ICALEPCS2017 - List of Keywords (neutron)

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TUBPA05	High Throughput Data Acquisition with EPICS	ion, detector, EPICS, data-acquisition	213
	K. Vodopivec ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA B. Vacaliuc ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	Funding: ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition to its use for control systems and slow device control, EPICS provides a strong infrastructure for developing high throughput applications for continuous data acquisition. Integrating data acquisition into an EPICS environment provides many advantages. The EPICS network protocols provide for tight control and monitoring of operation through an extensive set of tools. As part of a facility-wide initiative at the Spallation Neutron Source, EPICS-based data acquisition and detector controls software has been developed and deployed to most neutron scattering instruments. The software interfaces to the in-house built detector electronics over fast optical channels for bi-directional communication and data acquisition. The software is built around asynPortDriver and allows the passing of arbitrary data structures between plugins. The completely modular design allows the setup of versatile configurations of data pre-processing plugins depending on neutron detector type and instrument requirements. After 3 years of experience and average data rates of 1.5 TB per day, it shows exemplary results of efficiency and reliability.
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TUPHA029	Live Visualisation of Experiment Data at ISIS and the ESS	ion, EPICS, experiment, detector	431
	M.J. Clarke, F.A. Akeroyd, O. Arnold, M.A. Gigg, L.A. Moore STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom N.J. Draper, M.D. Jones Tessella, Abingdon, United Kingdom T.S. Richter ESS, Copenhagen, Denmark
	As part of the UK's in-kind contribution to the European Spallation Source, ISIS is working alongside the ESS and other partners to develop a new data streaming system for managing and distributing neutron experiment data. The new data streaming system is based on the open-source distributed streaming platform Apache Kafka. A central requirement of the system is to be able to supply live experiment data for processing and visualisation in near real-time via the Mantid data analysis framework. There already exists a basic TCP socket-based data streaming system at ISIS, but it has limitations in terms of scalability, reliability and functionality. The intention is for the new Kafka-based system to replace the existing system at ISIS. This migration will not only provide enhanced functionality for ISIS but also an opportunity for developing and testing the system prior to use at the ESS.
	Poster TUPHA029 [0.644 MB]
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TUPHA060	Control System of the Linear Accelerator as a Part of Nuclear Facility NSC KIPT Neutron Source	ion, controls, linac, electron	534
	D.V. Tarasov, V.P. Lyashchenko, A.Y. Zelinsky NSC/KIPT, Kharkov, Ukraine
	NSC KIPT Neutron Source on the base of subcritical assembly involves 100 MeV/100 kW electron linear accelerator as a driver. Because the Neutron Source is nuclear facility all technological systems of the facility are under regulation of State Inspection of Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine that is working in accordance with international nuclear regulation legislation. This regulation demands certain requirement to the design and realization of the facility control system in order to provide the conditions of the facility safe operation. In the paper, the features of control system of the linear accelerators as a part of nuclear facility NSC KIPT Neutron Source are described.
	Poster TUPHA060 [1.106 MB]
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TUPHA061	Status of the NSC KIPT Neutron Source	ion, target, shielding, electron	537
	O. Bezditko, I.M. Karnaukhov, A. Mytsykov, D.V. Tarasov, A.Y. Zelinsky NSC/KIPT, Kharkov, Ukraine
	In NSC KIPT, Kharkov, Ukraine the state of art nuclear facility Neutron Source on the base of subcritical assembly driven with 100 MeV/100 kW electron linear accelerator has been build. The electron beam generates neutrons during bombarding the tungsten or uranium target. The subcritical assembly of low enrichment uranium is used to multiply the initial neutrons due to fission of the uranium nuclei. The facility is the first world facility of such kind. It is supposed that maximal value of multiplying neutron factor in the source will be equal to 0.95. So, the neutron flux will be increased as much as 50 times. Because of sub-criticality the facility eliminates the possibility to produce the self-sustained chain reaction. Now the Neutron source is under commissioning. In the report the facility and its control system current status is presented.
	Poster TUPHA061 [1.112 MB]
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TUPHA072	Real-Time Liquid Scintillator Calibration Based on Intensity Modulated LED	ion, FPGA, simulation, detector	575
	F. Pollastrone, M. Riva ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy G.C. Cardarilli Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy
	In many nuclear applications such as nuclear/high-energy physics and nuclear fusion, sensors are widely used in order to detect high energy particles. One of the available technologies is the scintillator, which is generally coupled with a photomultiplier and pulse amplifier. The detector acquisition chain is not stationary; mainly, it changes its gain as a function of the temperature and the nuclear irradiation on the photomultiplier; therefore it needs to be periodically calibrated during its operation. A calibration method reported in the literature is based on the use of a pulsed LED that flashes on the photomultiplier by generating a train of reference pulses. A new technique may be the use of an LED with continuous sinusoidal intensity emission. This provides as an output of the detector chain a small sinusoidal signal which can be digitally processed in real time, by measuring the gain and the delay time of the detector chain. Moreover, this sinusoidal background signal can be removed in real-time, before any processing or storage of data. This paper presents the technique, reporting its simulation and the main characteristics of the developed firmware and the hardware.
