Design and implementation of control system for IPM e-LINAC.

The construction of a LINAC facility to provide hands-on experience has been under way at Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM). The LINAC, which accelerates an electron beam of 1 mA current to 4.5 MeV energy, is mostly regarded as a facility for research and development and educational purposes in the field of beam physics and accelerator engineering. A unified control system is required to supervise all subsystems and make LINAC parameters controllable for the user. As the purpose of the facility is for beam studies, the control system was designed to make all key operational parameters and beam characteristic available in a user-friendly presentation. This paper describes the requirements of the control system and presents the design of a LabVIEWPLC-based control system of the IPM LINAC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]