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List of likely applications; required functionality defined in subsystems. All applications will use, where applicable, the standard facilities provided by the business layer e.g.
See also: Sector test requirements and LHC commissioning requirements
| SYSTEM | Sector Test | 450 GeV | Resource Estimate |
Requirements | Comments |
| Equipment | |||||
| Collimators | - | 1 | 6 months distributed over 2 years | Sophisticated high level application for manual control. Automatic optimisation of jaw positions - dedicated RT task - lower priority initially | Functional Specification in progress. First prototype in place for SPS tests. |
| TDI / TCDQ | 1 | 1 | 2 months - prototype for collimators | Movable - aim for incorporation in collimator application | As for collimators |
| Beam dump | - | 1 | 2 months - this has got to be good | Dedicated Application Tests, diagnostics, post-mortem, status |
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| Power converters | 1 | 1 | Extenstion of existing for HWC | Individual PC diagnostics. Full control from equip state. Global set send. | HWC. Will be fully integrated into operational sequence |
| RF | - | 1 | 4 months | RF feedback response (longitudinal and transverse) Frequency modulation, Settings, state control, diagnostics |
Needs requirement spec |
| Transverse feedback | - | 2 | 3 months | Dedicated application. PM. Diagnostics. | Functional specification required |
| Kicker | 1 | 1 | 2 months | Analogue acq. etc.. automatic & manual, Kicker voltage and timing adjustment (plus usual trim/archive functionality) | |
| Septa | 1 | 1 | - | Treat as standard power converter - usual trim functionality. Monitoring. | |
| Warm magnets | - | 1 | - | Standard power converter facilities | Treated like the rest for the most part. |
| Spectrometer & compensation | - | 2 | 1 months | Should be standard trim and settings functionality. fixed display for status. | |
| FiDeL | 1 | 3 months - version 1 and ongoing maintenance | See work package |
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| Beam Vacuum | Assumed | - | |||
| Quench Protection | Assumed | - | Integrate, post mortem | ||
| RP Radiation Monitors | 1 | 1 | - | Stand alone system - RAMSES | |
| Cryostat Instrumentation | Assumed | Assumed | - | Acquire, integate... | |
| Instrumentation | |||||
| Beam Loss Monitors | 1 | 1 | prototype 2006 | Diagnostics RT display Threshold management |
Acquisition, concentration and display prototyped. Func specfication out. |
| Bunch Current Transformers (BCTDC & BCTFR) | 1 | 1 | 2 weeks | When available | |
| Beam Position Monitors | 1 | 3 months for DAQ & concentration | Acquisition & concentration Archiving, display, feed orbit application |
Caputure mode - Acquisition, concentration and display prototyped. | |
| BPM - multiturn analysis | - | 2 | 6 months | 1000 lb gorilla leading off to beta beating analysis | data acqusition tests in progress |
| Screens (matching monitors) BTV | 1 | 1 | 1 month - extension of existing | Dedicated application State control Digital acquisition and display, fitting Measurement archiving |
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| Tune measurement | - | 1 | USA | Dedicated application. 1 BPL (long stripline coupler) per beam for standard tune measurement. 4 BPL per beam for PLL tune measurement. 2 BQK (PLL tune kicker) per beam for PLL excitation | |
| Tune feedback | 2 | ||||
| Chromaticity measurement | - | 1 | USA | 2 BPL per beam (H & V) for head-tail chromaticity measurement. Treat under Tune measurement. | |
| Chromaticity feedback | - | 2 | |||
| Abort gap monitor | - | 2 | |||
| CO Radiation monitors | 2 | 1 | 1 month | Prototype in place | Prototype acquisiton and display in place |
| Rest Gas Ionisation Monitor (BIPM) | - | 3 | B-field control plus compensation. Interlocks. | ||
| SR monitors | 1 | plus control of wiggler | |||
| Wire Scanner BWS | - | 2 | Interlocks. Movement. Acquisition | ||
| Schottky pick-ups |
- | 1 | USA | 2 BQS (H & V) per beam in
RA47 Will not be ready before early 2007 not essential for 1st commissioning phase |
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| K-modulation | |||||
| Luminosity monitors | Acquisition and display | ||||
| Measure and Correct | |||||
| Collision point finder | - | 2 | |||
| Luminosity scan | - | 2 | |||
| Orbit | 1 | 1 | Trajectory for sector test plus injection
optimsiation All the rest for circulating beam |
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| Threader | 1 | 1 | |||
| Generic Scans | - | 2 | |||
| Operational Utilities | |||||
| Injection Beam selector/sequencer | prototype | 1 | 3 months | ||
| Settings generation/FiDeL | subset | 1 | 2 man years - shared | Big issue - have to take care of decay, snapback | LSA Core |
| Sequencer | 2 (test) | 1 | 6 months dedicated | Sub trees, sub sequences, simple language. Threaded, allows simultaneous execution, makes yes/no decisions. execs are a disaster, executes inline (cdev commands for the most part). Error handling missing. TCL GUI. | |
| Interfaces | |||||
| On-line model | - | 2 | 6 months distributed | Twiss, Transfer matrix (real vs. model). Knobs, trims | work in progress. |
| Timing system | 1 | 3 months | Generation of timing tables, test programs | ||
| Standard facilities | |||||
| Alarms | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Logging | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Post Mortem | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Fixed Displays | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Analog Acquistion | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Controls | |||||
| Fast timing diagnostics | 1 | Timing section | |||
| Interlocks | 1 | Interlock section | Monitoring and control | ||
| Slow timing | 1 | 3 months | Need an interface for timing table generation, test sequences etc. | ||
| Software interlocks | 1 | Interlock section | |||
| Real time Utilities | |||||
| Real time knobs | |||||
| Feed forward | Standard LSA core facilities | ||||
| Orbit feedback | 1 | 6 months | RT interface unit need developing | ||
| RT control module/framework | - | 1st year | one year | ||