	Poster TUPHA072 [7.081 MB]
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TUPHA101	Applying the Functional System Interaction Process at ESS	ion, machine-protect, interface, controls	649
	S. Kövecses de Carvalho, R. Andersson, E. Bargalló, A. Nordt ESS, Lund, Sweden R. Andersson University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway M. Rejzek ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland
	The European Spallation Source ERIC is being built in Lund, Sweden to complement the existing neutron sources in Europe and worldwide. ESS will be the bright-est neutron source ever built upon completion and aims to have an availability of 95% during steady state opera-tions. The purpose of Machine Protection at ESS is to protect the equipment in order to support the high availability. Due to the distributed nature of Machine Protection numerous design teams are involved to implement Protection Functions. The Machine Protection Development at ESS follows the Functional Protection lifecycle for System-of-systems developed at the facility. This paper focuses on the application of the Functional System Inter-action Process part of the Functional Protection method. To obtain the system interaction model, behavioural requirements and to allocate Protection Functions use case workshops are held. The feasibility of different system architectures and protection function implementations are discussed and simulated by going through fore-seen operational sequences, use cases. The different architectures and use cases are documented using Enter-prise Architect.
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TUPHA129	Motion Control System for the European Spallation Source Target Wheel	ion, target, controls, radiation	717
	D.P. Brodrick, T. Gahl, B. Gallese, K. Jurisic, M. Larsson, U. Odén, A. Sandström, K. Sjögreen ESS, Lund, Sweden
	The European Spallation Source (ESS) linear accelerator will deliver high energy proton bunches to tungsten sectors on a rotating Target Wheel, which will produce neutrons through a nuclear process. The motion control system of the Target Wheel presents engineering challenges, such as: velocity and phase stability requirements to precisely align individual tungsten sectors with proton bunches from the accelerator; a high moment of inertia due to the composition and distribution of mass on the wheel; limitations on the physical space to integrate control components, and components for associated safety systems; and, some components being exposed to a high radiation environment. The motion control system being prototyped employs components that satisfy the constraints on the physical space and radiation environment. Precise velocity and phasing of the Target Wheel are achieved by generating a series of pulses as each tungsten sector passes a fiducial point in the rotational cycle, and implementing a motion control algorithm to correctly synchronise the Target Wheel with reference signals from the centralised ESS timing system, which also controls the timing of the accelerator.
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TUPHA177	Status of the Development of the Experiment Data Acquisition Pipeline for the European Spallation Source	ion, detector, EPICS, experiment	835
	A.H.C. Mukai, M.J. Christensen, J.M.C. Nilsson, T.S. Richter, M. Shetty ESS, Copenhagen, Denmark F.A. Akeroyd, M.J. Clarke STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom M. Brambilla, M. Könnecke, D. Werder PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland M.D. Jones Tessella, Abingdon, United Kingdom
	Funding: This project is partially funded by the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020, under grant agreement 676548. The European Spallation Source will produce more data than existing neutron facilities, due to higher accelerator power and to the fact that all data will be collected in event mode with no hardware veto. Detector data will be acquired and aggregated with metadata coming from sources such as sample environment, choppers and motion control. To aggregate data we will use Apache Kafka with FlatBuffers serialisation. A common schema repository defines the formats to be used by the data producers and consumers. The main consumers we are prototyping are a file writer for NeXus files and live reduction and visualisation via Mantid. A Jenkins-based setup using virtual machines is being used for integration tests, and physical servers are available in an integration laboratory alongside real hardware. We present the current status of the data acquisition pipeline and results from the testing and integration work going on at the ESS Data Management and Software Centre in collaboration with in-kind and BrightnESS partners.
	Poster TUPHA177 [0.434 MB]
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TUPHA196	The Design for CSNS Instrument Control	ion, controls, experiment, software	895
	J. Zhuang State Key laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China L. Hu, J.J. Li IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China L. Liao, Y. Qiu, K. Zhou DNSC, Dongguan, People's Republic of China
	Funding: China Spallation Neutron Source and the science and technology project of Guangdong province under grand No. 2016B090918131'2017B090901007 In this paper we introduced the design and implementation of the neutron instrument experiment control system in CSNS. The task of the control system is to complete the spectrometer experiment, and meanwhile provides experimental data for physical analysis. The control system of instrument in CSNS coordinate device control, data acquisition and analysis software, electronics, detector, sample environment and many other subsystems. This paper descibres the system architecture, timing system, device control and software of instrument control in CSNS Corresponding author: Jian ZHUANG, e-mail: zhuangj@ihep.ac.cn
	Poster TUPHA196 [0.565 MB]
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WEBPL01	EPICS Architecture for Neutron Instrument Control at the European Spallation Source	ion, controls, EPICS, interface	1043
	D.P. Brodrick, T. Brys, T. Korhonen, J.E. Sparger ESS, Lund, Sweden
