Prof.
Sheng Wang
(IHEP/CSNS)
11/11/2019, 08:30
China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS)) is a high intensity proton accelerator based facility for delivering spallation neutrons to users. It consists of an 80-MeV H- DTL linac, and a 1.6-GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron and a neutron production target. The accelerators will provide 100kW proton beam for neutron target. The construction began in 2011, and completed in 2018. From Aug. 2018, the...
Andrea Apollonio
(CERN)
11/11/2019, 09:00
oral
This talk will highlight the main challenges in terms of reliability, availability and protection for different types of particle accelerators. The talk will stress the importance of performing reliability studies as early as possible in the lifecycle of an accelerator, starting from the conceptual phase to its exploitation and upgrades. A summary of the main lessons learnt at CERN on the use...
Szandra Kovecses
(European Spallation Source ERIC)
11/11/2019, 09:40
oral
When contributions to downtime (unavailability) are evaluated the main system (functions needed to perform the system requirements) and the machine protection system (functions that prevent and mitigate the consequence of a failure) are grouped together. This makes it difficult or impossible to separate how much downtime is caused by the main system and how much is caused by the machine...
Gregory Marr
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
11/11/2019, 10:30
This presentation briefly describes performance metrics and tracking methods for the Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL),including the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and its historical performance statistics.
Mr
Rae Nicholas
(Australian Synchrotron)
11/11/2019, 10:40
The Australian Synchrotron is a 3rd Generation Light Source located in Melbourne, Australia. It has been in User Operation since April 2007.
It consists of a 318m circumference 3GeV Electron Storage ring with a full energy injector and currently has 9 beamlines servicing more than 2000 users per year. Over the coming years this will increase to at least 14 beamlines with the BRIGHT upgrade...
Oksana Geithner
(GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)
11/11/2019, 10:50
Due to the quite complex parallel operation, availability accounting at GSI has been always a tricky task. Since last year, a clear separate bookkeeping for the availability of each of our accelerators was introduced. Correspondent results for the FAIR Phase 0 physics run in 2019 will be presented. In order to increase the quality of the failure data, an Availability Working Group is about to...
Thomas MARION
(SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL)
11/11/2019, 11:00
Synchrotron SOLEIL is the 3rd generation French synchrotron light source. It has been in operation since 2007 providing photon beams to 29 beamlines with a maximum intensity of 500 mA, 5000 hours a year.
We will present shortly our facility in terms of organization, key performance indicators. Management of the day-to-day operation will be discussed. The fault process management will be...
Samuel Meyroneinc
(Institut Curie)
11/11/2019, 11:30
Benjamin Todd
(CERN)
11/11/2019, 11:40
Enric Bargallo
(European Spallation Source ESS ERIC)
11/11/2019, 14:00
The machine protection (MP) systems are of the utmost importance to reach high availability and reliability in a particle accelerator driven facility such as ESS. Designing robust and reliable MP systems is essential to achieve low-risk operation, yet a smooth and highly available operation has to be facilitated. The ESS MP systems evolved throughout their iterative design processes in the...
Philippe Cara
(IFMIF/EVEDA)
12/11/2019, 08:30
The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) aims to provide an accelerator-based D-Li source to produce high-energy neutrons at sufficient intensity for DEMO materials characterization. As part of the Broader Approach (BA) agreement between Japan and EURATOM, the IFMIF/EVEDA project has the mission to work on the engineering design of IFMIF and to validate the main...
Petra Schuett
(GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The Facility for Anti-Proton and Ion Research (FAIR) is presently under construction on the campus of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH at Darmstadt, Germany. It extends and partly supersedes the existing GSI accelerator complex. In 2018, the intermediate experimental program FAIR phase 0 has been started, which offers beam time for experiments until the start of FAIR...
Laurent NADOLSKI
(Synchrotron SOLEIL)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Synchrotron SOLEIL is the 3rd generation French synchrotron light source. It has been in operation since 2007 providing photon beams to 29 beamlines with a maximum intensity of 500 mA, 5000 hours a year.
Since a few years, we are facing at an increasing number of leaks on brazing joints of our LCW cooling circuits. This type of incident impacts deeply the beam availability and may be the...
Mr
Joan Casas
(ALBA Synchrotron)
, Mr
Jordi Iglesias
(ALBA Synchrotron)
, Ms
Lluisa Fuentes
(ALBA Synchrotron)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The storage ring is feed from a full-energy 249.6 m booster ring preceded by a 100 MeV LINAC that acelerates electrons from a 100KeV electron gun.
