WAO10
The 7th International Workshop on Accelerator Operations
Daejeon, 12 to 16 April 2010

Hosted byPohang University of Science and Technology
Pohang Accelerator Laboratory
Korea Atomic Energy Research InstituteProton Engineering Frontier Project

Program Committee

Local Orginizing Committee

Co-Chair : Kyung-Ryul Kim, PAL

Young-Ouk Lee, KAERIYong-Sub Cho, PEFP

Byung-Cheol Lee, KAERI

Roger Bailey, CERN

Jong-Won Kim, NCC

Michael Bieler, DESY

Jun-Yeon Kim, PEFP

Rick Bloemhard, LBL

Kye-Ryung Kim, PEFP

George Dodson, SNS

Mun-Gyung Kim, PAL

Kazuro Furukawa, KEK

Yu-Seok Kim, KIRAMS

Laurent Hardy, ESRF

Bum-Sik Park, PEFPPeter Ingrassia, BNL

Eung-Soo Park, PAL

Dan Johnson, FNAL

Jae-Won Park, PEFP

Emanuel Karantzoulis, Elettra

Sung-Ju Park, PAL

Michael Spata, JLAB
Mike Stanek, SLAC
Eiichi Takada, NIRS
Violeta Toma, TRIUMF
Wenzhi Zhang, SSRF
Jijiu Zhao, IHEP

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INTRODUCTION
On behalf of the WAO 2010 International Program Committee (IPC),
we are pleased to announce the 7th International Workshop on
Accelerator Operation, WAO10, to be held at Daejeon, Korea from 12
to 16 April 2010.
In accelerator operations where experiences play critical role, theexchange of knowledge and ideas about the common problems all theoperation professionals face is essential to make their operations
efficient and effective without wrestling with a problem for which othercontrol rooms already have the solution.
Since the first workshop in May 1996 hosted by Jefferson Lab. in
Virginia, WAO, a biennial event alternating between America, Europe
and Asia, has provided the unique and natural forum for the exchangeof the latest advances in the field of Accelerator Operations. We aresure that the participants of the workshop will realize that they are not
alone

in

dealingwith

problemsoftheday-to-day

accelerator

operations, establish working relationships, make a real community,
learn about the successes and failures in other control rooms, see
how the new technologies are being applied, enjoy the benefit andinsight of shared experiences, and finally walk away with new ideasthat will shape the Accelerator Operation's future.
The topcis covered in the workshop include the followings.
- How We Do Business- Commissioning- Automation- Tools- 2 -- Ergonomics&Control Room
- Training- Maintenance- Safety&Regulation- Reliability
For detailed information on the workshop, please consult the workshop
websitehttp://wao10.komac.re.kr/.

We're looking forward to welcoming you in Daejeon.
Sincerely yours,
Kyung-Ryul Kim
Yong-Sub Cho
WAO10 Co-Chairpersons- 3 -ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE
Direction to KAERIKAERI is located in Daejeon(=Taejon), 160km (approx. 100miles)
south of Seoul.
From from Incheon International Airport to KAERI or Hotel Riviera in
DeajeonDirection: Take Airport Shuttle Bus from Incheon International Airport
to Daejeon. You may take off 2nd or 3rd stop depending on youraccommodation. Then take a taxi to your accommodation.
Shuttle Bus stops :▶1st stop as soon as the bus exit from freeway (walking distanceto KAERI)▶2nd stop at "Daedok Convention Center"▶3rd stop at "Government Complex" (nearest to Hotel RIVIERA)▶last stop at Dong(East) Daejeon Bus Terminal
Bus ticket: Direct to Airport Shuttle Bus Stop 9D and purchase theticket at ticket office (first come first service base)▶Fare: 14,500 Won(Coach), 21,800 Won(Deluxe)▶Airport Shuttle Bus Stop 9D at Incheon Int'l Airport to Daejeon- 4 -▶Airport Shuttle Bus▶ North Daejeon Ramp (Exit)

Ticket Office▶Airport Shuttle Bus Stops in Daejeon- 5 -Taxi from Bus Stops to your accommodation:▶ Daedok Convention Center to KAERI : approx. 5 minutes (4km),
3,000 Won
▶ Government Complex to Hotel RIVIERA : approx. 10 minutes(5km), 4,000 Won
From KAERI or Hotel Riviera to Incheon International Airport in
Deajeon.
Direction: Take a taxi from KAERI or Hotel RIVIERA to Airport Shuttle
Bus Stops, Daedok Convention Center or Government Complex III.
Then take the Airport Shuttle Bus to Incheon International Airport.
Dong(East) Daejeon Bus Terminal▶Government Complex III(Nearest to Hotel RIVIERA)▶Daedok Convention Center(Nearest to KAERI)▶Incheon International Airport- Bus Fare
▶Fare: 14,500 won(Coach). 21,800 won(Deluxe)- 6 -- 7 -

WORKSHOP VENUE
The address and Web page of workshop venue are;Nuclear Training and Education Center
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute1045 Daedeokdaero, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-353, Korea
Tel: 82.42.868.2678
Fax: 82.42.861.5018
http://www.kntc.re.kr/english/- 8 -▶Main Hall for workshop (WOONAM AUDITORIUM, 1F107)▶Poster Area (LECTURE ROOM I, 1F 103)

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▶Parallel Discussion Area (CONFERENCE ROOM, 2F 201)

▶Parallel Discussion Area (LECTURE ROOM II, 2F 205)

- 10 -REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION DESKThe Registration Desks are conveniently located on the 1st floor(Torch Hall) of the RIVIERA Hotel and entrance gate of the INTEC.
Registration Hours at the Workshop
Registration will take place from 14:00 to 18:00 on Sunday, 11 April
at the RIVIERA Hotel. And it will also take place from 8:30 to 18:00
on Monday, 12 April at the INTEC. Thereafter the registration desk
will be open as follows
Sunday, 11 April 2010(RIVIERA Hotel)

14:00 to 18:00

Monday, 12 April 201008:30 to 18:00(INTEC, Workshop Venue)
Tuesday to Thursday, 13 to 15 April 2010

09:00 to 18:00(INTEC, Workshop Venue)
Friday, 16 April 2010

09:00 to 13:00(INTEC, Workshop Venue)
Registration Fee
Before February 15, 2010

KRW 300,000

After February 15, 2010

KRW 380,000

The registration fee covers a copy of the workshop program and an
abstract book, the welcome reception, the workshop dinner, the tour
and lunches at the KAERI cafeteria.

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Speakers
Please note that all speakers must give their MS power point file(pptor pptx) in USB memory at the registration desk. Those files will be
distributed to every registered person as PDF file format saved in
USB memory stick on Friday, 16 April 2010. Individual laptops areavailable. But Macintosh is not available.
Posters
The poster boards will have a single surface measuring 0.91m(width)
X 1.21m(height) so they will accommodate an A0 sized poster in
portrait orientation.
Facility tour, outing & PAL tour
Every registered person should inform to the registration desk whether
will attend to facility tour, outing and PAL tour or not which is free.
DinnerEvery registered person should inform to the registration desk whether
will attend to the dinner or not.
Lunch
All registered person can enjoy lunch during the workshop period atworkshop venue.
Shuttle ServiceA

fare-free shuttle service will

be operated between the

Hotel

RIVIERA and the workshop venue during the workshop period. The
departure time in the morning is 08:00 AM at the hotel front gate.
Hotel RIVIERA(Front Gate) ▶ Workshop Venue : 08:00 AM
Workshop Venue ▶ Hotel RIVIERA(Front Gate)- 12 -

CREDIT CARD PAYMENT REQUEST FORM
Workshop Name: The 7th Workshop on Accelerator Operations
Dates: April 11 ~ 16, 2010
Print Name on Credit Card
Participant's Name if different from credit card
E-mail Address
Credit Card Number
Card Security Code*Expiration Date
Registration Fee (KRW)
Signature for credit card approval* The card security code(CDC) is a 3- or 4-digit number printed in the signature fieldon the back of your credit card. Payment by credit card should be required to fax thisform with signature.
REGISTRATION FEE
Before February 15, 2010

KRW 300,000

After February 15, 2010

KRW 380,000

The registration fee covers a copy of the workshop program and an abstract book, thewelcome reception, the workshop dinner, the tour and lunches at the KAERI cafeteria.
Please fax it to +82-42-868-8131
ATTN : bspark@kaeri.re.kr- 13 -

HOTEL RESERVATIONSHOTEL RIVIERA
The Hotel RIVIERA is the official hotel of WAO10, which has been
recently remodeled and well-appointed one. The hotel is conveniently
located in the downtown of Yuseong, a business district of Daejeon,and 12 km away from KAERI.
The hotel offers special rates for participants to WAO10 and also
shuttle service between the hotel and KAERI. Please make your own
reservation by yourself through the Hotel RIVIERA Reservations Page
(http://www.shinan.co.kr/yusong/eng/index_yuseong.asp).

When

you

make your reservation, please specify WAO10 or KAERI in the
Company or business field, like below, in order to obtain the special
rate:
Company or business: WAO10 or KAERIThe details of group rates are as follows;
Type

Rate

Available Rooms

NoteStandard Twin

KRW 108,90030

DoubleKRW 108,900

10Double(no bed)

Superior Twin

KRW 133,10030

DoubleJonior Suite

KRW 210,000

1SingleStandard Ondol
Twin(Korean Style)- 14 -FACILITY TOUR, OUTING & PAL TOURThe workshop organizing office will offer fare-free guided tours during
and after the workshop. Every attendee should decide what kind oftour options they will take during the registration process.
Facility Tour (Wednesday 14 April, 15:30 ~ 17:30)- 20 MeV LINAC at KAERI- HARARO Research Reactor at KAERI- KSTAR Research Fusion Reactor Facility at NFRI
(9 km away from KAERI, 20 min by Shuttle Bus)
After the facility tour, the shuttle bus will move to the dinner venue,
Hotel RIVIERA.
PAL tour (Friday 16 April, 14:00 ~ )- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory- It is 230 km away from KAERI and take 160 min by Shuttle Bus.
After PAL tour, all attendee will have dinner at Pohang University of
Science and Technology(POSTECH) cafeteria and will return to Hotel
RIVIERA.
Outing (Friday 16 April, 14:00 ~ )- Mt. Gyeryong National Park
- It is 21 km away from KAERI and take 30 min by Shuttle Bus.