	The European Spallation Source (ESS) are currently developing a suite of fifteen neutron instruments, the first eight of which will be available for routine scientific use by 2023. The instrument control system will be distributed through three layers: local controllers for individual instrument components; Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) software to implement higher level logic and act as a hardware abstraction layer; and an Experiment Control Program (ECP) which has an executive role, interacting with instrument components via the EPICS layer. ESS are now actively designing and prototyping the EPICS controls architecture for the neutron instruments, including systems which interface to core instrument components such as motion control systems, sample environment equipment, neutron choppers, instrument Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems, and the interfaces to the ECP. Prototyping activities have been executed in an integrated and coordinated manner to demonstrate the EPICS controls architecture in an environment representative of the neutron instruments to which the architecture will ultimately be applied.
	Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/eRSLBMHqQLM
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THMPA03	A Simulation System for the European Spallation Source (ESS) Distributed Data Streaming	ion, experiment, controls, software	1307
	C. Reis, R. Borghes, G. Kourousias, R. Pugliese Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
	European Spallation Source (ESS), the next-generation neutron source facility, is expected to produce an immense amount of data. Various working groups mostly associated with the EU project BrightnESS aim at developing solutions for its data-intensive challenges. The real-time data management and aggregation is among the top priorities. The Apache KAFKA framework will be the base for ESS real-time distributed data streaming. One of the major challenges is the simulation of data streams from experimental data generation to data analysis and storage. This presentation outlines a simulation approach based on the DonkiOrchestra data acquisition and experiment control framework, re-purposed as a data streaming simulation system compatible with the ESS-KAFKA infrastructure.
	Slides THMPA03 [1.063 MB]
	Poster THMPA03 [1.409 MB]
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THPHA033	Development of Status Analysis System Based on ELK Stack at J-PARC MLF	ion, status, experiment, operation	1423
	K. Moriyama CROSS, Ibaraki, Japan T. Nakatani JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan H.O. Ohshita, T. Tomohiro, Y. Yasu KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
	In recent neutron scattering experiments, a large quantity and various kinds of experimental data are generated. In J-PARC MLF, it is possible to conduct many experiments under various conditions in a short time with high-intensity neutron beam and high-performance neutron instruments with a wealth of sample environmental equipment. Therefore, it is required to make an efficient and effective data analysis. Additionally, since it has been almost nine years from the beginning of operation in MLF, there are many equipment and system being up for renewal resulting in failure due to aging degradation. Since such kind of failure can lose precious beam time, failure or its sign should be early detected. MLF status analysis system based on the Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) Stack, which is one of the web-based framework rapidly growing for big data analysis, ingests various data from neutron instruments in real time. It realizes to gain insight for decision-making such as data analysis and experiment as well as instrument maintenance by flexible user-based analysis and visualization. In this paper, we will report the overview and development status of our status analysis system.
	Poster THPHA033 [0.690 MB]
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THPHA194	State Machine Design for CSNS Experiment Control System	ion, experiment, controls, EPICS	1896
	L. Hu, J.J. Li, L. Liao, Y. Qiu, K. Zhou DNSC, Dongguan, People's Republic of China J. Zhuang IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	Funding: China Spallation Neutron Source and the science and technology project of Guangdong province under grand No. 2016B090918131'2017B090901007. This paper directs attention to the state machine design of the neutron scattering experiment control system in CSNS. The task of the software system is to complete the experiment on spectrometer, the purpose of the state machine design is to work with each other among the subsystems. Spectrometer experiment in CSNS spectrometer by internal control, data acquisition and analysis software, electronics, detector, sample environment and many other subsystems combined'this paper focuses on the introduction of the design details of state machine. Corresponding author:Jian ZHUANG, e-mail: zhuangj@ihep.ac.cn
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THPHA195	The CERN n_TOF Facility Data Acquisition System	ion, experiment, operation, controls	1900
	A. Masi, A.S. Almeida Paiva, R. Cevenini, E. Chiaveri, M. Donzé, S.S. Gilardoni, A. Giraud, A. Hernandez Prieto, R. Losito, D. Macina, F. Marazita, P. Peronnard, L. Tassan-Got CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	n_TOF is a pulsed neutron facility at CERN which studies neutron interactions as function of the energy. Neutrons are produced by a pulsed proton beam from the PS directed to a lead target. In a typical experiment, a sample is placed in the neutron beam and the reaction products are recorded. The typical output signals from the n_TOF detectors are characterized by a train of pulses, each one corresponding to a different neutron energy interacting with the sample. The Data Acquisition System (DAQ) has been upgraded in 2014 and is characterized by challenging requirements as more than hundreds of 12 or 14-bit channels at a sampling frequency of 1 GS/s and 1.8 GS/s acquired simultaneously every 1.2 s for up to 100 ms. The amount of data to be managed can reach a peak of several GB/s. This paper describes the hardware's solutions as well as the software's architecture developed to ensure the proper synchronization between all the DAQ machines, the data's integrity, retrieval and analysis. The software modules and tools developed for the monitoring and control of the n_TOF experimental areas and the DAQ operation are also detailed.
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TUBPA05

