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The success and the future of EPICS
During the past 5 years, the control system software toolkit EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) has developed from a small code co-development effort between LANL and ANL into an international collaboration on real-time distributed control system (for an accelerator facility, etc.). The wide application of this set of tools is the result of a combination of high performance, scaleable distributed control, and well defined open interfaces between system layers that encourage users to add extensions. These extensions can subsequently be reused by others, adding to the utility of the tools. This paper describes the architectural features that have supported these extensions, some of the new extensions produced by the 58 projects currently using EPICS and some of the new functions and interfaces being planned to be added to this control system toolkit
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Comparison of Simulations with Measurements for the LEDA LEBT H
The Low-Energy Demonstration Accelerator (LEDA) injector is designed to provide 75-keV, 110-mA, proton beams for the LEDA RFQ. After testing the LEDA injector using a 1.25-MeV, CW RFQ, the authors shortened the low-energy beam transport (LEBT) to 2.69 m, replaced the first LEBT solenoid with one that has a shorter length but the same focusing power, and installed and operated the LEDA injector in the beam tunnel. In this paper the authors use the TRACE, SCHAR, and PARMELA computer codes to model the proton beam for the as-installed LEBT and the authors compare the results of these simulations with the LEBT beam measurements. They use the computer code PARMTEQM to transport the SCHAR- and PARMELA-generated beams through the RFQ so that they can compare the predicted RFQ performance with the measured RFQ performance. For a 100-mA, 0.239-{rho}-mm-mrad input beam, PARMTEQM predicts the LEDA RFQ transmission will be 92.2%