ACNET, or efforts to move towards a unified interface that can apply to both control systems.

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Received ※ 04 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 10 December 2023 — Issued ※ 11 December 2023

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FR1BCO03

SKA Project Status Update

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N.P. Rees
SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom

The SKA Project is a science mega-project whose mission is to build the world’s two largest radio telescopes with sensitivity, angular resolution, and survey speed far surpassing current state-of-the-art instruments at relevant radio frequencies. The Low Frequency telescope, SKA-Low, is designed to observe between 50 and 350 MHz and will be built at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. The Mid Frequency telescope, SKA-Mid, is designed to observe between 350 MHz and 15 GHz and will be built in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Each telescope will be delivered in a number of stages, called Array Assemblies. Each Array Assembly will be a fully working telescope which will allow us to understand the design and potentially improve the system to deliver a better scientific instrument for the users. The final control system will consist of around 2 million control points per telescope, and the first Array Assembly, known as AA0.5, is being delivered at the time of ICALEPCS 2023.

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FR1BCO04

The Controls and Science IT Project for the SLS 2.0 Upgrade

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A. Ashton, H.-H. Braun, S. Fries, X. Yao, E. Zimoch
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

Operation of the Swiss Light Source (SLS) at the Paul Scherrer Institue (PSI) in Switzerland began in 2000 and it quickly became one of the most successful synchrotron radiation facilities worldwide, providing academic and industry users with a suite of excellent beamlines covering a wide range of methods and applications. To maintain the SLS at the forefront of synchrotron user facilities and to exploit all of the improvement opportunities, PSI prepared a major upgrade project for SLS, named SLS 2.0. The Controls and Science IT (CaSIT) subproject was established to help instigate a project management structure to facilitate new concepts, increased communication, and clarify budgetary responsibility. This article focusses on the progress being made to exploit the current technological opportunities offered by a break in operations whilst taking into consideration future growth opportunities and realistic operational support within an academic research facility.

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Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 20 November 2023 — Issued ※ 17 December 2023

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FRCBCO01

Closing Session

K.S. White
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Closing session summary.

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