High Throughput Data Acquisition with EPICS

ion, detector, EPICS, data-acquisition

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K. Vodopivec
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
B. Vacaliuc
ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Funding: ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy.
In addition to its use for control systems and slow device control, EPICS provides a strong infrastructure for developing high throughput applications for continuous data acquisition. Integrating data acquisition into an EPICS environment provides many advantages. The EPICS network protocols provide for tight control and monitoring of operation through an extensive set of tools. As part of a facility-wide initiative at the Spallation Neutron Source, EPICS-based data acquisition and detector controls software has been developed and deployed to most neutron scattering instruments. The software interfaces to the in-house built detector electronics over fast optical channels for bi-directional communication and data acquisition. The software is built around asynPortDriver and allows the passing of arbitrary data structures between plugins. The completely modular design allows the setup of versatile configurations of data pre-processing plugins depending on neutron detector type and instrument requirements. After 3 years of experience and average data rates of 1.5 TB per day, it shows exemplary results of efficiency and reliability.

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TUPHA029

Live Visualisation of Experiment Data at ISIS and the ESS

ion, EPICS, experiment, detector

431

M.J. Clarke, F.A. Akeroyd, O. Arnold, M.A. Gigg, L.A. Moore
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
N.J. Draper, M.D. Jones
Tessella, Abingdon, United Kingdom
T.S. Richter
ESS, Copenhagen, Denmark

As part of the UK's in-kind contribution to the European Spallation Source, ISIS is working alongside the ESS and other partners to develop a new data streaming system for managing and distributing neutron experiment data. The new data streaming system is based on the open-source distributed streaming platform Apache Kafka. A central requirement of the system is to be able to supply live experiment data for processing and visualisation in near real-time via the Mantid data analysis framework. There already exists a basic TCP socket-based data streaming system at ISIS, but it has limitations in terms of scalability, reliability and functionality. The intention is for the new Kafka-based system to replace the existing system at ISIS. This migration will not only provide enhanced functionality for ISIS but also an opportunity for developing and testing the system prior to use at the ESS.

