1. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Large Research Facilities Status SLS, Proton Facility, PROSCAN, PSI-XFEL

2. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report EPICS Usage at PSI In transition Planned In use He Liquefaction SLS UCN Timing XFEL 250 MeV Injector Test PSI-XFEL PROSCAN XFEL Low Emittance Gun Test Operations Building Proton Superbuncher

3. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report New Operations Building ■ New "combined function" control room ► SLS ► Proton facility ► PROSCAN ► XFEL ■ New server room ■ New offices ■ New cafeteria

4. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report SLS Filling Pattern Feedback ■ Better charge distribution ■ Improved beam stability  Separate talk

5. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report SLS Beamline IT Infrastructure Upgrade ■ Old SLS control room became new server room for beamlines ■ New data storage ► Up to 30 TB per beamline ■ New network topology  Separate talk

6. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report Other SLS (PX) Beamline Improvements ■ High precision rotation stage  separate talk ■ Sample mounting robot  separate talk ■ Pilatus 6M detector

7. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report Proton Facility PROSCAN Proton Therapy UCN Ultra Cold Neutrons SINQ Spallation Neutron Source Gantry 1 Gantry 2 Optis 2 Optis Eye Cancer Therapy Ring Cyclotron

8. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report Cyclotron Upgrade ■ New cavities for beam current upgrade to 3 mA ■ Replace old CAMAC with new VME hardware ■ New superbuncher runs with EPICS ■ Long term future plans: ► Replace complete control system with EPICS ► Integrate pion/muon beamlines ► Upgrade network infrastructure

9. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report UCN (Ultra Cold Neutrons) ■ Spallation source under construction (start ~2009) ► 5K cold deuterium moderator ► neutrons <1µeV, 7m/s, 25km/h ■ Proton beam time structure is controlled with EPICS 1.Lead target 2.D 2 O moderator 3.Solid D 2 moderator 4.UCN guide 5.Valve 6.To experiments 7.Storage tank

10. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report PROSCAN ■ Dedicated accelerator for cancer treatment with protons ■ Over one year in operation ■ At the moment: Trying to replace accelerator control system with EPICS ► Problem: Can test only on weekends ■ Early 2009: Optis 2 ► Partially EPICS ► Patient treatment system is not EPICS ■ Late 2009: Gantry 2

11. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report PSI-XFEL 80 m Undulators Experiment Building 800 m tunnel SLS Aare Tunnel is a bridge here ! farm land Low Emittance Gun 400 m Linac

12. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report PSI-XFEL Schedule ■ 500 keV gun test dismantled ■ Setup of 4 MeV test ■ Building for 250 MeV test linac under construction ■ Milestone: Proof of principle in October 2010 ■ XFEL construction start in 2011 ■ XFEL operation start in 2016

13. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report Firewire Camera Server ■ Linux IOC with embedded HTTP server ■ Used for beam diagnostics at SLS, XFEL, …  See Mirosław Dach's talk at PCaPAC PC /dev/video EPICS server WWW server

14. Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Collaboration Meeting October 2008 PSI Status Report Other controls activities ■ Upgrade of PCs to Scientific Linux 5 ► Many unexpected problems ■ Adaption of SLS controls tools for XFEL ■ Build up IT infrastructure for XFEL ■ Evaluation of embedded Linux IOCs ■ Evaluation of remote control (web access) for SLS beamlines ■ Planned: Upgrade of SLS IOCs to EPICS 3.14