Beam Manipulation Equipment at the Zero Gradient Synchrotron

The evolution of working accelerators invariably requires increasingly flexible beam manipulation to fulfill the demands of high energy physics experiments. The following reports on a hybrid digital-analog system that provides intricate beam manipulation programs for use with the Argonne Zero Gradient Synchrotron (ZGS). It describes the system requirements, the design philosophy, the equipment developed to fulfill these requirements, and finally, the present performance of this equipment. Figure 4 shows one view of the completed system.