Conveners
Applications in research facilities
- Matthias Balzer (KIT)
Applications in research facilities
- Vollrath Dirksen (N.A.T. GmbH)
Applications in research facilities
- Raymond Larsen (SLAC)
Raymond Larsen
(SLAC National Accelerator Lab)
11/12/2013, 09:30
Applications in research facilities
The MicroTCA.4 development under the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) is proving successful in meeting a large range of needs for accelerator controls and instrumentation. A number of further extensions have been undertaken by DESY for the XFEL program for RF distribution which raises the question of preserving interoperability within the standard as important new solutions...
Kay Rehlich
(DESY)
11/12/2013, 09:45
Applications in research facilities
MicroTCA will be used for all fast data acquisition systems of the European-XFEL. First MicroTCA installations for this project are currently commissioned. After a longer shut-down FLASH was equipped with several MicroTCA systems as well. These systems are used successfully in the daily operations. Further MicroTCA crates for a second undulatory beam line are being installed these days. The...
Mr
Matteo Di Cosmo
(CERN)
11/12/2013, 10:00
Applications in research facilities
MicroTCA is a candidate platform for modular electronics for the upgrade of the current generation of high energy physics experiments at CERN. Driven by the rising interest in this standard, the Electronic Systems for Experiments group has launched in 2011 an evaluation project with the aim of performing technical evaluations and eventually providing support for equipment procured on a large...
Dr
Stefan Simrock
(ITER)
11/12/2013, 10:15
Applications in research facilities
ITER requires extensive diagnostics to meet the requirements for machine operation, protection, plasma control and physics studies.
Most of the extremely complex ITER diagnostics systems are provided by the ITER Domestic Agencies (DAs) and their partners. On their demand the IO has created several diagnostics use case examples in different form factors (MTCA.4, ATCA, PXIe) to enhance the...
Mr
Christian Schmidt
(DESY)
11/12/2013, 10:30
Applications in research facilities
The Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) provides ultra-short laser pulses down to a wavelength of 4.2 nm. Precision regulation of the RF fields is done by a fast digital LLRF system which has been recently upgraded to the MTCA.4 based platform. Installations inside the acceleration tunnel require a stable and reliable system due to a radiated environment and limited access. Installation...
Mr
Michael Kuntzsch
(HZDR)
11/12/2013, 10:45
Applications in research facilities
ELBE (Electron Linac for beams with high Brilliance and low Emittance) is a multi-purpose radiation source at HZDR (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf). LLRF system controls two normal conducting buncher cavities (one operating at 260 MHz and one at 1300 GHz), a super-conducting gun cavity and 4 super conducting TESLA-type accelerating cavities. The existing analog feedback loop satisfies...
Mr
Sven Karstensen
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 09:00
Applications in research facilities
The European X-Ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) linear accelerator will provide an electron beam with energies of up to 17.5 GeV and will use it to generate extremely brilliant pulses of spatially coherent xrays. With a designated average beam power of up to 600 kW and beam spot sizes down to few micrometers, the machine will hold a serious damage potential. To ensure safe operation of the...
Uros Mavric
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 09:15
Applications in research facilities
The first MTCA.4 based laser synchronization system is presented. We use a standard MTCA.4 crate where a high frequency RF front-end detector feeds a fast digitizer AMC board. The processing is carried out in the FPGA located on the digitizer which transmits the control output over a serial link routed on the standard AMC backplane to a receiver FPGA located on a neighboring AMC board. The...
Ulf Behrens
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 09:30
Applications in research facilities
The CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN has decided to upgrade their readout hardware at a large scale from VME to MicroTCA . In this talk major parts of the upgrade will be introduced. As a typical use case in the HEP environment the migration from VME to MTCA.0 will be discussed for a readout crate of a sub detector. The AMC boards developed by the collaboration will be introduced with a focus...
Dr
Matthias Hoffmann
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 09:45
Applications in research facilities
In this contribution, we will present first results of single cavity RF control based on MTCA.4 at REGAE. With the new system design we reduce the system latency down to 600ns, with still room for improvement. This new latency reduced design, allows us to implement an intra-pulse RF feedback for the normal cunducting RF Gun at REGAE. The inloop RMS pulse to pulse jitter were reduced below 30fs.
Mr
Grzegorz Kasprowicz
(Warsaw University of Technology / Creotech Instruments SA)
12/12/2013, 10:00
Applications in research facilities
The Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) is developing a BPM and orbit feedback system for Sirius, the new low emmitance synchrotron light source under construction in Brazil. In that context, 5 open-source boards and accompanying low-level firmware / software were developed in cooperation with the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and Creotech Instruments SA to serve as hardware...
Mr
Matthias Felber
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 10:15
Applications in research facilities
The optical synchronization system which is responsible for providing a femtosecond stable timing reference for beam diagnostics, laser synchronization, and the LLRF control at Flash and the European XFEL will use MicroTCA hardware for signal detection, feedback control, and actuator driving. For these purposes some special and some general purpose modules (AMC, RTM, FMC) have been developed....
Dr
Bjoern Spruck
(University Giessen)
12/12/2013, 10:30
Applications in research facilities
In this talk we present the application of the MicroTCA based Compute Node in the Belle II experiment at KEK, Japan. The system comprise an ATCA carrier board and AMC board design based on Virtex-4 FX60 and Virtex-5 FX70T FPGAs. It is designed to perform data acquisition of 22 GB/s and data reduction by a factor <10 at the Belle II pixel detector. The firmware programming comprises buffer...
Mr
Jaroslaw Szewinski
(NCBJ)
12/12/2013, 11:15
Applications in research facilities
Bunch Arrival time Monitor (BAM) is an electro-optical device used at FLASH accelerator in DESY for the high precision, femtosecond scale, measurements of the moment when electron bunch arrives at the reference point in the machine. The arrival time is proportional to the average bunch energy, and is used to calculate the amplitude correction for RF field control. New MTCA.4 devices, dual FMC...
Dr
Andreas Werner
(MPI f. Plasmaphysik)
12/12/2013, 11:29
Applications in research facilities
Wendelstein 7-X is a nuclear fusion experiment based on magnetically confined plasmas. Since nuclear fusion has the potential to be a long term primary energy source, Wendelstein 7-X investigates the reactor capabilities of an advanced stellarator. In contrast to its predecessor, Wendelstein 7-X is equipped with superconducting magnets for enabling steady state plasma operation and access to...
Piotr Perek
(Lodz University of Technology, Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science)
12/12/2013, 11:43
Applications in research facilities
A wide variety of methods employed in diagnostic systems of large-scale physics experiments is based on data from visible and infrared light cameras. Observation of rapid physical processes requires the application of high-speed cameras, therefore the imaging systems should support high-performance image acquisition and processing. The systems should be also easily scalable and should allow...
Andrew Young
(SLAC),
Chengcheng Xu
(SLAC)
12/12/2013, 11:57
Applications in research facilities
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a premier photon science laboratory. SLAC has a Free Electron Laser facility that will produce 0.5 to 77 Angstroms x-rays and a synchrotron light source facility. In order to achieve this high level of performance, the beam position measurement system needs to be accurate so the electron beam bunch can be stable. We have designed a general purpose...
Mr
Aleksander Mielczarek
(Lodz University of Technology)
12/12/2013, 12:11
Applications in research facilities
XFEL and FLASH machines use magnetic chicanes for compressing the electron bunches and hence obtaining higher beam peak current.
To monitor the operation of the bunch compressors the spatial charge profile should be evaluated. As the bunch is traveling through the beam pipe with relativistic speed it is a very hard task to measure its parameters. One of the methods to do so is by setting an...
