2018-06-08

Director - M. Spata
No report. Acting Accelerator Department Head

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Accelerator Physics - T. Satogata
Todd Satogata

  Previous two weeks (May 28-June 8)
     - JLEIC: pCDR writing, template, EIC lunch, impedance and R&D meetings
     - JLEIC: Further organize ICFA beam dynamics newsletter input
     - ADMIN: Summer student setting in, work planning
     - ADMIN: Leadership/group meetings, staffing input and planning
     - ADMIN: CASA group meeting (Jun 6)
     - ODU: Continue Randy advising, dissertation draft finalization
     - IPAC18: Finalize proceedings, delegate survey report
  Next two weeks (June 11-June 22)
     - JLEIC: pCDR writing, template, EIC lunch, impedance and R&D meetings
     - JLEIC: Further organize ICFA beam dynamics newsletter input
     - OPS: TAC review of PAC proposals, transfer BTeam to Yves
     - ADMIN: Leadership/group meetings, staffing input and planning
     - ODU: Continue Randy advising, dissertation draft finalization
     - JACoW: Plan Board of Directors telecon (late June)
     - ADMIN: HPI Training (Jul 15), Andre Seryi meeting (Jun 18)
     - ER@CEBAF: Work on coordination of magnet acquisition from Cornell

Alex Bogacz

   Previous two weeks (May 28-June 8)
     - ADMIN: Summer student lecture prep, lecture (June 5)
     - IPAC18: Light peer review paper final checks and delivery
     - LHEC: Work on paper on LHeC ERL scaling
   Next two weeks (June 11-June 22)
     - ADMIN: Work on talk for muon acceleration
     - PERLE: Work on talk for PERLE
     - IPAC18: Submit light peer review papers to IOP for processing

Rui Li

   Previous two weeks (May 28-June 8)
     - JLEIC: Work on pCDR writeup
     - JLEIC: Calculate ion coupled bunch instability growth rates with
       new HOM design from Marhauser
     - JLEIC: Work on ICFA newsletter section on beam dynamics in JLEIC rings
   Next two weeks (June 11-June 22)
     - JLEIC: Continue ion coupled bunch instability growth rates with
       new HOM design from Marhauser
     - JLEIC: Work on ICFA newsletter section on beam dynamics in JLEIC rings

Ed Nissen

   Previous two weeks (May 28-June 8)
     - ADMIN: Summer student setting in, work planning, reading up on pyORBIT
     - JLEIC: Continue Booster acceleration simulations
     - JLEIC: Continue booster nonlinear optimization work
     - JLEIC: Finish draft writing for pCDR for Booster section
   Next two weeks (June 11-June 22)
     - JLEIC: Polishing presentation for LDRD committee, presentation
     - JLEIC: pCDR Booster consistency updates
     - JLEIC: Start looking at Booster injection design with summer student

Chris Tennant

   Previous two weeks (May 28-June 8)
     - JLEIC: investigate effect of using 2x longer bunch in CCR
     - JLEIC: begin pushing a realistic (via Fay) bunch through ERL
       driver of CCR and assess performance (i.e. will it make it
       around the first arc, let alone make it to the CCR?)
     - PERLE: Vlasov and elegant tracking to get uBI gain in PERLE first pass
   Next two weeks (June 11-June 22)
     - JLEIC: Work with Dave to sort out CCR beam exchange
     - JLEIC: Input distribution from Fay for ERL tracking (and CCR?)
     - LERF: Read up on documents related to being LERF APEL

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Accelerator R & D - Y. Zhang

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Computational Physics - Y. Roblin

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Diagnostic Development - K. Jordan

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LERF - S. Benson