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'''Alex Bogacz'''
 
'''Alex Bogacz'''
 
    
 
    
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   '''Previous two weeks (Sept 28- Oct 9)'''  
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   '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''  
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       - ER@CEBAF optics (one-on-one with Isturumali)
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   '''Next two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
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      - Presentation on CEBAF FFA at JLAAC
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       -  
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      - PRAB paper review
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      - PERLE Optics design
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      - Annual appraisal
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   '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
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       - FFA CEBAF Optics  - 6-pass Cell design
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      - ER@CEBAF optics (one-on-one with Isturumali)
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      - Muon Acceleration for Muon Collider - presentation for European Muon Collider Study Group
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      - PERLE Optics design
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'''Yuhong Zhang'''
 
'''Yuhong Zhang'''
  
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   '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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   '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
 
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   '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
 
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'''Vasiliy Morozov'''
 
'''Vasiliy Morozov'''
  
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     '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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     '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
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       - Preparing, attending, presenting the 2nd IR design and serving as a convener at the EIC workshop
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       - Prepared and submitted the final quarterly report on the spin transparency experiment
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       - Attending and presenting the EIC and IR design at the detector advisory committee meeting
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       - Prepared and submitted an update to the CDR chapter on the hadron polarization including discussions of the spin transparency mode and impacts of stochastic effects and crab crossing
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       - Work on the 2nd IR design: footprint optimization, linear optics design, planning
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       - 2nd IR work: optimization of the forward hadron optics
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       - Polarization simulations: electron and ion polarization lifetime
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       - EIC polarization work: spin tracking of the electron collider ring to benchmark polarization lifetime calculations
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       - Simulations of the spin transparency experiment
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       - Edited and submitted a paper on the test of spin transparency at an integer spin resonance
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     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)'''
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     '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
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       - Preparing for the Jefferson lab accelerator advisory committee meeting
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       - EIC 2nd IR
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       - Work on the 2nd IR design
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       - Optimization of the EIC electron collider ring lattice to increase the polarization lifetime
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       - EIC polarization work: simulations, crabbing effect
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       - EIC hadron polarization
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       - Work on the spin transparency experiment
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       - CEBAF FFA
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'''Amy Sy'''
 
'''Amy Sy'''
  
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     '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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     '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
 
       - Submitted input to EIC Biweekly report.
 
       - Submitted input to EIC Biweekly report.
 
       - MADX optimization of integrated solenoid/quadrupole/skew quadrupole fields for a compact spin rotator. Integrating the quadrupole and skew quadrupole fields into the  
 
       - MADX optimization of integrated solenoid/quadrupole/skew quadrupole fields for a compact spin rotator. Integrating the quadrupole and skew quadrupole fields into the  
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         in the original lattice, and further work is needed to study the implications of this on the beam dynamics in the spin rotator.
 
         in the original lattice, and further work is needed to study the implications of this on the beam dynamics in the spin rotator.
 
       - Attended meetings on revisions of the IMP experiment paper.
 
       - Attended meetings on revisions of the IMP experiment paper.
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     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)'''
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     '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
 
       - Collected and edited inputs to the September 2020 EIC Design Update Newsletter.
 
       - Collected and edited inputs to the September 2020 EIC Design Update Newsletter.
 
       - MADX optimization of integrated solenoid/quadrupole/skew quadrupole fields for a compact spin rotator. Continued optimization to reduce the magnitudes of the coupling  
 
       - MADX optimization of integrated solenoid/quadrupole/skew quadrupole fields for a compact spin rotator. Continued optimization to reduce the magnitudes of the coupling  
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'''Randi Gamage'''
 
'''Randi Gamage'''
  
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     '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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     '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
 
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     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)'''
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     '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
 
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'''River Huang'''
 
'''River Huang'''
  
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     '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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     '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
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       - Based on A. Piwinski, we tried to accelerate the calculation of the intra-beam scattering in JSPEC.
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     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)'''
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     '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
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       - '''JSPEC:''' Starting re-defining commands of “section run” so that optimizing the efficiency of JSPEC. Attending EIC meeting.
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'''Isurumali Neththikumara'''
 
'''Isurumali Neththikumara'''
  
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     '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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     '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
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       - Read articles on ER@CEBAF and CEBAF accelerator.
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      - Installed OptiM and started to get familiar with it.
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     '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
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     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)'''
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       - Read on ‘Coupled betatron motion’.
 
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      - Started to gather information on RayTrace.
 
