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September 30, 2021 Report - Sept 13 - Oct 8
Director - Todd Satogata
Todd Satogata
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- EIC Meetings (management, RF, crab, cooling, impedance, team, R&D, beam-beam)
- EIC Meetings (critical hires, C3 for linac, cost/schedule, risk assessments)
- EIC Machine Advisory Committee (Sep 21-24), dry runs (Sep 13-14)
- MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee)
- MGMT Accelerator/Data Science brainstorming (Sep 20)
- OPS Meetings (08:00 daily, BTeam)
- ADMIN PSsQCD@EIC organizing committee meetings
- ADMIN Virtual Field Trip dry run (Sep 15)
- SICK time (Sep 22 AM doctor appointment)
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- EIC Meetings (management, RF, crab, cooling, impedance, team, R&D, beam-beam)
- EIC Meetings (critical hires, ost/schedule, risk assessments/updates)
- EIC IR2 design workshop (PM Sep 30)
- EIC DOE OPA review talk drafting, page turns (Sep 28/30)
- EIC DOE OPA review dry run (Oct 5-7)
- EIC MAC closeout (Oct 7 AM)
- MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee, P&C)
- OPS Meetings (08:00 daily, BTeam)
- OPS MCC tour with ODU President (Oct 5)
- ODU Faculty meeting (Oct 5)
- ADMIN JLab Virtual Field Trip (Evening Sep 28)
- ADMIN PSsQCD@EIC organizing committee meeting
- VACATION Sep 29 PM (Leah doc appt), Oct 7 PM (dental cleaning)
Alex Bogacz
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- Vacation
- Writing a paper on PERLE
- MED day
- FFA@CEBAF design work
- Convener - Muon Collider Community mtg.
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- ERL Roadmap - write up
- Coordinating FFA@CEBAF
- 650 MeV recirculating injector design
- PRAB paper review
- Revising USPAS lectures
Ryan Bodenstein
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- Operations meetings
- B-Team meetings
- FFA@CEBAF collab work
- Positron/FFA liaison work
- PhD Student guidance
- UITF Operations Training
- Diversity meetings
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- Operations meetings
- B-Team meetings
- FFA@CEBAF collab work
- Positron/FFA liaison work
- FFA21
- UITF Operations Training
- Optics On Call starting the 5th.
Rui Li
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- (vacation 9/23, 24)
- Start writing paper on CBB and TCBI
- Communicate with Themis Mastoridis of California Polytech State Univ. about his work on the emittance growth due to noise from crab cavities in EIC, got his slides for helping the work by River Huang et al in CASA
- Attend and listen to the machine advisory committee sessions for EIC
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- Do some additional calculations for the interplay of CBB and TCBI
- Continue writing the journal paper on the interplay of CBB and TCBI
- Read some reference papers on the Vlasov analysis for the CBB instability
Edy Nissen
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- Most of this time period I was Program Deputy
- Gave Accelerator update at GlueX workshop
- Finally fixed technical issues with Elsevier, and got DODGE paper submitted, currently under review
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- Attend a variety of OPS meetings as part of APEL duties
- Attend beam-beam task force meeting
- Attend RCS booster meeting
- Determine whether I can fit COMBINE into the budget for an ECA
Chris Tennant
Previous two weeks (Aug 30 - Sept 10)
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Next two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- RADSMA: discussions with industry partner for year 2 plans
- ARDFML: coordinate deployment of model for fault classification
- AIFOA1: lead weekly meetings, understand project bottlenecks
- Holiday + vacation
Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang
Yuhong Zhang
Previous two weeks (Aug 30 - Sept 10)
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Next two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
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Bhawin Dhital
Previous two weeks (Aug 30 - Sept 10)
- Continued with lattice optimization. Dr Fanglei Lin is making a lot of effort to optimize the lattice that will work best for electron cooling.
- Particle tracking simulations with new optimized lattice. Dynamic Aperture (DA), Frequency Map Analysis (FMA) studies were carried out in the new lattice.
Next two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- Will continue the lattice optimization
- Will continue - Tracking simulations, Dynamic Aperture calculation, tune shifts calculations etc.
Amy Sy
Previous two weeks (Aug 30 - Sept 10)
- Laser particle counter: Data analysis of pass/fail testing data taken during last vendor visit. Implementing new algorithm at vendor suggestion that calculates local peak to peak amplitudes in both the amplitude and phase data, and sums the two signals together for improved event detection. Continued algorithm optimization by varying moving window size in the peak to peak calculations, as well as low and high pass filtering effects. Studies of dynamic window and dynamic averaging implementation in data processing applications. The newer 18 sensors have met pass/fail specifications, but the full 24 channel system is incomplete until the initial 6 sensors can be replaced with upgraded versions. The vendor has committed to supplying these upgraded sensors as replacements for the initial 6, and have been authorized to begin work on 24 additional sensors for a full 48 channel system. Delivery of the remaining 6 upgraded sensors for further testing is anticipated in the late September to mid October time frame.
