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ing the actual operational conditions on daily base. Setup periodsincludemachinepreparation,beamtuningandion source service times. Accelerator availability is defined as the ratio of effective beam-on-target time to the sum of beam-on-target, setup and failure times, summarized over all experiments [ 4]. LONG – TERM OP...
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tion years, operation was driven by experimental demand and beamtime scheduling was comparatively continuous. From 2015 onward, a clear operational shift can be ob- served. FAIR project activities required longer shutdown periods, infrastructure access, and coordination with civil construction. In addition, personnel r...
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Figure 1: Evolution of GSI accelerators performance (2012 – 2025) based on OLOG – classified operational time. operation. Asaresult,beamtimeblocksbecameshorter,and userbeamtimedecreasedinseveralyears. Theaccelerator complexwasnolongeroperatedasastand-alonefacilitybut was strongly influenced by the FAIR project. Another...
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as well as the additional effort required for operating proce- dures in the new control environment. To mitigate this, a dedicatedtaskforceteamwasestablishedtoimprovecontrol systemperformanceandusability[ 5]. Thisledtosystematic performanceimprovementsandbettercollaborationbetween operators and control system experts. ...
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mance level. Parallel operation increased, with the accel- eratorcomplexsupplyingbeamtouptothreeexperiments simultaneously (parallel factor ≈3). Effective beam-on- target fractions reached their highest values, while setup times continued to decrease. This suggests that the accel- erator complex has successfully adapte...
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technical origin is given in the following failure statistics section. FAILURE STATISTICS ThefailureanalysisshowsthatdowntimeoftheGSIac- celeratorcomplexisinfluencedbyacombinationofshort- termsubsystemeffectsandstructuralweakpointstypicalfor anageingfacilityoperatedduringanongoingconstruction phase. Asignificantimprove...
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cumulative downtime impact over the last five years, fol- lowed by their yearly ranking (rank 1 = highest impact). This representation allows the identification of systematic weakpointswhilereducingtheinfluenceofstochasticyearly events. Figure2: Bumpchartofthetoptendowntimecategoriesfor the period 2020–2025 based on AW...
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andareusuallylinkedtolocal technicalissuesrather than long-term structural limitations. In contrast, the long-term analysis shows a small set of categories that regularly dominate the downtime. Elec- tricpowersystems,LINACandLINACRF,infrastructure- relatedfailures,andthemiscellaneouscategoryformastable top 5 of the dow...
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as well as a fraction of “unknown” events where the root causecannotbefullyreconstructedfromlogbookdata. Their systematichighrankingreflectsthelimitsoftheageingUNI- LAC equipment and the overall GSI infrastructure, which areincreasinglychallengedbyweatherconditionsandthe growing accelerator complex. Another important a...
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LAC HF gallery fire, which led to an early termination of beamtimeandhighlightedthestrongpropagationofinjector- related failures through the entire accelerator chain. Overall, the statistics show that downtime is not driven by more major failures, but mainly by many recurring inter- ruptionsinageingcoresubsystems. Dist...
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tor complex during the FAIR construction phase provides several key lessons relevant for large accelerator facilities operated under transition conditions. First, availability figures alone are not sufficient to as- sess the reliability state of a complex accelerator chain. Stable global availability can hide continuou...
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able identification of dominant downtime drivers over many years. Withoutsuchstructureddataconsolidation,long-term statistics remain biased by inconsistent logging practices. Another important lesson concerns the limitations of the current failure documentation. As mentioned above, the miscellaneous category includes a...
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anavailabilityperspective. Failuresininjector-relatedsub- systems propagate through the entire accelerator complex and can dominate global downtime, as illustrated by the prematureterminationofbeamtimeaftertheUNILACHF gallery incident in 2018. Ensuring high reliability of age- ing injector and infrastructure systems is...
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from 2012 to 2025 during the FAIR construction phase. Theresultsshowthatglobalavailabilityremainedatasta- bleandpartlyimprovedleveldespiteageinginfrastructure, shortened beamtime windows, and increasing construction- related constraints. The systematic evaluation of AWG-reclassified failure data reveals that downtime i...