The electron gun, the LINAC, the booster ring and the storage ring are enclosed in a high density BaSO4-filled concrete bunker (tunnel-like) provided with a high capacity dedicated HVAC system aimed to keep temperature stable within a very narrow...
Mr
Gregory Marr
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Monitoring a display of alarms can suffice to quickly notify Operators of a fault condition. However, alarm management can be difficult. Diagnosing the root cause in complicated subsystems can be a lengthy task. Operations at the Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD) of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) makes use of some automated analysis tools to collect and process data when certain...
Mr
Yue Yuan
(IHEP)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The target is a key part of the CSNS facility, which bears the average beam power of 100KW to 500KW. Beam position on the target must be strictly controlled to avoid damage to the target. The target imaging system can give the position and size on the target, but it is difficult to observe the signal in single shot mode and it become insensitive over time. In this paper, we propose to...
Gerard FERLIN
(CERN)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) cryogenic system architecture is made up of eight independent cryogenic plants at 4.5 K linked with eight units at 1.8 K and the associated cryo-distribution system, supplying each of the eight ring sectors with superfluid helium for a total helium inventory of more than 130 tons. It is using a wide variety of equipment with over 3’500 operating conditions to...
Mrs
yanru Wei
(IHEP)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
At present, the Loco correction of quadrupole has been a application in the operation of the BEPCII accelerator division. When exists the energy deviation in the collider, the beam correction is used to improve the luminosity. However, there is a lack of sextupole correction. Sextupole corrections has been used in KEKB and RHCIL. Correcting the sextupole can increase beam life, dynamic...
Jose Franco Campos
(Q)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
In order to improve the workflow of the people working on the construction of the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc), several web-based tools have been implemented. One of the most important ones is a custom fault tracking system, developed in-house. Previously, when a problem was found, workers had to fill an “event report” (a Word document) and upload it to the the document...
Viktor Fred
(European Spallation Source ERIC)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Modular design to enhance flexibility to cope with changes both in regards of permanent devices but also change of strategies for installations. I will show how we have implemented this concept into out design for machine protection at ESS and perhaps there are other people with similar experience who can add value to our upcoming design phases. At the moment we are building and installing the...
Mr
Yue Yuan
(IHEP)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The beam energy dispersion in the injector of CSNS RCS is critical to the optimization of the RCS beam parameters. This paper introduces two different methods based on the wall current monitor (WCM) and wire scanner installed in the CSNS linear accelerator to measure the beam energy dispersion. The measurement errors are analyzed. The debuncher is used to adjust the energy dispersion of the...
Stephane Gabourin
(ESS)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The ESS machine being still under construction, Machine Protection at ESS needs to foresee a maximum of scenarios of what could happen in the machine and how the protection systems should react. These scenarios are discussed through Use Cases, which are difficult to manage because of the complexity of the dependencies between the systems involved. To cover this complexity, a part of the Use...
Dennis Haupt
(DESY)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
A high machine availability is an important performance indicator for modern synchrotron light sources. To reach this goal of stabilizing operations by minimizing the occurrence and duration of downtime events, reliable tools and methods for root-cause analysis and fault tracking play an important role. Here we describe how we do this business at PETRA III.
Marc Munoz
(European Spallation Source)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The first section of the ESS Linac, the proton Ion Source and the LEBT, were commissioned between September 2018 and July 2019. That was the first time that beam has been produced at the ESS, and it is the first step to the planned start of the user program in 2023.
In this presentation we show the first results of the commissioning, as well as showing the main problems found during operation...
Mr
Martin Carroll
(ESS)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
When designing PLC based safety or protection critical systems to be used in a dynamic design environment, flexibility of design is crucial for the operation and integrity of the system. A dynamic design environment is one where change can be constant, such as when the implementation stage of the project life cycle overlaps largely with the design stage due to complexity or time limitations,...
Dr
Kenneth Baggett
(Jefferson Lab)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The 12GeV upgrade at Jefferson Lab doubled the energy reach of the lab’s recirculating accelerator. This upgrade was made possible by advances in cryomodule and cavity design improvements that led to higher gradient gain per cryomodule. The upgrade included 10 these new “C100” modules designed to provide 100MeV of acceleration capability plus an additional margin of 10%.
Now that we are...