Next two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- Laser particle counter: Found a bug in the data-taking software that erroneously saves one extra bit to random data arrays - vendor has confirmed that this is a software issue and is working to understand why it occurred and how to prevent this in the next version of the GUI. Summarizing current progress in advance of taking extended leave. Preparing content for update on laser particulate counter status at JLAAC in November/December time frame. Vendor anticipates returning with full 24 channel system the week of September 20-24 for continued testing.
Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- BTeam
- Control room/optics support
- Moller collaboration studies
- SBS studies , procedural development
- vacation
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- SBS safety review walkthrough
- Hall A beamline paper
- spin@uspas meetings, book chapter writing.
- BTeam
- Moller alignment task force
Randi Gamage
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- continued EIC second IR layout optimization
- Replaced all the rear side magnets with RHIC magnets (strength and distance requirements for cryostats) except for one high
aperture magnet in the crabbing section and the three final focusing
quads.
- Moved forward side second focus away from the wall to increase space needed for crab cavities and working on matching it back in to ARC 7. Proving to be difficult to do with RHIC magnets.
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- Continue forward side match to ARC7.
- Work on a second IR layout with Nb3Sn FFQs and send the magnets requirements to Andrei.
- Waiting to get the newest IR6 lattice to work on the low energy low beta optics.
River Huang
Previous two weeks (Sept 13- Sept 24)
- EIC Beam-Beam project: Collaborating with colleagues, working on evaluating emittance growth rate due to rf noise and testing different cases by using CASA BeamBeam for SPS and JLEIC lattice.
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- Continue working on EIC Beam-Beam project.
Isurumali Neththikumara
'Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- Obtained solutions for 10-pass north linac lattice with nice optics for the 16-variable search.
- Completed searches for 18, 20 and 22-variables, but optics of the obtained solutions show over focused behavior, therefore need to make some modifications to the search by adding constraints.
- Read on parallelization of a code and python ‘multiprocessing’ library.
- Create a 10-pass lattice like the 10-pass NL lattice using South linac beamline (in OptiM).
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- Complete the 10-pass south linac lattice design, and translate the file into Elegant format.
- Analyze the optics for 24 & 30 variable search.
- Try to use pelegant in the pymoo framework.
Dennis Turner
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- HLA
- rayTrace analyzer bugfixes and enhancements
- qsUtility tweaks for UITF
- UITF
- Operator shifts for Wastewater experiment (most of my time was spent here)
- Start work on a download tool like eDT
- AIPINJ
- Create decks for spectrometer lines and import to CED
- Attended 0745, 0800, BTeam, AI FOA, UITF meetings
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- UITF
- Took several sets of optics data with model settings loaded for model verification/comparison
- HLA
- ArcSteer bugfixes
- Started incorporating "multimatch" into qsUtility
- qsUtility tweaks regarding backpropagation
- Completed MED13 training
- Completed SAF210 5 Minute Escape Pack training
- Electrical Safety training
- AI FOA
- Developed scripts to collect and label training data from the archiver to help get a model started for when the real DAQ data can be had.
- Started collecting and labeling training data
- MultiWire
- Prepared templates for Hall C multiwire testplan to be performed during an upcoming Beam Studies
He Zhang
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- Generate new data for the FMM paper. (Laplace, modified Laplace, and Stokes kernels, uniform distribution and Gaussian distribution, rank 2 to 10, particle number 1e4 to 1e7.) Updating the paper with new data and rewrite the DA part.
- Wrote a technote on non-Gaussian IBS model in JSPEC except for the verification part, which has not been finished
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- Finish FMM paper.
- Verification the non-Gaussian IBS model in JSPEC and finish the technote.
Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan
Kevin Jordan
Previous two weeks (Aug 30 - Sept 10)
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Joe Gubeli
Previous two weeks (Aug 30 - Sept 10)
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Michael Tiefenback
Previous two weeks (Aug 30 - Sept 10)
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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson
Previous two weeks (Aug 30 - Sept 10)
- Submitted new LOSP for alignment in the LERF vault
- Worked with BNL to determine cooler match for the MAC.
- Prepared MAC presentation
- Met with BNL team to review JLab responsibilities for the EIC cooling ERL.
