1. ANL Controls Activities
John Carwardine
Feb 8th, 2006

2. 6/1/2018
About Argonne
Founded in 1943, designated a national laboratory in 1946
Managed by The University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy
More than 2,900 employees and 5,000+ facility users
About $475M budget
1,500-acre, wooded site in DuPage County, Illinois
Broad R&D portfolio
Numerous sponsors
Use version from Feb 26. Divide into two slides, one with first two bullets as is.
The second with last three bullets but first to read “A World Leader in energy
Research with two subheads: -- nuclear fuel cycle and fuel cells/Hydrogen
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3. Argonne’s Mission Serve DOE & national security
6/1/2018
Argonne’s Mission
Serve DOE & national security
Advancing the frontiers of knowledge
Creating and operating forefront scientific user facilities (e.g., Advanced Photon Source, Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System)
Providing innovative and effective tools and solutions for energy and environmental challenges to national and global well-being, in the near and long term
In accomplishing its mission, Argonne partners with DOE, other federal labs, academia, and the private sector
Population should agree with slide 2, Actuals as of Dec 31 were 2904 (regulat
Employees) East, 688 West. To agree with 4,000 total, ~3300 and ~700
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4. Forefront Science and Engineering
6/1/2018
Forefront Science and Engineering
Basic and applied research
Materials and chemical sciences and engineering
High energy, nuclear, and atomic physics
Multidisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology
Structural biology, functional genomics, and bioinformatics
Environmental science, technology, and assessment
Transportation technology
Computer science and applied mathematics
Computational science
Design, construction, and operation of accelerator-based user facilities
Design, development, and evaluation of advanced nuclear energy systems and proliferation-resistant nuclear fuel-cycle technologies
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5. 6/1/2018
DOE/Science Labs, User Facilities, and Their 16,000 Users' Institutions
Argonne National Lab
Intense Pulsed Neutron Source
Advanced Photon Source
Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System
Pacific Northwest National Lab
Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab
Univ. of IL
Electron Microscopy Center for Materials Research
Center for Microanalysis of Materials
Fermi National Accelerator Lab
Tevatron
MIT
Bates Accelerator Center
Plasma Science & Fusion Center
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
B-Factory
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Brookhaven
National Lab
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
National Synchrotron Light Source
Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab
Advanced Light Source
National Center for Electron Microscopy
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Facility
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
Thomas Jefferson National
Accelerator Facility
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
Oak Ridge National Lab
High-Flux Isotope Reactor Surface Modification & Characterization Center
Spallation Neutron Source
(under construction)
Sandia Combustion
Research Facility
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, AL) University of Alabama, Birmingham University of Alabama, Hunstville
Leads the Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team at the Advanced Photon Source
Conducts research in Structural Biology (understanding disease at the molecular level, developing new drugs, etc.)
Auburn University
Conducts research at DOE’s fusion facilities
Auburn/ORNL collaboration on advanced concepts for Fusion experiments
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Contributes to DOE Neutrino research
Participating in the construction of a new Neutrino detector
Host of DOE’s Southeast Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change
University of South Alabama
Conducts research in High Energy Physics at Fermilab
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Nuclear Medicine and Gene Therapy research
Center for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Alabama A&M University
Synchrotron instrumentation
General
Atomics
- DIII-D Tokamak
James R. MacDonald
Laboratory
Los Alamos Neutron
Science Center
SC Laboratories
Physics Accelerators
Synchrotron Light Sources
Neutron Sources
Special Purpose Facilities
Large Fusion Experiments
SC User Facilities
Institutions that Use SC Facilities
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6. Forefront Science and Engineering
6/1/2018
Forefront Science and Engineering
Basic and applied research
Materials and chemical sciences and engineering
High energy, nuclear, and atomic physics
Multidisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology
Structural biology, functional genomics, and bioinformatics
Environmental science, technology, and assessment
Transportation technology
Computer science and applied mathematics
Computational science
Design, construction, and operation of accelerator-based user facilities
Design, development, and evaluation of advanced nuclear energy systems and proliferation-resistant nuclear fuel-cycle technologies
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7. Argonne’s Major Initiatives
6/1/2018
Argonne’s Major Initiatives
Science
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Center for Nanoscale Materials
Rare Isotope Accelerator
Functional Genomics
Petascale Computing and Computational Science
Energy
Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
Hydrogen Research and Development
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8. Advanced Photon Source
6/1/2018
Advanced Photon Source
Nation’s most brilliant hard x-ray beams
Materials science, chemistry, biology, protein crystallography, earth and environmental science, physics…
42 beamlines in operation
More than 3,000 users
Operates year-round, 5000 hours/year
Reliability over 95%
Innovative X-ray instrumentation and operating modes
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9. ANL involvement with ILC
Lab-wide involvement
Damping Ring physics design (Emery).
Vacuum Technical Systems Leader for Americas (Noonan).
Positron Source development (Gai).
ILCTS cavity processing, electro-polishing (ATLAS groups).
Controls Global Group Leader for Americas (Carwardine).
Relatively low level of effort in FY06
~1FTE supported by GDE (DR + Positron Source)
Remainder supported from ANL funds
Controls: 3 people from APS, ~1FTE in total.

10. APS Controls groups
Develop and support control systems for the APS accelerators and many of the APS beamlines (~300 IOCs).
Main development site and collaboration hub for EPICS Core, key EPICS applications, and the SDDS toolkit.
Long-standing collaborations with many DOE and international accelerator labs, including major labs involved with ILC.
Strong collective background in accelerator and “big science” control system design, development, and integration.
Globally recognized expertise in dynamical orbit control.
Relational databases for modeling and documenting control systems.

11. Overlap of interests between APS controls development and ILC
Timing: laser / accelerator synchronization to ~10fs.
Beam-based feedback.
LLRF control for short-pulse x-ray source using crab cavities.
Epics developments
High availability
Remote access / tele-presence
Technical relational databases
Large scale systems with many network attached devices

12. Laser / accelerator synchronization

13. FY05 Participation with ILC
Carwardine and Lenkszus attended Snowmass / GG2.
Collaborations seeded with various Labs.
APS controls staff played roles in developing the Controls BCD (Carwardine, Saunders, Lenkszus, Arnold, and others)
Control system architecture.
High availability.
RF and Timing distribution.
Beam-based feedback.

14. ILC Controls Software Architecture in BCD
Claude Saunders, 2005

15. FY06 Participation with ILC Controls
RDR and Costing exercise
Co-lead the Controls Global Group RDR & costing efforts.
Provide technical contributions, including controls architecture, high availability, timing/RF distribution, beam-based feedback.
Support the costing exercise and RDR write-up.
Begin R&D collaborations in some key topic areas
Control system high availability (see Saunders talk later)
Precision timing & RF distribution (see Lenkszus talk later)
Network management with many attached devices.