THE FIRST DEVELOPMENT OF AN EPICS ACCELERATOR CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE IDAHO ACCELERATOR CENTER

The Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC) of Idaho State University, has been operating nine low energy accelerators for nuclear physics applications and medical isotope production [1]. But almost all of those accelerators do not have modern computer based systems to control the various accelerator components remotely. To obtain stable accelerator operations with a good reproducibility, the EPICS accelerator control system has been adapted. After developing an EPICS control system for various components, the same control system will be applied to all other operating accelerators at the IAC. Since January 2011, an EPICS control system has been developed for a 16 MeV S-band linac by collaborating with SLAC controls department. This paper describes the first EPICS accelerator control system to control magnet power supplies of the S-band linac at the IAC.