  
  
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'''Dennis Turner'''
 
'''Dennis Turner'''
  
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     '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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     '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
 
       - '''rayTrace'''
 
       - '''rayTrace'''
 
             - Tested data collector during Beam Studies
 
             - Tested data collector during Beam Studies
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       - Attended AI Lunch Series, Accelerator Seminars, and Radiasoft AI webinar.
 
       - Attended AI Lunch Series, Accelerator Seminars, and Radiasoft AI webinar.
 
       - Attended BTeam, AIPINJ meetings
 
       - Attended BTeam, AIPINJ meetings
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     '''Next two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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     '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
 
       - '''rayTrace'''
 
       - '''rayTrace'''
 
           - Further tweaks to the data collector tool
 
           - Further tweaks to the data collector tool
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'''He Zhang'''
 
'''He Zhang'''
  
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     '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''     
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     '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct2 23)'''     
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       - Ran a bunch of simulation with various groups of parameters for the IMP experiment. Some results agree well with the experiment.  
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       - Parallelized most models in JSPEC using OPENMP.
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       - Added a few small feature to JSPEC2
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      - Reviewed one paper.  
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     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)'''  
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       - Finished the FOA report
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       - Finish debugging and testing the IBS formula.  
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     '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''  
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       - Test JSPEC python wrapper.
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       - Finish parallelize JSPEC using openmp.  
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      - Prepare a talk for Snowmass21 planning meeting.
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       - Test JSPEC python wrapper and prepare an example.
 
       - Start coding non-Gaussian IBS calculation.
 
       - Start coding non-Gaussian IBS calculation.
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'''Kevin Jordan'''
 
'''Kevin Jordan'''
  
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   '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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   '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
 
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   '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)'''
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   '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
 
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         assemblies. Need to set the focus of the cameras before they are ready for installation.
 
         assemblies. Need to set the focus of the cameras before they are ready for installation.
 
       - '''ACCTVL -'''Attend the FY21 DOE SBIR/STTR review as a panelist.
 
       - '''ACCTVL -'''Attend the FY21 DOE SBIR/STTR review as a panelist.
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     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)'''
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     '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
 
       - '''Isotopes –'''Continue to develop a 50kW target design. Finish the RADCON experiment setup. Thermal simulations of the 1-5kW design.
 
       - '''Isotopes –'''Continue to develop a 50kW target design. Finish the RADCON experiment setup. Thermal simulations of the 1-5kW design.
 
       - '''ARDDOT –''' Work on assembling the three ARC 7 SLMs. Set the camera focus for the CEBAF viewer assemblies.
 
       - '''ARDDOT –''' Work on assembling the three ARC 7 SLMs. Set the camera focus for the CEBAF viewer assemblies.
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'''Michael Tiefenback'''
 
'''Michael Tiefenback'''
  
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     '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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     '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
 
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     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)'''
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     '''Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)'''
 
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'''Andrew Hutton'''
 
'''Andrew Hutton'''
 
   
 
   
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     '''Previous two weeks (Sept 14 - Sept 25)'''
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     '''Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)'''
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       - Isotope Irradiations took place Sept 13-16.  This involved a stack of Nickel and Vanadium foils and isotopically pure Gallium71 in a powdered oxide form for calibration.
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       - '''EIC:''' attended meetings but I didn’t initiate much; same for the Editorial Board.  I did spend time to write to Stuart to update the laboratory Plan, which he
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         We also irradiated a solid graphite block to obtain approval for using graphite as the crucible for the later irradiation of natural liquid gallium.  We obtained approval
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         promised to do.   
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        the same day (actually after hours in the evening) and irradiated the gallium for a total of 26 hours.  The LERF was not being cooperative and we lost 12 hours to an RF
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      - '''Isotopes:''' a really busy time trying to make sense of the irradiation data and write up the Quarterly report. We have also spent time on the design of the 50 kW
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        station, but because of the rainfall from the SALLY remnants, we were able to extend the run (too dangerous to remove the shielding blocks).  The results appear to confirm
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         target (with Joe and Kevin) as well as upgrading the present raft to improve the cooling for 5 kW (primarily Kevin). Lila has been working with George Kharashvili
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         the FLUKA  results for Gallium, but we are pretty sure that FLKA gives the wrong results for Nickel (one of the daughters has twice the production rate, the other one
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         to understand how to search for “granddaughter’ isotopes of interest.  I start weekly meetings with her this week.   
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         half). We are still having meetings to get all of the calibrations correct in view of a publication.   
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       - '''ILC:''' I spent a lot of time preparing for the AWLC 2020 Workshop, where I ended up chairing the panel session on Lab contributions to ILC.  I also attended a large
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      - Lila presented the work she did at Jefferson Lab as an REU student at the "The DOE Isotope Program’s Virtual Seminar Series: On the Horizon: Novel Isotopes and Future
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         fraction of the talks.   
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        Leaders.” I worked with her to make sure she did well.   
 
