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Dec 5 2019 Report - Nov 25 - Dec 20
Director - Todd Satogata
Todd Satogata
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
- ADMIN 12 GeV PRAB paper planning/writing
- MGMT Continue annual appraisals, AWP updates
- JLEIC planning and organization, cooling studies
- JACOW Team meeting preparations
- IPAC'20 SPC/3 preparations, absract submissions
- OPS CEBAF startup support
- ODU PHYS854 teaching (with Geoff Krafft)
- Madison Accelerator Lab annual telecon (Dec 2)
- HOLIDAY (Nov 28-29, Thankgiving)
- JACOW Team Meeting (Nov 30-Dec 7, attended remotely)
Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
- ADMIN 12 GeV PRAB paper planning/writing
- MGMT Complete annual appraisals, AWP updates
- JLEIC planning and organization, transfer line start
- JLEIC ICR BPM start evaluation, calculations
- JACOW Post-Team Meeting info transfer to new Directors
- IPAC'20 SPC/3 preparations, abstract QA/reclassification
- OPS CEBAF ops support, Hall D procedures development
- ODU PHYS854 final exam (with Geoff Krafft)
- VACATION (Dec 19-20)
Alex Bogacz
Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
- Vacation & Holidays
- Lecture preparation for USPAS’20
Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
- Invention disclosures - review
- Teaching Accelerator Physics course at USPAS’20
Rui Li
Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
- Holiday vacations
- Recap and planning for works
Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
- Finish 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
Edy Nissen
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
- I will be on extended medical leave
Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
- I will be on extended medical leave
- I will put a little bit of time in to update my pre-proposal for for the DOE Early Career Award.
Chris Tennant
Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
- Shutdown/vacation
- Administrative tasks (excessing desktop, spec'ing new laptop, answering e-mails, etc.)
- Collected and sent Cheng-Ying CCR lattice material for collaborative work
Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
- Possible visit to CNU robotics lab
- Start tracking distributions from Fay through CCR and evaluate performance
- Prepping for AI presentation to DOE (meet with people about proposed projects)
Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang
Yuhong Zhang
Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
- shutdown/vacation
Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
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Max Bruker
Previous (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
- Vacation
- Had a first look at some data from the IMP experiment
Next (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
- Plan and perform IMP data analysis
- Tentatively: DC electron cooler discussion at Fermilab
Fanglei Lin
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
- Worked on the storage ring cooler project
- Revisited the electron top-off injection scheme for JLEIC and reported in the JLEIC RD meeting
- Preparing the teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class
- Attended the JLEIC weekly meeting and presented an overview of JLEIC polarization design
- 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, attended the JLEIC transient beam loading
meeting, attended the JLEIC IR machine detector interface assessment meeting
Next two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
- Evaluate the IR design for various electron energies
- Work on the storage ring cooler project
- Work on teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class
- Prepare and submit abstracts to IPAC2020
Bhawin Dhital
Previous two weeks (Oct 28 - Nov 8)
- Working on longitudinal dynamics and stability in two energy storage ring cooler.
- Single and many particles tracking.
- Understanding why particles get lost after few turns. Elegant simulation shows that transverse co-ordinates keep growing drastically and
finally particle gets lost. M. Borland suggestion : \ Try to modify the lattice so that the phase advance from the decelerating cavity
to the accelerating cavity is n*2*pi, while avoiding total tunes close to integer or half-integer values."
- Presented the update on \ Two Energy Storage Ring Cooler" in \ High Innovative Cooling " meeting at CASA on Dec 06, 2019.
Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
- Modifcation of lattice to adjust the phase advance from the decelerating cavity to the accelerating cavity to be exactly 2*n*pi(Fanglei
mentioned that she has already done this for electron storage ring and she is going to apply the same technique for a two energy storage
ring.)
- Single and many particles tracking using new lattice after the lattice optimization / after the adjustment of phase advance between the
cavities.
- Stability in two energy storage ring cooler.
- Radiation damping study.
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 (Nov 25 - Dec 6):
- Submission of abstracts for presentation at IPAC2020 on H- intrabeam stripping estimates and stripping chicane design for the JLEIC ion
linac.
