Design and Development of a Diagnostics Client for a Beam Loss ...

ABSTRACT
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is one of the biggest
research centers in the field of particle physics. Its main function is to provide particle
accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high energy physics research. Particles
are accelerated through a complex of accelerators and are brought into collision, in order
to study the fundamental elements of matter and the forces acting between them. Of
course, such complex and expensive machines need control and protection. For that
purpose, a variety of different systems -hardware and/or software- is needed. One such
system is the Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system of an accelerator. This kind of system
is designed for measuring beam losses around an accelerator. An appropriate design
of the BLM system and an appropriate location of the monitors enable a wide field of
very useful beam diagnostics and machine protection possibilities. This thesis focuses
on the design and development of a client application, which is realized with the purpose
of commanding, collecting, storing and viewing data sent by a beam loss measurement
system. The hardware of the system is also described briefly.
SUBJECT AREA: Client-Server, Software for Instrumentation and Measurements
KEYWORDS: cern, blm, bledp, diagnostics, embedded