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       - I spent a lot of time looking at the harmonic kicker for the EIS RCS; in my opinion, too much effort has been spent on optimizing the RF to avoid problems that I do not
 
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        believe are problems.  I prepared and presented a talk on simplifying the harmonic kicker design for the EIC. 
 
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      - We received preliminary approval for the PERLE ICRADA from the DOE - submitted on September 3, pre-approval obtained on September 23, faster than it took to go through the
 
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        system at Jefferson Lab.  It required two Jefferson lab signatures, Andrei and Drew; both have signed.  Now it goes to IJCLab where Achille Stocchi, the Director, is eager
 
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        to sign it.
 
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      - There was a VNECA meeting scheduled and I read through the draft Governor’s Statement in preparation.  My suggestions from the first draft had all been incorporated and I  
 
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         actually found a typo in the latest version (the authors were delighted!).  The meeting was postponed at the last minute.   
 
 
     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)
 
     '''Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)
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       - EIC: After giving a presentation on there harmonic kicker, I updated my ideas and sent them out in an email. I received no feedback!  I also attended the EIC
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       - '''EIC:''' again, I attended meetings, including the Editorial Board, but don’t think I contributed much. 
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         Collaboration Meeting which was actually considerably better than I had anticipated.  I attended the EIC Collaboration Meeting dry runs and then the Collaboration Meeting
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      - '''Isotopes:''' the Quarterly Report was finally sent out and including a reasonable understanding of the irradiation results. We are now addressing the ERR
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         itself, which was actually considerably better than I had anticipated.   
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         documentation for the 5 kW irradiation, which we have promised before Thanksgiving.  The Review will occur at the beginning of December and the 5 kW irradiation itself the
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       - Isotopes: we are still trying to understand the irradiation results, and have had several meetings to clarify things.  In parallel, we are continuing design work for a  
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         week of January 11-16. We will administratively restrict access to the GTS vault during the irradiation because of airborne radiation and ozone, both of which will be
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         50kW target.  The latest idea from Pavel Degtiarenko is to use an external heat exchanger and pump the liquid gallium around with a magnetic pump.  So far, the idea looks
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        tracked for future irradiations.  This request has been agreed by Riad.
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         better than our previous design.
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       - '''PERLE:''' there was a PERLE Collaboration Board meeting, following which I had a discussion with the Achille Stocchi and a couple of others on the conditions that they
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         would like for Jefferson lab participation. I sent Stuart and Andrei a synopsis of this so they could prepare our response.   
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      - There was another meeting of the ALCC to discuss the outcome of the AWLC workshop and future actions, including how to support the ILC Pre-Lab.  I sent details to
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         Stuart and Andrei.

Latest revision as of 15:48, 19 November 2020

November 5, 2020 Report - Oct 12 - Nov 6 Director - Todd Satogata

Todd Satogata 

  Previous two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9) 
     - EIC Meetings (Management, RF, crab, cryo, cooling, impedance, OPC, team)
     - EIC Cost scrubbing exercises, R&D planning, design review agenda meetings
     - EIC Collaboration Worskhop (Oct 7-9), dry runs (Oct 1), training (Oct 5)
     - MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee, P&C Oct 28)
     - MGMT JLAAC planning
     - MGMT AWP updates for FY21, staffing and finance spreadsheets
     - OPS start APEL training (Edy), start knowledge document
     - ADMIN IMP paper supporting calculation thoughts (with Max)
     - ADMIN DPB Exec Council April Meeting program committee meeting
     - ODU Weekly Xelera meetings
  Next two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23) 
     - EIC Meetings (Management, RF, crab, cryo, cooling, impedance, OPC, team)
     - EIC FCC-ee diagnostics collaboration meet (Oct 14)
     - EIC Labor planning for FY21
     - MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee, JLAAC planning,)
     - MGMT JLAAC (Oct 21-23), two talks (EIC overview, ER@CEBAF)
     - MGMT AWP updates for FY21, staffing and finance spreadsheets
     - MGMT APS membership rosters for DPB membership drive
     - ADMIN Edy Nissen accelerator seminar (Oct 15)
     - OPS continue APEL training (Edy)
     - ODU Weekly Xelera meetings