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SOCIAL PROGRAMMEAll participants are recommended to sign up and make reservation for
the following social events at the registration desk.
Welcome Reception, Sunday 11 April 2010, 18:00 ~ 20:00
At the Hotel RIVIERA (1F Torch Hall)
Dinner, Wednesday 14 April 2010, 18:00 ~ 20:00
At the Hotel RIVIERA (1F Torch Hall)SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
Outlineofeachsessionandsynoptic

table

of

the

workshopprogramme are included in this booklet.
Oral Presentations
Details of all oral presentations, both invited and contributed, are givenin this Abstracts Brochure. Oral presentations take place at WOONAM
Auditorium (1F 107) from Monday, 12 April to Friday, 16 April.
Speakers can use Power Point file as a presentation material andtheir laptop is also available. But Macintosh is not supported.
Poster Session
Poster session is scheduled to be in the afternoon on Wednesday, 14
April 2010. But, posters should be mounted from Monday noon toThursday. The panel size for poster is 0.91m(width) X 1.21m(height)
so they will accommodate an A0 sized poster in portrait orientation.
The poster areas are located on Lecture Room 2 (1F 103).
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ABSTRACTS BROCHURE
The workshop abstracts brochure will be published both in hard copy
and electronic version in PDF format. Every attendees can have a
USB memory stick containing PDF files on Friday, 16 April 2010.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Parallel Discussions (16:00 ~ 17:30)- WOONAM Auditorium (INTEC, 1F 107)
- Conference Room (INTEC, 2F 201)
- Lecture Room 1 (INTEC, 2F 205)
Thursday, 15 April 2010
PC meeting (18:00 ~ 20:00)- Hotel RIVIERA (14F Diamond Hall)- 17 -

OUTLINE OF SESSIONS
Sunday, 11 April 2010
HOTEL RIVIERA
14:00~17:30 Registration
18:00~20:00 Welcome Reception
Monday, 12 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
OPENING&HWDB I
Chairperson : M.Bieler
08:30~09:00 Registration
09:00~09:10 Opening Address PAL Director
09:10~09:20 Welcome Address PEFP Director
09:20~09:30 Break
09:30~09:50 O-01 Operation Status of the PEFP Proton Accelerator
Hyeok-Jung Kwon
09:50~10:10 O-02 Luminosity Tuning and Operation Statistics at KEKBManabu Tanaka
10:10~10:30

O-03

Pelletron

Accelerator

Facility

Experience of Two Decades Pramod Bhagwat
Coffee Break (10:30~11:00)- 18 --

Operational

Monday, 12 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
HWDB II
Chairperson : E. Takada
11:00~11:20 O-04 Operations of the Coupled Cyclotron Facility at
Michigan State University Andreas Stolz
11:20~11:40 O-05 Electron Accelerator Complex at Tohoku University,
42-Year- Operation and Future Hiroyuki Hama
11:40~12:00 O-06 Machine Operation and Maintenance in CLS
Xiaofeng Shen
12:00~12:20 O-07 Experiment Liaison Duties Michael Aiken
Lunch Break (12:20~14:00)
Monday, 12 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Commissioning I
Chairperson : M.Spata
14:00~14:20 O-08 Commissioning of the BEPC-II Storage Rings
Qing Qin
14:20~14:40 O-09 Commissioning and Operation of SSRF
Wenzhi Zhang
14:40~15:00 O-10 Commissioning Experience for SLAC Linac Coherent
Light Source Michael Stanek
15:00~15:20 O-11 Operation of RIKEN RI Beam Factory
Masayiki Kase
15:20~15:40 O-12 Commissioning of J-PARC Main Ring
Tadashi Koseki
Coffee Break (15:40~16:00)- 19 -

Monday, 12 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Commissioning II
Chairperson : Michael Bieler
16:00~16:20 O-13 The Operation Status of HIRFL and Commissioningof HIRFL-CSR Jiancheng Yang
16:20~16:40 O-14 Status of the Soreq Applied Research Accelerator
Facility Isaac Gertz
16:40~17:00 O-15 LHC Commissioning Rossano Giachino
17:00~17:20 O-16 Facilities and Utilities for Driving the LHC
Markus Albert

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Automation & Tools
Chairperson : G.Dodson & K.Furukawa
09:00~09:20 O-17 The GSI Operation Logbook OLog Petra Schuett
09:20~09:40 O-18 Pulse-to-pulse Beam Modulation for KEKB and PF
Injections and Energy Management at KEK 8-GeV Linac
Kazuro Furukawa
09:40~10:00 O-19 Electrical Power System Design of PEFP to Ensure
Reliability in Operation Kyeong-Jun Mun
10:00~10:20 O-53 Development of the Operation Tools for the 2009KSTAR Experiment Sulhee Baek
Coffee Break (10:20~11:00)- 20 -

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Automation
Chairperson : G.Dodson & K.Furukawa
11:00~11:20

O-20

An

Operators

Tool

for

Advanced

Synchrotron

Injection Diagnostics Wolfgang Bayer
11:20~11:40 O-21 SNS Operations Tools and Automation
George W Dodson
11:40~12:00 O-22 The PLS Operation and the Tools Eung-Soo Park
Lunch Break (12:00~14:00)

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
InvitedChairperson : K.R.Kim & Y.S.Cho
14:00~14:30 O-23 Control System for the Clinical Operation in Proton
Therapy Center Se-Byeong Lee
14:30~15:00 O-24 Experience from HANARO Reactor Management
In-Cheol Lim
15:00~15:30 O-25 Operational Results and Experience of KSTAR
Integrated Control System Mi-Kyung Park
Coffee Break (15:30~16:00)- 21 -

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Lecture Room I (1F 103)
PosterChairperson : Q. Qin & W.Zhang
P-01 The Improvement of HIMAC-INJECTOR Operation
Hiroshi Izumiya
P-02 Operation of Cyclotrons at RCNP T.Yorita
P-03 Current State of HIMAC Accelerator Masahiro Kawashima
P-04 Injector Linac Upgrade and Operation for the BEPCII Project
Guanghui Chen
P-05 Design Concept of the Modulator System with Inverter Power
Supply for 3.0 GeV Linac Sang-Hee Kim
P-06 The Monte Carlo Simulation for a Measurement of a Neutron
Cross Section in the Pohang Neutron

Facilities Sung-Chul Yang

P-07 The Operation Scenario of Beam Lines and Target Room in the
PEFP Accelerator Facility Sang-pil Yoon
P-08 Operation Scenario of the Vacuum System in the PEFP
Accelerator Facility Hwa Ryun Lee
P-09 DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH RESOLUTION LARGE DISPLAY FORSPRING-8 CENTRAL CONTOL ROOM Takashi Hamano
P-10 Control Status of the PLS MPS Control System J.C. Yoon
P-11 The Control Room FERMI Andea Apollonio
P-12

HIMAC

Irradiation

SystemOperation,

MaintenanceandTroubleshooting Kazuki Shimabukuro
P-13 User Interface Design for PEFP Accelerator Operations
Eun-Mi An
P-14 Estimations of the Induced Activities in the Proton Accelerator
Facility of PEFP Cheol Woo Lee
P-15 Beam Energy Reliability by the Cooling Water Temperature of
the PLS Mun Gyung Kim- 22 -

P-16 An Automated Injection System for “Fill on Fill” Operation Joel
Trewhella
P-17 Commissioning of the Carbon Beam Gantry at the Heidelberg
Ion Therapy(HIT) Accelerator Michael Galonska
P-18

Improvement

of

MC-50

Cyclotron

TuningModulethroughDevelopment of Software Program for TUM Yeun-Soo Park

Wednesday, 14 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Training I
Chairperson : D.Johnson
09:00~09:20 O-26 Managing Procedural Training Karen L. Nunez
09:20~09:40 O-27 Non-Linear Opportunity Based Training Methods at
a Small Facility. James Morel
09:40~10:00 O-28 Training Syllabus for RIKEN NISHINA Center
Tadashi Fujinawa
10:00~10:20

O-29

Accelerator

Operations

Involvement

Development Duane Newhart
Workshop Photo Time (10:20~10:40)
Coffee Break (10:40~11:00)- 23 -

in

ProjectWednesday, 14 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Training II
Chairperson : V.Toma
11:00~11:20 O-30 Utilizing Open Source Software to Manage Training
Paul Vasilauskis
11:20~11:40

O-31

Operator

Training

Programat

ALS:

RecentImprovements Angelic L Pearson
11:40~12:00 O-32 Training New Operators - The First Six Months
Bruce Worthel
Lunch Break (12:00~14:00)

Wednesday, 14 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Ergonomics & Control Room
Chairperson : M.Stanek
14:00~14:20 O-33 SLAC Main Control Center Upgrade Peter Schuh
14:20~14:40 O-34 New Furniture for the DESY Accelerator Control
Room Michael Bieler
14:40~15:00 O-35 Current Status and Future Prospect of the PEFP
Control Room Song Young-gi
Facility Tour (15:00~17:30)(20MeV LINAC, Research reactor & Fusion Machine)
Dinner at Hotel RIVIERA (18:00~20:00)- 24 -

Thursday, 15 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Maintenance I
Chairperson : E.Karantzoulis
09:00~09:20 O-36 Water Cooling Maintenance and Improvement.
Stefano Krecic
09:20~09:40 O-37 Reassignment of Network Addresses at SPring-8
Control System Takashi Sugimoto
09:40~10:00 O-38 Maintenance Activities at Laboratori Nazionali diLegnaro Carlucci Davide
10:00~10:20 O-39 Maintenance Coordination at TRIUMF's Cyclotron
and ISAC Facilities Rene Tanaja
Coffee Break (10:20~11:00)
Thursday, 15 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Maintenance II
Chairperson : V.Toma
11:00~11:20 O-40 Maintenance Strategy of the PEFP Proton Linear
Accelerator Dae-Il Kim
11:20~11:40 O-41 High Risk Maintenance Project at the LBNL 88-Inch
Cyclotron Jim Morel
11:40~12:00 O-42 Transition from Shutdown to Operations
Paul W.Sampson
12:00~12:20 O-43 HVAC Concept Design for Proton Target RoomOperation Jeon Gae Po
Lunch Break (12:20~14:00)- 25 -

Thursday, 15 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Safety & Regulation
Chairperson : Jim Morel
14:00~14:20 O-44 User Controlled Access at NSRL Vincent Schoefer
14:20~14:40 O-45 Construction of the New Accelerator Safety Interlock
System for SPring-8 control system Choji Saji
14:40~15:00 O-46 Continuity of Accelerator Operations during an
Extended Pandemic Noel Okay
15:00~15:20 O-47 DESY Access Control System Michael Bieler
15:20~15:40 O-48 Implementation of Electrical Safety Procedures andTechniques for Accelerator Operations Martin Murphy
Coffee Break (15:40~16:00)

Thursday, 15 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Conferenc Room (2F 201)
Lecture Room II (2F 205)

Parallel Discussions (16:00~17:30)
PC Meeting at Hotel RIVIERA (18:00~20:00)- 26 -