WEILONG CHEN
(近代物理研究所)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The Chinese ADS project now is under key technology R&D, after 25 MeV proton superconducting linac had been assembled and commissioned in Lanzhou by collaboration between IMP and IHEP. This accelerator is updated to a 1/2 charge to mass ratio super-conducting Linac which is called CAFe(Chinese ADS facility experiments in Lanzhou). This facility can provide 25MeV proton beam and 38MeV α beam...
Mr
Arne Brinkmann
(Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Quality Management becomes more and more relevant in terms of availability and
reliability of an state-of-the-art Accelerator. We present the implementation
of methods and tools which will be used in the future to overcome unneeded downtime.
Mr
hiroshi uchiyama
(Accelerator Engineering Corporation)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
A superconducting rotating-gantry for carbon ion radiotherapy had first patient in May 2017, the number of therapeutic irradiations in a day is almost 20shot recently. This gantry using superconducting magnets can transport heavy ions having 430 MeV/u to the isocenter. The length and maximum radius are 14 m and 6.5 m, and the total weight of the rotating structure is approximately order of 300...
Yosuke Hirata
(National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The development of IFMIF (International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility) to generate a 14 MeV source of neutrons with the spectrum of D-T fusion reactions is indispensable to characterize suitable materials for the first wall of the nuclear vessel in future fusion power plants. As part of IFMIF validation activities, LIPAc (Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator) is being constructed at...
Mr
Yue Yuan
(IHEP)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Traditional machine parameters management just concerns about magnetic fields and is not conducive to management for a long time by text file . This paper will introduce the state of CSNS accelerator machine management. Based on the MySQL database, all the accelerator parameters are stored in the database and later used for machine recovery. In addition to the single point data, we also...
Keitaro Kondo
(QST)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The construction of the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) has been conducted at Rokkasho, Japan for the development of the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) aiming at material characterization for fusion power plants. The aim of this prototype accelerator is to demonstrate the validity of the low energy section of an IFMIF deuteron accelerator up to 9 MeV...
Mr
Daiki Takahashi
(Accelerator Engineering Corporation)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Cooling of magnet coil by LCW (Low Conductivity Water) is among basic things of most particle accelerator facilities. Magnet protection by water flow rate will fail, if flow meters fraud, like reading stuck to “good” value despite reduced or even stopped flow. We have suffered from false reading from time to time, because we just checked face value during our routine bi-weekly maintenance...
Hikaru Souda
(Yamagata University, Gunma University)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Gunma University Heavy Ion Medical Center has operated a heavy ion treatment system consists of an ion source, linear accelerators, a synchrotron and irradiation systems for 9 years. Machine availability is around 99% for treatment operation after 2015, and around 98% for overall operation including experiments. Until August 2019, fatal trouble which stops the treatment for a more than 2 days...
Dr
Masayuki Muramatsu
(National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Carbon-ion radiotherapy (C-ion RT) using Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC) has been carried out in National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS-QST) since 1994. Over 12000 cancer patients have been treated with carbon beams having energies of between 56-430 MeV/u. A 10 GHz electron cyclotron resonance ion source, named NIRS-ECR, is used for production of carbon ion at HIMAC....
LI Mingtao
(高能所)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Two kinds of Longitudinal Tomography algorithms have been developed in RCS of CSNS. Advantages and disadvantages of the two method will be discussed in this work
HAOYE WANG
(近代物理研究所)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
There is an introduction to superconducting section for CAFe(Chinese ADS Front-end Demo Linac).And on this basis a simple reliability analysis is applied.
Mr
Samuel Meyroneinc
(Institut Curie)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Optimizing the reliability of a Particle Accelerator consists in organizing tasks for scheduled and unscheduled events, in order to reach the beams and the global performances expected.
The word of trust is usually more used than rely on to qualify the relation with a person or a team.
Based on analogies with Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics, we will develop the fact that trust can...
Andreas Stolz
(Michigan State University)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University is a United States national user facility for rare isotope research and education in nuclear science, astro-nuclear physics, and accelerator science. The Coupled Cyclotron Facility at NSCL, consisting of two coupled cyclotrons, accelerates stable ion beams to energies of up to 170 MeV/u. Rare isotope beams...
Shu Nakamura
(KEK)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
SuperKEKB is an asymmetric-energy electron-positron collider for Belle II experiment to search new phenomena in B-meson decays.
The MR magnet system consists of about 2,600 magnets, power supplies, and their interlock system.
More than 400 magnets and power supplies were newly fabricated.