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complex and directly impact global beam delivery. REFERENCES [1]U. Scheeler, W. A. Barth, M. Miski-Oglu, H. Vormann, M. Vossberg, and S. Yaramyshev, “Recent UNILAC Upgrade Ac- tivities”, in Proc. HIAT’22 , Darmstadt, Germany, Jun.–Jul. 2022, pp. 166–169. doi:1/zero.alt4.18429/JACoW-HIAT2/zero.alt422-TH3C3 [2]P.Schuett ...
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ISBN: 978-3-95450-252-3 ISSN: 2673-5350 doi: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2026-WEP6127 2840 MC6.T22: Reliability, OperabilityWEP6127 WEP: Poster session Content from this work may be used under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence (© 2026). Any distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), title of the work...
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ASSET MANAGEMENT WORKFLOWS FOR cSTART USING SNIPE-IT E. Blomley∗, J. Gethmann, J. Natal, R. Ruprecht, M. Schuh, J. L. Steinmann, A.-S. Mueller Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Abstract The cSTART project at the Institute for Beam Physics and Technology (IBPT) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Tech- nol...
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references to other data sources, which provide the more technical information such as CAD drawings, cable routing, anddevicedocumentation. Inaddition,italsoallowstotrack componentspecificinformation. Thiscontributiondescribes the established workflows, status, and lessons learned us- ing a generic IT asset management ...
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introducinghundredsofcomponentswithdistinctlife‑cycle- demands. Over the years, documentation and tracking have been carried out with heterogeneous tools and inconsis- tent naming conventions, creating gaps that hinder efficient hardware and software deployment across all IBPT sites. By adopting Snipe‑IT [ 3] — an open...
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FEATURES Snipe-ITprovidesamodernandflexiblesetoffeatures, somemakethetoolespeciallyinterestingforadaptationin this context. ∗edmund.blomley@kit.eduCustom Fields Customfieldsletthedatabasedesignercreateanyamount of user‑defined data columns, which can be grouped into field-sets,foranyassettype,enablingstorageofmetadata ...
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requiretoadheretoaregexexpressionwhichisusefulfor defining fields related to naming conventions. Encoder Motor StageMotor Motor Controller Motor AxisCabinet Asset Location Checked-out to Figure1: Asset-to-asset-to-locationcheckoutexample. Us- ingthebuilt-incheckoutsystemtorepresenttheactualdevice setup while each comp...
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the creation of association chains that reflect the physical layout of an accelerator. For example, a motor encoder and motor can be checked out to a motor stage, which in turn is checked out to the motor axis, and finally to the motor controller — each element remains a fully fledged asset withitsowncustomfields. Cabi...
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New Device Initial QA Placeholder Registered Model Design Model AdjustmentsNew Asset Existing Device Existing AssetAdd QR QRSerial numberFurther integrationFigure 3: Workflow for cSTART device to database integration. Over the next months more and more devices for the cSTART storage ring will arrive. During the initial...
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database, leading to a steady increase of tracked assets across cSTART and the existing accelerators. Because checkout is a built‑in Snipe‑IT capability, these relationships are automatically recorded, searchable, and require no additional custom‑field configuration. Label Engine The label engine is the third key featu...
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Maintenance Logs Althoughnotaprimaryselectioncriterion,Snipe‑ITen- ablesthecreationofregularauditschedulesandthelogging ofmaintenanceactionsforeachasset,deliveringtraceable histories with minimal overhead. ADAPTATION The adoption of Snipe‑IT aims to establish a single au- thoritative source for all components and their...
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The Role of cSTART Keyevents,whichalreadystartedhappening,arethear- rival of new components for the upcoming KIT accelerator facilities LPA and cSTART including the VLA-cSR and theFLUTEinjectionline,whichwillconnecttheelectron source FLUTE with the VLA-cSR. These new componentsundergovariousinspectionsandtestson-siteas...
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FLUTE and use the opportunity to add those devices into the database as well. The bulk of cSTART components aretypicaldevicesassociatedwithstoragerings: magnets, power supplies, and beam diagnostics. The timescale of the arrivalof LPAand cSTARTcomponents is overthe nextsix to twelve months. A visual presentation of thi...
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every network‑connected device, it presents an ideal op- portunity to registereach serviced component in the asset database as it is updated. Reconstruction of FLUTE DuetoconstructionrestraintstheFLUTEacceleratoris fullyremovedfrom itslocation, but will be set upagainto- wards the end of the cSTART build-up phase, prov...
