Author: Hodgson, P.
Paper Title Page
TUPS051 Design and Performance of the MICE Target* 1644
 
  • C.N. Booth, P. Hodgson, E. Overton, M. Robinson, P.J. Smith
    Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • G.J. Barber, K.R. Long
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • E.G. Capocci, J.S. Tarrant
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • B.J.A. Shepherd
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
The MICE ex­per­i­ment uses a beam of low en­er­gy muons to study ion­i­sa­tion cool­ing. This beam is de­rived par­a­sit­i­cal­ly from the ISIS syn­chrotron at the Ruther­ford Ap­ple­ton Lab­o­ra­to­ry. A me­chan­i­cal drive has been de­vel­oped which rapid­ly in­serts a small ti­ta­ni­um tar­get into the beam after ac­cel­er­a­tion and be­fore ex­trac­tion, with min­i­mal dis­tur­bance to the cir­cu­lat­ing pro­tons. One mech­a­nism has op­er­at­ed in ISIS for over half a mil­lion puls­es, and its per­for­mance will be sum­marised. Up­grades to this de­sign have been test­ed in par­al­lel with MICE op­er­a­tion; the im­prove­ments in per­for­mance and re­li­a­bil­i­ty will be pre­sent­ed, to­geth­er with a dis­cus­sion of fur­ther fu­ture en­hance­ments.
 
 
TUPS052 An FPGA Based Controller for the MICE Target 1647
 
  • P.J. Smith, C.N. Booth, P. Hodgson, E. Overton, M. Robinson
    Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • J. Leaver, K.R. Long
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
The MICE ex­per­i­ment uses a beam of low en­er­gy muons to test the fea­si­bil­i­ty of ion­iza­tion cool­ing. This beam is de­rived par­a­sit­i­cal­ly from the ISIS ac­cel­er­a­tor at the Ruther­ford Ap­ple­ton Lab­o­ra­to­ry. A tar­get mech­a­nism has been de­vel­oped that rapid­ly in­serts a small ti­ta­ni­um tar­get into the cir­cu­lat­ing pro­ton beam im­me­di­ate­ly prior to ex­trac­tion with­out un­du­ly dis­turb­ing the pri­ma­ry ISIS beam. The orig­i­nal con­trol elec­tron­ics for the MICE tar­get was based upon an 8-bit PIC. Al­though this sys­tem was fully func­tion­al it did not pro­vide the nec­es­sary IO to per­mit full in­te­gra­tion of the tar­get elec­tron­ics onto the MICE EPICS sys­tem. A three phase pro­gram was es­tab­lished to mi­grate both the tar­get con­trol and DAQ elec­tron­ics from the orig­i­nal pro­to­type onto a fully in­te­grat­ed FPGA sys­tem that is ca­pa­ble of in­ter­fac­ing with EPICS through a local PC. This paper dis­cuss­es this up­grade pro­gram, the mo­ti­va­tion be­hind it and the per­for­mance of the up­grad­ed tar­get con­troller.