DEVELOPMENT OF EPICS ACCELERATOR CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE IAC 44 MeV LINAC

The Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC) of Idaho State University (ISU) has been operating nine low energy accelerators [1]. Since fall 2012, the ISU Advanced Accelerator and Ultrafast Beam Lab (AAUL) group has been working to develop a new EPICS system to control 51 magnet power supplies and 2 GigE CCD cameras for the IAC 44 MeV Lband linac. Its original control system was fully analog, which had several limitations in reproducibility and stability during the accelerator operation. This paper provides details of the groups team effort and accomplishments in developing a new EPICS system to control Prosilica GigE CCD cameras and several magnet power supplies including Lambda EMS, Lambda TCR, and TDK-Lambda ZUP power supplies [2–5]. In addition, other useful tools such as the save and restore function used for this linac operation are described.