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International audienceThe GANIL facility consists of three successive cyclotrons. The tuning of these cyclotrons and of the transfer beam lines isachieved in about 24 hours. Reducing this setting time would enable to increase the time allocated to physics experiments.New tools are realized for automatic beam tuning. These tools are expected to make the tuning easier, shorter and morereproducible

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International audienceThe GANIL facility consists of three successive cyclotrons. The tuning of these cyclotrons and of the transfer beam lines isachieved in about 24 hours. Reducing this setting time would enable to increase the time allocated to physics experiments.New tools are realized for automatic beam tuning. These tools are expected to make the tuning easier, shorter and morereproducible

Preliminary implementation for the new SPIRAL2 project control system

International audienceThe Spiral2 project consists of a new facility to provide high intensity rare ions beams. It is based on a primary beam driver accelerator (RFQ followed by a superconducting linac) and a rare ion production process delivering the beam either to a low energy experimental area or to the existing Ganil facility. From October this year, one ion source coupled with a first beam line section will be in test; then, the injector (ion and deuteron sources, RFQ) will be tested by the end of 2010 so the whole accelerator should be commissioned by the end of 2011; the first exotic beams being planned one year later. The accelerator control system design results from the collaboration between several institutes and Epics has been chosen as the basic framework. The paper therefore presents the main choices: MVME5500 CPUs, VME I/O boards, VxWorks, Siemens PLCs, Modbus field buses, EDM screens and Java applications, Linux PCs, use of a LabView/Epics gateway... Specific topics are the evaluation of the XAL environment, an Epics design to address the power supplies, an emittance measurement system, the development of a beam profiler interface and the investigation for a triggered acquisition system

First step towards the new SPIRAL2 project control system

International audienceThe Spiral2 project at Ganil aims to produce rare ion beams using a Uranium carbide target fission process. The accelerator consists of a RFQ followed by a superconducting cavity linac and is designed to provide high intensity primary beams (deuterons, protons or heavy ions). The accelerator should be commissioned by the end of 2011; then, the first tests aiming to produce exotic beams are planned one year later. The control system will result of the collaboration between several institutes among which the Saclay Dapnia division yet having a good experience and knowledge with Epics. So and also because of its widely used functionalities, Epics has been chosen as the basic framework for the accelerator control and people from the other laboratories belonging to the collaboration are progressively acquiring a first experience with Epics. The paper first explains the organisation of the collaboration then it describes the basic hardware and software choices for the project. Some preliminary implementations are therefore given. As the project is still in its beginning phase, the paper ends by listing some interrogations not yet solved for the control system definition and opened for discussion

The SPIRAL2 control system progress towards the commissioning phase

MOCOAAB03, http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/ICALEPCS2013/papers/mocoaab03.pdfInternational audienceThe commissioning of the first phase of the Spiral2 Radioactive Ion Beams facility at Ganil will soon start, so requiring the control system components to be delivered in time. Yet, parts of the system were validated during preliminary tests performed with ions and deuterons beams at low energy. The control system development results from the collaboration between Ganil, CEA-IRFU, CNRS-IPHC laboratories, using appropriate tools and approach. Based on Epics, the control system follows a classical architecture. At the lowest level, Modbus/TCP protocol is considered as a field bus. Then, equipment are handled by IOCs (soft or VME/VxWorks) with a software standardized interface between IOCs and clients applications on top. This last upper layer consists of Epics standard tools, CSS/BOY user interfaces within the socalled CSSop Spiral2 context suited for operation and, for machine tunings, high level applications implemented by Java programs developed within a Spiral2 framework derived from the open-Xal one. Databases are used for equipment data and alarms archiving, to configure equipment and to manage the machine lattice and beam settings. A global overview of the system is therefore here proposed

The GANIL control system as seen from the control room

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A Small but Efficient Collaboration for the Spiral2 Control System Development

