2016-Sep-16 Accel. Phys. Biweekly Report

Todd Satogata

  Previous two weeks (Sep 5-Sep 16)
    - ODU PHYS 231 class prep/teaching (MW half-days)
    - Assist organization of NA-PAC emittance tutorial
    - BTeam/model team prep/participation
    - JLEIC ion linac lattice development, start transfer to svn
    - Review JINST paper on LHC bidirectional stripline pickups
    - AWP RSRBPH estimates development/documentation
    - JACoW Team Meeting planning/prep, technical support
  Next two weeks (Sep 19-Oct 3)
    - ODU PHYS 231 class prep/teaching (MW half-days)
    - BTeam/model team prep/participation
    - Finish ORFP revisions, deliver operator training session
    - Complete organization of NA-PAC emittance tutorial
    - JLEIC ion linac lattice development, start transfer to svn
    - Restart JLEIC ion complex integration biweekly meeting
    - Finish review JINST paper on LHC bidirectional stripline pickups
    - Continue JACoW Team Meeting planning/prep, technical support

Alex Bogacz

  Previous two weeks (Sep 5-Sep 16)
    - Develop proposal for USPAS "Practical Lattice Design" class
    - Booster to Ion transfer line development, documentation in wiki
  Next two weeks (Sep 19-Oct 3)
    - Vacation (Sep 20-26)
    - ERL'17 SPC program development
    - Start optimization of Booster working point
    - Hopefully get news on 2016-17 LDRD decision

David Douglas

  Previous two weeks (Sep 5-Sep 16)
    - Medical leave (part time)
    - DarkLight operations support
    - Most time spent on helicity flip design work
    - Support emittance tutorial meeting
    - Review NWO proposal
  Next two weeks (Sep 19-Oct 3)
    - Write up helicity flip design work
    - Complete NWO proposal review
    - Discussions on multi-aperture cavity application (with Andrew Hutton)

Ed Nissen

  Previous two weeks (Sep 5-Sep 16)
    - Booster synergia work, evaluating space charge injection limits
    - Booster 280 MeV injection initial testing
    - Start draft of NA-PAC beam-beam paper
  Next two weeks (Sep 19-Oct 3)
    - Paper/poster preparation for NA-PAC'16

Chris Tennant

  Previous two weeks (Sep 5-Sep 16)
    - DarkLight operations support
    - Analyzing emittance data from DarkLight run
    - Lots of time spent extracting beam sizes from beamanizer
    - Summarize ASML work for final report (requested from Steve Benson)
    - Generate data for Auralee (CSU student) to train neural network
  Next two weeks (Sep 19-Oct 3)
    - Begin writing up DarkLight emittance analysis for TN
    - Refine data for Auralee neural network training
    - Start of family vacation

Randy Gamage

  Previous two weeks (Sep 5-Sep 16)
    - JLEIC: Continue writing outlines of initial dissertation chapters
    - JLEIC: Continue GA simulations of bunch splitting optimization
  Next two weeks (Sep 19-Oct 3)
    - JLEIC: Continue writing outlines of initial dissertation chapters
    - JLEIC: Continue esme simulations of debunch/rebunch with impedance
    - JLEIC: Continue GA simulations of bunch splitting optimization