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Schedule Figure4shows the plan of the graduate integration of devices into the asset database over the next 12 months. 06/26 09/26 12/26 03/27 06/27cSTART constructionLPA setupFLUTE rebuilt Network restructering Figure 4: Adaptation schedule. Various events over the next 12monthsrequiringtoworkwithspecificgroupsofdevic...
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nalsources(seeTable 1). Aftertheinitialadoptionphase,we mightreevaluatetheoptionalmigrationofselecteddatainto Snipe‑IT if the user community finds it beneficial, avoiding the forced consolidation pitfalls of past approaches. Table 1: LinkedExistingData Sources Data source Description Charm++ Network database with integ...
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oftheBPMdevicesforKARA,astheyareconsideredsimilar devices. While we will continue to add cSTARTdevicesas they arrive, we will focus on integrating all LPA related devices, whicharemostlyon-sitealready,andprepareforthenetwork restructuringprocess,whichwillleadtoahighnumberof devicesbeingadded. Again,tobenon-blocking,als...
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take some time and require considerate effort to integrate all devices and consolidate the scattered information, we are confident that this will be a worthwhile effort. Figure 5 shows a glimpse of the currently registered and modeled assets. Future work will leverage the REST API to harmonize data sources, synchronize...
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data;Modeled – devices havea complete asset model with all custom fields; Placeholder – pre‑printed labels awaiting attachment on arrival. REFERENCES [1]R. Ruprecht et al., “cSTART – Status on the compact electron STorage ring for non-equilibrium Accelerator Research and Technology”, presented at the IPAC’26, Deauville...
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ON-THE-FLY SCANNING: IMPROVING SCAN TIME OF XAFS AT BM08-XAFS/XRF BEAMLINE M. Alzubi1,2, A. Mohammad1, A. Abbadi1, N. Al-Bess2, M. Abugharbiyeh1, A. Al-Dalleh1, A. Aljadaa1, L. U. Khan1, Y. Momani1, M. Harfouche1 1Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), Allan, Jordan 2Pr...
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the energy-angle mapping is linearly approximated to main- tain accuracy within acceptable margins. The method then integrates the position encoding of the Double Crystal Monochromator (DCM) Bragg angle with the synchronous triggering of multiple detectors, including ionization cham- bers (ICs) and a KETEK SSD detector...
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where the DCM moves to an energy point, waits for the mechanics to settle, collects data, then moves on to the next point. This stop-and-go cycle works reliably, but it wastes a lotof time. Foratypical XAFSscan spanning hundredsof energypoints,thesettlingdelaysadduptoasignificantfrac- tionofthetotalbeamtimetimethatcoul...
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BM29 beamline [ 2], the QXAS mode at Diamond B18 [ 3], the SuperXAS beamline at the SLS [ 4], and the general XAFS beamline at SSRF [ 5] in order to reduce acquisition times from tens of minutes to a few seconds while maintain- ing data quality comparable to stepscanning. Continuouson-the-fly scanning can in some few c...
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cific encoder positions, and a time-based mode, where trig- gersaregeneratedatfixedtimeintervals. Bothmodesrelyon a PandABox timing module to synchronize all participating subsystems. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE Beamline Control Infrastructure The BM08 DAQ system is built on top of the EPICS controlsystemandincludesamodularPyt...
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FPGA-based timing and position-capture module [ 11]. The module reads the Bragg-angle encoder in real time and con- tinuouslytrackingofthepositionduringmotion. Depending ontheselectedscanmode,itgenerateshardwaregatesignals totriggeralldetectorssimultaneously,eitherwhentheen- coderreachespredefined angularpositionsor at...
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ISBN: 978-3-95450-252-3 ISSN: 2673-5350 doi: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2026-WEP6131 2844 MC6.T22: Reliability, OperabilityWEP6131 WEP: Poster session Content from this work may be used under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence (© 2026). Any distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), title of the work...
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Figure1: On-the-flyscanningsystematBM08(architecture and pipeline). CONTINUOUSSCANIMPLEMENTATIONS Position-Based Continuous Scan Inthismode,PandABoxgeneratesatriggereverytimethe Bragg angle encoder reaches a pre-calculated position. The main challenge is the nonlinearity between Bragg angle and photonenergy,thatmeansun...
