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April 15, 2021 Report - Mar 29 - Apr 23
Director - Todd Satogata
Todd Satogata
Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- EIC Meetings (management, RF, crab, cryo, cooling, impedance, OPC, team,R&D)
- EIC Planning (technical reviews, partner project scope negotiation, ODU subcontract)
- MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee)
- MGMT FOA planning (AI/ML proposals)
- MGMT Rework AWPs for staffing actions/requests
- ADMIN IPAC'21 planning (Wednesdays)
- OPS Meetings (08:00 daily, BTeam, 1:30 Weds SAD)
Next 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)
Alex Bogacz
Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
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Ryan Bodenstein
Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- Attendance of 8 AM SAD meetings
- Attendance of B-Team Meetings and Procedure Development Meetings
- FFA WG meetings + IPAC paper
- Attending various EIC meetings
- Practicing OptiM
- Guidance of Isurumali’s work – meetings and review of results, etc…
- Got COVID-19 vaccine shot number 1 (Moderna)
Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
- Attendance of 8 AM SAD meetings
- Attendance of B-Team Meetings and Procedure Development Meetings
- FFA WG meetings + IPAC paper
- Attending various EIC meetings
- Practicing OptiM
- Guidance of Isurumali’s work – meetings and review of results, etc…
- Writing and editing LDRD preliminary proposal – sent to Andrei and Mike
Rui Li
Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- Writing reference letter for a BNL tenure promotion (including reading papers in the package and getting to know the person's all accomplishments)
- Doing more calculations for the CBB problem in EIC to further check my understanding
- Attend EIC impedance/instability meetings
- Attend the S&T risk matrix meeting at JLAB
Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
- Continue to do more calculations for the CBB problem for EIC , check various behaviors, and deepening my understanding of the interplay of the dynamical systems involved
- Attend EIC impedance/instability meetings
- Attend APS meetings
Edy Nissen
Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- Attended meetings for RCS and beam beam EIC task forces
- Worked on analyzing DODGE data from February
- Worked with Stockholm Colleagues on DESIREE paper
Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
- Will attend beam-beam and RCS meetings
- Continue analysis of DODGE data
- Will work on IPAC proceedings papers
Chris Tennant
Previous two weeks (Mar 15 - Mar 26)
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Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang
Yuhong Zhang
Previous two weeks (Mar 15 - Mar 26)
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Max Bruker
Previous (Mar 15 - Mar 26)
- Some more simulations to get to the bottom of the energy gain puzzle. There have been some interesting ideas but no convincing solution yet.
- We made a fresh photocathode for the UITF gun to have enough juice for the optics studies that were planned for the remainder of the time before the upcoming shutdown. However,
there were mechanical problems during the transfer of the cathode into the gun. Joe ended up succeeding, but after half a day of beam operation, there was an arc in the gun, and
it is now making field emission to the point where it cannot be operated. Whether anything meaningful can be done before the shutdown is not clear yet.
- I had some discussions with Fu Ma about his simulation of the space charge issue in the pulsed cooling experiment. He is using simplified formulas for the field, which may be
good enough, but he is seeing an emittance increase without applying jitter, which we did not observe in our simulation. The reasons for that are yet to be determined.
Next (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- UITF work depending on the course of action we decide on...
- Hoping to make some more improvements to JSPEC.
Fanglei Lin
Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- Finishing the optics of the dual energy storage ring cooler
- Preparing the teaching material for the SPIN@USPAS2021
- Took a vacation for one week
- Miscellaneous: attended the EIC eSR polarization meeting, attended the meeting of Development of Innovative High Energy Electron Cooling for an EIC Status Update, attended the EIC Accelerator Design meeting,
attended the SPIN@USPAS2021 Prep Meeting, attended the meeting for discussion of the photon source
Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
- Work on the storage ring cooler project
- Work on the teaching material for USPAS 2021 summer section
Bhawin Dhital
Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- I was working on IPAC2021 papers. I got an invitation for \Contributed Talk" from IPAC21 on \Beam Dynamics Study in a Dual Energy Storage Ring Cooler".
- I was working with JSPEC (Je�erson Lab Simulation Package for Electron Cooling). I am using JSPEC in Sirepo (from Radiasoft). Cooling rates were estimated using eRHIC proton lattice parameters using
both Meshkov and Parkhomchuk formula implemented in JSPEC.
- I was going through cooling formula and its derivation.
Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
- I will be working to �nalize IPAC2021 papers.
- I will be preparing powerpoint presentation for IPAC21 for the contributed talk.
- I will be working further on cooling parameters calculations.
Vasiliy Morozov
Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- Completed geometric and optical matching of the 2nd IR design with 35 mrad crossing angle
- CEBAF FFA: adiabatic matching of the FFA arcs to the straights
- Scanning of the electron beam sizes at the IP for optimum luminosity
- Optimization of the electron spin rotator
- Writing of EDM paper
- Presentation on earlier ionization cooling results
- On vacation most of the second week
Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)
- Optimization of the electron spin rotator
- CEBAF FFA
- Chromatic compensation with 1 and 2 IRs
- Electron polarization
- Ion polarization
- EDM paper
- Crab noise study
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
Previous two weeks (Mar 15 - Mar 26)
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River Huang
Previous two weeks (Mar 15 - Mar 26)
- Started working on EIC Beam-Beam project
Next two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- Continue working on EIC Beam-Beam project
Isurumali Neththikumara
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Dennis Turner
Previous two weeks (Mar 23 - 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
Previous two weeks (Mar 15 - Mar 26)
- Babysitting most of the time.
- Added complex DA vector support for TPSA python wrapper.
Next two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)
- Test complex DA vector support for TPSA python wrapper and updates the examples and the documents.
- Finish testing the binary collision model and the local model.
- Start writing the JSPEC2 manual.
Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan
Kevin Jordan
Previous two weeks (Mar 1 - Mar 12)
- Working on isotope target design and the coincidence gamma detection
- This includes sample preparation of the activated Ga - Cu67
- Working on the accelerator stewardship magnetron project - programming the controls w/PLC & HMI
- Working on IBIC conference organization - Updated Faraday Cup award website - we extended deadline...
Next two weeks (Mar 15 - Mar 26)
- Presented one of my patents to the JLab/DOE “INNOVATION DISCOVERY EVENT"
- Continue working to get the magnetron operational
- Helping RadCon to analyze irradiated gallium sample
- Working to organize IBIC conference
Joe Gubeli
Previous two weeks (Mar 1 - Mar 12)
- Isotopes – Worked on the 50kW design. The design is nearly complete and should be done by the end of the day.
- ARDDOT - There is still a production delay at the factory for the kinematic 2” turning mirror mounts. The current expected shipping date is eight
weeks from now. Working on a new design for the ITV8T09/ITVAT09A Viewer.
Next two weeks (Mar 15 - Mar 26)
- Isotopes – Complete work on the 50kW design and write up a description for the project closeout.
- ARDDOT – Continue working on diagnostics upgrade to CEBAF (simulations, engineering and designs).
Michael Tiefenback
Previous two weeks (Mar 1 - Mar 12)
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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)?