2020-1-16-LeadershipReports

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Jan 16 2020 Report - Jan 6 - Jan 31 Director - Todd Satogata

Todd Satogata 

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Travel: Venice, Italy IPAC'20 SPC3 Meeting
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - Travel: Iguazu Falls, Brazil SPC1/OC1 Meeting




Alex Bogacz 

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17) 
     - Invention disclosures - review
     -	Teaching Accelerator Physics course at USPAS’20
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - Teaching Accelerator Physics course at USPAS’20
     -	Machine support 
     -	PRAB paper review
     -	CEBAF ER chicane config. with Cornell’s magnets




Rui Li 

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Working on writing up the technote on uneven bunch spectra
     - Study literature about impact of uneven bunch fill on coupled bunch instability behavior
     - Schedule and planning for the next JLEIC impedance meeting
     - Continue to participate ALS-U impedance meeting
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31) 
     - Finishing up with the uneven bunch spectra technote by adding plots from Mathematica
     - Understanding effect of uneven bunch fill on coupled bunch instabilities
     - Understanding scaling of impedance on aperture size




Edy Nissen 

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - I have been working to document the upcoming DODGE  experiment
     - Discussing the strategy for COMBINE with Jean and Geoff attending meetings about the future of our EIC work
     - Working as optics on call
   Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - I will finish my DODGE preparations
     - Work on the design for COMBINE, it needs some tweaking and updated cost projections.



Chris Tennant 

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Visit to CNU robotics lab
     - Follow-up meetings for "AI in Accelerator Division" talk
     - Meeting with Communications staff about AI at JLab
     - Generate content for AI landing page
     - Work with Daniel Lersch on generating quarterly problem for AI Lunch Series
     - Checking performance of online fault classifier models
   Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - Prep and give presentation on AI at Jefferson Lab at DOE telecon
     - Accelerator Production Systems Engineering: meetings and contributing to draft white paper
     - AI for NP Workshop: work on pre-workshop "hackathon"
     - Host Lasitha for day visit to the lab
     - Re-train ML models for SRF fault classification using new training data set (with more fault classes)




Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang

Yuhong Zhang 

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - 
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     -


Max Bruker 

  Previous (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     -	Analysis of IMP experiment
     -	Mourned the death of JLEIC
  Next (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - DC cooler discussion at Fermilab
     -	Continue analysis of IMP experiment
     -	Fully read the eRHIC pCDR (the document is surprisingly well-written considering its length)



Fanglei Lin 

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
       - Worked on teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class
       - Worked on the storage ring cooler project
       - Miscellaneous: attended the Innovative HE Cooling Project Status meeting, attended the Storage Ring Cooler meeting, attended JLEIC R&D meeting, attended JLEIC weekly 
         meeting, attended a meeting for the Spin@USPAS class
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
       - Work on the storage ring cooler project
       - Work on teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class



Bhawin Dhital 

   Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
     - Learning python and data science with python. Took some online courses on python.
     - Preparing slides on ` beam cooling ' for coming USPAS .
   Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Working with stability in a two energy storage ring cooler with ` Radiation on'.
     - Working on generalized formula for stability in a two - energy storage ring cooler.
     - Going to USPAS ( Jan 13 - Jan 24) San Diego, CA as a TA for "Accelerator Physics".


Vasiliy Morozov 

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     -Attended the EIC Ion Collider Research and Development Project (11/16 - 11/30/19)
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     -Attended the EICUG Yellow Reports - Kick-off Meeting (12/11 - 12/13/19)




Amy Sy 

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17):
     - Longitudinal Schottky signal analysis for December 2019 IMP bunched beam cooling experiments. Plotting and evaluating spectrograms from the first set of data (700 ns bunch
       length, varying RF voltage from 0.6 kV to 2 kV) to check for missing data. Evaluating peak spacing and sideband evolution as RF voltage is varied. The synchrotron 
       frequency from the peak spacing appears to be ~50 Hz lower than expected from the experimental parameters, across all RF voltages 
     - Looking for the source of this 
       discrepancy.
   Next two weeks (Jan 23 - Jan 31)
     - Continued Schottky signal analysis for latest IMP experiment.
     - Continued work on getting the DTL portion of the JLEIC ion linac working in PyORBIT, to finish up H- intrabeam stripping estimates.






Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin 

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - CEBAF:
          - 
     - JLEIC:
          -     
     - OTHER
          - 
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     -



Randi Gamage 

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - 
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     -


River Huang 

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - Continue working on EIC project
   Next two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     -


Isurumali Neththikumara 

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - 
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     -



Dennis Turner 

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - AIPINJ
        - Emittance measurment simulations
        - Optics corrections for various wien filter settings
        - Beam size requirements
        - Generated wien filter matrices for 200keV gun voltage
        - Started on a tool for performing solenoid scans
        - Modified the elegant deck to reflect recent design changes
     - HLA
        - eDT vs. Hall B momentum in CED
        - Changes to eDT for more accurate conversion to control system units
        - New version of QTSnyder ready for testing with beam
        - Implemented a fix in QTSnyder to catch invalid segment selections from Fopt.
        - MultiWire emittance tool ready for testing with beam
        - Helped with documenting RF software
        - Agreed to take over Fopt as primary maintainer and Phaser as secondary from Chris Slominski
     - 12GeV PRAB
        - Searched for and found references for the FFB/locks section
     - Completed training as it came up.
     - Completed Property Validation.
     - Attended BTeam, 12GeV PRAB, AIPINJ, AI Lunch meetings.
   Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - AIPINJ
        - Complete solenoid scan tool.
        - More emittance measurement simulations: take wien filter apertures into account.
        - Import fieldmaps into the elegant deck as they become available.
        - Import the elegant deck into CED InjUpgrade workspace.
     - HLA
        - Test QTSnyder and MultiWire with beam as Beam Studies time permits.
        - Meet with Chris Slominski to discuss Fopt and Phaser.
        - Address OPS-PRs as they arise.
     - 12GeV PRAB
        - Complete draft of FFB/locks section.
     - Provide input to Chris Tennant for the DOE AI/NP telecon later this month.
     - Provide Optics On-Call support as scheduled.
     - Attend BTeam, AIPINJ, 12GeV PRAB meetings.




He Zhang 

   Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)     
     - Revised JSPEC for better management of the code. 
     - Calculated the IBS rate for new lattices from Vasiliy.
     - Ao Liu, A scientist from Euclid Techlab, want to apply for an SBIR project on space charge effects and he wish Ji Qiang and I can join.
       Discussed with them and helped to write an LOI. 
   Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17) 
     - FOA Quarterly report.
     - Set up turn-by-turn tracking for IMP experiment and ion beam edge cooling.


Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan

Kevin Jordan 

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - 
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     -



Joe Gubeli 

   Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
     - Isotope Experiment – Helped with the two day run to the 1G dump.
     - Halo monitor – Conducted the Halo Monitor experiment in the LERF.
     - ARDDOT – Was able to install and run the Beamenizer on a Windows 10 machine.
   Next two weeks (Nov 11 - Nov 22)
     - Isotope Experiment – Help with the two day run to the 1X line.
     - ARDDOT – Start work on the other CEBAF SLMs



Michael Tiefenback 

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - 
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     -


CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson 

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - Assisted in run to the 1G dump with CW beam. Unfortunately we could not run beam.
     -	Reviewed SBIR
     - Reviewed IPAC 2020 abstracts
     -	Looked over new Phase II SBIRs
     - Met with diagnostics team to derive a plan for replacing the beam-a-nizer frame grabber at the LERF
     -	Met with the magnet group and came up with a strategy for the kicker coils for RF merge test
     -	Continued gathering documents for the ERR punch list
     -	Planned for another run to the 1G dump
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     - Assist with the run to the 1G dump
     -	Certify User Lab 4 in the LERF
     -	Host Michael Famiano for Acc. seminar (with Joe Grames)
     -	Move excess equipment out of the LERF



Andrew Hutton 

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - The last two weeks have been mostly spent on AccApp 2020, preparing before I left for Vienna as well as the Program Committee itself.     
       One upside, I have an invited oral on Isotope production.  
     - We are finalizing the preparations for the first irradiation (mostly Steve and Kevin).  
   Next two weeks Jan 20 - Jan 30)
     - This week, I need to complete the Isotope quarterly report for the DOE, due Friday.  
     - Next week, we will commission the target beam,one, with the first irradiation hopefully the following week.  
     - There is also movement on the Straight Merger test at the ANL-AWA.  Ware preparing the coils for the cavity that is installed at the 
       AWA. Sarah is heading up this effort.
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