Proposal for a Simplified Management of Accelerator Settings in the Injector Complex Based on Automatic Setting Propagation

With the increasing number of beams with different characteristics the number of controls settings to pilot the accelerator hardware has grown proportionally. In addition new hardware often comes with more possibilities to configure its behaviour, also requiring more parameters to be set. Both factors have lead to a significant growth of the number of set values to control the accelerators in the injector complex. To keep track of this myriad of settings, an automatic setting propagation mechanism is suggested. It allows to group cycles in families which partly share the same settings. This is in particular efficient for cycles where most of the settings must be identical, which is the case for many beams, e.g., in the PS.