Friday, 16 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Reliability
Chairperson : L.Hardy
09:00~09:20 O-49 Reliably Cooling Accelerators Don McGilvery
09:20~09:40 O-50 Study of an Electrical Noise from Synchrotron
Radiation Yasuhide Ishizawa
09:40~10:00 O-51 Preparation for Beam Commissioning at the LHC
Rossano Giachino
10:00~10:20 O-52 Preliminary Measurement of Be-10 Isotope by 1MV
AMS Hwan Hong
Coffee Break (10:20~11:00)

Friday, 16 April 2010
WOONAM Auditorium (1F 107)
Open Discussion & Closing
Chairperson : E. Takada, J. Morel & M. Stenek

Lunch Break (12:30~14:00)
Outing & PAL tour
(PAL or Gyeryong National Park)- 27 -

WAO10 PROGRAM
11 April(Sun)08:30 -

12 April(Mon)

13 Aprl(Tue)09:00 -

Opening&HWDB-I

10:30(M.Bieler)

10:30 -

Coffee11:00
11:00 -HWDB-II

12:30(E.Takada)

12:30 -

Automation & Tools(G.Dodson&
K.Furukawa)
CoffeeAutomation(K.Furukawa&
G.Dodson)

Lunch

Lunch

14:00 -

Commissiong-I

Invited

15:30(M.Spata)(K.R.Kim&Y.S.Cho)

CoffeeCoffee

14:00

16:00
16:00 -

Registration(Hotel)17:30
18:00 20:00

15 April(Thu)

16 April(Fri)Registration

09:00

15:30 -

14 April(Wed)Training-I

Maintenance-I

Reliability(D.Johnson)(E.Karantzoulis)(L.Hardy)

CoffeeCoffeeCoffeeTraining-II

Maintenance-II(V.Toma)(V.Toma)

Lunch

Lunch

Ergonomics&Control
Room(M.Stanek)
CoffeeCommissiong-II

PosterFacility Tour(M.Bieler)(Q.Qin&W.Zhang)(KAERI, KSTAR)
Dinner (Hotel)(Hotel)- 28 -(E.Takada,J.Morel&M.Stenek)
Lunch

Safety&Regulation(J. Morel)
CoffeeParallel Discussions

Welcome
Reception

Open Discussion&Closing

PC Meeting (Hotel)

Outing & PAL tourO - 01
Operation Status of the PEFP Proton Accelerator*
Hyeok-Jung Kwon, Yong-Sub Cho, Han-Sung Kim, Kyeong-Tae Seol,
Dae-Il Kim, Ji-Ho Jang, In-Seok Hong, Young-Gi Song, Eun-Mi An,
Kyung-Jin Min, Sang-Pil Yun, Bum-Sik Park, Hwa-Ryun Lee
The Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP) is developing a
100MeV, 20mA proton linac, which consists of a 50keV proton
injector, a 3MeV Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ), a 100MeV Drift
Tube Linac (DTL), a 20MeV and 100MeV beam transport lines. As afront end part of the 100MeV machine, the 20MeV proton linac wasinstalled at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) site andhas been operating since 2007. The main purposes of the 20MeV
linac operation at KAERI are to supply proton beam to users and to
study the characteristics of the machine itself and its components. In
this paper, the development of the PEFP proton accelerator including
20MeV linac operation is presented and the operation plan of the
100MeV machine based on the 20MeV linac experience is discussed.
* This work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science andTechnology of the Korean government.

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O - 02
Luminosity Tuning and Operation Statistics at KEKBManabu Tanaka , Yoshihiro Funakoshi
The KEKB B-Factory (KEKB) started a collision experiment in 1999
and achieved the design luminosity of 10/nb/s in May, 2003. We
achieved 21.1 /nb/s (more than the double of the design luminosity).
The integrated luminosity surpassed 1000 /fb in 2009. We routinely
make tuning on machine parameters related to beam collision evenduring the physics experiment. The purpose of this adjustment (called"knob tuning") is to maintain the high luminosity by optimizing thecollision parameters and to obtain an even higher luminosity. We
installed crab cavities in February, 2007. The method of luminosity
tuning changed to some extent and some new tuning methods wereintroduced. We installed skew sextupole magnets in March, 2009 andthe e+/e- simultaneous injection scheme was realized. After those, thepeak and integrated luminosity improved drastically. We also describe
the operation statistics.

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O - 03
Pelletron Accelerator Facility- Operational Experience of Two Decades
P V Bhagwat, A.K.Gupta, J.A.Gore, P.Surendran, S.G.Kulkarni,
N.Mehrotra, S.C.Sharma, Ramlal, J.P.Nair, Q.N.Ansari, U.V.Matkar,
Ramjilal, N.G.Ninawe, R.N.Lokare, M.L.Yadav, J.K.Yadav,
M.Ekambaram, Hillary Sparrow, P.V.Gudekar, P.C.Bolar, G.K.Nikam,
R.K.Choudhury, S.Kailas
The

Pelletron

Accelerator

Facility

has

been

set

up

under

a

collaborative project of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) at the campus
of TIFR in South Mumbai, India. The facility is based on a 14 million
volt tandem electrostatic accelerator capable of providing ion beams
such as protons, alpha and different types of heavy ions at energies
sufficiently high for conducting nuclear research in a variety of new
and interesting regimes. The accelerator has been in operation for lasttwenty one years with progressively increased efficiency. An ion
source test bench has been set up for development of various ion
beams. Recently, Beryllium beam is successfully accelerated after
complying with safety norms. The technique of multi-element cathodesamples has been indigenously developed to extract different ion
species from the same cathode and work on multi-cathode SNICS ion
source is at advanced stage of completion. The original NEC column
structure had corona grading for potential distribution, which has been
replaced by a resistance grading system. As a result, the performanceof the accelerator has improved significantly. The accelerator has ahigh uptime and routinely operated on higher side at 12 MV and onlower side at 2.5 MV. A double drift tube harmonic buncher, operating
at 10 & 20 MHz, has been developed indigenously to pulse the dc- 31 -

beam to 1-2 ns pulse width. The buncher has been in operation forlast several years.
In the initial years there were problems of failure of charging chain,couplers and bearings of rotating shaft, fibre optic cables, foil stripper
etc. All these problems were resolved systematically, and by year
1993 the accelerator performance improved significantly. In the recent
years,

variousaccelerator

based

application

programs

suchasaccelerator based mass spectrometry (AMS), production of track-etchedmembrane, high current irradiation for production of radioisotope etc.
have been initiated.
An alternate injector project of ECR source, room temperature radio
frequency quadrupole (RFQ) and low β cavity using Nb technology ison the anvil.
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Operations of the Coupled Cyclotron Facility
at Michigan State University
Andreas Stolz
As the largest university-based nuclear science user facility in the
U.S., the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at
Michigan State University plays a leading role in rare isotope researchand nuclear science education. The Coupled Cyclotron Facility at
NSCL produces word-class beams of rare isotopes using the in-flight
separation technique. More than 1000 rare isotope beams have been
produced since 2001. Rare isotope beam production is accomplishedby an experienced team of beam physicist within 4 to 12 hours.
NSCL typically operates for a total of 5000 hours per year with anavailability of over 90%. A quality management system certified
according to ISO 9001 helps to ensure high facility availability anduser satisfaction.

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Electron Accelerator Complex
at Tohoku University, 42-Year-Operation and Future
H. Hama, M. Kawai, H.Hinode, Y. Shibasaki, S. Takahashi, K. Nanbu,
I. Nagasawa, T. Muto, M. Hiraga
An electron linac has been operated for 42 years at Laboratory of
Nuclear Science, Tohoku University. The linac, constructed as the firstmachine for high energy nuclear physics at universities in Japan, is
consists of 5 klystron modulators and 20 accelerating structures.
Though the maximum beam energy was 300 MeV at the beginning,now 220 MeV maybe the maximum because of deterioration of shunt
impedance of the accs. The maximum macropulse current is limited to
be about 80 mA at the beam energy higher than 100 MeV due tobeam brow-up. The machine was really designed by old fashioned
style then quadrupoles were not distributed properly, which is a reasonof the lower maximum curent. The linac is now used as an injector
for a 1.2 GeV booster synchrotron that was constructed in 1996 forhadron physics, and another role is a radio isotope producer by
irradiating targets with 300 Hz repetition rate. We will report on
experience of operation and maintenance of the accelerators anddiscuss future of the laboratory as an accelerator-based laboratory.

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Machine Operation and Maintenance in CLS
Xiaofeng Shen, Hao Zhang
The Canadian Light Source (CLS) is a third generation synchrotron
radiation source that started operation in 2004. During the five years
operation,themachineoperation

andmaintenance

have

been

improved. In this paper, the operator management and decreasing theconflict between new beamline installation and maintenance have been
described. Using grid indicator matrix and tabbed window based
display for diagnosis and screen navigation has been discussed.

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Experiment Liaison Duties
Michael Aiken
The continuous electron beam accelerator facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson
Lab (JLAB) hosts unique and specialized experiments simultaneouswithroutineexperiments

in

other

end-stations.

These

uniqueexperiments often have specialized beam requirements, new beamline
configurations

including

diagnostic

devices,

and

well

definedcommissioning periods. Each experiment’s needs are different, so theJefferson Lab Operations Group assigns an Experiment Liaison, asingle crew chief or operator who works directly with experiment
representatives during planning, commissioning and installation. This
poster shows how the Experiment Liaison plays a key role in planningthe beam instrumentation requirements, drafting experiment-specificsetup procedures, and training Operations staff before the first beam
is ever delivered to the experiment.

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Commissioning of the BEPC-II Storage Rings
Qing Qin for the BEPC-II commissioning teamThe upgrade project of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC-II)
aims at the luminosity of 3 to 10*10^{32} cm^{-2}s^{-1} at the beamenergy

of

1.89

GeV,

and

a

stablebeam

performance

to

the

synchrotron radiation (SR) users with a higher beam current at 2.5
GeV. After the construction of the BEPC-II, the commissioning of thestorage rings started from 2006. After two and a half years running,
including luminosity commissioning and operation for both high energy
physics and SR, the machine reached its design value in the May of2009. Here we reviewed the commissioning of both collision and SR
modes.

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Commissioning and Operation of SSRF
W.Z. Zhang L.X.Yin Z.T. Zhao H.H.Li
The Shanghai Synchrotron Rediation Facility(SSRF), a 3rd generationsynchrotron light source with the energy of 3.5GeV, was successfullycommissioned in 2009. All the beam parameters are reached theirdesign values.From May 2009, the facility was open to users. The
commissioning and operational status of SSRF are reviewed in thispaper.

