Control and acquisition software complex for TBTS experiments

The Two-beam Test-stand (TBTS) is a test area in the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) to demonstrate the high power RF extraction and acceleration at a high accelerating gradient, which are feasibility issues for the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) project. In order to achieve an efficient data collection, an acquisition and logging software system was developed. All year round these systems store the main parameters such as beam position, beam current, vacuum level, pulse length etc. For predefined events they also gather and store all information about the last several pulses and the machine status. A GUI interface allows from anywhere to plot many logged characteristics at a maximum of 10 minutes delay, to go though all events and to extract any logged data. A control interface configures actions and long-term control procedures for conditioning accelerating structures. The flexible configuration of the logging, the acquisition and the control systems are integrated into the same GUI. After two years operation the critical components have shown highly fault-tolerant. Logging data are used for physic researches.