A VME based quench protection monitor for the Tevatron low beta quadrupoles
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lackey, S.; Briegel, C.; Chapman, L.; Flora, R.; Martin, K.; Savord, T.
- Source
- Proceedings of International Conference on Particle Accelerators Particle accelerator Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993. :1914-1915 vol.3 1993
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Nuclear Engineering
Robotics and Control Systems
Protection
Monitoring
Circuits
Hardware
Voltage
Operating systems
Power supplies
Frequency conversion
Converters
Control systems
- Language
A VME based quench protection monitor system has been designed and installed at both low beta locations in the Tevatron. Fixed-target and collider mode operations have been successful. One VME based system protects all of the high current circuits in each building rather than one Multibus I system per circuit as is the case for other Tevatron quench protection monitors. The software has been written in C for portability and flexibility for possible use with other magnet systems. Object oriented communications with the ACNET control system are made via the Token Ring network.ETX