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defined settings such as exposure time and step size, to- getherwiththelinear-segmentapproximation,andloaded intothelookuptableofPandABoxsegmentbysegmentto avoid table overloading. The implementation is available inlinearIntervals.py andengScanContPos.py inthe open-source scan tool [ 10].Themainadvantageofthismodeistha...
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formtimesamplingispreferredoveruniformenergysam- pling. However, any variation in DCM speed during the scan results in non-uniform energy spacing between data points [11]. PERFORMANCE RESULTS Weperformedthe samescanusingthethreeacquisition modesand compared the total scan time foreach. Table 1 summarises the results of...
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andposition-basedcontinuousmodes. Thetwospectraover- lap closely across the XANES region, the EXAFS oscil- lations, and the Fourier transform, indicating that the con- tinuousmodeintroducesnomeasurableartifacts. Figure 4 presentsthesamecomparisonfortheNiK-edgeusingthe time-based mode. CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS The spe...
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a timing mismatchthat introduces latency between the two subsystems. Moreover,theminimumintegrationtimesup- portedbytheADCis 0.7s,limitingtheachievableenergy resolution during fast continuous scans.17th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Deauville, France JACoW Publishing ISBN: 978-3-95450-252-3 ISSN: 2673-...
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Figure 2: PandABox internal block configuration for the continuous scan system at BM08. The input encoder block (INENC1)readsthe DCMBragg anglein realtime. Twosequencerblocks(SEQ1,SEQ2) generatethetriggersequences fortheposition-basedandtime-basedscanmodesrespectively. Pulse,counter,clock,andlookuptable(LUT)blockshandl...
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pointI/Ointroduceslatencythatpartiallyreducesthetime savings gained from continuous motion. CONCLUSION Wehavesuccessfullyimplementedon-the-flyscanningat the BM08-XAFS/XRF beamline of SESAME Synchrotron. In addition to step scanning and mapping scan, this offers two continuous scan modes, position-based and time-based. ...
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position-basedmodegoesastepfurtherbyusingapiecewise- linearfittingalgorithmtoensureaccurateenergyassignment evenacross wide scan ranges. Knownlimitations, the 0.7s ADCintegrationfloorandper-pointdatawritingarebeing addressedinfuturework. Thescantool,PandABoxsettings and other related modules are open source and availab...
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CHARACTERIZATION OF BEAM LOSS AT MAX IV IN-VACUUM INSERTION DEVICES M. Muradi∗, M. Holz, H. Tarawneh, MAX IV Laboratory, Lund, Sweden Abstract Four Libera Beam Loss Monitors (BLMs) were installed downstreamoffourconsecutivein-vacuumundulators(IVU) at the MAX IV 3GeVstorage ring in order to survey beam losses under vari...
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loss rates, while sudden beam dumps produce almost no de- tectable signal at the BLM locations. Top-up injections exhibit consistent and repeatable loss patterns, providing ausefulbenchmarkforroutineoperation. Alleventswere studiedwithinsertiondevicegapsbothclosedandopen;a significantdecreaseindetectedlosseswasobserved...
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ness by operating with very small magnetic gaps down to 4.5mm(ca.2.25mm distance magnet-beam) [ 2]. The com- binationofsmallmagneticgapsandthein-vacuumdesign means that the undulator magnets are directly exposed to the electron beam and thus are particularly susceptible to localized beam losses that may result in demag...
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the stored beam and helps ensure safe operation of the inser- tion devices. ∗mostafa.muradi@maxiv.lu.se Figure 1: The four Libera BLMs mounted downstream of each observed IVU. In this work, four beam loss monitors (BLMs) were in- stalledattheexitpointoffourconsecutiveIVUsintheMAX IV3GeVstoragering. Thepurposeofthestudy...
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lines,seeFig. 1. ThePMToutputsignalconsistsofunipolar pulses with negative polarity, corresponding to individual loss events [ 3]. TheLiberaBLMcontinuouslysamplesthedetectorsig- nal with high time resolution ( 8ns) and processes it using configurablethresholdlogic. Incountingmode,individual pulsesthatexceedapredefinedt...