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TUPHA060

Control System of the Linear Accelerator as a Part of Nuclear Facility NSC KIPT Neutron Source

ion, controls, linac, electron

534

D.V. Tarasov, V.P. Lyashchenko, A.Y. Zelinsky
NSC/KIPT, Kharkov, Ukraine

NSC KIPT Neutron Source on the base of subcritical assembly involves 100 MeV/100 kW electron linear accelerator as a driver. Because the Neutron Source is nuclear facility all technological systems of the facility are under regulation of State Inspection of Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine that is working in accordance with international nuclear regulation legislation. This regulation demands certain requirement to the design and realization of the facility control system in order to provide the conditions of the facility safe operation. In the paper, the features of control system of the linear accelerators as a part of nuclear facility NSC KIPT Neutron Source are described.

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TUPHA061

Status of the NSC KIPT Neutron Source

ion, target, shielding, electron

537

O. Bezditko, I.M. Karnaukhov, A. Mytsykov, D.V. Tarasov, A.Y. Zelinsky
NSC/KIPT, Kharkov, Ukraine

In NSC KIPT, Kharkov, Ukraine the state of art nuclear facility Neutron Source on the base of subcritical assembly driven with 100 MeV/100 kW electron linear accelerator has been build. The electron beam generates neutrons during bombarding the tungsten or uranium target. The subcritical assembly of low enrichment uranium is used to multiply the initial neutrons due to fission of the uranium nuclei. The facility is the first world facility of such kind. It is supposed that maximal value of multiplying neutron factor in the source will be equal to 0.95. So, the neutron flux will be increased as much as 50 times. Because of sub-criticality the facility eliminates the possibility to produce the self-sustained chain reaction. Now the Neutron source is under commissioning. In the report the facility and its control system current status is presented.

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TUPHA072

Real-Time Liquid Scintillator Calibration Based on Intensity Modulated LED

ion, FPGA, simulation, detector

575

F. Pollastrone, M. Riva
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy
G.C. Cardarilli
Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy

In many nuclear applications such as nuclear/high-energy physics and nuclear fusion, sensors are widely used in order to detect high energy particles. One of the available technologies is the scintillator, which is generally coupled with a photomultiplier and pulse amplifier. The detector acquisition chain is not stationary; mainly, it changes its gain as a function of the temperature and the nuclear irradiation on the photomultiplier; therefore it needs to be periodically calibrated during its operation. A calibration method reported in the literature is based on the use of a pulsed LED that flashes on the photomultiplier by generating a train of reference pulses. A new technique may be the use of an LED with continuous sinusoidal intensity emission. This provides as an output of the detector chain a small sinusoidal signal which can be digitally processed in real time, by measuring the gain and the delay time of the detector chain. Moreover, this sinusoidal background signal can be removed in real-time, before any processing or storage of data. This paper presents the technique, reporting its simulation and the main characteristics of the developed firmware and the hardware.

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TUPHA101

Applying the Functional System Interaction Process at ESS

ion, machine-protect, interface, controls

649

S. Kövecses de Carvalho, R. Andersson, E. Bargalló, A. Nordt
ESS, Lund, Sweden
R. Andersson
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
M. Rejzek
ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland

The European Spallation Source ERIC is being built in Lund, Sweden to complement the existing neutron sources in Europe and worldwide. ESS will be the bright-est neutron source ever built upon completion and aims to have an availability of 95% during steady state opera-tions. The purpose of Machine Protection at ESS is to protect the equipment in order to support the high availability. Due to the distributed nature of Machine Protection numerous design teams are involved to implement Protection Functions. The Machine Protection Development at ESS follows the Functional Protection lifecycle for System-of-systems developed at the facility. This paper focuses on the application of the Functional System Inter-action Process part of the Functional Protection method. To obtain the system interaction model, behavioural requirements and to allocate Protection Functions use case workshops are held. The feasibility of different system architectures and protection function implementations are discussed and simulated by going through fore-seen operational sequences, use cases. The different architectures and use cases are documented using Enter-prise Architect.

