Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Peregrine McGehee) · Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:34:30 -0700

Dear all,

Another EPICS-based control system has come on-line!

On Tuesday, 16 March 1999, about 6 until 6:45PM MST the Low Energy 
Demonstration Accelerator (LEDA) accelerated a proton beam for the first 
time!  The 6.7 MeV RFQ was operated at about 93% of design field and at 
about 5 to 10 ma (300 microsecond pulse) input with about 3 to 5 ma. 
output. The transmission with out ANY adjustments to steering, etc. was a 
respectable ~50%.  This will obviously increase as the beam is matched to 
the RFQ. LEDA will be operating with a 100 ma CW beam.

Regards,
	Peregrine

Peregrine M. McGehee		Task Leader, LEDA Control System
Deputy Coordinator, Los Alamos Astrophysics	http://laastro.lanl.gov
(505) 667-3273	MS H820, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 87545

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System