Upgrading Fermilab’s accelerator controls with ACORN

MOAG005
22 Sept 2025, 10:30
15m
Grand Ballroom (Palmer House Hilton Chicago)

Grand Ballroom

Palmer House Hilton Chicago

17 East Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60603, United States of America
Contributed Oral Presentation MC02: Control System Upgrades in Existing Facilities MOAG MC02 Control System Upgrades

Speaker

Christian Roehrig (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

The Fermilab Accelerator Complex is the largest national user facility in the Office of High Energy Physics (DOE/HEP) program and the only national user facility operating at Fermilab. Fermilab serves as the host to the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (LBNF/DUNE), the laboratory’s flagship project for neutrino science that is under construction. LBNF/DUNE will be powered by megawatt beams from an upgraded accelerator, the Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) that will replace the laboratory’s aging linear accelerator with a new one based on superconducting radio-frequency cavities. The Accelerator Controls Operations Research Network (ACORN) Project will support LBNF/DUNE and PIP-II by modernizing the accelerator control system. The project is at the conceptual design phase and looking to achieve Critical Decision 1 (CD-1) later this year. The scope and structure of the project will be presented, along with an overview of how that has changed in the past year. Current design and technology choices will be shared. Specific challenges facing the project will be addressed, along with current thinking on solutions.

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Author

Christian Roehrig (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Co-authors

Anthony Tiradani (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Beau Harrison (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Mrs Jennifer Case (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Mrs Priscilla Dobbin (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

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