13th MicroTCA Workshop for Industry and Research

Session

Session 2

10 Dec 2024, 16:00

Conveners

Session 2

• Heiko Körte (N.A.T.)

40. Keynote: 60 Years of Synchrotron Radiation

Edgar Weckert (FS (Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung))

10/12/2024, 16:00

23. MTCA-based Accelerator Control Systems at DESY

Tim Wilksen (DESY)

10/12/2024, 16:30

MTCA-based systems are widely used at many of DESY's accelerator facilities. A brief review of the current accelerator controls status and some experiences, with focus on the used MTCA technology will be shared. After the successful implementation of MTCA at the European XFEL and FLASH facilities, this hardware standard and platform has since made inroads into the various new projects and...

8. Status of MTCA at J-PARC in 2024

Fumihiko Tamura (J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

10/12/2024, 16:45

The LLRF systems based on MTCA.4 in Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) are working stably and reliably. They support the stable beam delivery from RCS and MR to the experiments at very high beam power. Recently, we achieved the design output beam power of RCS and MR. There are new MTCA applications projects such as digitizer modules for beam loss monitor at J-PARC. The status...

9. MTCA.4-based high-speed digitizer system for J-PARC MR

Yasuyuki Sugiyama (KEK)

10/12/2024, 17:00

Monitoring and analysis of the recorded beam signal is essential for the beam operation.
Oscilloscopes are currently used to record the waveform of the beam signal in the Main Ring (MR) of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC).
Since the memory size and the data transfer speed are limited for the oscilloscope,
it is hard to record and transfer the waveform of the beam...

25. Modernizing Fermilab's Accelerator Control Hardware

Andrew Whitbeck (Fermilab)

10/12/2024, 17:15

Modernizing the Fermilab accelerator control system is essential to future operations of the laboratory's accelerator complex. The existing control system has evolved over four decades and uses hardware that is no longer available.The Accelerator Controls Operations Research Network (ACORN) Project will modernize the control system and replace end-of-life power supplies to enable future...

26. Update on a MicroTCA-based control system for quantum computers

Jan Marjanovic (Atom Computing, Inc.)

10/12/2024, 17:30

Atom Computing has chosen to develop a control system for its quantum computers based on the MicroTCA platform. We previously reported on the challenges and successes of developing and integrating such a system. After almost a year of operating our last-generation quantum computers, we can now share our experience with operating these systems.

The presentation begins with an introduction to...