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and routine top-up operation. In addition, dedicated tests were carried out to evaluate the influence of RF and tune variations, as well as the effect of individual insertion de- viceconfigurations. Forallmeasurements, the BLMsignals were analyzed in terms of peak loss rates and, where rel- evant, accumulated losses ov...
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Table 1: Peak loss rates 𝐿𝑅𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘and accumulated loss 𝐴𝐿 for both, all insertion devices open (o) and closed (c). Units are in million counts. IVU 𝐿𝑅𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘,𝑜 𝐴𝐿𝑜𝐿𝑅𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘,𝑐𝐴𝐿𝑐 ForMAX 0.1281/s 57.12 0.1581/s 52.9 CoSAXS 0.0211/s 7.93 0.0531/s 16.7 BioMAX 0.0401/s 15.67 0.1681/s 51.9 MicroMAX 0.0161/...
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rate. Full Injection Beam losses during full injection from zero to nominal currentat 400mAwerestudiedforthecaseswithallinser- tiondevicesopen,and allclosed. As areferencevalue,the baseline loss rates at these IVUs under nominal operation is intheorderof 5×103countspersecond. Thelosssignals are displayed in Fig. 2and s...
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aperture during injection. Time in [s]0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 4500123456Loss Rate in [Counts/s]×105 Scrape-Down with open IDs ForMAX CoSAXS BioMAX MicroMAX Time in [s]0 10 20 30 40 50 60 7000.511.522.533.54Loss Rate in [Counts/s]×106 Scrape-Down with closed IDs ForMAX CoSAXS BioMAX MicroMAXFigure3: Beamlosssig...
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collimationsystemthatblockshaloparticles. Additionally, there is no implementation of local optics compensations andthus,nocompensationsofbeta-beats. Thetunefeedback isaglobalfeedbacksysteminthering. Theconnectionto the ring acceptance can be seen in the injection rate. Beam losses with closed IDs reduce while the inje...
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orderof4×103countspersecond,withthe notableexcep- tion of the BLM at the ForMAX IVU, exhibiting a peak lossrateofca. 6×105countspersecond. Whilescraping down a beam with closed ID gaps, the loss characteristics17th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Deauville, France JACoW Publishing ISBN: 978-3-95450-252-3...
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at the ForMAX IVU remains unchanged, but the BLM at BioMAX IVU situated two achromats downstream records similarly high loss rates. It shall be noted that the scrape- down procedure with open gaps took ten times as long, as a morecarefulapproachwaschosen. Thishoweverresulted inasignificantlyhighertotallossattheForMAXIV...
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ratesduringtop-upareintherangeof 1×103to1.5×104 countspersecond,soonlymarginallylargerthanthetypical baseline losses. With a typical duration of approximately 10sper injection, the accumulated losses are comparatively small as well. Influence of Individual Insertion Devices A dedicated study was performed to investigat...
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we are mainly dealing with effects of dynamic aperture. Al- thoughclosingindividualIVUs increasesoveralllosslevels, theresponseofthedetectorshintstowardsacorrelationin loss patterns between different sections of the machine, but this is not yet conclusive and has to be investigated further. Comparison of Loss Character...
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counts per second and minimal accumulated losses. Overall,scrape-downsdominatepeaklossbehavior,while injection processes dominate accumulated losses. Both cases, however, are heavily influenced by their duration. Forinjections,themaincontributingfactorisinjectionef- ficiency, which depends both on the ring acceptance, ...
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eitherpeaklossratesoraccumulatedlosseswereobserved for both RF adjustments and positive or negative tune shifts. Thelosssignalsremainedatbaselinelevelswithonlyminor fluctuations comparable to background noise. These results indicatethatRFandtunevariationsduringnominalopera- tionsdonotcontributesignificantlytolocalizedb...
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of the machine in the absence of an active tune feedback. Takingintoaccounttheaccumulatedlosses,longerpro- cesses, such as injection, contribute substantially over time, whereas scrape-downs with closed gaps produce the high- est instantaneous losses. These results provide a baseline understandingoflossbehaviornearIVUs...
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doi:1/zero.alt4.11/zero.alt47/S16/zero.alt4/zero.alt4577518/zero.alt4/zero.alt48111 [2]MAXIVLaboratory,“Insertiondevicesatmaxiv,technical overview”, https : / / www . maxiv . lu . se / beamlines - accelerators/technology/insertion-devices/ , On- line resource, accessed Mar.2026, 2024, [3]Instrumentation Technologies d....
