Abstract
This article describes the planning and implementation of the NRL Modified Betatron Accelerator (MBA) data acquisition and control system (DACS). The design goal of the MBA is to accelerate multi-kiloampere electron beam pulses to 50 MeV. It employs an applied toroidal magnetic field in addition to the rising vertical fields of a conventional Betatron. Theoretical studies show that the toroidal field improves the stability and equilibrium properties of the device at high currents. The accelerator hardware consists of three capacitor banks, the precision injector accelerator, toroidal and vertical field coils, vacuum chamber and pumping system, and intense relativistic electron beam diode. The task of the DACS is to conduct the safe and efficient firing of the MBA and the data acquisition and archiving of accelerator function.
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