IPAC'25 - the 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Update on the design and implementation of an instrumentation & control system for Cathodes and Radio-frequency Interactions in Extremes Project

THPS096

5 Jun 2025, 15:30

2h

Exhibiton Hall A _Salmon (TWTC)

Poster Presentation MC6.T03 Beam Diagnostics and Instrumentation Thursday Poster Session

Speaker

Deepak Rai (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

The Accelerator Operations and Technology division at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE)is working on designing and implementing an Instrumentation and Controls System (ICS) for the Cathodes and Radio-frequency Interactions in Extremes (CARIE) project. The backbone of this project is the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS), which integrates all the hardware to facilitate a distributed real-time control system for controlling and monitoring all essential system variables. The system design includes National Instrument’s (NI) CompactRIO Systems (cRIO) controller, NI’s PXIe for high-speed data acquisition, and EtherNet/IP devices. In this paper, we will provide an update on the deployment of the CARIE control system and share lessons learned, including challenges and best practices employed during the project.

Funding Agency

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy through
the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Directed Research and Development
program, project #20230011DR.