To anyone interested,
Not
really a tech-talk topic, but I can’t resist the opportunity to brag a
little. Starting Friday evening with 930 Mev beam at the end of the superconducting
linac, the SNS team managed this weekend to bring that beam to the linac
injection dump, then inject a few turns into the Ring and circulate those turns
for a thousand orbits (!!) and then extract about ten turns into the extraction
dump with a clear signal on a beam current monitor there. Suddenly the goal of
beam on target in May seems achievable.
Needless
to say, the control system and EPICS – and our EPICS collaborators around
the world – played a proud role in this accomplishment.
Just
ask if we’re happy!!
Dave
David Gurd
Controls Group
Spallation Neutron Source
Oak Ridge
National Laboratory
Building 8600, MS 6473
Oak Ridge, TN, 37830-6473
Phone: (865)
241-6747
Cell: (865) 742-1330
Fax: (865) 574-4799
Sectry: (865) 241-6339 (Muriel)
[email protected]
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and I can
pick up anywhere.