New control system for nuclotron main power supplies

The superconducting synchrotron Nuclotron was put into operation in March 1993. The Control System for the Main Magnet Power Supplies (MPSC) [1] has been operating successfully since the beginning of the first Nuclotron runs. The first experiments with the Nuclotron Beam Slow Extraction System (BES) [2] were carried out in 1999. The MPSC was upgraded at the same time for precise tuning the betatron oscillation frequency at the flattop for the slow extraction process. A new control and monitoring system for the Nuclotron main power supplies was designed in 2005 in order to substantially extend functionality of the existing equipment and software.