2020-5-8-LeadershipReports

May 14 2020 Report - Apr 27 - May 22 Director - Todd Satogata

Todd Satogata

  Previous two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - ADMIN Corporate communications writing workshop (Apr 28/30 lunchtimes)
     - ADMIN ER@CEBAF work restart, coordinate with Alex/Yves/Peter Williams
     - EIC Meetings (impedance, RCS task forces; editorial; physics; planning)
     - EIC Staffing/resource planning for OPC funds start
     - MGMT Meetings (Leadership, EIC planning, CASA coffee); JSA Monthly update
     - MGMT Staffing followups (Dave Douglas, SSII posting)
     - MGMT FOA preparedness planning, staff guidance
     - OPS KLF optics evaluation for large spot size at dump
     - OPS Darklight injector beam parameter input to Richard Milner
     - OPS LERF budget planning, Darklight injector beam specs
  Next two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
     - ADMIN PRAB Editorial Meeting (May 12)
     - ADMIN CRADA meet re McLaren radiotherapy (May 14)
     - ADMIN APS DPB Exec Council meeting (May 15)
     - MGMT Meetings (Leadership, EIC planning, CASA coffee); 2018 JLAAC updates
     - MGMT Staffing followups (Dave Douglas, SSII posting); lab agenda
     - EIC Meetings (RCS task force; CDR editorial; physics; planning)
     - EIC Staffing/resource/management planning for EIC FY20 OPC funds
     - OPS KLF optics documentation, proposal, collab meet (May 19)
     - OPS UITF staffing/training planning (with MattP/Yan)
     - ODU On-boarding Sunil Pokharel, get started on JupyterHub/gpt
     - ODU SBIR Phase I Xelera start, paperwork for funds transfers

Alex Bogacz

  Previous two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8) 
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Rui Li

  Previous two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
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Edy Nissen

   Previous two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - I attended my task force meetings
     - Investigated using Guinea-Pig as a code for Beam beam
     - Worked on documenting the DODGE measurements made in October with an arxiv paper
   Next two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
     - I am setting up simtrack for beam-beam task force simulations
     - Setting up elegant for RCS task force simulations
     - Working on finishing the arxiv paper
     - Making sure everything is ready for DODGE the following week.

Chris Tennant

   Previous two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - "Programmer Analyst" Interview Panel (4 interviews, follow up meetings)
     - Work on analysis SRF fault classifier analysis
     - Writing of PRAB draft
     - Work on unsupervised learning for finding patterns in C100 RF signals data
     - Coordinating external speakers for AI Lunch Series
   Next two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - AI FOA

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Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang

Yuhong Zhang

  Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
     - Attended many meetings remotely
     -	Worked on luminosity optimization in low CM energy
     -	Worked on storage-based cooler and IMP experiment. 
  Next two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10)
     - Attended many meetings remotely
     -	Worked on luminosity optimization in low CM energy
     -	Worked on storage-based cooler and IMP experiment.

Max Bruker

  Previous (Apr 13 - Apr 24)
     - We finally know that the profile monitor at IMP does what it should, it just stores the time information wrong 
       because of a bug in their implementation. I pointed out what they need to do to fix it in case they should need the thing 
       again, but they don't seem particularly interested. Because it's impossible to infer the correct time scale from the 
       metadata and the logbook entry doesn't correspond to the data in any physically reasonable way, we are now working under 
       the assumption that there was a communication error in the control room that caused the logbook entry to be different from
       the actual setting, which we in turn infer from the data as we've been proposing for a few months now.
     -	The results part of the article is close to being finished. I'm sending out the current version today.
     -	Communications seminar was good.
     -	APS meeting was good, too, and surprisingly so. Not only because of the circumstances, but also because I'm used to the
       German counterpart, which is so appalling that the only reason to ever go there is to drink beer with old friends.
  Next (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - Merge and edit manuscript

