Present Status of the J-PARC Control System

Abstract

The present status of the design and construction of the control system for Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) is given. J-PARC is a 3-stage accelerator complex with a 200MeV Linac, a 3GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) and a 50GeV Main Ring synchrotron (MR). The accelerators are under construction jointly by Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) and KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization. Linac and RCS are being constructed mainly by JAERI and MR is mainly by KEK. [1,2] And the control systems for Linac and RCS [17] are constructed mainly by JAERI and that of MR is done mainly by KEK. [3] Commissioning of Linac, RCS and MR are scheduled in September 2006, May 2007, and January 2008, respectively. There are three control systems under construction corresponding to three accelerators. These three control systems will be operated from one central control room when each control system is completed construction. We chose Experimental Physics and Industrial System (EPICS) [4] as the software environment so that three control systems can be unified easily to single control system. J-PARC control system has the three-layer standard model architecture for accelerator controls that is very common in the EPICS world. We have chosen the standard network protocol TCP/IP and UDP/IP as the J-PARC standard field-bus used to connect interface units that links accelerator component to the control system.