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Commissioning Experience
for SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source
Michael Stanek
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory뭩 Linac Coherent Light Source(LCLS), was sucessfully comissioned in 2009, bringing high intensity,
sub-picosecond X-rays to users. The LCLS utilizes part of the existing
SLAC 3-km linear accelerator to produce short, intense, low emittanceelectron bunches over a range of 4 to 13.6 GeV. The electrons are
guided with trajectory tolerances of <10 um rms through a series ofundulator magnets. The resultant 몀icro-bunched?electrons interactingwith the photons generated in the undulators create coherent X-rays ofextremely high brightness, from 800eV to 8 KeV, for use in atomic,
molecular, and material science studies. User availability goals of>95% were met during the first user runs of October-December 2009.
The talk will describe several aspects of the staged commissioning
effort from 2007 to 2009. Key elements were the collaborative
organization of accelerator physicists and operators, a multi-faceted
training program, and well constructed commissioning plans.

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Operation of RIKEN RI Beam Factory
Masayuki Kase
RIKEN RI Beam Factory (RIBF) has four large-scaled ring cyclotrons
aiminghighintensity

heavy-ion

beams

with

energylike

350MeV/nucleon. It completed in 2007 and It passed three years since
the RI beam factory provied variety of beams to the RI beam
generatot called BigRIPS. Opearional cimmisioning of RIBF during
these three years will be reported. Its operatiion has a number ofparameters, combimation accelrators, Ion-species, frequency, etic.

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Commissioning of J-PARC Main Ring
Tadashi Koseki and J-PARC commissioning team
J-PARC Main Ring started its beam commissioning on May 2008,
after 4 years of construction. Now it delivers 30GeV proton beam tothe neutorino experimental facility and the hadron experimental hall.
J-PARC MR commissioning still continues until the design value ofbeam power, 750KW will be achieved. Status of MR and theexperience in its beam commissioning will be reported.

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O - 13The Operation Status of HIRFL and Commmssioning of
HIRFL-CSR
Jiancheng Yang,Hongwei Zhao,Jiawen Xia,Youjin Yuan,Xiaodong
Yang,Mingtao Song,Yiping Yang,Yong Liu,Lijun Mao,Dayu Yin and
HIRFL Operation GroupThe HIRFL complex consists of a main ring (CSRm), an experimental
ring (CSRe) and RIB production and transfer line (RIBLL2) between
them. The two cyclotrons SFC (K=69) and SSC (K=450) are used as
injectors. The SSC was put into operation in the beginning of 1989
and HIRFL was found as national laboratory from 1992. Many
upgrading items were carried out for the SFC and SSC to improvethe beam intensity, beam quality and operation efficiency. The Cooling
Storage Ring (CSRm and CSRe) was constructed from 2000 andcommissioning activities were performed in 2006 and 2007. The first
operation was carried on in 2009. Up to now, the injector system ofcyclotron (SFC+SSC) can provide all ions from proton to uranium withhigh intensity. The heavy ions of C, Ar, Kr, and Xe was successfully
accumulated and accelerated in CSRm with the combination of
stripping injection (STI) or multiple multi-turn injection (MMI) ande-cooling with a hollow electron beam. The high charged state beams
and RIBs from CSRm stacked in CSRe for internal target experiments
and RIBs mass measurement with the isochronous-mode. In thispaper, the HIRFL complex operation status and CSR commissioning
was presented, the researches based on the HIRFL complex are
described.

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Status of the Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility
I.Gertz, I. Mardor, D. Berkowitz, L. Weissman, A. PerryThe Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility, SARAF, is currently
under beam characterization tests at Soreq NRC. SARAF is based ona continuous wave (CW), proton/deuteron RF superconducting linear
accelerator with variable energy (5?40 MeV) and current (0.04-2 mA).
SARAF linac is designed to enable hands-on maintenance, which
implies beam loss below 10-5 for the entire accelerator. Phase I of
SARAF consists of a 20 keV/u ECR ion source, a low energy beamtransport section, a 4-rod RFQ, a medium energy (1.5 MeV/u)transport section, a superconducting module housing 6 half-wave
resonators and 3 superconducting solenoids, a diagnostic plate and a
beam

dump.

Phase

II

will

include5

additional

superconducting

modules. The ECR source is in routine operation since 2006, the RFQ
is in routine operation with protons since 2008 and has been further
operated with molecular hydrogen and deuterons at low duty cycle. RF
conditioning of the RFQ to enable deuteron CW acceleration is on
going.

The

superconducting

moduleisbeing

operated

andcharacterized with protons. SARAF Phase I commissioning results arepresented.

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LHC Commissioning
Roger Bailey, Mr. Rossano Giachino
Following

6

years

of

construction

andtesting

from

2002,

commissioning of the LHC with beam started in the third quarter of2008. After a very promising start, a serious equipment fault on
September 19 2008 caused considerable collateral damage to themachine. Repair and consolidation took over a year, and beamcommissioning resumed in late 2009. A technical stop of a few weeks
was required in early 2010, with beam operation continuing fromMarch 2010. Against this backdrop, the status of LHC is presented.

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Facilities and Utilities for Driving the LHC
Markus Albert
The rapid and successful start to beam commissioning of the LHC
was made possible by the array of facilities that were available in thecontrolroom

providing a

from

day

1.

The

unified interface tointegrated

softwarethe operators

andarchitecture,
allowing theimplementation of a machine-wide task sequencer, was stable andavailable even before first beam. Powerful applications for driving
beam instrumentation worked on the first day or very soon afterwards,
providing operations with a comprehensive set of diagnostic tools formeasurement and correction of all machine parameters.

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The GSI Operation Logbook OLog
P. Schuett, W. Bayer, D. Pfeiffer, S. Reimann, U. Scheeler,
M. Stein
In 2005, the GSI Operations Group started the development of adatabase-connected

Operating

Logbook,

which

is

in

use

since

1.1.2007. Special features are e.g.:- the automatic balancing of beam time for each of the running
experiments;- the documentation of settings and of beam parameters with a searchfunction to retrieve data from previous beam times;- or direct communication of bugs and malfunctions to the responsiblegroups.
Write access is restricted to the current shift crew during their shift tomeet legal requirements on logging. Reading access has been opened
to

the

other

groupsintheaccelerator

department

to

ease

communication and a separate public view web page is provided toshow the accelerator status to the experimenters.
Features of the OLog and experience both with the development andwith the use of it will be presented in this contribution.

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Pulse-to-pulse Beam Modulation for KEKB and PF
Injections and Energy Management at KEK 8-GeV Linac
Kazuro Furukawa, Yujiro Ogawa, Takuya Kamitani, Yukiyoshi Ohnishi,
Masanori Satoh, Shiro Kusano
KEK 8-GeV linac injects electron and positron beams into KEKB HER,
LER

and PF

multi-energy

rings at different energies switching at 50Hz. A

beam

opticswasdesignedtoaccommodate

staticquadrupole magnet fields. As the beam energies (8GeV, 3.5GeV and2.5GeV) and bunch charges (0.1nC to 10nC) are very different,
configuration of RF phase and timing is changed pulse by pulse, andthe beam for PF is decelerated at a part of linac. Furthermore, wesometimes have one of RF stations out of order, and a backup
station replaces it. Thus, the energy management is important for the
linac operation both to design beam optics and to modify it during theoperation.

The

present

statusandSuperKEKB project are described.

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Electric Power System Design of PEFP
to Ensure Reliability in Operation
Kyeong-Jun Mun, Gye Po Jeon, Sung Sik Park, Jin Sam Cho, Yi-Sub
Min, Jung Min Nam, Jun Yeon Kim
Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP) is now in the constructionofProtonAccelerator

ResearchCenter

until

2012.

In

ProtonAccelerator Research Center Construction, it is indispensible to design
electric power system for the reliable electricity supplies to theaccelerator and conventional facilities.
In this paper, we describe monitoring & control system for the electric
power system and emergency power system of PEFP to ensure
reliable operation for the accelerator and conventional facilities of
PEFP. In monitoring & control system design procedure, we designed
monitoring & control logic of each power system component for therecognition and control of the abnormal operation. We also designed
emergency

powersystem,such

asdieselgenerator

system,uninterruptible power supply system (UPS) and DC power system, toprovideindispensible

electric

power

for

the

accelerator

andconventional facilities safety & reliability when the electric power of thetransformer is lost due to any reason.

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An Operators Tool for Advanced Synchroton Injection
Diagnostics
W. Bayer, G. Fr?lich, W. Kaufmann, U. Scheeler, P. Sch?t, Ch.
WetzelThe operation of an accelerator facility like that at GSI Helmholtz
Center for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany is very
complex. The beam setup for a dedicated experiment requires themeasurement of several beam parameters, e. g. stripping efficiency,
energy, revolution frequency and so on. Different beam diagnostics
along the accelerator and beam transport lines provide for thispurpose appropriate signals. As beam time is rare due to great
demand the operators are asked to setup beam in less and less time.
One approach to enable that is to simplify the handling of beamdiagnostic tools and to preprocess those signals so that the operator
gets a measurement result in a minimum of time.
We report on the development of our Schottky analysis in the SIS18
as an example for that. The history is summarised and the control
room front end is presented.

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SNS Operations Tools and Automation
Charles C. Peters, Nicholas P. Luciano, Tim B. SouthernAt

theSpallation

NeutronSourceoperational

tools

are

being

developed to reduce operator induced downtimes, as well as improveissue diagnosis and machine recovery times. Operator downtimes
usually occur while doing simple repetitive tasks. To try to eliminate
these errors, operators have created EPICS based sequences toautomate these tasks. For further improving issue diagnosis andmachine recovery times an html based tuning guide, system specificwiki pages, and sharepoint sites have been created. These sites detail
simple and complex procedures, common issues, and in the case ofsharepoint inter-group conversation. Operations also continues helping
to keep the Best Ever Alarm System Toolkit up to date with important
alarms.

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The PLS Operation and the Tools
Eung-Soo Park, Eun-Hee Lee, Mun-Gyung Kim,Sung-Ju Park,and Kyung-Ryul Kim
The Pohang Light Source(PLS) is one of the third-generation lightsources

of

2.5

GeV

electronenergy.

The

PohangAccelerator

Laboratory (PAL) has started the PLS operation in 1995. PLS has
employed and developed many application tools for operations. Now
the upgrade project called PLS II is ongoing with the goal of
improvements to 3.0 GeV, 400 mA, and 5 nm*rad emittance. The
operational tools of PLS should be reorganized to facilitate thecommissioning and operation of PLS II at the end of 2011. This paper
will review the operational tools and a blue print of the PLS control
room.