Fanglei Lin

  Previous two weeks (Apr 13 - Apr 24)
       - Worked on studies of the compact spin rotator and eSR polarization, and presented the working progress in meetings
       - Worked on the storage ring cooler project 
       - Preparing a NP FOA proposal for further development of two-energy storage ring
       - Review a PRAB paper
       - Miscellaneous: attended the Novel Techniques for eSR Polarization Improvement, attended the EIC eSR polarization
         meeting, attended the EIC RCS polarization meeting, attended the EIC hadron polarization meeting, attended the EIC low
         energy luminosity/facility optimization meeting, attended EIC design team meetings, attended the Storage Ring Cooler
         meeting, attended the Innovative HE Cooling Project Status meeting, attended the EIC Accelerator Design meeting,
         attended the EIC general meeting, , attended the Corporate Communications Writing Workshop (Remote): a Five-Part Lunch-
         and-Learn Series
  Next two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
       - Work on the compact spin rotator and eSR polarization
       - Work on the storage ring cooler project
       - Work on the FOA proposal
       - Work on the presentation for IPAC20

Bhawin Dhital

   Previous two weeks (Apr 13 - Apr 24)
     - Calculating damping times and IBS times.
     - Go through some references and Slava’s paper on ‘ Electron Cooling for RHIC’.
     - Figure out the optimized parameters in a Two-Energy Storage Ring design.
     - Regular group meeting on Two-Energy Storage Ring via BlueJeans (First was on March 20, 2020 at 2:30 PM)
   Next two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - Increase the low energy ring energy to 130 MeV and high energy ring to 500 MeV.
     - Figure out the optimized parameters in a Two-Energy Storage Ring design.
     - Figure out the optimum bunch length using elegant particle tracking

Vasiliy Morozov

   Previous two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - Contributed to preparation and submission of three FOA proposals
     - Communication with PRL and publication of the spin transparency paper
     - Preparation and submission of the EPJC paper on the spin response function fomalism
     - Work on solenoid integration: baseline and backup schemes selected
     - Work on the 2nd IR design: discussions of acceptance requirements with nuclear physicists
     - Work on compact electron spin rotator: simulations in Zgoubi
   Next two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
     - Work on solenoid integration: integration of FFQ rotations and shifts, coupling compensation
     - Design of the second IR continued
     - Simulation of the spin field in the ion collider ring
     - Work on two-energy cooler: particle tracking in Elegant
     - Work on compact electron spin rotator: simulations in Zgoubi, orbit correction, optical integration

Amy Sy

   Previous two weeks (Apr 13 - 24)
     - Attended the APS Virtual April Meeting.
     - EIC Design Update Newsletter activities: discussions with O. Rahman on newsletter frequency, collecting inputs, newsletter
       format, distribution, and other details. 
     - Discussions with A. Hutton/literature search on the feasibility of magnetized ion beams - this turned into preparation for
       an LDRD preliminary proposal.
   Next two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - EIC Design Update Newsletter: compilation and editing of inputs for the first edition of the newsletter, to be released 
       the week of May 4. Discussions on contributions to the EIC Bi-weekly Report that is circulated internally at BNL. 
     - Preparation of preliminary LDRD proposal on magnetized ion beams. The proposed project will study the preservation of
       magnetization in ion beams, and explore ways to improve the transport of existing ion beams from ion sources already 
       utilizing solenoid fields (thus already "magnetized").
     - As chair of Beamline subcommittee, provide feedback on status of recommendations from the last DOE IPR of LBNF/DUNE.

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Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin

   Previous two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10)
     - Writing section for 12GeV paper
     - Gathering list of M56 measurements for analysis 
     - Working on beam loss in CEBAF
     - Reviewing longitudinal match strategies for CEBAF
     - Beam prep and meetings
     - Beam-beam meetings with isurumali
     - Online class on machine learning with python
     - AI meetings for FOA prep.
   Next two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10)
     - Cebaf ER , reviewing lattice and scripts, documenting for Peter and Gus.
     - Developing restart for strategy for CEBAF
     - More online learning /python machine learning/data mining
     - Beam-beam FOA, start studying effect of damping in eRHIC by comparing tracked result with bb3d result and results from 
       Y. Hao's code
     - AI meetings.