The number of power supplies for the Main Ring (MR) magnets is 2393 as of June 2019.
The most part...
Jean-Francois Lamarre
(S)
,
Thomas MARION
(SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
Synchrotron SOLEIL is the 3rd generation French synchrotron light source. It has been in operation since 2007 providing photon beams to 29 beamlines with a maximum intensity of 500 mA 5000 hours a year.
Since the beginning of 2018, the operation group has been migrating to JIRA Altassian Software as a unique tool for reporting failures. The tool was already used by the computing division...
Nataliya Zalatar
(C)
,
Stephen Carruthers
(Canadian light Source Saskatoon SK Canada)
12/11/2019, 10:30
The Canadian Light Source (CLS) Synchrotron had first light in 2004. Our linac was built in the 1960's and was a part of the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory (SAL), whereas the rest of accelerator was built under the CLS project, approved in 1999. Over the last 15 years we have made upgrades to various accelerator systems to operate reliably. Herein we will review the upgrades done to the...
Antti Jokinen
(Fusion For Energy BA-IFMIF, Germany)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The Linear IFMIF prototype accelerator, LIPAc, aims at producing a powerful (9MeV, 1.1MW) deuteron beam at 125mA in CW, to validate the concept of the future IFMIF accelerator (40MeV, 125mA CW). The beam is accelerated through two main accelerating stages (RF Quadrupole (RFQ) and SRF Linac), plus two bunching cavities as part of the Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT). In order the beam to be...
Mr
Brower Julian
(STFC/ISIS)
, Mr
Yaqoob Asim
(STFC/ISIS)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
This poster will go through the concept, design, implementation and delivery of the new vibration condition monitoring system at the ISIS Synchrotron in Oxford England. It will show the initial reasons for doing the project and the problems and limitations of installing the system within a 35 year old Synchrotron building. We then explain the software infrastructure and new analytical tools...
Mr
Shengijn Liu
(IHEP)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
The front end means the front part of linac that includes IS, LEBT, RFQ and MEBT. As the start point of CSNS, the condition of front end is one of key factors which influence the stable operation of CSNS. Based on the beam requirement of CSNS phase I, the front end should provide a stable H- beam with energy of 3.0MeV, a maximum pulsed peak current up to 15mA, a beam duty factor 1.0% at a...
Mr
Liu Meifei
(CSNS)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
400Hz AC Series Resonant Pulse High Voltage Power Supply is an important part of Klystron Power Source of China Spallation Neutron Source Linear Accelerator. It can provide maximum - 120 kV DC high voltage. Each set of the high voltage power supply drives two klystrons. There are five sets of klystron power sources in CSNS linear accelerator, so there are three sets of high voltage power...
Mr
YUNHO KIM
(PAL)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
We aim to recover the machine faults as quickly as possible to provide a stable beam of good quality. But preventing the machine faults is more important. To do that, we had to make ‘warning signal’ about getting out of the stable range. And when the operator's direct action is needed immediately, the appropriate range and logic are made to generate a warning signal for each device by using...
Mr
Shouyan XU
(高能所)
,
YUAN YUE
(高能所)
12/11/2019, 10:30
poster
China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is the pulse facility that aims to provide hundreds kilowatt beam power for users. The Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) is a important part that under 25Hz to accelerate and accumulate beam energy to 1.6 GeV from 80 MeV. As a high intensity facility, the resonance dominated by space charge is very serious for the RCS. Towards to high intensity beam...
Dr
Ferran Fernandez
(ALBA Synchrotron)
12/11/2019, 15:30
oral
ALBA is a third generation synchrotron light source near Barcelona (Spain). In operation for users since 2012, we aim at continuously improve the beam availability by increasing the mean time between failures (MTBF) and decreasing the mean time to recover (MTTR). In order to reduce the MTTR a good set of tools to quickly diagnose what has caused the incidence is a must. From the timing or PLC...
Dr
Christos Zamantzas
(CERN)
12/11/2019, 16:00
oral
The LHC Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system is one of the most complex instrumentation systems deployed in the LHC. In addition to protecting the collider, the system also needs to provide a means of diagnosing machine faults and deliver a feedback of losses to the control room as well as to several systems for their setup and analysis. It has to transmit and process signals from almost 4’000...
Prof.
