2015-May-15 Accel. R and D Biweekly Report

Highlights on activities

• All group members attended IPAC15 (two talks and over a dozen posters)
• Two MEIC visitors (Kondretenko and Barber)

Slava Derbenev

• IPAC conference - presented poster "Scanning Synchronization of Colliding Beams in MEIC"
  - discussing topics of MEIC design (ion linac, boosters, beam-beam, cooling, polarization) with colleagues/experts in the fields
  
• Post-conference week
  - working about idea of stacking/forming ion beams in rings with coupled (circular) betatron modes as possible way to overcome space charge limit for better e-cooling and luminosity
  - other issues of MEIC designs have been discussed with A. Kondratenko and other colleagues of CASA
  

Fanglei Lin

• Attended the IPAC15 at Richmond, had one talk and one poster.
• Worked with Desmond Barber in understanding and establishing the code SLICK/SLICKTRACK for the study of electron polarization in the MEIC.

Vasiliy Morozov

• My main activities were IPAC and working with Anatoliy on ion polarization.

Amy Sy

• Presented posters on helical bunch merge and skew PIC simulations at IPAC15
• Gave contributed talk on radioisotope production using ERLs at IPAC15
• Contributed nonlinear resonance simulations to skew PIC talk at MAP Spring Meeting

Yuhong Zhang

• Present 5 posters at IPAC
• Had many discussions with colleagues on MEIC on various MEIC R&D topics
• Working on LDRD bunched beam cooling demo project
• Started organization of COOL15 workshop

Two-week look

• A kick-off meeting for e-cooler
• Resume of MEIC R&D meeting
• A new visitor, Michael Sullivan of SLAC, will visit us on the first week of June