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TUPHA129

Motion Control System for the European Spallation Source Target Wheel

ion, target, controls, radiation

717

D.P. Brodrick, T. Gahl, B. Gallese, K. Jurisic, M. Larsson, U. Odén, A. Sandström, K. Sjögreen
ESS, Lund, Sweden

The European Spallation Source (ESS) linear accelerator will deliver high energy proton bunches to tungsten sectors on a rotating Target Wheel, which will produce neutrons through a nuclear process. The motion control system of the Target Wheel presents engineering challenges, such as: velocity and phase stability requirements to precisely align individual tungsten sectors with proton bunches from the accelerator; a high moment of inertia due to the composition and distribution of mass on the wheel; limitations on the physical space to integrate control components, and components for associated safety systems; and, some components being exposed to a high radiation environment. The motion control system being prototyped employs components that satisfy the constraints on the physical space and radiation environment. Precise velocity and phasing of the Target Wheel are achieved by generating a series of pulses as each tungsten sector passes a fiducial point in the rotational cycle, and implementing a motion control algorithm to correctly synchronise the Target Wheel with reference signals from the centralised ESS timing system, which also controls the timing of the accelerator.

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TUPHA177

Status of the Development of the Experiment Data Acquisition Pipeline for the European Spallation Source

ion, detector, EPICS, experiment

835

A.H.C. Mukai, M.J. Christensen, J.M.C. Nilsson, T.S. Richter, M. Shetty
ESS, Copenhagen, Denmark
F.A. Akeroyd, M.J. Clarke
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
M. Brambilla, M. Könnecke, D. Werder
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
M.D. Jones
Tessella, Abingdon, United Kingdom

Funding: This project is partially funded by the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020, under grant agreement 676548.
The European Spallation Source will produce more data than existing neutron facilities, due to higher accelerator power and to the fact that all data will be collected in event mode with no hardware veto. Detector data will be acquired and aggregated with metadata coming from sources such as sample environment, choppers and motion control. To aggregate data we will use Apache Kafka with FlatBuffers serialisation. A common schema repository defines the formats to be used by the data producers and consumers. The main consumers we are prototyping are a file writer for NeXus files and live reduction and visualisation via Mantid. A Jenkins-based setup using virtual machines is being used for integration tests, and physical servers are available in an integration laboratory alongside real hardware. We present the current status of the data acquisition pipeline and results from the testing and integration work going on at the ESS Data Management and Software Centre in collaboration with in-kind and BrightnESS partners.

Poster TUPHA177 [0.434 MB]

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TUPHA196

The Design for CSNS Instrument Control

ion, controls, experiment, software

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J. Zhuang
State Key laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China
L. Hu, J.J. Li
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
L. Liao, Y. Qiu, K. Zhou
DNSC, Dongguan, People's Republic of China

Funding: China Spallation Neutron Source and the science and technology project of Guangdong province under grand No. 2016B090918131'2017B090901007
In this paper we introduced the design and implementation of the neutron instrument experiment control system in CSNS. The task of the control system is to complete the spectrometer experiment, and meanwhile provides experimental data for physical analysis. The control system of instrument in CSNS coordinate device control, data acquisition and analysis software, electronics, detector, sample environment and many other subsystems. This paper descibres the system architecture, timing system, device control and software of instrument control in CSNS
Corresponding author: Jian ZHUANG, e-mail: zhuangj@ihep.ac.cn

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WEBPL01

EPICS Architecture for Neutron Instrument Control at the European Spallation Source

ion, controls, EPICS, interface

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D.P. Brodrick, T. Brys, T. Korhonen, J.E. Sparger
ESS, Lund, Sweden

The European Spallation Source (ESS) are currently developing a suite of fifteen neutron instruments, the first eight of which will be available for routine scientific use by 2023. The instrument control system will be distributed through three layers: local controllers for individual instrument components; Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) software to implement higher level logic and act as a hardware abstraction layer; and an Experiment Control Program (ECP) which has an executive role, interacting with instrument components via the EPICS layer. ESS are now actively designing and prototyping the EPICS controls architecture for the neutron instruments, including systems which interface to core instrument components such as motion control systems, sample environment equipment, neutron choppers, instrument Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems, and the interfaces to the ECP. Prototyping activities have been executed in an integrated and coordinated manner to demonstrate the EPICS controls architecture in an environment representative of the neutron instruments to which the architecture will ultimately be applied.