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Control System for the Clinical Operationin Proton Therapy Center
Se Byeong Lee
National Cancer Center (NCC), an organization that specializes in thecancer research, the treatment, and the education, introduced a Proton
Therapy Facility in 2003 and started the first patient treatment on
March 19, 2007. The facility consists of a cyclotron (Proteus 235)
accelerating proton to 230MeV, 3 patient treatment rooms, and 1
experimental site. It is developed for clinical use as a commercial
model by IBA, Belgium. We treated 519 cancer patients by 2009 in
the facility. Our operation experience for last 3 years and the control
system for the clinical use will be presented.

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Experience from HANARO Reactor Management
In Cheol LIM
HANARO, which is a 30 MW open-tank-in-pool type multi-purpose
research reactor, has been operated by KAERI since its initial
criticality in Feb. of 1995. It is a sole neutron source in Korea andbeing utilized for neutron science, material test for power reactor fueland material development, radio-isotope production, neutron activation
analysis and semiconductor production. Considering that HANARO is
the first experience of Korea in high power research reactor, newtrials or new techniques were evolved and applied during construction,commissioning, operation and utilization. These included the various
activities in the establishment of organization, turn-over of facilities
between the project phases, the establishment of user communities
and the facility safety management. These experiences are believed to
be good references for the establishment similar large-scale scientificfacilities.

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Operational Results and Experienceof KSTAR Integrated Control System
Mikyung Park and KSTAR Control TeamThe KSTAR(Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) is
the newest superconducting tokamak to have a mission to perform
fusion researches for future energy source, which accomplished the
1st plasma in 2008 after the completion of design, fabrication andassembly since 1995. Also, the KSTAR integrated control system(KICS) has been developed to integrate various types of plant I&Cs
and data acquisition systems, and perform KSTAR tokamak operationand plasma experiments which are substantially different from theotherexperimental

campaigns,

thefacilities

KICS

has

in

operation.

successfully

Through

the

last

2

performed

theessential

missions and also proved the performance of EPICS for tokamak
control. The noticeable results affected the decision of a middleware
for ITER CODAC system.

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Managing Procedural Training
Karen Nunez
There are nearly 360 procedures maintained at the Advanced Light
Sourcefortheoperations

staff

of

Accelerator

Operators,

Floor

Operators, Engineers and Technicians. Over the course of the year,
procedures

undergorevisionsduetoequipment

andsoftwareupgrades, changes and improvements in processes, changes in staff
responsibility, or else corrections that are noted during a relevancy
review.
Given that typically one-third of the procedures are revised annually,
the effort involved to send notification, retrain staff, and maintaintraining records can become overwhelming. This presentation will
provide an overview of a how procedural training is managed throughthe use of the Procedures Training Database. We will take a look at:- Forms of re-training, including read & understand, hand-on, andonline training, and how these are documented- the database interface and the different ways supervisors can view
their group training- how supervisors manage their group training- sample reports based on various queries
Toward the end of this presentation, discussion can be opened toshare what different sites do to encourage staff members to maintaintraining as procedures are updated or newly developed.

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Non-Linear Opportunity Based Training Methods
at a Small Facility
Jim Morel
The 88-Inch Cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is asmall facility with four operators and a training program that has tocover a wide range of machine configurations, ions, energies andintensities while the Cyclotron remains operational. I will compare ourtraining program to a conventional training program that is designed
for many trainees, where there is a structured training program withset sequence of milestones to be achieved with a certain predictableefficiency. We are a facility with one trainee every 1-2 years and asmall

training

program

that

must

take

advantageofmachineconfiguration opportunities as they present themselves. First the trainee
acquires basic theoretical knowledge to be able to speak accelerator.
Then based on the Cyclotron’s schedule, the trainee will move tolearn systems and skills needed to participate in the ongoing Cyclotron
operational objective of delivering the scheduled beam on target. The
trainee must take advantage of the learning opportunity when aspecific machine configuration presents itself because it may not be
repeated for a long time. This is non-linear training; it forces flexibility,
it put the onus on the trainee to take advantage of the operationalschedule, it allows the trainee to learn what is needed for each tune
and integrates the trainee into the culture of owning the quality of
one’s tune from an early stage of their training. The learning of theownership of being the Operator-in-Charge is a fundamental objectiveof the training program and is a major thread in all the training
experiences. In the long run it is felt that this is a more efficienttraining method for this small facility.

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Training Syllabus for RIKEN NISHINA Center
Tadashi Fujinawa
RIKEN NISHINA center갽s RI Beam Factory is currently under service
fornuclearphysics.

After

WAO07

experimental

facilities

areconstructed and some are in progress.
This time we will explain our training curriculums that are based on
legal and RIKEN safety code. In 2009, we received?40 experimentersand 6 operators as freshman.
Our syllabus is consisting of, guidance, sturdy for engaged person
under radiation control area and special training for low voltage
electrical handling and these are for everyone. Medium voltage, liquid
nitrogen and acquirement course for crane operation are available asnecessary.
Operation skills are transferred mainly by OJT. And in case of any
incident, the manual will be revised and additional facility will befurnished, as necessary.

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Accelerator Operations Involvement in Project Development
NewhartAs new projects are brought online at Fermilab, the Accelerator
Operations Department continues to play a role during the project
development, installation and commissioning phases. My presentation
will focus on contributions from Accelerator Operations Department
during the development and installation phases of a project, andhighlight areas of concern from the operations perspective.
Using examples from Main Injector installation project, the Booster
Corrector Upgrade and the current Muon Test Area project I’ll explore
common issues for operations group that include integrating a new
project into the control room environment, developing search andsecure procedures, and eliminating exceptional conditions for a new
project.

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Utilizing Open Source Software to Manage Training
Paul Vasilauskis
At Jefferson Lab, Moodle, an Open-Source Course Management
System has been used to produce a comprehensive web-based
training program for accelerator operators and crew chiefs. The system
is simple to use, self-paced, completely trackable, and able to tie into
the lab's overall training infrastructure. Moodle serves as the on-line
engine that ties together a variety of new and existing materials,
including multimedia, and makes the training system manageable
without large manpower requirements. This poster session shows how
experienced crew chiefs, operators, and system experts create thecourses, what the students see as they learn, and how the training
each student has received is quantified and tracked.

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Operator Training Program at ALS: Recent Improvements
Angelic Pearson
Operator Training at the Advanced Light Source is comprised of
documented, procedural training, classroom training, and on-the-job
training. The goal of ALS Operator Training is to promote certainty,
self-confidence,

and

above

all

else

safetywhile

operatingtheAdvanced Light Source. Proper training is critical to the safe operationof the facility. Duties for the Operations Group are separated into
Accelerator Operator (AO) tasks which are focused on the accelerator
and operation of facility process systems and equipment and Floor
Operator

(FO)

tasks

which

are

focusedonsupportontheexperimental floor. Although AO training in the past has taken from 8months to 24 months to complete, current efforts are being made tobring the training time down to 6 months. FO training typically takes 5months to complete.
Training requirements are documented in a written procedure, andtrainees are paired with a training mentor to guide and encouragethem through the process. In 2008, a Training Committee was formed
to facilitate improvements in training practices for new employees aswell as ongoing re-training of current employees. In my presentation, I
will discuss ways that we maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of
the training process. I look forward to learning best practices fromother facilities.

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Training New Operators - The First Six Months
Bruce Worthel
The Fermilab Operations Department takes about two years to train a
new Operator. The Operator’s introductory OJT (Concepts) gives him
or her an overview of the laboratory, teaches the basics facts about
all the accelerators, and it also teaches the new operator the training
process used for all the rest of their OJT training. The Concepts OJT
takes about four to six months for most people to complete. This talkwill explain how this first six months of training sets the new
employee on their path to becoming a fully trained Operator.

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SLAC Main Control Center UpgradePeter Schuh
Faced a two month down period and a major shift in the accelerator
program from PEP-II to LCLS, the SLAC

Main Control Center

operations staff took the opportunity to remodel the existing control
room to update workstation and overhead display hardware, as well as
address

ergonomic

problems

andimproveinteraction

betweenoperators and commissioning physicists.
The new design incorporates Linux workstations as the primary control
system interface, with SunRay workstations and an array of large
overhead display monitors. Console workspace is a custom built
countertop with cutouts for each workstation. Lighting and ergonomic
factors were considered in the design. Budget constraints required
careful choices of hardware and a phased implementation.

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New Furniture for the DESY Accelerator Control Room
M. Bieler
After 32 years of operation, the consoles in the DESY accelerator
control room were replaced by new furniture. This talk describes thefeatures of the new consoles, how they were arranged in the room,and some other changes to create a better working environment.

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Current Status and Future Prospectof the PEFP Control Room
Song-Gi Song, Eun-Mi An, Hyeok-Jung Kwon,
and Yong-Sub Cho
The PEFP (Proton Engineering Frontier Project) is developing 100-MeV
linac comprising an ion source, a RFQ (Radio Frequency Quadrupole),
DTL (Drift Tube Linac), and beam lines. The control room for the
20-MeV linac installed at KAERI was initially constructed in 2007. The
control room allows operators to control devices and monitor operation
parameters. The main control room of the 100-MeV linac is being
designed to give more environmental condition to operators. The main
purpose of the design is to prevent downtime of control system likeworkstations, servers, etc. The present status and conceptual designof the control room for the PEFP accelerator complex are given.
This work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science andTechnology of the Korean government.

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Water Cooling Maintenance and Improvement.
A. Apollonio, S. Krecic
The improvement in orbit stability obtained at Elettra in the last years
showed a significant dependence of the performance to the watercooling and air conditioning. Water cooling of the various components
at Elettra appears to be an essential part of the safety and longevity
of

many

components

of

the

accelerator

but

also

a

significant

parameter for the beam quality.
Some new project has been developed to improve the water coolingand air conditioning system for a better beam quality and stability.

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Reassignment of Network Addresses
at SPring-8 Control System
T. Sugimoto, M. Ishii, T. Ohata, T. Sakamoto, and R. Tanaka
Nowadays, Ethernet and TCP/IP are commonly used as field bus ofaccelerator control system. At the SPring-8, TCP/IP have been usedsince the facility settled in 1997. However, by increasing the numberof network-connected devices, many network problems have beenarisen. For example, a lot of broadcast traffic affects embedded
devices hang-up, because our control-system network consisted of one
network segment and the broadcast segment was too large.[1] Anotherproblem was exhaustion of IP addresses in the network segment. To
measure these problems, we performed reassignment of network
addresses of the control system. We will report procedure of thereassignment and the improvement of control-system network.
[1] T. Sugimoto et al., Proceedings of PCaPAC2008, THX03 (2008)- 66 -

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Maintenance Activities at Laboratori Nazionali Di Legnaro
D. Carlucci, A. Lombardi, P. Posocco, C. Osvaldo, D. Giuseppe
The Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL) is a centre for applied andnuclear physics founded in 1960 in Legnaro, Padova (Italy). At the
beginning the centre was equipped with a 7MV Van de Graaf
accelerator and, since then, a new machine has been installed roughly
every 10 years, namely a 2MV van de Graaf accelerator, a 14MV
Tandem XTU, a super-conducting 58MV booster (ALPI) and finally asuper-conducting 12MV injector (PIAVE). Because of the different wearof these accelerators due both to use and age, various approaches totheirmaintenance

have

been

envisaged:planned,opportunistic

preventive, recovery after failure and radical update/upgrade. In thispaper we analyze these methods applied to specific cases and we
describe the smooth transition from an all-on-paper to all-on-DB
logbook of the daily activities and faults. In addition the Work
Permitting procedures in force at the moment at LNL are explained.