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/ICALEPCS2013/papers/tucobab01.pdfThe Spiral2 radioactive ion beam facility to be commissioned in 2014 at Ganil (Caen) is built within international collaborations. This also concerns the control system development shared by three laboratories: Ganil has to coordinate the control and automated systems work packages, CEA/IRFU is in charge of the "injector" (sources and low energy beam lines) and the LLRF, CNRS/IPHC provides the emittancemeters and a beam diagnostics platform. Besides the technology Epics based, this collaboration, although being handled with a few people, nevertheless requires an appropriate and tight organization to reach the objectives given by the project. This contribution describes how, started in 2006, the collaboration for controls has been managed both from the technological point of view and the organizational one, taking into account not only the previous experience, technical background or skill of each partner, but also their existing working practices and "cultural" approaches. A first feedback comes from successful beam tests carried out at Saclay and Grenoble; a next challenge is the migration to operation, Ganil having to run Spiral2 as the other members are moving to new projects

La sismicité instrumentale récente de la Provence dans son cadre sismo-tectonique

Seismicity in Provence from local seismic network. Seis-motectonic relationships. In the geodynamical setting of the Northwestern Mediterranean dominated by the convergence of the European and African plates with a rate of about 1 cm/year, Provence is a region of seismic risk as evidenced by the Lambesc earthquake in 1909 or epicenters all along the Durance valley. A local seismic network has been built up since 1983 and has grown to 8 stations equiped with short-period vertical seismographs and telemetered to a central recording station (Pic de Bertagne) where data are recorded on magnetic tape. A technique is being developed using a modern card-telephone line system to transmit data in near real-time to the processing center at Marseille-University. A data base is also produced for the period 1983-1993 and relevant seismicity is analysed in term of seismotectonic regions. Seismic activity is associated with two main types of tectonic features : NE-SW to NS strike-slip faults and EW trending thrust units. This pattern is consistent with the regional stress field associated with the SN convergence of African and European plates.La situation géodynamique particulière des structures géologiques de la Provence, au voisinage d'une frontière de plaques lithosphé-riques convergentes, fait de cette région une aire de risque sismique potentiel non négligeable, ce que corrobore l'examen de la sismicité historique et récente (séisme de Lambesc en 1909) ainsi que le canevas sismo-tectonique régional. Un réseau sismique local comportant 8 stations a été progressivement installé depuis 1983 sous l'égide de l'INSU. Pour des impératifs techniques, les signaux sont télémétrés vers un site central (Pic de Bertagne) où ils sont enregistrés sur bande magnétique avant d'être exploités en temps différé à l'Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg. Une unité de transfert des données par voie téléphonique hertzienne vers le site de Saint-Jérôme -Université a été expérimenté, qui permet d'analyser la sismicité locale en temps quasi réel. Un fichier informatique a été constitué qui recense les épicentres pour la période 1983-1993. Leur analyse en termes sismo-tectoniques, confirme clairement qu'ils sont associés aux structures géologiques chevauchantes et décrochantes selon lesquelles s'accomode le raccourcissement lié à la compression subméridienne résultant de la convergence des plaques Europe et Afrique.Fourno J.-P., Roussel Jacques, Lécorché Jean-Paul. La sismicité instrumentale récente de la Provence dans son cadre sismo-tectonique. In: Géologie Méditerranéenne. Tome 20, numéro 1, 1993. pp. 7-23

Overview of the GANIL Control Systems for the Different Projects Around the Facility

TUPHA016, Poster SessionInternational audienceThe GANIL facility is drastically extending its possibilities with new projects, soincreasing its capabilities in nuclear physics. The most significant one is the Spiral2installation based on a linear accelerator, then to be associated with the S3, NFSand DESIR new experimental rooms. Beside of the legacy home made controlsystem handling the original installation, Epics was chosen as the basic frameworkfor these projects. First, some control system components were used during preliminarybeam tests. In parallel, the whole architecture was designed while theorganization for future operation started to be considered; also, more structuredand sophisticated tools were developed and the first high level applications for thewhole machine tuning started to be tested, jointly with the current onsite beamcommissioning. Progression of the control system development is presented, fromthe first beam tests up to the whole Spiral2 commissioning. Then, according tothe new projects to cope with, some highlights are given concerning the relatedorganization as well as specific items and developments to be considered, takingbenefit from the Spiral2 control system feedback experience