OVERVIEW OF THE NEW HIGH LEVEL SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS DEVELOPED FOR THE HIE-ISOLDE SUPERCONDUCTING LINAC

The High Intensity and Energy (HIE) ISOLDE project consists of an upgrade of the ISOLDE facility. With the installation of 32 independently-phased, superconducting quarter-wave cavities the energy of post-accelerated radioactive beams will be increased from 3 MeV/u to over 10 MeV/u. The large number of cavities will increase the number of parameters to optimise. In order to ensure a fast set-up of the machine during operation and commissioning, new software applications have been developed and an upgrade of the existing software was carried out. Four high level applications have been specifically developed for the SC linac. The first allows the conversion of optics settings into machine settings, and vice versa. The second will aid the phasing of the cavities using beam energy measurements. A third application will provide absolute measurements of the beam energy by means of a time-of-flight system. The last application will automatically generate the phase and voltage settings for the cavities SC linac. In this contribution we will present the new applications and outline how these will be used in the operation of the new SC linac.