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Maintenance Coordination at TRIUMF's Cyclotron
and ISAC Facilities
Rene Tanaja
TRIUMF's facilities include the 500MeV cyclotron and ISAC, the heavy
ion linear accelerator, each run by a specialized operations group froma separate control room. Maintenance coordination for each facility is
conducted

byits

operationsgroup.

The

most

considerable

andextensive jobs and upgrades are executed during two extended
shutdown periods, one in winter, and one in autumn. During the restof the year, handling of regular maintenance issues has recently beenchanged from weekly to a provisionally monthly schedule. Moremaintenance days are tentatively arranged in-between, to be used ona necessity basis. Available operators often assist in maintenancejobs, if needed and requested, especially during the shutdown periods.
Changes in the organization of the two operations groups and how
these affect the consolidation of maintenance procedures between thetwo control rooms will be discussed in this presentation.

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Maintenance Strategy of the PEFP Proton Linear
Accelerator
Dae-il Kim, Hyeok-Jung Kwon, Han-Sung Kim, Kyeong-Tae Seol,
Young-Gi Song, Hwa-Ryun Lee and Yong-Sub Cho
A 100 MeV proton linear accelerator is being developed by Proton
Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP). As a front end of the 100 MeV
machine, the 20 MeV proton linear accelerator was installed at Korea
Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) site, and supplied the beam
to users since 2007. In the 20 MeV proton linac, the scheduled
maintenance relating the preventive maintenance forthe various

components is planned in the summer and winter periods. The
unscheduled maintenance like a critical repair of the machine always
exists. To reduce the time required to repair the machine, the spareparts for the critical and long delivery time components are prepared.
The experience on the 20 MeV proton accelerator will be used to set
up the maintenance schedule and items for the 100 MeV linac. This
paper

presents

anddiscusses

thescheduledandunscheduled

maintenance strategies for the PEFP proton linear accelerator.
* This work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science andTechnology of the Korean government.

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High Risk Maintenance Project at the LBNL 88-Inch
Cyclotron
Jim Morel
The 88-Inch Cyclotron has been operating for 48 years at Lawrence
Berkeley

National

Laboratory.

This

talk

will

describe

therepair/maintenance of a vacuum O-ring seal of the accelerating Dee뭩plate that had not been replaced or serviced in over 35 years. The
process to move the 14 foot 2000 pound cantilevered acceleration
Dee

out

of

the

Cyclotron

requiredanextensiveplanning

andcoordination effort. The risk of failure was significant and made theprospect of doing this O-ring replacement an operational challenge.
The Dee pull and the O-Ring repair will be described. The process ofmanaging the work will be described. The coordination and training of
the technicians to be fully prepared for the anticipated problems
proved to be well worth the effort. The need to adjust the work plans
during the job and the constant use of ISM process of planning each
day using the previous day뭩 feedback helped steer the work though
the many problems encountered. This project relied on the skills of
the in house operations and engineering support staff to solve neverbefore seen problems.

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Transition from Shutdown to Operations
Paul W.Sampson
One of the most challenging periods of the year at BNL’s collider
Accelerator complex is RHIC start up. It is then that all of theaccelerators including a Tandem Van de Graaff, a LINAC, a Booster,a Post Booster (the AGS) and the main rings at RHIC must evolvefrom shutdown to running mode. During shutdowns, which are typicallyseveralmonths

long,

many

major

construction,

upgradeandreplacement projects are completed as well as most of the major
preventive maintenance. In order to achieve the goal of starting
Physics running on time, it has been shown that an early start to therecovery process is essential. Reality demands that startup occurs aslate as possible as, almost invariably, ambitious shutdown projects
need all of the available time (and then some). This paper will discuss
some of the methods that have been developed start up at RHIC andrecent experiences executing them. Specific problem and solutions tothese as well as the process by which improvements have been madewill be out lined Plans for further improvements will also be discussed.
In closing I will discuss the effects of other users, such as NSRL
(NASA

Specs

Radiation

Lab),

now

accelerators(EBIS),

industry and machine studies on the overall startup process.

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HVAC Concept Design for Proton Target Room Operation
Gye Po Jeon, Yi sub Min, Jun Yeon Kim, Jin Sam Cho, Kyeong-Jun
Mun, Jung Min Nam, Sung Sik Park
In PEFP's proton accelerator research center, 10 proton beam targets
are going to be installed : 5 targets in 20MeV beam extraction andanother 5 in 100MeV beam extraction. their operation scenarios,
radiation

shieldinganalysis,

andworkeraccessscenario

werecompleted to implement the concept of target operation above.
In this context, the concept of HVAC system is studied which isnecessary for the target rooms. At first, air from target room and BTL
enclosure is designed to go through plenum which keep its activation
to stay within the allowable level of Discharge Control Standard. Also,
Dual supply and exhaust valves are designed to enhance safety of
HVAC system.

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User Controlled Access at NSRLPeter Ingrassia, Vincnet Schoefer
The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) is a user facility thatutilizes heavy ions extracted from the AGS (Alternating GradientSynchrotron)

Boosterforradio-biology

andphysics

experiments.

Irradiations are short, ranging from a few tens of milli-seconds tohours requiring frequent access to the target room. Over the course ofa year Principal Investigators will enter the target room 4000 or moretimes to place and retrieve samples. This talk will describe the User
Controlled Access system that was developed to eliminate the needfor accelerator operators or other on-shift personnel to control theaccess to the target room.

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O - 45
Construction of the New Accelerator Safety Interlock
System for SPring-8
C. Saji, H. Hanaki, S. Hashimoto, Y. Hashimoto, M. Kago, K. Kawata,
T. Masuda, T. Matsushita, S. Miyamoto, T. Nagaoka, N. Nariyama, H.
Ohkuma, K. Soutome, S. Suzuki, M. Takao, R. Tanaka, M. Toko, Y.
Tsuzuki, A. Yamashita, H. Yonehara
The radiation safety interlock area in SPring-8 consists of fiveaccelerator/beam-transport areas. The injection beam transportation canbe frequently changed between the two accelerator areas; SPring-8
storage ring and NewSUBARU storage ring, thus the radiation safety
interlock system has to process the complicated safety logic to handle
such a switching operation. The safety interlock system, which protects
personsfromradiation

hazardinducedbyelectron

beams

and

synchrotron radiation, has been operating over a decade in SPring-8.
In order to expand an additional accelerator/beam-transport area
efficiently

in

the

future,thefunctional

independence

of

each

accelerator/beam-transport area has to be well established on thesafety interlock system. Therefore, the design of a new accelerator
safetyinterlocksystemhas

been

discussedtosatisfytheindependence and migration methodology from the current system tothe new one. The construction of the new accelerator safety interlock
system will be finalized in September 2010. And the new accelerator
safety interlock system will be ready for the user operation by the endof September 2010. We will report the design of the new accelerator
safety interlock system and the process of the system construction.

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O - 46
Continuity of Accelerator Operations
during an Extended Pandemic
Noel Okay
The Operations group for the Continuous Electron Accelerator Facility
in Newport News Virginia has developed a Continuity of Operations
plan for pandemic conditions when high absenteeism may impact
accelerator control room operations.
Protocols to address both the potential spread of illnesses in thecontrol room environment as well as maintaining minimum staffing
requirements for contiguous accelerator operation will be presented.
During acute pandemic conditions local government restrictions may
prevent continued operations but during extended periods of highabsenteeism accelerator operations can continue when some added
precautionary measures and staffing adjustments are made in the way
business is done.
Keywords: continuity accelerator operations pandemic- 75 -

O - 47
DESY Access Control System
M. Bieler
At DESY access to all accelerators is handled through an access
control system. At every door there is a terminal to read RF-ID-cards.
The terminal holds a copy of a central data base, where the accessrights of all card holders are stored. This talk describes the mainfeatures of the access control system and its interface to thepersonnel interlock system.

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O - 48
Implementation of Electrical Safety Procedures
and Techniques for Accelerator Operations
Martin MurphyOver the last several years Fermilab has strongly adopted NFPA 70E,
which is the standard that defines electrical safety requirements for
employees as set out by the National Fire Protection Association. The
standards are broadly written and far reaching. As Electrical Safety
Czar for the Accelerator Operations Department I was charged withinterpreting and implementing these guidelines for the department. A
significant

changeinculturewas

requiredandthroughstrongdepartmental leadership was achieved in short order. My presentation
will briefly document the fundamental rule changes and how they wereapplied within the department. Additionally Iㅤwilll describe how weㅤ
will continued to improve other aspects of electrical safety.

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O - 49
Reliably Cooling Accelerators
Don McGilvery, Graham Harding, Robbie Clarken
Maintaining optimal cooling water flow is critical for the safe operationand longevity of many accelerator components. Regular testing of all
flow meters and switches is essential to ensure correct operation andcalibration. The Australian Synchrotron has over 250 flow meters anda similar number of flow switches most of which are interlocked toEquipment Protection Systems. In the past testing has principally reliedon ensuring that flows dropped to zero and protection systems wereactivated when the circulation pumps were shut off. However many
meters have significant 밿n tolerance?zero errors and the actual trip
point of the switches has not been tested.
Since we have control of the system differential pressure and hence
flow, via variable speed drives on the pumps we can ramp down theflow and determine many parameters.
The automation of the test procedure, limitations and faults uncovered
will be discussed.
The choice and problems associated with various types of flow metersand switches together with our experiences in the difficulties in thecontrol of Low Conductivity Water parameters will also be discussed.

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O - 50
Study of an Electrical Noise from Synchrotron Radiation
Y. Ishizawa, T.Ohata
In the meeting, I will show some tools and measurement methods thatmakes easy to study an electrical noise at the Beamline.
Since 2003, a log of uncertain trouble was reported on the motion
control system in SPring-8 Beamline.
A stepping motor is used as a standard motion control system. Somemotors moved away without instruction and motor controllers are
sometimes broken.
We conducted nondestructive environmental measurement of electric
noise with the condition of actual equipment in the user time.
Then, a high intensity electrical noise that has enough energy to movea stepping motor was found.
We installed various kind of ferritic core to the motor control line andstudied effects on the control system.
Finally, the electric noise problem could be solved by installing ferritic
core corresponding to the frequency response.

