The EPICS-based remote control system for muon beam line devices J-PARC MUSE

Ito, Takashi   ; Nakahara, Kazutaka*; Kawase, Masato; Fujimori, Hiroshi*; Kobayashi, Yasuo*; Higemoto, Wataru  ; Miyake, Yasuhiro*

The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) provides software infrastructure and framework for building distributed control systems (DCS) to operate beam line devices. The DCS based on EPICS has been adopted by many accelerator facilities in the world, where reliability, maintainability, and scalability of the system have been demonstrated. This system is also used to operate the high energy proton accelerator in the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). We here report on the EPICS-based remote control system developed for operating the decay muon beam line in J-PARC. Major functions of beam line devices, three bending magnets, eighteen quadrupole magnets, and four slits, are accessible via Ethernet from a graphical user interface composed of the Motif Editor and Display Manager (MEDM).