《AUTOMATION OF OPERATIONS》.pdfVIP

10th ICALEPCS Int. Conf. on Accelerator Large Expt. Physics Control Systems. Geneva, 10 - 14 Oct 2005, PO1.072-7 (2005) AUTOMATION OF OPERATIONS ON THE VEPP-4 CONTROL SYSTEM A. Bogomyagkov, S. Karnaev, S. Mishnev, I. Nikolaev, D. Shatilov, E. Simonov, V. Smaluk BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia ABSTRACT The upgraded VEPP-4M electron-positron collider [1, 2] is under operation since 1990. The energy range of the collider is from 1.5 up to 5.5 GeV. The injector to the collider is 2 GeV VEPP-3 storage ring VEPP-3. A lot of experiments on high energy physics, nuclear physics, and experiments with using of synchrotron radiation were performed on the VEPP-4 facility. Support of the corresponding operations on the accelerators is one of the main tasks of the control system. The solution of this task requires interaction of many programs in different computers, integration of special electronics and synchronization devices. A wide frame of experiments requires a lot of operation modes on accelerators and many sequences of operations. This paper describes details of operations automation on the VEPP-4 facility. DESCRIPTION OF VEPP-4 FACILITY General Layout The VEPP-4 accelerator facility consists of the VEPP-4M collider with 365 m circumference, VEPP-3 storage ring with 70 m circumference, 350 MeV pulse electron/positron injector, 50 MeV LINAC for production of positrons. There are two pulse transfer lines between the rings. The layout of the VEPP-4 facility is shown in Fig.1. Figure 1: Layout of the VEPP-4 facility. The pulse injector provides electron or positron beam ones per second with number of pa