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O - 51
Preparation for Beam Commissioning at the LHC
Rossano Giachino
LHC commissioning with beam started in the third quarter of 2008 andagain in late 2009. On both occasions, first circulating beam waspreceded by a major campaign of equipment tests. These included
extensive powering of the ~2000 superconducting electrical circuits,
so-called Dry Runs of all major accelerator system, injection tests into
parts of the machine and finally a full machine checkout. These tests,
extending over many months, proved to be essential and undoubtedly
made a major contribution to the rapid and successful start to beamcommissioning.

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O - 52
Preliminary Measurement of Be-10 Isotope
by 1 MV AMS
Wan Hong, Jung Hun Park, Ki Suck Sung, Gyujun Park
Generally, Be-10, has been measured by an AMS with the terminal
voltage higher than 3 MV. Recently, it is challenged to measure therare isotope using small AMS system. 1 MV AMS system in KIGAM
has been tried to measure not only Be-10 but also Al-26 isotopes.
Since

B-10

makes

very

severeinterference

on

the

Be-10

measurement, it is a key point to separate Be-10 peak from B-10
peak. Absorber foil is adopted to separate B-10 and Be-10 by thesmall mass difference between these two isotopes. However, foil
makes large beam dispersion and count rate at a detector after the
foil decreases. Determination of detection efficiency, which is the ratio
between the number of ions in a target and the number of detectedions at detector, is important to quantify the Be-10 isotope. Several
known standard samples with different Be-10 contents were preparedand measured to make efficiency calibration curve. Foil was very
efficient to separate the peaks and the linearity of the correlation
between Be-10 contents and count at the detection was good.

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O - 53
Development of the Operation Tools
for the 2009 KSTAR Experiment
Sulhee Baek, Sangil Lee, Woongryol Lee, and Mikyung Park
National Fusion Research Institute, 113 Gwahangno, Yusung-gu,
Daejeon, 305-333, KOREA
From August to December in 2009, the operators operated 30
machines for the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research(KSTAR) experiment. During the period, 10 among the primary 18
machines were operated continuously to keep the required vacuum
pressure and the superconductivity of the tokamak. 2 heating devices
and 10 diagnostic devices were operated for the plasma experiments
which

were

proposedbyinternational

participants.

To

integrate

heterogeneous systems, we have chosen the Experimental Physics
and Industrial Control System (EPICS) as the middleware of the
KSTAR control system and developed various operation tools basedon the EPICS Channel Access (CA) protocol to assist operators. Most
operator interfaces were developed using the KSTAR Widget Toolkit(KWT) which was a widget toolkit to develop Qt application for the
EPICS-based control system and others were developed using the
EPICS extensions. StripTool or Multiplot application were used tomonitor run-time operation data and ArchiveViewer was used toretrieve the archived data. The data acquired during the plasma
experiment was archived using MDSPlus and jScope was used toretrieve the experimental data. To encourage participants’ recording on
the experiment, the DIII-D logbook was introduced and adjusted for
the KSTAR experiment.

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P - 01
The Improvement of HIMAC-INJECTOR Operation
H.Izumiya, I.kobayashi, Y. Kageyama, C. Kobayashi,
W. Takasugi, M. Yamamoto, T. Takeuti, T. Sasanoa,
E. Takada, Y. Iwata, M. Muramatsu
HIMAC of NIRS is the world's first medically-dedicated heavy ion
accelerator. We started treatment in 1994, and 5,196 patients wereregistered and treated. (as of February 10, 2010)
One of the most important subjects of our work in HIMAC is thestabilization

of

the

machinecondition

with

doing

beam

supplycontinuously for 24 hours. Therefore, the improvement in software andhardware and increase in efficiency of the machine have been
pursued at HIMAC-injector in the limited maintenance time.
Therefore the number of operators per shift was reduced, and we use
the time of that share as a maintenance time of the improvement(and remodeling) for the performance enhancement of the machine.
Easier device operation improves the reliability of the beam supply.
We apply an ECR ion source as a device only for the Carbon suppl
y，therefore we can operate an ECR ion source simply. And, in
addition, the redundancy of the machine is needed for the reliability ofthe beam supply.
For instance, the introduction of compact injector which can be used
for backup system is proceeding. The compact injector needs lessamounts of consumption of the electric power in comparison withpresent HIMAC-injector.
We report the present status of HIMAC-injector in this time, also fromview of the trouble shooting, machine check, and so on. (the start andadjustment of the device before the beam supply, on biweekly
Monday. introduction of PLC, and electric discharge in the tank of
RFQ are among topics)- 83 -

P - 02
Operation of Cyclotrons at RCNP
T. Yorita, K. Hatanaka, M. Fukuda, T. Saito, H. Tamura,
M. Kibayashi, K. Nagayama, A. Tamii , S. Morinobu
Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) of Osaka University has
the accelerator complex consists of an AVF cyclotron (K=140) and aring cyclotron (K=400). It provides ultra-high quality beams as well as
moderately high intensity beams for a wide range of researches innuclear physics, fundamental physics, applications and interdisciplinary
fields. Maximum energy of protons and heavy ions are 400 and 100A
MeV, respectively. The available beam time for experiments was
5079h for Light ions(p-4He) and 1017h for Heavy ions(6Li-) in 2008.
The detail review of operation of the cyclotrons will be presented.

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P - 03
Current State of HIMAC Accelerator
M. Kawashima, Y. Honda, I. Kobayashi, M. Yamamoto,Y. Kageyama, K. Ichinohe, H.Fujiwara, E.takada, Y.Iwata, S.Sato
HIMAC treated the cancer of various parts from June, 1994 up to thepresent time?and the number of registered patients exceeded 5,000
recently. HIMAC supplies beam to the biological and the physicalresearch during nighttime and holiday, while patients are treated during
daytime of weekdays. Typical annual hours of operation amount to
5,700hours. 2300hours are for experiments of physics and biology.
Treatment beams correspond to 40 weeks/year.
Many species of ion are requested from experimental users, and theresult of available beams will be given. The improvements of beam for
more effective to cancer and for more friendly to patients have been
pursued: respiratory gating, increase of beam intensity etc. Treatment
beam is also refind in terms of efficiency and stability etc withsystematic study. Further more reparation for new treatment facility isunder way.
As for the beam down time due to the trouble of the accelerator, it isabout 50 hours in this fiscal year, more than 25% increase from theprevious year. We discuss an analysis and outlook on the problem.
One of the concern is discontinuation of service & supply of elemental
devices. Review of replacement and maintenance policy will bereported.

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P - 04
Injector Linac Upgrade and Operation for the BEPCII
Project
Guanghui Chen for the BEPCII-Linac GroupBEPCII is an upgrade project of Beijing Electron Positron Collider . It
was officially approved by the government in 2001. Linac is not only
requires injector to have a higher beam energy (1.89 GeV) for highenergy physics injection and Synchrotron radiation (2.5GeV), but also
a higher beam current. Thus the original BEPC injector linac must be
upgraded.The linac operation is stable and reliable. It has been put
into the beam commissioning for approximate six years.

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P - 05
Design Concept of the Modulator System with Inverter
Power Supply for 3.0 GeV Linac
S.H. Kim, S.S. Park, J.D. Park, K.R. Kim, S.H. Nam
The 200 MW pulse modulator system has been working at Linac in
PAL (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory) since 1994. The existing beamenergy is 2.5 GeV. 12 sets of the modulator system work at Linac to
get the energy of 2.5 GeV. We need two sets of the modulator
system to get the energy of 3.0 GeV in the PLSⅡ. The current
modulator system at Linac is called a “Line Type Modulator” since ituses a capacitance-inductance network (pulse forming network). The
new type of the modulator installed in the gallery of Linac will be
employed as an “Inverter Type Modulator” to reduce its size. The
specifications of the modulator system are 400 kV, 500 A, 7.5 μ, 30
Hz. Design concept of the new type of the modulator system will bepresented.

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P - 06
The Monte Carlo Simulation for a Measurementof a Neutron Cross Sectionin the Pohang Neutron Facility
Sung-chul YANG
It is essential that neutron cross sections are measured precisely formany areas of research and technique. In Korea, these experiments
have been performed in the Pohang Neutron Facility (PNF) with thepulsedneutronfacility

based

on

the

60

MeV

electronlinearaccelerator.
The TOF measurement for neutron total cross section of the ‘W’targetwassimulated

by

using

MCNP

2.5.f

code

and

the

characteristics of photo-neutrons produced from this target system andthe results are verified against to the experimental values.

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P - 07
The Operation Scenario of Beam Lines and Target Roomin the PEFP Accelerator Facility
Sang-pil Yoon, Bum-sik Park, Yong-sub Cho
TheProtonEngineering

Frontier

Project(PEFP)

hasplannedtoconstruct 100 MeV proton Linear accelerator and to supply 20-MeV or
100-MeV proton beam to users. To meet user's demand, the PEFP
will construct ten beam lines and ten target rooms,each of which gas
its own characteristic purpose.
On behalf of many beam lines and target room of PEFP accelerator
complex, it is required to distribute the limited beam time efficiently tosatisfy many user's demand. thus, We have prepared the operating
scenario of accelerator operation.
In this paper, the present status and beam the beam quality
assurrance plan of target room will be presented also.
* This work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science andTechnology of the Korean government.

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P - 08
Operation Scenario of the Vacuum System
in PEFP Accelerator and Beamline
Hwa-Ryun Lee, Yong-Sub Cho, Hyeok-Jung Kwon,
Han-Sung Kim, Bum-Sik Park
The

ProtonEngineering

Frontier

Project(PEFP)isdevelopinga100MeV, 20mA linear accelerator. The vacuum system of 20MeV
accelerator was installed and has been operating at Korea Atomic
Energy Research Institute(KAERI) site. This system consists of a ion
source part, Radio Frequency Quadrupole(RFQ) part and Drift Tube
Linac(DTL)1 part. In these parts of the vacuum system, the main
pump are a Turbo Molecular Pump(TMP) at RFQ and an ion pump at
DTL1.
The normal operation condition is E-7 torr in the range. To operate a
100MeV vacuum system we were designed the pumping system for
DTL2. As a same strategy the beamline vacuum system also has tobe prepared. Thus, we have planned to the operation scenario of theoverall vacuum system. In this paper, the improvement and design of
the PEFP vacuum system will be presented and discussed.
* This work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science andTechnology of Korea.

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P - 09
DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH RESOLUTION LARGEDISPLAY FOR SPRING-8 CENTRAL CONTROL ROOM
T. Hamano, R. Fujihara, A. Yamashita
We developed a large size high resolution display wall for SPring-8
centralcontrolroom.