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THMPA03

A Simulation System for the European Spallation Source (ESS) Distributed Data Streaming

ion, experiment, controls, software

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C. Reis, R. Borghes, G. Kourousias, R. Pugliese
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy

European Spallation Source (ESS), the next-generation neutron source facility, is expected to produce an immense amount of data. Various working groups mostly associated with the EU project BrightnESS aim at developing solutions for its data-intensive challenges. The real-time data management and aggregation is among the top priorities. The Apache KAFKA framework will be the base for ESS real-time distributed data streaming. One of the major challenges is the simulation of data streams from experimental data generation to data analysis and storage. This presentation outlines a simulation approach based on the DonkiOrchestra data acquisition and experiment control framework, re-purposed as a data streaming simulation system compatible with the ESS-KAFKA infrastructure.

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Poster THMPA03 [1.409 MB]

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THPHA033

Development of Status Analysis System Based on ELK Stack at J-PARC MLF

ion, status, experiment, operation

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K. Moriyama
CROSS, Ibaraki, Japan
T. Nakatani
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan
H.O. Ohshita, T. Tomohiro, Y. Yasu
KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan

In recent neutron scattering experiments, a large quantity and various kinds of experimental data are generated. In J-PARC MLF, it is possible to conduct many experiments under various conditions in a short time with high-intensity neutron beam and high-performance neutron instruments with a wealth of sample environmental equipment. Therefore, it is required to make an efficient and effective data analysis. Additionally, since it has been almost nine years from the beginning of operation in MLF, there are many equipment and system being up for renewal resulting in failure due to aging degradation. Since such kind of failure can lose precious beam time, failure or its sign should be early detected. MLF status analysis system based on the Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) Stack, which is one of the web-based framework rapidly growing for big data analysis, ingests various data from neutron instruments in real time. It realizes to gain insight for decision-making such as data analysis and experiment as well as instrument maintenance by flexible user-based analysis and visualization. In this paper, we will report the overview and development status of our status analysis system.

Poster THPHA033 [0.690 MB]

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THPHA194

State Machine Design for CSNS Experiment Control System

ion, experiment, controls, EPICS

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L. Hu, J.J. Li, L. Liao, Y. Qiu, K. Zhou
DNSC, Dongguan, People's Republic of China
J. Zhuang
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Funding: China Spallation Neutron Source and the science and technology project of Guangdong province under grand No. 2016B090918131'2017B090901007.
This paper directs attention to the state machine design of the neutron scattering experiment control system in CSNS. The task of the software system is to complete the experiment on spectrometer, the purpose of the state machine design is to work with each other among the subsystems. Spectrometer experiment in CSNS spectrometer by internal control, data acquisition and analysis software, electronics, detector, sample environment and many other subsystems combined'this paper focuses on the introduction of the design details of state machine.
Corresponding author:Jian ZHUANG, e-mail: zhuangj@ihep.ac.cn

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THPHA195

The CERN n_TOF Facility Data Acquisition System

ion, experiment, operation, controls

1900

A. Masi, A.S. Almeida Paiva, R. Cevenini, E. Chiaveri, M. Donzé, S.S. Gilardoni, A. Giraud, A. Hernandez Prieto, R. Losito, D. Macina, F. Marazita, P. Peronnard, L. Tassan-Got
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

n_TOF is a pulsed neutron facility at CERN which studies neutron interactions as function of the energy. Neutrons are produced by a pulsed proton beam from the PS directed to a lead target. In a typical experiment, a sample is placed in the neutron beam and the reaction products are recorded. The typical output signals from the n_TOF detectors are characterized by a train of pulses, each one corresponding to a different neutron energy interacting with the sample. The Data Acquisition System (DAQ) has been upgraded in 2014 and is characterized by challenging requirements as more than hundreds of 12 or 14-bit channels at a sampling frequency of 1 GS/s and 1.8 GS/s acquired simultaneously every 1.2 s for up to 100 ms. The amount of data to be managed can reach a peak of several GB/s. This paper describes the hardware's solutions as well as the software's architecture developed to ensure the proper synchronization between all the DAQ machines, the data's integrity, retrieval and analysis. The software modules and tools developed for the monitoring and control of the n_TOF experimental areas and the DAQ operation are also detailed.

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