2021-4-29-LeadershipReports

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April 15, 2021 Report - Apr 12 - May 7 Director - Todd Satogata

Todd Satogata 

  Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23) 
     - EIC Meetings (management, RF, crab, cryo, cooling, impedance, OPC, team, R&D)
     - EIC Management Retreat (Apr 21-22)
     - EIC Planning (technical reviews, partner project scope negotiation)
     - MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee, ODU engineering)
     - ADMIN APS April Meeting (Apr 17-20)
     - ADMIN IPAC'21 planning (Wednesdays)
     - ADMIN IPACCC SPMS/Indico Task Force (Apr 20)
     - OPS Meetings (08:00 daily, BTeam, 1:30 Weds SAD)
     - ODU Lila isotopes code debugging
     - PERS COVID vaccination #2 (Apr 15), Doc appt (Apr 21)
     - VACATION Apr 16 (post-vaccination)
  Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7) 
     - EIC Meetings (management, RF, crab, cryo, cooling, impedance, OPC, team, R&D)
     - EIC Meetings (second IR, tech change control board Apr 26)
     - EIC Planning (technical reviews starting May 10)
     - MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee, personnel)
     - ADMIN IPAC'21 planning (Wednesdays, oral dry runs May 6)
     - ADMIN IPACCC SPMS/Indico Task Force (May 5)
     - OPS Meetings (08:00 daily, BTeam, 1:30 Weds SAD)
     - VACATION Apr 29 half-day





Alex Bogacz 

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Ryan Bodenstein 

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Rui Li 

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Edy Nissen 

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Chris Tennant 

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Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang

Yuhong Zhang 

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Max Bruker 

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Fanglei Lin 

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Bhawin Dhital 

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Vasiliy Morozov 

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Amy Sy 

   Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
     - Continued literature review on coupled ion beams from magnetized ion sources. Work at FAIR describes using collimation to reduce the transverse emittance of the coupled beam, collimating away over 50% of the beam in a bid to increase
       dimensionless beam brilliance. Working on setting up simulations in TRACK to work through A. Hutton's initial idea of specific beam transforms to recover a round, uncoupled beam.
     - Laser particle counter: Vendor anticipates delivery of 12 channel prototype detector towards the end of April - working to get a lab bench into the reserved space in the Structures Lab in advance of the prototype delivery, and set up 
       the existing test setup in the new space. Wexx particle counter data and manual indicate that the commercial particle counter can measure particles up to about 3.6 um in diameter, which is somewhat useful for calibrating the new detector.
     - Biweekly meeting with Omnisensing Photonics on detector prototype progress and delivery schedule.
   Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
     - Working with the Brown-Servranckx transform for round, uncoupled beam from a magnetized beam. This requires some non-conservative process in between the magnetized beam transform and the Brown-Servranckx transform - currently investigating
       the possibility of using space charge to facilitate this. Looking into the space charge modules in PyORBIT for applicability. The TRACK code doesn't appear to accept arbitrary matrix inputs for beamline definition, so is harder to work 
       with for these purposes.
     - Laser particle counter: Vendor now targeting the week of May 3 for delivery of the 12-channel prototype detector. A lab bench has been moved from storage into TL 1011 for setup of the existing test apparatus. Will be on-site on 4/19 to
       observe/assist with reassembly of the test apparatus. Previously considered utilizing a "gene gun" apparatus to launch single particles in calibration tests, but this type of apparatus is not compatible with the size and speed of 
       particulates to be measured with this detector. Looking into modified bead-pull measurements or a stepper motor setup for testing in air.







Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin 

   Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
     - Pathlength procedure development/meeting
     - JLAB/SLAC NP meeting for AI proposals
     - S&T Risk meeting
     - Cold start procedure development/meeting
     - Hall C future task
     - Positron meeting 
     - Hall A proposal C3Q, positron 
     - BTeam
   Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
     - Moller beamline work
     - Moller collab. prep work
     - Spin lecture notes
     - Analytical spin transport algorithm development
     - BTeam prep
     - Procedural development/meeting






Randi Gamage 

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River Huang 

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Isurumali Neththikumara 

   Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
     - Investigated the discrepancies between Optim and Elegant results for 750 MeV energy gain per pass and learnt how to scale elements.
     - Continue writing the IPAC’21 paper
     - Checking the optics of individuals in pareto front, obtained for NSGA II optimization with changing
             -	Objectives
             -	Variables
             -	Constraints
   Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
     - Continue the checking of NL optics of individuals in pareto front, obtained for NSGA II optimization with increasing variables and changing constraints.
     - Decide a better objectives for the optimization problem and complete IPAC paper.