APC-cluster

consists

of

seven

personalcomputers interconnected by Ethernet drives twelve 40-inch(1366 x
768pixel) LCD displays. Those displays are arranged into 6x2 segmentto achieve 12 million pixels(8196 x 1536pixel) resolution. A software
Rocks* handles twelve displays as one X-Window server. We built a
prototype model in prior implementation of the display wall. The
prototype model is formed of twenty four 20.1-inch LCD displays
arranged into 8x3 segment to achieved 46 million pixels(12800 x
3600pixel) resolution. We examined software
configuration and performance on the prototype before the instllation.
This paper describes construction, configuration and testing of the highresolution display wall.

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P - 10Control Status of the PLS MPS Control System
J. C. Yoon, J.W. Lee, S.J. Park and K.R. Kim
Thecontrolsystemarchitecture

provideseasy

accesstotheequipment in a reliable and efficient way. It facilitates the development
and maintenance of distributed applications, and the implementation of
the required control schemes. The power supply control system wasconsist of the VME based IOC and the Embedded IOC based IOC.
The VME system of the PLS was used for the Bipolar power supply
control system. The control method is the high speed control methodby using the photo module of which performance and stability areproven in the PLS. 12 sets of VME IOC was installed in the storage
ring for the system configuration. The Embedded IOCs will be used
for the Unipolar power supply control system. In the case of Unipolar
power supply, the number of quadrupole power supply will be
increased from that of the PLS and PLS-II. The Embedded IOC isconnected to the power supplies by a power supply multi serial
converters. This Embedded IOC is equipped with MODBUS TCP/IP
Ethernet interface as well as 100Mps Ethernet. It is designed to bemodular and scalable in order to accommodate future changes andexpansions.

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P - 11
The Control Room FERMI
Andrea Apollonio
How is made the control room of the laser with the lowest length
wave?
This poster illustrates the successful implementation and the reasonsthat led to the construction of the control room FERMI, for example
the choice of the lighting, working with 4 monitors 2x2 combined, theinstrumentation, the type of software used for workstations etc.

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P - 12HIMAC Irradiation System Operation, Maintenanceand Troubleshooting
K.Shimabukuro,T.Uno,Y.Tachikawa,S.Minohara,S.Fukuda,E.Takada
We report on the operation, maintenance and troubleshooting ofpatient irradiation system at the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in
Chiba (HIMAC). Clinical trial using carbon beam was started in 1994,
and now more than 700 patients with cancer are treated annually. In
2003, carbon-ion radiotherapy at HIMAC was authorized as “Highly
Advanced Medical Technology” by the Health Ministry of Japan. As aresult, the recognition level of the particle radiotherapy in Japan rises,and demand will increase in the future.
As the facility for particle radiotherapy is large complex systems, theoperation of patient irradiation system is as crucial as that ofaccelerator system to keep the stable and reliable patient treatment.
Operators who have knowledge of accelerator devices and irradiation
controllers are indispensable to support medical staffs smoothly intreatment procedure. One of our works is to support the daily
dosimetry for the quality assurance. We reports on them:?PERIODIC PROCEDURE?PATIENTS-SPECIFIC PROCEDUR
The beam for treatment must be supplied on schedule in a limited
time window. To keep the daily treatment schedule, we should prevent
trouble as much as possible and solve occurred problem as soon as
possible. Preventive maintenance activity consists of daily checkup,
weekly and semiannual maintenance. Overview of the activity is
introduced.
In addition, we utilize the data base of troubleshooting. The processfrom trouble occurrence to solution is recorded by operators. The data

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base can be retrieved in case of trouble, which shows similar one
occurred in the past. The trouble includes operational mistake andthese data are used for the analysis of human error. Suggestions andrequirements

frommedicalstaffsarealsorecordedforfutureimprovements.
As a result of these activities, therapists can concentrate on treatment,
and can do high-quality treatment.

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P - 13User Interface Design for PEFP Accelerator Operations
Eun-Mi An, Young-Gi Song, Hyeok-Jung Kwon, Yong-Sub Cho
The PEFP(Proton Engineering Frontier Project) 100-MeV linac userinterface system is being developed. The main tasks of the PEFP
accelerator control are safety management for error-warning system,
data storage and data display for monitoring and controlling data. The
control system should supply display functions to the operators suchas graphical and user-friendly form. In order to provide an easy-to-use
interface for operators, the graphical user interface was successfully
designed and completed. In this paper will introduce the PEFP userinterface. As a new work, we are developing the application tools toaccommodate user interface extension for data management.
* This work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science andTechnology of the Korean government.

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P - 14
Estimations of the Induced Activities
in the Proton Accelerator Facilty of PEFP
Cheol Woo LEE, Young-Ouk LEE, Sung Chul YANG
In Korea, the Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP) is building a
proton linear accelerator facility with the energy up to 100 MeV and abeam current of 20 mA. In this study, induced activities after
shutdown in the accelerator facility of the PEFP were evaluated byusing a Mote Carlo method. Five categories were considered for theevaluations of the induced activities.
In this Study, the air activation in the facility, induced activities fromthe structure materials (concrete walls, lead shields and polyethylene
block) and activation in the soil around of the facility were estimated.
Also, migration of the radio-nuclides from activated soil to the groundwater was estimated to evaluate radiological impact on environment.

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P - 15
Beam Energy Reliability by the Cooling Water Temperatureof the PLS
Mun Gyung Kim
Pohang Light Source(PLS) has a plan for top-up mode operation. The
top-up mode operation requires more reliability of the beam energy
injected to the storage ring. And PLS linac is a full energy injector
with energy doubler system(SLED). The most important factor of theenergy gain by the SLED is cooling water temperature. So PLS has
improved the reliability of cooling water control system. This paper
presents improved reliability of the injector beam energy by the new
cooling control system.

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P - 16
An Automated Injection System for “Fill on Fill” Operation
J. Trewhella, D. McGilvery, M. ten Have
The injection system for the Australian Synchrotron consists of a
100MeV Linac and full energy (3GeV) booster and requires the control
of several hundred parameters to obtain good injection efficiency andminimise radiation. Previous machine procedures required operators tomanually tune systems, and follow rigorous start up and shut down
procedures. As a result, there were a number of beam loss events
through failure to follow procedures and the efficiencies obtained
varied significantly between operators.
An almost fully automated software layer, integrated with the EPICS
control system, has been developed which optimises the sequenceand timing of each individual sub system; virtually eliminating operator
error, maintaining consistently high efficiency, minimizing the run timeof critical systems, reducing radiation levels and saving energy. It has
also significantly reduced total injection time and stress levels for theoperators. This system will be discussed, and will also include reviewsof further benefits of semi-automated recovery after unscheduled beamloss events and progression to “top-up” mode of operation.

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P - 17
Commissioning of the Carbon Beam Gantry at the
Heidelberg Ion Therapy (HIT) Accelerator
M. Galonska, S. Scheloske, R. Cee, A. Gaffron, K. H?pner, C.M.
Kleffner, A. Peters, T. Haberer
The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Facility (HIT) is the first dedicated protonand carbon cancer therapy facility in Europe. It uses full 3D intensity
controlled raster scanning as treatment technique. The ion energy
ranges from about 50 up to 430 MeV/u corresponding to ion
penetration depths of 20 to 300 mm. The ion beam can betransported along four beam lines. The first two beam lines transport
the ion beam to horizontal patient treatment rooms. The therapy in thefirst room started successfully in November 2009, while in the second
room the treatment equipment is getting prepared for patient treatment.
A

third

horizontal

targetstation

is

built

for

qualityassurance,development, and research.
The HIT facility comprises the only carbon ion gantry worldwide
designed for the beam transport of carbon ions up to an energy of
430 MeV/u corresponding to a magnetic rigidity of 6.6 Tm. The gantry
rotating angle of 360 degrees enables patient treatment from arbitrary
directions. While the first proton and carbon beam was transported tothe isocenter in January 2008, the commissioning has been stopped
since March 2008 due to cabling problems in the flexible cable tray.
After some modification of the cabling the commissioning process now
re-started. The commissioning aims for an efficient way of setting thebeam optics in order to realize the full set of beam characteristics, i.e.
2 ion types, 255 energy steps, 4 beam widths and 10 intensities, allindependent of the gantry angle. This paper gives a brief outline on
the commissioning activities so far.

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Improvement of MC-50 Cyclotron Tuning Module
through Development of Software Programfor Cyclotron Control Console System
Yeun-Soo Park, Sung-Jin Cho, Min-Yong Lee, Won-Taek Hwang,
Tae-Keun Yang
The MC-50 Cyclotron is the first accelerator in Korea which canaccelerate various particles like proton, deuteron, He-4, and He-3. It
can accelerate up to 50MeV energy in case of proton. At first, MC-50
had been introduced in the middle of 1980s for neutron therapy andradioisotopes production exclusively. However the range of MC-50
utility has been extended to the radioisotopes development, cyclotron
application researches using ion beam and fast neutron irradiation.
Now MC-50 is being employed in many fields except neutron therapy.
The control system of MC-50 is composed of PDP-11/23 Plus main
computer, cyclotron control console which is kind of terminal, and I/Osystem. Especially, cyclotron control console plays a key role in the
beam tuning by controlling all of the parameters of accelerator.
Cyclotron control console consists of complex two hardware sections.
One is TUM(Tuning Module) controller, the other is displays andencoders. TUM controller system comprises various electronic control
boardslike

Metric

CPU-S

which

contains

dedicated

Z80

microprocessor, PIO, connector board, etc. Displays and encoders areused for display the current parameter values and adjustment theparameter values respectively, which are finally controlled by the Z80
microprocessor of Metric CPU-S board.
In order to tune the ion beam at MC-50, communication control shouldbebasically

PDP-11/23

performed
Plusthrough

between

cyclotron

controlconsoleRS232

serial.

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and

RS232

communication was not worked properly because an important EPROM
including TUM program code was broken down by a stupid mistake
during I/O system repair. Unfortunately there was not any spares toreplace it, and also it was impossible to seek an identical TUM
program code because original company made it had been alreadybankrupted long ago.
There was no any other methods to run MC-50 cyclotron again except
directly development of new cyclotron control console system. So wedeveloped it which is operated by completely software program using
LabVIEW graphical language. To begin with, we thoroughly analyzed
all of the related protocols referring to the poor manual to eliminate
even simple errors, and repeated trial and error to complete it.
Therefore there will be no more hardware troubles because there areno hardware parts in the newly developed cyclotron control console
system. And it is expected that there will be almost no more software
troubles as well because of the in-depth programming according to theoriginal function of the cyclotron control console system.

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