Yuan He
(Institute of Modern Physics)
12/11/2019, 16:30
oral
The he Chines ADS Front-end superconducting demo linac (CAFe) constructed 2017. It is used to demonstrate the SRF technology in low energy session and investigate the feasibility and the reliability for the Chinese initiative Accelerator Driven System (CiADS). It is designed to accelerator 10-mA continuous-wave (CW) proton beam to the energy of 25 MeV. It operated the first 25 MeV beam on June...
Gianluca Valentino
(University of Malta)
13/11/2019, 08:30
Machine Learning has had successes in several applications, from computer vision to anomaly detection, using both supervised and unsupervised learning techniques. These techniques can also be applied to reliability engineering, and have already been used in fields such as aerospace and manufacturing for predictive maintenance, fault detection and diagnosis. This talk will first provide a...
Laurent NADOLSKI
(Synchrotron SOLEIL)
13/11/2019, 10:30
oral
In this talk we will address maintenance strategy to reach and maintain over time very high beam availability of an accelerator and short time to recover after a beam interruption. Using the example from several facilities we will explain how lessons learned may be very useful for establishing and improving the strategy for predictive maintenance, corrective maintenance for a running facility....
Ms
Kathleen Genge
(TRIUMF)
13/11/2019, 11:00
Maintenance and upgrade activities at TRIUMF 520 MeV Cyclotron and Ion Separation and Accelerator (ISAC) facilities are scheduled for either a regularly occurring short maintenance period or a longer semi-annual site-wide shutdown period. The long shutdown periods are organized by the Systematic Approach to Shutdown (SAS) Committee. This committee is responsible for scheduling, coordinating,...
Dr
Conradie Jacobus
(iThemba LABS)
13/11/2019, 11:30
oral
iThemba LABS operates four cyclotrons and three electrostatic accelerators. The age of these accelerators varies from 2 to 34 years. Aging accelerators bring its own unique reliability issues depending on the type and use of the accelerators. When an institute also embarks on a number of new projects to stay relevant in the national and international research communities, with no increase in...
Kazami Yamamoto
(Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
14/11/2019, 08:30
Safety Culture, Human Factors and Managerial Decisions – was “How to recover from downtime”
oral
The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) is a multipurpose facility for scientific experiments. The J-PARC facilities were constructed at the Tokai site of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. The accelerator complex consists of a 400-MeV Linac, a 3-GeV Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) and a 30-GeV Main Ring synchrotron (MR). The RCS delivers a proton beam to the neutron target and MR,...
Hikaru Souda
(Yamagata University)
14/11/2019, 09:00
A compact heavy ion medical accelerator with a superconducting rotating gantry is under construction in Yamagata University. The carbon ion medical accelerator consists of a permanent-magnet type electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source, a series of linear accelerator of radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) and interdigital H-mode drift tube linac (IH-DTL) with an energy of 4 MeV/u, and a...
Zheng Ting Ang
(TRIUMF VANCOUVER CANADA)
14/11/2019, 13:30
The TRIUMF ISAC accelerator complex is in consists of ISAC-I room temperature structure and ISAC-II superconducting structure. ISAC-I linac has eighteen RF systems in operation for about twenty years, and ISAC-II linac has forty superconducting QWR. The SRF cavities has been in operation for some about ten years. Major developments in the RF systems for the system reliability will be reported...
Mr
Wei Yu Lin
(NSRRC, Taiwan)
14/11/2019, 16:00
The auxiliary tool of the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) is developed to help operators improve the failure analysis ability to shorten the machine downtime. Presently, We have an operating alarm system to assist the accelerator operation, and a home-developed record-analysis tool for beam trip analysis. The part of alarm system, Alarm systems is developed by the use of the Control System Studio...
Chris Bailey
(Diamond Light Source)
14/11/2019, 16:30
Operations group have developed and used a Microsoft Access based fault database since we started commissioning Diamond in 2006. Inconsistent update of responses and corrections sent be email or posted in the main log often results in information about the faults being lost, meaning a new more integrated approach was desired. In addition concerns with the lack of change history and granular...
Dr
Wolfgang Geithner
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung)
15/11/2019, 09:00
New Trends, Big Data, Machine Learning – was “Innovations in Accelerator Automation and Robotics – J. Brower” and “Big Data and Machine Learning – D. Newhart”
oral
The ion storage ring is a FAIR phase 0 machine and used as test bed for FAIR concepts and prototypes in addition to being a facility for physics experiments. CRYRING ESR is equipped with an offline ion source and linear accelerator providing ion beams with energies up to 300 keV per u. This so called injector can be operated independently of FAIR or GSI and is used for machine testing and...
