Conveners
THAR MC02 Control System Upgrades
- Yuliang Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Misaki Komiyama (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
In the CERN accelerator complex, the conventional magnets are protected against overheating and power converter failures by a PLC-based system, the so-called Warm magnet Interlock Controller (WIC). In 2026, the systems installed in the LHC-SPS transfer lines will reach end-of-life after 20 years of successful operation. Furthermore, Siemens' announcement regarding the phase-out of the S7-300...
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has been undertaking a major project that builds on the foundation of the LCLS-II project. The LCLS-II High Energy (LCLS-II-HE) upgrade is designed to push the capabilities of LCLS-II even further by increasing the energy of its superconducting accelerator to 8 GeV (up from ~4 GeV), enabling the production of even...
The HL-LHC project has initiated a comprehensive upgrade of the LHC vacuum control system. Much of the vacuum control hardware, installed at the beginning of the LHC in 2008 or even dating back to the LEP era in the 1990s, was becoming obsolete and required modernization.
Additionally, the new HL-LHC operating conditions will induce higher radiation levels; therefore, new radiation-tolerant...
The High-Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) requires integrating new cryogenic plants while ensuring uninterrupted operation of the existing infrastructure. This paper presents a scalable and standardized approach to upgrading the control system, ensuring flexibility, interoperability, and long-term maintainability. The approach utilizes commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)...
The upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source included the design and construction of eight brand new beamlines and significant reconstruction of an additional fifteen existing beamlines. With such a significant amount of new support being required, the APS Beamline Controls group took the opportunity to evaluate the hardware we were using and the ways in which we develop and deploy beamline...