ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Rivers, M.L.)

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TUPPC066	10 Years of Experiment Control at SLS Beam Lines: an Outlook to SwissFEL	729
	J. Krempaský, U. Flechsig, B. Kalantari, X.Q. Wang PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland T. Mooney ANL, Argonne, USA M.L. Rivers CARS, Argonne, Ilinois, USA
	Today, after nearly 10 years of consolidated user operation at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) with up to 18 beam lines, we are looking back to briefly describe the success story based on EPICS controls toolkit and give an outlook towards the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL, the next challenging PSI project. We focus on SLS spectroscopy beam lines with experimental setups rigorously based on the SynApps "Positioner-Trigger-Detector" (PTD) anatomy [2]. We briefly describe the main beam line “Positioners” used inside the PTD concept. On the “Detector” side an increased effort is made to standardize the control within the areaDetector (AD) software package [3]. For the SwissFEL two detectors are envisaged: the Gotthard 1D and Jungfrau 2D pixel detectors, both built at PSI. Consistently with the PTD-anatomy, their control system framework based on the AD package is in preparation. In order to guarantee data acquisition with the SwissFEL nominal 100 Hz rate, the “Trigger” is interconnected with the SwissFEL timing system to guarantee shot-to-shot operation [4]. The AD plug-in concept allows significant data reduction; we believe this opens the doors towards on-line FEL experiments. [1] Krempaský et al, ICALEPCS 2001 [2] www.aps.anl.gov/bcda/synApps/index.php [3] M. Rivers, SRI 2009, Melbourne [4] B. Kalantari et al, ICALEPCS 2011

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10 Years of Experiment Control at SLS Beam Lines: an Outlook to SwissFEL

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J. Krempaský, U. Flechsig, B. Kalantari, X.Q. Wang
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
T. Mooney
ANL, Argonne, USA
M.L. Rivers
CARS, Argonne, Ilinois, USA

Today, after nearly 10 years of consolidated user operation at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) with up to 18 beam lines, we are looking back to briefly describe the success story based on EPICS controls toolkit and give an outlook towards the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL, the next challenging PSI project. We focus on SLS spectroscopy beam lines with experimental setups rigorously based on the SynApps "Positioner-Trigger-Detector" (PTD) anatomy [2]. We briefly describe the main beam line “Positioners” used inside the PTD concept. On the “Detector” side an increased effort is made to standardize the control within the areaDetector (AD) software package [3]. For the SwissFEL two detectors are envisaged: the Gotthard 1D and Jungfrau 2D pixel detectors, both built at PSI. Consistently with the PTD-anatomy, their control system framework based on the AD package is in preparation. In order to guarantee data acquisition with the SwissFEL nominal 100 Hz rate, the “Trigger” is interconnected with the SwissFEL timing system to guarantee shot-to-shot operation [4]. The AD plug-in concept allows significant data reduction; we believe this opens the doors towards on-line FEL experiments.
[1] Krempaský et al, ICALEPCS 2001
[2] www.aps.anl.gov/bcda/synApps/index.php
[3] M. Rivers, SRI 2009, Melbourne
[4] B. Kalantari et al, ICALEPCS 2011