LBNL, Berkeley, California
Funding: Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
ALS has been upgraded by adding Top-Off Mode, a new mode of operation to the existing modes of Fill and Stored Beam. The Top-Off Mode permits injection of 1.9GeV electron beam into the Storage Ring, with the safety shutters open, once certain strict conditions are met and maintained. Top-Off Mode enables User operation without an interruption caused by mode switching between the Stored Beam Mode when safety shutters are open, to the Fill Mode with the safety shutters closed and back. The conditions necessary to permit Top-Off Mode are; stored beam is present, the energies are matched between the injector and storage ring, a select set of storage ring lattice magnets are operating at the correct current levels, and radiation losses are minimized. If certain combinations of these conditions are not met, a potentially dangerous condition of injecting electrons down a users beam line can exist. Therefore a system of mode control, energy match, lattice match and stored beam interlocks are needed to control the injected beam prohibiting potentially dangerous conditions. In this paper we will present the Top-Off Mode Beam Interlock system requirements, design, and operational parameters.