Alex Bogacz 

  Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23) 
     - ER@CEBAF optics (one-on-one with Isturumali)
     -	Presentation on CEBAF FFA at JLAAC
     -	PRAB paper review 
     -	PERLE Optics design
     -	Annual appraisal 
  Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - FFA CEBAF Optics  - 6-pass Cell design
     -	ER@CEBAF optics (one-on-one with Isturumali)
     -	Muon Acceleration for Muon Collider - presentation for European Muon Collider Study Group
     -	PERLE Optics design




Rui Li 

  Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - Get coupled-bunch instability modeling done 
     - Did theoretical calculation for coupled-bunch instability growth rate for eSR of EIC
     - Made sure modeling agree with theoretical prediction
     -Participate task force meetings/discussions/activities on impedance in eSR of EIC
  Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6) 
     - Summarized my results for the interplay of coherent beam-beam and wake-induced coupled-bunch instability
     - Presented my results at the EIC impedance/instability working group
     - Continue to study convergence of the modeled dipole coupling with respect to the number of macroparticles used in my simulation
     - Gained some understanding of the effect non-Gaussian distribution on the dipole coupling due to nonlinear beam-beam force
     - Discussed with Yue Hao of BNL/MSU on beam-beam modeling for flat beams of EIC
     - Discussed with Cheng-Ying Tsai (my earlier student) of HUST about IBS effect in CSR-induced microbunching instability



Edy Nissen 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - I was listening attending the Americas Workshop on Linear Colliders, and took part in a panel.
     - Worked on finalizing my PRL submission for the DESIREE experiment
   Next two weeks (Oct 23 - Nov 6)
     - Finished PRL paper and submitted it
     - Submitted proposal for more beam time at DESIREE for the next experiment.
     - Took, Nov 3-4 off
     - Have been working on getting up to speed on Hall D APEL related information




Chris Tennant 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - AI lunch (web, administrative, public affairs, speaker coordination, etc.)
     - Attended portions of CERN's Inter-Experimental Machine Learning Workshop
     -	JLAAC: talk preparation and presentation (10/22)
     -	AI SLAC Seminar: talk preparation and presentation (10/23)
     -	AIFOA1: complete AWP, kick-off meeting with PIs, contacting people about grad students, develop project Wiki page
     -	RADSMA: meeting with Radiasoft and initial data exploration of SmartAlarm data
     -	ARDRML: planning for ARDFML project
     -	Individual Career Profile and Performance Appraisal
   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - D&I division meeting
     - Attended multiple seminars (T. Powers ATP seminar, R. Pascanu "AI Lunch Series", ML OWLE seminar, AISC webinar)
     - Worked on AI Lunch Series Problem of the Quarter (curve-fitting calorimeter data from Hall A)
     -	AI lunch (web, administrative, public affairs, speaker coordination, etc.)
     -	AIFOA1: bi-weekly meeting, Wiki development, efforts (unsuccessful to this point) to recruit graduate students, technical roadmap meeting with Lasitha
     -	ARDFML: data exploration of summer 2020 C100 fault dataset (4,000+ new training examples), writing LDRD report for DOE




Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang

Yuhong Zhang 

  Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     -  
  Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
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Max Bruker 

  Previous (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - Took a close clook at Gang Wang heating. We understand most of the math and underlying assumptions now.
     -	My tracking code that calculates the space-charge kicks during bunched cooling now uses a 3d charge distribution instead of the 2d one we used to work with. The 
       result is closer to reality and allows us to look at both transverse instabilities at the same time; however, the penalty in terms of computing time is
       unsurprisingly massive.
     -	The results from the first two bullet points are in reasonable agreement (factor of 1.5).
     -	All of this has been incorporated in the revised manuscript for the IMP experiment. The current version addresses all comments made by the reviewers. It is now 
       being circulated; I do not expect any major revisions at this point.
  Next (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - Work on Bob's RF issues





