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The HElmholtz-SEsame Beamline (HESEB) is a state-of-the-art soft X-ray beamline donated by Helmholtz research centre that was successfully installed and commissioned recently at Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME). The control system design and implementation, which includes controlling low-level up to most sophisticated devices, has been done by SESAME’s control engineers. This paper describes the design and implementation of the control system required to deliver the complete functioning of the beamline as well as the safety system including its measures put in place to protect the beamline’s equipment and users., Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Facilities Controls, PCaPAC2022, Dolní Brežany, Czech Republic

Experimental data collection is the essential process of acquiring experimental raw data along with its associated metadata from SESAME beamlines. For data collection and processing; scanning modes, data and metadata formats, and data visualisation are only a few aspects in which individual beamlines differ from each other. In addition, the volume of experimental datasets every experimental day might range from a few gigabytes to many terabytes. Herein, the effectiveness of the experiments being conducted at SESAME depends heavily on the efficiency and reliability with which experimental data are collected. Each beamline at SESAME has its own Data Acquisition (DAQ) that ensures that experimental raw data and metadata are not randomly generated and are stored together in a stander and well-defined file formats in compliance with SESAME Experimental Data Management Policy. In this paper, we present the standards and features employed in SESAME’s DAQ systems, as well as the experimental data creation, curation, storage, and accessibility pipeline currently being built for SESAME beamlines., Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Facilities Controls, PCaPAC2022, Dolní Brežany, Czech Republic

The construction of SESAME, a 2.5 GeV, and 3rd generation synchrotron-light source is under progress. The first electron beam from the Microtron at low energy (less than 10 MeV) could be obtained on July, 14th, 2009 and reproduced several times. The tests of the injection and extraction system as well as the hydraulically and electrical tests of the main magnets of the Booster are complete and the vacuum chambers tests are underway. The Booster RF cavity and its plunger have been conditioned successfully by 1.7 kW CW RF power. The installation of the Booster is expected to start after the completion of the shielding. The design of the completely new storage ring is finalised and the Phase 1 beamlines is updated., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan