SPES (Selective Production of Exotic Species) is an INFN project whose aim is the realization of a Radioactive Ion Beam facility as an intermediate step towards Eurisol.

SPES  will provide the nuclear physicists community with neutron-rich ion beams obtained by impinging an  UCx target with a 40 MeV proton beam produced by a commercial cyclotron.

The unstable nuclei beams will be injected into the superconducting Linac ALPI and reaccelerated up to an energy of 10 Mev/amu.

EPICS has been chosen as the general framework to develop the control system of SPES. The main challenge is integrating different hardware technologies under a common model of data and communication protocol. In fact, due to security requirements, a significant part of controls will be based on industrial PLCs, while the control of accelerator equipment and beam diagnostic instrumentation will be implemented on native EPICS IOCs.

Either Linux and Vxworks based IOCs are currently in use for the control of Target Laboratory instrumentation, EPICS Archiver is running in conjunction with mySQL to store/retrieve PV data, while CSS is being used to develop graphical interfaces.

A more detailed description of these applications can be found in the links:

Control System Design v.14 (28-9-2010)

Thesis

Thesis 2010 L.Giovannini

Thesis 2010 N.Conforto

Thesis 2009 M.Montis

Epics Meetings

Epics Meeting 2011 at BNL (HyperArchiver Talk Progression)

Epics Meeting 2010 at ITER (HyperArchiver Talk)

Epics Meeting 2009 at LNL (NAL at BESSY Talk)

Epics Meeting 2007 at Desy (Spes Project Talk)

Conferences

ICALEPCS 2009 (Status and Perspective)

ICALEPCS 2007 (LivEPICS and Nagios)

PCaPAC 2006 (LivEPICS)

ICALEPCS 2005 (EPICS Tiny IOC)

LNL Annual Reports

LNL Annual Report 2009 (Status Report)

LNL Annual Report 2008 (Virtualization)

LNL Annual Report 2008 (Status Report)

LNL Annual Report 2006 (LabVIEW Application)

LNL Annual Report 2005 (EPICS Tiny IOC)

LNL Annual Report 2005 (LivEPICS)

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EPICS documentation related to this project:

An LNL Epics Wiki site has been realized to keep track of the development setup and mantain a documentation of the works done.

Resuming the rules adopetd on the most important Epics sites a  first Naming Convention document has been released.
A first raw raw variables list should be coded using that naming convention.

EPICS software related to this project:

Process Variables used at 15/5/09 : 527 (Genesys PV list + Ultravolt PV list)

Meetings Calendar

Meetings Docs Repository

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