Fanglei Lin 

  Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - Worked on the storage ring cooler project  
     -	Continued involving the study of electron polarization in the EIC 
     -	Prepared and gave a seminar lecture for graduate students at HUST in China 
     -	Miscellaneous: attended the EIC eSR polarization meeting, attended the EIC RCS polarization meeting, attended EIC design team meeting, attended the Storage Ring Cooler meeting,
       attended the Innovative HE Cooling Project Status meeting, attended the EIC general meeting, attended the EIC hadron polarization meeting,  
  Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - Work on electron polarization in the EIC 
     -	Work on the storage ring cooler project




Bhawin Dhital 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - Prepared and presented annual review report on dual energy storage ring cooler. Presentation was on October 20,2020.
     - I was working on momentum aperture calculation in dual energy storage ring cooler. Learned some python code. Dr Fanglei Lin was helping me greatly to understand those codes and
       the physics associated with the momentum aperture.
   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - I will be working on momentum aperture calculation in dual energy storage ring.
     - Based on the momentum aperture calcualtion, I will calculate the Touschek lifetime in dual energy storage ring.
     - I will prepare and present the status and the future plan on dual energy storage ring cooler in upcoming EIC meeting on 6th November, 2020.
     - I will work on preparation and the submission of tech notes.



Vasiliy Morozov 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - Prepared and submitted the final quarterly report on the spin transparency experiment 
     - Prepared and submitted an update to the CDR chapter on the hadron polarization including discussions of the spin transparency mode and impacts of stochastic effects and crab crossing
     - 2nd IR work: optimization of the forward hadron optics
     - EIC polarization work: spin tracking of the electron collider ring to benchmark polarization lifetime calculations
     - Edited and submitted a paper on the test of spin transparency at an integer spin resonance
   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - EIC 2nd IR
     - Optimization of the EIC electron collider ring lattice to increase the polarization lifetime
     - EIC hadron polarization
     - CEBAF FFA




Amy Sy 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - Submitted input to EIC Biweekly report.
     - MADX optimization of integrated solenoid/quadrupole/skew quadrupole fields for a compact spin rotator. Integrating the quadrupole and skew quadrupole fields into the 
       solenoids
       can potentially save ~10 m of space per solenoid, for ~20 m total. Solutions matching to the optics while zeroing out the coupling parameters beta12, alfa12, beta21, and
       alfa21 using PTC_TWISS in MADX were very difficult to find when dispersion constraints were also included in the optimization. Preliminary solutions for both solenoid
       modules were found by relaxing the horizontal dispersion and dispersion prime constraints on the match. The coupling parameters are about an order of magnitude larger than
       in the original lattice, and further work is needed to study the implications of this on the beam dynamics in the spin rotator.
     - Attended meetings on revisions of the IMP experiment paper.
   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - Collected and edited inputs to the September 2020 EIC Design Update Newsletter.
     - MADX optimization of integrated solenoid/quadrupole/skew quadrupole fields for a compact spin rotator. Continued optimization to reduce the magnitudes of the coupling 
       parameters and final quadrupole strengths.
     - Attended the EIC Workshop on potential international collaborations.







Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - rayTrace 
           - Prototyped statistical methods for twiss parameter fitting for raytrace. Discussed that with Dennis. He is implementing it in his code.
     - Reviewer for experiment E12-09-016.  Attended review, wrote recommendations, edited final report.
     - halla beamline meetings. Working with physics to define the next iteration of the hall a beamline in order to prepare for SBS experiments and Moller
     - BTEAM meetings, preparation and coordination.
     - AI Lunch Series talks
     - Evaluations, revising expectations for staff , writing own evaluation
     - Optics troubleshooting guide meeting
   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - Vacation
     - Working on various optics for the Hall A beamline
     - Coordinating BTEAM activities
     - Bibliographic search related to using AI methods for streaming data with an eye towards using that for a global lock system
     - Writing requirements for next iteration of CED import.





Randi Gamage 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
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   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
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River Huang 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
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   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
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Isurumali Neththikumara 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
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   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
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Dennis Turner 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - rayTrace
           - Tested data collector during Beam Studies
           - Fixed bugs found during testing
           - Developing analysis tools
     - AI/SRF FOA budget meeting
     - Medcon 5 training update
     - UITF
           - Provided help with qsUtility and optics measurements
           - Got ced2elegant working with UED
           - Created elegant deck for the rest of the UITF beamlines and populated the UED Optics workspace
     - AIPINJ
           - Imported the elegant deck for Phase 1 into the CED InjUpgrade workspace
     - Attended AI Lunch Series, Accelerator Seminars, and Radiasoft AI webinar.
     - Attended BTeam, AIPINJ meetings
   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - rayTrace
          - Further tweaks to the data collector tool
          - Further exploration and development of analysis code
          - Started working on the technote
     - UITF
          - Work with UITF folks to update the elegant deck and UED to match what was found from the latest beamline walks
     - AIPINJ
          - Tweaked the InjUpgrade workspace to get all the vacuum elements and such in correct order
     - Attend BTeam, CASA, AIPINJ, AI/SRF meetings
     - Attend AI Lunch Series, Accelerator Seminars, and other opportunities.