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ONLINE PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND EARLY FAULT DETECTION FOR THE B-TRAIN REAL-TIME SYSTEMS AT CERN K. Diamantis∗, M. Bonora-Tam, M. Buzio, V. di Capua, D. Giloteaux, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Abstract At CERN, B-Train systems provide real-time magnetic fieldinformation to the RF andother subsystemswith high precision an...
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internal errors due e.g. to integrator drift or field marker degradation,applythenecessarycorrections,orflagsystems forintervention. Weexpectittoenhancecompliancewith evolving operational standards and future large-scale ap- plications requiring automated self-diagnostics and remote maintenance. INTRODUCTION AtCERN,six...
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ger on each cycle at a preset value, usually just before injec- tion, to reset the integration and minimize the accumulation of drift due to parasitic currents or localized thermoelectric effects [2]. Eachsystemiscomposedof aredundantpair of acquisition chains, the operational (OP) and the spare (SP), designed to provi...
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simplest cases, the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and Extra Low ENergy Antiproton (ELENA) rings, this corresponds to the physical gap of a reference magnet hosting sensors for both the OP and SP chains. In the Super Proton Synchrotron ∗konstantinos.diamantis@cern.ch(SPS), two dipoles of different types are connected in serie...
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powered in series but independently, to generate identical fields despite different saturation characteristics. BTRAIN MONITORING FRAMEWORK The monitoring framework is organized into six hierar- chical levels, shown in Fig. 1. Levels 0 to 4 are per-cycle diagnosticsignals computedin real-time, generatingwarn- ings when...
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handlesredundancybyevaluatingtheconsistencyofOPand SP chains, and Level 4 evaluates consistency across logical magnetgaps. InLevel5asubsetofthecomputedmetricsis storedaccordingtoatieredretentionpolicyforoff-lineeval- uation of historicaltrends, correlations and discontinuities, either automatically or on-demand, with o...
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the timing system, which distributes trigger pulses across the accelerator complex [ 3,4]. In our implementation, data aregatheredforeverytriggeredeventandthendistributed through CERN’s control middleware (CMW).17th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Deauville, France JACoW Publishing ISBN: 978-3-95450-252-...
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Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 Sensor Output V oltages Vcoil(t), V NMR(t), VFMR(t)External Signals I(t), Bsim(t), Bsynth(t), temperature Signal & Hardware Integrity Vcoil(t), V NMR(t), VFMR(t)Internal Chain Consistency Bmeas(t) - B sim(t), Bmeas(t) / I(t) Measurement Quality Bmeas (t), B dot(t), tmarkerRedundant...
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Bmeas(t) - B sim(t), Bmeas(t) / I(t) Measurement Quality Bmeas (t), B dot(t), tmarker Signal & Hardware Integrity Vcoil(t), V NMR(t), VFMR(t)Internal Chain Consistency Bmeas(t) - B sim(t), Bmeas(t) / I(t) Measurement Quality Bmeas (t), B dot(t), tmarker Operational Chain (OP)Spare Chain (SP) Logical Magnet - G...
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by different FECs i.e. by different acquisition chains, which is crucial for Level 3 and 4 diagnostics. The framework providesfunctionsforgroupingthesynchronizeddatabased on timing events, data processing and publishing the results to different clients. WRAP & NXCALS The CERN Web Rapid Application Platform (WRAP) is ut...
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Level 5 diagnostics by executing scheduled Python-based analysisscriptsthat feedstatusupdates tothe same WRAP instance. Thisvisualizationstrategywillhelpidentifyper- formance anomalies and track long-term drifts. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION WedemonstratetheprototypeimplementationoftheB- Trainmonitoringframeworkfocusingonthe...
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minimum is slightly negative, due to a small power converter undershoot. •The marker trigger state, i.e. a boolean value that indicates whether the FMR marker’s output voltage 𝑉FMRcrosses the negative detection threshold ̄𝑉FMR= −0.15V. Sporadic misses (such as in the example shown,where 90%ofthecyclesintheanalysiswin...
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the threshold, which suggests that the cause of missed triggers is not related to signal levels.17th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Deauville, France JACoW Publishing ISBN: 978-3-95450-252-3 ISSN: 2673-5350 doi: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2026-WEP6136 2852 MC6.T22: Reliability, OperabilityWEP6136 WEP: Poster se...