- Work on the DTL portion of the linac in PyORBIT.
- Discussions on longitudinal Schottky signal analysis for the upcoming bunched beam cooling experiments.
Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
- Participation in the DOE Independent Project Review of Mu2e at Fermilab.
- Offline Schottky signal analysis as necessary for the upcoming bunched beam cooling experiments.
- Continued work on getting the DTL portion of the ion linac working in PyORBIT.
Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
- CEBAF:
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- JLEIC:
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- OTHER
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Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
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Randi Gamage
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
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Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
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River Huang
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
- Continue working on EIC project
Next two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
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Isurumali Neththikumara
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
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Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
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Dennis Turner
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
- Attended Accelerator AI projects meeting.
- Addressed High Level Apps OPS-PRs generated during ops
- eDT
- DogCalc
- QTSnyder
- ArcSteer
- Discussed with Tief a new RF cresting method using SLMs.
- AIPINJ
- Reconciled elegant deck with Alicia's GPT model.
- 12GeV PRAB
- Revised Optics Tuning section.
- Completed first draft of Pathlength section.
- Continued QTSnyder upgrade.
- Attended BTeam, Injector Upgrade Modeling, AI Lunch meetings.
- Took a few sick days for doctor appointments and such.
Next two weeks (Dec 6 - Dec 20)
- Provide Optics On-Call support through the end of the run.
- Begin working with Tief on new cresting method with SLM.
- Finish QTSnyder upgrade and write ATLis for testing.
- Continue work on Injector upgrade elegant deck.
- Continue work on assigned sections of the 12GeV PRAB paper.
- Attend BTeam, Injector Upgrade, AI lunch, 12GeV PRAB meetings.
- Continue exploring ML with Keras and TensorFlow, particularly for use at CEBAF.
He Zhang
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
- Vacation most of the time.
- Submitted an abstract to IPAC’20
Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
- Finish refactor electron cooling rate calculation. Revisit the particle model and the turn-by-turn model. Make sure they work well.
Based on the turn-by-turn model, work on the simulations of sweeping effect and cooling with shifted electron beam for better cooling
on the edge of the ion beam.
Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan
Kevin Jordan
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
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Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
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Joe Gubeli
Previous two weeks (Nov 11 - Nov 22)
- Isotope Experiment – Prepare for a two day run to the 1G dump. Worked with I&C to fix problems with viewers. Created a test setup for
the LERF Cameras. These cameras can now be set correctly (gain, black level, sharpness and gamma) as well as verified to work on the
Beamenizer.
- Halo monitor – Run delayed a week.
- HPWS – Printed a pneumatic cylinder holder for the air balancer. It and the cylinder was installed and tested.
Next two weeks (Nov 11 - Nov 22)
- Isotope Experiment – Help with the two day run to the 1G dump.
- Halo monitor – Conduct the Halo Monitor experiment in the LERF.
- DPIT – Discuss the future of the LERF Video system
Michael Tiefenback
Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
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Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
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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 (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
- Before Christmas, I developed a scaling for the AWA-ANL defection cavity for JLEIC straight merger. I managed to find a parameter set
that would enable the straight merger cavity to be a room-temperature copper cavity, rather than an SRF cavity. But it is a bit of a
brute, so may not be the optimum.
- After Christmas, I returned to AccApp 2020 preparations. I have already evaluated the Abstracts, now I am trying to develop a layout
for each Session I am responsible for (4).
- Jan 3, I am hosting Courtney Washington for a visit to the isotope irradiation area in the LERF vault. I promised her that I would
invite her once she turned 18, which happened in November.
Next two weeks Jan 6 - Jan 17)
- I will complete the AccApp 202 preparations.
- I have to prepare the first draft of the Quarterly Report for the Isotope Program. In addition, Doug Wells and I have a conference call
with Ethan Balkin, the DOE Isotope Program Manager, to discuss the relative importance of Copper64 when mixed with Copper 67.
- I leave for Vienna on January 9, returning on January 16, but will not come to the lab on January 17.