Randi Gamage

   Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
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River Huang

   Previous two weeks (Apr 13 - Apr 24)
     - CASA Beam-Beam package 
     - Working on revising BB3D and Crib-Kicking codes for calculating the diffusion map of proton beam for EIC case.
   Next two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - Continue working on revising CASA Beam-Beam package.

Isurumali Neththikumara

   Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
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Dennis Turner

   Previous two weeks (Apr 13 - Apr 24)
     - AI
          - Completed AI/SRF FOA proposal and submitted
               - Lots of time spent in meetings and editing...
     - AIPINJ
          - Explored analytical solution for matching QWs vs. Wien filter settings
          - Explored modeling the chopper system in elegant
     - 'Attended BTeam, CASA, AIPINJ, AI accelerator meetings
   Next two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - HLA
        - Address Ops feature request for eDT
        - Pick up rayTrace again
     - AIPINJ
        - Finalize optics and present final magnet settings
        - Complete chopper modeling
        - Continue analytical model for QWs vs Wiens
     - Training
        - Complete Google ML Crash Course and start others
     - Attend BTeam, CASA, AIPINJ, AI Lunch Series meetings

He Zhang

   Previous two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10)     
     - Did simulations for eRHIC 41GeV proton beam cooling and presented the results. 
     - Add new features to JSPEC.  
   Next two weeks (Apr 13 - Apr 24) 
     - Perform simulation on IMP experiment. 
     - Non-magnetic friction force formula to JSPEC. 
     - FOA quarterly report.

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Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan

Kevin Jordan

  Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
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Joe Gubeli

   Previous two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - Isotope Experiment –Making models and running simulation on a 50kW design.
   Next two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
     - Isotope Experiment – Continue working on a 50kW design.

Michael Tiefenback

   Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson

   Previous two weeks (Apr 13 - Apr 24)
     - Started review of PRAB paper
     - Organized and wrote up  minutes for Low Energy Cooling Task Force meetings
     - Organized proposal review for Fabry-Perot Enhancement cavity for HIgS machine
     - Completed quarterly report for FOA Electron Cooling contract and budget for isotopes
     - Attended April APS meeting remotely
     - Transferred Seminar Committee chairmanship to Gigi Ciovati
     - Hosted meeting on 50 kW isotope target design.
   Next two weeks (Apr 27 - May 8)
     - Continue to organize and write up  minutes for Low Energy Cooling Task Force meetings
     - Submit Letter of Interest for LDRD proposal to study possible photon source designs at Jefferson Lab
     - Review LERF start-up procedures
     - Complete Review of PRAB paper
     - Determine resource needs for Low Energy Cooling task force
     - Submit quarterly reports
     - Revise AWPs for Electron cooling contract to match new SOWs and resource availability.

Andrew Hutton

   Previous two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10)
     - A lot of thinking about EIC including a detailed evaluation of the pCDR luminosity optimization (presented at the JLab EIC
       meeting).  I also continued on my quest to understand coupling.  I took part in the RF frequency discussions; I would be
       happy if the choice was 400 MHz, but not 394 MHz.  Haven’t we learned anything about the advantages of standardization?  
     - We have made a lot of progress on evaluating the isotope experiment and future design (Joe Gubeli and Keith Welch). I need
       to get my act together to collate it all.  I had a video conference on PERLE and wrote a brief report to Andrei, Mike and 
       Todd. I contacted the Chair of the VCU Mechanical Engineering Department who put us in touch with Hooman Tafreshi, their
       heat transfer expert. The discussion was not that useful directly, but it did serve as a catalyst for us to start thinking
       about the problem of the 50 kW crucible.  
     - I took Ethics Training because I am on VNECA, which officially advises the Virginia Governor, so every two years I have to
       listen to a one hour ethics lesson! 
   Next two weeks (Apr 13 - Apr 24)
     - Continued working on coupling and wrote a presentation to get everything in one place. Dave Douglas was very helpful. I
       will continuing this and involve others when it seems reasonable.  
     - For the isotopes, we had a brainstorming session on the design of a 50 kW target. Some good ideas, but video doesn’t work
       as well for brainstorming.  I had Dave Meekins on the line, but was not aware of that since you can’t share the screen and
       see the participants.  
     - Isotope Quarterly Report due on Friday, April 24.