Dennis Turner 

   Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
     - UITF
          - Beam studies:  emittance measurements at 9.7MeV. Had to redo since the cathode was initially not seated well, giving bad beam.  Got a couple of good measurements, but QE unavailable for further measurements.
                - Corrected deck and UED with updated survey measurements
                - Worked with Yan on energy spread measurements
     - AIPINJ
          - Worked with Injector group to plan MDR1I02 coil fixture rotation testplan
          - Resubmitted ATLis for MultiWire emittance measurement
     - 'HLA
          - eDT tweak for MQS0L01
          - qsUtility tweaks and improvements
          - ced2elegant tweaks
     - Procedure development: Presented draft Aperture Scan procedure
     - Completed Property Validation
     - Attended 0800, 1330, CASA, BTeam, AI FOA, Positron meetings
     - Attended AI Lunch Series talks
   Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
     - UITF
         - Merged final deck from the UED Optics workspace into the Ops workspace; quite a few conflicts needed to be resolved.
     - AIPINJ
          - Set final optics in CED Optics workspace and merge into Ops
          - Prepare for upcoming commissioning testplans, including a tunnel tour
     - HLA
          - cs2sdds bugfixes
          - Begun work on elegant to CED import in earnest
          - Met with Chris Slominski and Michele Joyce to discuss the upcoming RF HLA API.
          - Continue work on the rayTrace tools
     - Continue work on the Aperture Scan procedure
     - Attend BTeam, AIPINJ, UITF, PPB, CASA, 0800, AI FOA, and Ops Procedure Review meetings
     - Attend AI Lunch Series talks and Accelerator Seminars



He Zhang 

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Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan

Kevin Jordan 

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Joe Gubeli 

   Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
     - Isotopes –
     - ARDDOT -  
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Michael Tiefenback 

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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson 

   Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
     - Submitted review for Early Career proposal
     - Prepared and submitted presentation for APS April meeting
     - Gave dry-run presentation of APS talk
     - Attended S&T Risk Matrix training
   Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
     - Give APS April meeting presentation and attend conference
     - Rewrite and submit the LOSP for User Lab 4
     - Start developing longitudinal model for CeC ERL on LiTrack
     - Start quarterly report for High Energy Cooling FOA
     - Get COVID-19 vaccine





Andrew Hutton 

   Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9) 
     - Isotopes: I spent time preparing a talk that Steve will present at the APS April Meeting.  For this, I started to try and lock down our production numbers and had several meetings about it.  It is still not so clear!  I had an 
       excellent talk with Ethan Balkin. our Program Manager, and sent the noted already.  Since the Isotope Program will not have an FOA before this summer (and we don’t know what form it will take) I have started looking into other funding 
       sources. There may be a possibility of seeking SBIR funds, I have feelers out!  Lila will finish up her program on decay modes of all of the isotopes and will publish that at IPAC’21.  She will not have time to complete the other part 
       of the program, the daughter isotopes produced when a 𝛾, n, p,d,or 𝛼 strike the mother. I have changed Loida’s project to complete this part of the program, and then have Lila and Loida publish the final result together. There was an
       excellent article on gallium in Physics Today by Michael Dickey at North Carolina State in Raleigh.  I contacted him and will be talking with him next week.  I think he will be an excellent collaborator if I can talk him into joining us.         
     - ERLs: The panel met and we have assigned writing tasks, most have accepted.  The timeline is to produce a very first draft in May so that there can be an “community meeting" in June to present the rough vision and seek input. This
       has to happen before the CERN SPC on June 22,23 and the CERN Council meeting June 26.  So that will be a fair amount of work over the next couple of months.   
     - PERLE: I contacted Jean-Luc Biarrotte directly, in French, and actually got a response.  Their marked up copy of the ICRADA was delivered, I forwarded it to Rhonda who has contacted me about her comments, and I think it is close to
       going up to the DOE again - I think!           
   Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)  
     - Vacation: April 10 - April 17
     - 'Isotopes: There is still a lot of discussion to try and lock down the results o the two irradiations.  This was partially achieved for the APS talk given by Steve, but we are still working on it. The new FOA came out from the DOE
       Isotope program for training https://science.osti.gov/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2021/DE-FOA-0002508.pdf.  We will discuss how best to respond on Friday.  Lila is getting to the end of her work, with assistance from Todd (thanks).  
     - ERLS: Still working with Max Klein.  No further news on PERLE, apart from an email acknowledging receipt of our marked up copy which is now in the hands of the IN2P3 lawyers (again).    
     - IJCLab: I received an invitation to be on their International Scientific Council.  
     - FCC-ee: I participated in a r review of the Injector and made several comments.  The Review closeout discussion is on Thursday.  I could not resist suggesting that they look at the LHeC electron complex as the injector (this includes the 
       ERL design by Alex).  
     - HiPer/HiPER Linac: I am continuing to follow up with Framatome and BWXT, and will be writing up an LDRD proposal.  Do you prefer High Performance Linac (HiPer) or High Power, Efficiency and Reliability Linac (HiPER)?
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