He Zhang 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct2 23)     
     - Parallelized most models in JSPEC using OPENMP.
     - Reviewed one paper. 
     - Finished the FOA report
   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6) 
     - Finish parallelize JSPEC using openmp. 
     - Test JSPEC python wrapper and prepare an example.
     - Start coding non-Gaussian IBS calculation.



Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan

Kevin Jordan 

  Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
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  Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
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Joe Gubeli 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12  - Oct 23)
     - Isotopes –Working on a design for a RADCON experiment with gallium. Creating a model of the new 1-5kW Isotope assembly design in order to run a thermal simulation. Had
       discussions on how to proceed with the 50kW design
     - ARDDOT - Started to assembly the three ARC 7 SLMs. Waiting on a few parts to assembly the alignment fixtures. Have completed the assembly of all 20 CEBAF viewers
       assemblies. Need to set the focus of the cameras before they are ready for installation.
     - ACCTVL -Attend the FY21 DOE SBIR/STTR review as a panelist.
   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - Isotopes –Continue to develop a 50kW target design. Finish the RADCON experiment setup. Thermal simulations of the 1-5kW design.
     - ARDDOT – Work on assembling the three ARC 7 SLMs. Set the camera focus for the CEBAF viewer assemblies.



Michael Tiefenback 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
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   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - Wrote up analysis of isotope spectrometer.
     - Derived and passed on  AWP information for Cooling FOA project.
     - Submitted Tech. note for chromatics of Bates and inverse Bates bends (Douglas work).
     - Attended some talks at the RHIC retreat to gain information on the CeC tests.
     - Provided AWP information for possible isotope scenarios.
     - Reviewed CeC quarterly report.
   Next two weeks (Oct 26 - Nov 6)
     - Write up and submit quarterly report for the Electron Cooling FOA
     - Met with videographers to determine what they can film in the LERF.
     - Put together budget information for the Isotope quarterly and get it verified by finance.
     - Start up alternate photon source group meetings.
     - Assist in video shoot for LERF for new lab video.
     - Assist in preparing materials for ERR of 5 kW operation




Andrew Hutton 

   Previous two weeks (Oct 12 - Oct 23)
     - EIC: attended meetings but I didn’t initiate much; same for the Editorial Board.  I did spend time to write to Stuart to update the laboratory Plan, which he
       promised to do.  
     - Isotopes: a really busy time trying to make sense of the irradiation data and write up the Quarterly report. We have also spent time on the design of the 50 kW
       target (with Joe and Kevin) as well as upgrading the present raft to improve the cooling for 5 kW (primarily Kevin). Lila has been working with George Kharashvili 
       to understand how to search for “granddaughter’ isotopes of interest.  I start weekly meetings with her this week.  
     - ILC: I spent a lot of time preparing for the AWLC 2020 Workshop, where I ended up chairing the panel session on Lab contributions to ILC.  I also attended a large
       fraction of the talks.  
   Next two weeks (Sept 28 - Oct 9)
     - EIC: again, I attended meetings, including the Editorial Board, but don’t think I contributed much.  
     - Isotopes: the Quarterly Report was finally sent out and including a reasonable understanding of the irradiation results. We are now addressing the ERR
       documentation for the 5 kW irradiation, which we have promised before Thanksgiving.  The Review will occur at the beginning of December and the 5 kW irradiation itself the
       week of January 11-16. We will administratively restrict access to the GTS vault during the irradiation because of airborne radiation and ozone, both of which will be
       tracked for future irradiations.  This request has been agreed by Riad. 
     - PERLE: there was a PERLE Collaboration Board meeting, following which I had a discussion with the Achille Stocchi and a couple of others on the conditions that they
       would like for Jefferson lab participation. I sent Stuart and Andrei a synopsis of this so they could prepare our response.  
     - There was another meeting of the ALCC to discuss the outcome of the AWLC workshop and future actions, including how to support the ILC Pre-Lab.  I sent details to
       Stuart and Andrei.
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