2020-4-2-LeadershipReports

April 2 2020 Report - Mar 16 - Apr 10 Director - Todd Satogata

Todd Satogata

  Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
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Alex Bogacz

  Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27) 
     - Second iteration on chicane layout, per input from Chase
     -	SBIR proposal review
     -	Paper on neutrino decay ring design
     -	Jupyter Notebook examples for USPAS course on Practical Lattice Design. 
  Next two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10)
     - Attend Muon Collider Mtg. at CERN 3/31-4/2
     -	Multi-pass linac optics for the LHeC ERL
     -	Revisiting UITF beam-line optics 
     -	Exploring Jupyter Notebook examples

Rui Li

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Edy Nissen

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Chris Tennant

   Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
     - Meetings/editing/prep/presentations for AI FOA
     - Meetings/writing/editing/begging for letters for Accelerator Stewardship FOA with CNU
     - Meetings/prep/discussion AI Lunch Series
     - "Attended" several sessions of NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference
     - Analysis of ML model performance on CEBAF data (prior to MEDCON6)
   Next two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10)
     - Finalize and submit Accelerator Stewardship FOA
     - Meetings/editing/prep/presentations for AI FOA
     - Meetings/editing/prep for LDRD
     - Outline/draft of peer-reviewed paper for SRF Fault Classifier

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Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang

Yuhong Zhang

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Max Bruker

  Previous (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
     - Started writing the PRAB article about the IMP experiment. Some questions are still unresolved, but the quality of the 
       results is starting to look convincing nonetheless.
     -	Remotely attended the first UITF training session
  Next (Mar 30 - Apr 10)
     - Continue and hopefully finish my part of the article. There is not much left to do as far as the longitudinal and transverse 
       profile data are concerned, but I'd like to understand what happens to the synchrotron frequency. Also, I'm getting the 
       impression that nobody quite knows what our objective/conclusion is supposed to be. I hope we'll figure it out along the way.
     -	Attend more UITF training and hopefully the communication seminar that keeps being postponed.

Fanglei Lin

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Bhawin Dhital

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Vasiliy Morozov

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Amy Sy

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Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin

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Randi Gamage

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River Huang

   Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
     - CASA Beam-Beam package - 
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Isurumali Neththikumara

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Dennis Turner

   Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
     - AIPINJ
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     - HLA
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     - HLA
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     - AI
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He Zhang

   Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)     
     - New model added to JSPEC, which allows to use multiple electron bunches to cool one ion bunch. The electron bunches are 
       assumed identical but placed at different positions. Kick due to the raising/falloing edge of a cylindrical electron bunch is
       added into the turn-by-turn model. 
     - Did some calculation/simulations on eRHIC low energy cooling. 
   Next two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10) 
     - Non-magnetic friction force formula to JSPEC. Heating effect to JSPEC. 
     - Keep documenting JSPEC. 
     - Perform simulation on IMP experiment if data is available. 

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Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan

Kevin Jordan

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Joe Gubeli

   Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
     - Isotope Experiment – 
     - Halo monitor –
     - ARDDOT – 
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   Next two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10)
     - HPWS – 
     - ARDDOT – 
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Michael Tiefenback

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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson

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Andrew Hutton

   Previous two weeks (Mar 16 - Mar 27)
     - The last two weeks have been spent trying to get used to working from home.  I think I am getting there!  
     - For the EIC, I attended two meetings of the RF team, I wasn’t much use.  I did spend a fair amount of time to look into the idea
       of reducing the vertical emittance in the EIC proton ring, either by emittance exchange or coupling.  For the emittance exchange,
       I am now certain that the “traditional” method of transverse-longitudinal coupling will not work for 25 GeV protons.  I do believe
       that a transverse emittance re-distribution might be possible, either in the transfer line or in the Yellow Ring.  Of these, the 
       transfer line would be best.  I also think we could look into slow extraction from the AGS followed by horizontal stacking in the
       Yellow Ring.  
     - For the Isotope Program, I have been involved in suggesting directions for calculations which are proceeding well (Joe Gubeli and
       Keith Welch, aided and abetted by the NMT students).  I have prepared a new set of milestones and sent it round for comment - so 
       far it is an anechoic chamber out there!  I also sent around information on the upcoming FOAs and got a positive response from
       Jamal at VCU, but Doug Wells has been offline for weeks.  I suspect he has been dragged into organizing teaching online, a massive
       task!  
     - I attended a videoconference on PERLE which is starting up again.  I wrote up a brief report fro upper management, with positive
       response from Andrei.  
     - The ALCC is now considering writing a short White Paper to submit to the Snowmass meeting November 4-6, 2020 in Fermilab. I will 
       probably get involved editing that.  
   Next two weeks (Mar 30 - Apr 10)
     - Continue with EIC work, hopefully collaborating more closely with Dave Douglas.  
     - I will need to finalize the Isotope Milestones and send them to Ethan Balkin. I also need to write the Isotope Quarterly Report,
       due around April 24.