- Developed WBS dictionary for level 4 ERL WBS elements.
- Reviewed Kastner report for BESAC competitiveness and went over proposed XFELO at JLab.
Next two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- Assist in final MAC presentation review
- Close out CATs item about laser alignment in the LERF vault LOSP.
- Go over possible applications in the LERF with Drew Weisenberger for the Strategic Partnerships, Tech transfer S&T Agenda.
- Submit revised FAST magnetized beam paper for review.
- Submit No-Cost Extension request for FOA electron cooling project to Manouchehr Farkhondeh.
- Start to review ERL requirements documents
- Attend Cost and Schedule planning meeting.
- Complete "Building a Respectful Workplace in a Technical Environment" training
Andrew Hutton
Previous two weeks (Sept 13 - Sept 24)
- Isotopes: I went over Loida’s 20 MeV output data and identified another medically interesting isotope Bromine77, which is not on the DOE list but has been used in the past. Both Bromine76 and Bromine77 would be produced from isotopically purified Selenium, which has one problem. The melting point of Selenium is 221°C, which means that it cannot be in the form of a stand-alone foil. I envisage encapsulating it in Titanium(?) like ANL does with their zinc targets used to produce Copper67. The range of 20 MeV protons is ~1mm in Selenium, so it would be a thin disc, the size of a US quarter. Our UVA collaborators tell us that separation should be easy as bromine is volatile.
- ERL: I wrote a draft of the conclusions of the ERL sub-Panel, which initiated an email storm. Eventually, all the members with one exception agreed on a more nuanced version that I will produce in the next few days. Getting a unanimous conclusion will take some effort! The hang-up is whether operation at 4.5K with high Q0 would bring the cryogenic load for the ERLC version of the ILC sufficiently low to be competitive as a future upgrade. We will need some careful wording to be able to come up with a report that everyone accepts. The ERL Panel has now two weeks to complete the first draft of the actual roadmap, complete with cost and schedule estimates. The upcoming few weeks are going to be extremely busy.
- PERLE: I have been in contact with Wim Leemans at DESY ( a long-time friend) about DESY joining PERLE. We will have a high-level meeting between the PERLE inner circle (Walid Kaabi, Max Klein, Hans Weise, and perhaps Achille Stocchi) this week to discuss the opportunities. This is also intended to try and bring DESY into the ERL Roadmap, which would strengthen it considerably. The ICRADA is slowly going the rounds - I don’t know where it is stuck it this moment, but resolution should be near. I also got in the middle of unblocking the collaboration with BINP as the Director used to be my student. I continue to have concerns about the role that Jefferson Lab is willing to play in PERLE, but until the ICRADA is signed, I don’t think it is worth bringing the matter up to Stuart.
- I attended a meeting of the ALCC, where the latest news from Japan is not good. MEXT has decided that it cannot approve the ILC Pre-Lab until other countries have signed on. However, the other countries are waiting for a clear indication of intent from Japan. The Japanese solution - create another review panel! The ALCC is normally very positive about the chances for the realization of the ILC, but were distinctly disturbed by the news, which was presented by Hitoshi Murayama, a very credible source.
Next two weeks (Sept 27 - Oct 8)
- Isotopes: Loida has now completed the thermal neutron production and reformatted it to make it easier to search. Surprisingly, out of 70, 179 reactions, only 31 were interesting. I will come up with the average energy of “fast neutrons” in a reactor for her next search. In the meantime, Lila is going back and re-formatting the outputs from the gamma and proton searches.
- ERL: this has been a busy couple of weeks. The first draft of the ERL sub-Panel report is almost complete. Jean Delayen brought up a new effect; with counter-rotating beams in twin-axis cavities, the only way to have both beams on crest is that the cavity spacing is maintained at exactly an integral number of half-wavelengths - hard to achieve during cool-down warm-up and seasonal expansion/contraction. I explained why I didn’t think this was a problem, and this is now grown into an email back and forth! Will let you know the outcome. After we finish the draft, it will have to go to Thomas, Vladimir, and Valery Telnov so they can object - I am expecting fireworks from at least one of them! The ERL Panel presented the initial findings to the LDG; I think we did quite well. Now we have to finalize the budget estimates and milestones by October 12. Again a crisis.
- PERLE: We met with Hans Weise of DESY to discuss possible involvement in PERLE; they claim to be saturated, and are not willing to think about working on any other frequency that 1300 MHz - so they are basically abdicating from future high-energy high current colliders. We were flabbergasted! After a fair amount of back and forth, BINP has signed the collaboration agreement with PERLE. They will provide magnets. That still leaves JLab out in the cold.