experiments on FAIR and GSI.

Data acquisition and control system for HEDP
experiments on FAIR and GSI.

A. Kantsyrev
1
,
D. Varentsov
2
, A. Hug
2
, S. Udrea
2
, L. Shestov
1
, V. Turtikov
1


FAIR Russia Research Centre
(
FRRC
)

1
SSC RF

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)

2
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany




Moscow



HIHEX

H
eavy
I
on
H
eating and
Ex
pansion

uniform quasi
-
isochoric
heating of a large
-
volume
dense target

quasi
-
isentropic expansion
in 1D (plane or cylindrical)
geometry

Numerous high
-
entropy HED states:

EOS and transport properties of e.g.,
non
-
ideal plasmas, WDM and the critical
point regions for various materials

LAPLAS

La
boratory
Pla
netary
S
ciences

hollow (ring
-
shaped)
beam heats a heavy
tamper shell

cylindrical implosion
and low
-
entropy
compression

Mbar pressures @ moderate
temperatures:

ultra
-
high density HED states, e.g. hydrogen
metallization problem, interior of Jupiter,
Saturn and Earth

HEDgeHOB

collaboration will construct and run at FAIR

two main HEDP experiments: HIHEX and LAPLAS

GSI (SIS
-
18) HHT
experiments already
present

WOBLER prototype in ITEP+

Cryogenic target already present

light collection optics

(temperature,

spectroscopy)

backlighting

laser

ion

beam

velocity,
pressure

alignment, beam
diagnostics,
sample volume,
self
-
emission

expansion
velocity and
sample volume

Physics package

Package in container

Container on the target
table

Ta diaphragm

target

foil

sapphire

windows

brass

container

ion

beam

target table with
contact pins

6
-
axis target manipulator

and target shelves

pyrometer,

streak
-
spectrometer

interferometers,
VISAR

streak
-
camera for
shadowgraphy

and
schlieren

X

Y

Z

fast intensified

CCD camera

alignment,
beam
diagnostics,
self
-
emission

WDM experimental setup at GSI HHT

Data

acquisition

and

control

system,

for

HEDP

experiments

on

FAIR

and

GSI,

consists

of

a

set

of

hardware
–
software

modules

(HSMs),

each

of

which

includes

one

measuring,

diagnostic,

or

actuating

device

and

the

relevant

program

for

acquisition

or

processing

of

experimental

data
.

The

HSM

programs

reside

in

several

personal

computers

integrated

into

a

local

Ethernet

network
.

Data

communication

between

the

HSM

programs

has

been

organized

via

the

TCP/IP

socket

interface
.



Data acquisition and control system

Basic HSM module +Synchronizing of devices.

Data acquisition and control system

Logic scheme of work

Data acquisition and control system

Principal schematic of data saving, processing and presenting

Data acquisition and control system

Beam shots page

Data acquisition and control system

PHP dynamic web pages

Data acquisition and control system

Active parameters + beam line elements

Active parameters + Images

Notes pages



N

Description

Device

Program
/language

1

Beam request control

+

synchronization

ICPDAS 7055D + logic
scheme

Beam Control/
Python

2

Readout and saving of high frequency
signals from detectors

Tektronix and
Lecroy

Oscilloscopes

Ptek

/
Delphi+TekVISA

3

Readout and saving of high frequency
signals from detectors

Fast Multi Channels
digitizer

DigitazerPROG
/
LabView

4

Measuring pressure of gases

Pffeifer

Vaccum

measuring unit

PPRes
/Python

5

Readout and saving of images from PCO
DiCAM

CCD cameras

Fast CCD cameras
PCO
DiCamPro

SDU
-
ITEP/
C+Java+ImageJ

6

Positioning of targets and detectors

Micos

Gmbh

actuators

Robot HHT/
Python

7

Reading/Setting parameters of beam line
+ reading beam intensity

Accelerator database

BeamLineREAD
/
Python

8

Reading/Setting of parameters from
pulse delay generators

Pulse delay generators
DG645, DG535

DG_HHT/
Python+pyVISA

9

Control of lasers

Verdi lasers

LRS/Python (?)

10

Readout and saving of images from fast
Hamamatsu streak camera

Hamamatsu streak
camera

STREAK_HHT/
Python (?)

Data acquisition and control system

Hardware
-
Software Modules (HSM) for prototype of system for GSI HHT experiments

Connecting of devices using TekVISA

/pyVISA

The

universal

TekVISA/pyVISA

driver

has

been

selected

to

organize

data

communication

between

the

programs

and

devices

with

unlike

interfaces

(RS
232
,

GPIB,

USB,

and

LAN)
.

Using

this

driver,

it

is

possible

to

organize

data

communication

with

the

HSM

programs

with

allowance

for

the

specific

command

system

of

the

device
.

The

ActiveX

component

of

the

TekVISA

driver

is

set

up

for

access

to

the

functions

of

the

TekVISA

program

in

the

C,

Delphi,

Java

language
.

Data acquisition and control system

HSM programs

Data acquisition and control system

Digitizer control program

CCD camera control programs

DAQ+ beam control program

Robot + Streak camera control program

Ptek (tektronix) control program

Main advantages

•
Scalability

of

system
.

The

modular

structure

of

system

allows

to

add

new

elements

easily

•
Possibility

to

spend

processing

of

experimental

data

in

a

mode

of

real

time

•
Carrying

out

of

completely

automated

experiment

with

the

description

of

the

plan

of

experiment

•
All

initial

and

processed

experimental

data

saving

on

the

server

•
Use

of

various

programming

languages

for

a

writing

of

programs

HSM

of

modules

allows

to

reduce

time

of

introduction

of

new

elements

of

system

•
The

system

is

constructed

on

the

basis

of

the

traditional

measuring

equipment

(oscillographs,

CCD

camera

…
)

•
User

friendly

WEB

interface

•
Use

possibility

in

additional

experiments

and

stands

(Magnet

Scanner,

PRIOR

…
)


Data acquisition and control system

Thank you for attention…