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Figure2: WRAPDashboardforPSBRings2and3. Displaysthelastplayedcyclemetrics, includingtiming, magnetic fields, power converter current, field corrections applied during last 50 cycles and Ring 3 FMR signal. Additional real-time analytics are accessible via supplementary Dashboards of the same WRAP instance. Table 1: Exam...
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**Considering onlyTOF cycles(interleavedZEROcyclesexcluded) •The cycle time at which the R2 marker trigger is re- ceived,𝑡0,R2. This is stable as expected, within the sampling interval tolerance. •Fieldcorrection,i.e. thedifferencebetweentherunning integral at the time of a marker trigger 𝐵(𝑡0)and the marker preset ...
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We developed a scalable, multi-level diagnostic and mon- itoringsoftwareframeworkforCERNB-Trainsystems. It represents a radical shift from reactive interventions to a preemptive approach toward the automatic detection of sub- tle, progressivesystemdegradation as wellas faultsrequir- ing urgent attention. By leveraging ...
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ISBN: 978-3-95450-252-3 ISSN: 2673-5350 doi: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2026-WEP6136 MC6.T22: Reliability, Operability 2853WEP: Poster session WEP6136 Content from this work may be used under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence (© 2026). Any distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), title of the work...
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ment systems”, in Proc. IPAC’10 , Kyoto, Japan, May 2010, paperMOPEB016,pp.310–312. http://accelconf.web. cern.ch/IPAC1/zero.alt4/papers/MOPEB/zero.alt416.pdf [2]C.Grech,M.Buzio,andN.Sammut,“Amagneticmeasure- mentmodelforreal-timecontrolofsynchrotrons”, IEEETrans. Instrum. Meas. , vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 393–400, 2020. doi...
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2025. doi:1/zero.alt4.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2/zero.alt425-THPD/zero.alt477 [8]J. P.Wozniakand C. Roderick, “NXCALS - architectureand challengesoftheNextCERNAcceleratorLoggingService”, inProc. ICALEPCS’19 , New York, NY, USA, pp. 1465–1469, Aug. 2020. doi:1/zero.alt4.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2/zero.alt419-WEPHA16317th Internat...
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A BEAM ABORT SYSTEM FOR THE DIAMOND -II STORAGE RING H. Ghasem ,† I.P.S. Martin, A. Potter, Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire , UK W. Shields, Royal Holloway , University of London, Egham, UK Abstract Due to the high energy density of the Diamond- II low - emittance electron beam, the risk of damage to storag...
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INTRODUCTION The Diamond -II upgrade is a 3.5 GeV light source facil- ity with 162 pm natural emittance and 300 mA average cur- rent. It will generat e high brightness synchrotron radiation for users across a range of disciplines [1]. Due to the high energy density of the electron beam, a beam abort sys- tem h...
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currents above 10 mA . Injection above this current will only be enabled if all beam abort system components indi- cate they are ‘ready to fire’. The need for an additional beam -instability interlock is also under consideration. If a manual beam dump is requested, the multi -bunch feedback system will be set to f...
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ers and one 400 mm long vertical kicker. The beam dumps are located downstream of the kickers and consist of a main taper ed section with a length of 97 cm and a 10 cm flat section at the downstream end. The horizontal gap changes from ±10 mm at the beginning of the main body to ±5 mm at the flat section . The...
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Several waveform shapes and kick angles have been in- vestigated for the kickers to spread the individual electron bunches along the le ngth of the BD as evenly as possible . The results of this study indicated that t he optimum wave- form for the horizontal kickers is a linear rise as a function of time, inc...
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TRACKING RESULTS The Elegant simulation code [2] was used to track all 934 bunches through the Diamond- II storage ring, including the effects of the beam abort system. Each of the tracked bunches contained 400 macroparticles, and the bunch sep- aration was set to 2 ns. _________________________________________...
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Figure 2: Variation of the horizontal and vertical kicker magnet angle s as a function of time . For the optimised waveforms, a ll the particles were found to be lost within two turns. 83.7% of the lost parti- cles were lost in the beam dumps (27% in K23 and 56.7% in K24), 8% of the losses were lost on the...
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