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Biweekly report, April 15, 2016

Slava Derbenev
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<li>Continued working on JLEIC design and accelerator R&D, particularly, revisited the concept using the electron storage ring as the large ion booster, made some improvement, gave a presentation at the JLEIC R&D meeting
<li>Continued working on unified field theory
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Fanglei Lin
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<li>Initiated SuperB local chromaticity correction scheme to the electron collider ring.
<li>Working on a couple of electron ring optics to reduce the emittance.
<li>Continued discussion on the possibility of polarized positrons in the JLEIC for a LDRD proposal.
<li>Miscellaneous: attended bi-weekly non-linear beam dynamics meeting, attended JLEIC modeling and JeDi meeting, attended weekly EIC detector user meeting, attended weekly JLEIC R&D meeting, attended CASA group meeting.
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Vasily Morozov
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My main activities in the past two weeks were:
<li>Ion polarization: teleconference with Anatoliy's group, spin tracking, IPAC 16 paper
<li>Non-linear dynamics: teleconference with SLAC, ion injection optics, beta squeeze, IPAC preparation
<li>Optimization of ion injector scheme: presentation at an R&D meeting
<li>Teleconferences with LBL on collaboration on ion magnet design
<li>Positron source LDRD: development of a scheme and proposal writing
<li>Miscellaneous: Skew PIC, GHOST paper, seminar committee
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Amy Sy
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<li>Continued work on optimization of sextupole field strengths for compensation of nonlinear effects. Studied optimization using arbitrary, non-periodic normal and skew sextupoles in Skew PIC channel. Studied effects of body and thin sextupoles on particle radial offset.
<li>Began ERL merger geometry setup in G4Beamline.
<li>Muons, Inc. related activity: Completed draft of patent application for ERL for radioisotope production concept.
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Guohui Wei
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<li>Correction scheme of coherent orbit caused by detector solenoid
<li>Proceeding paper writing for IPAC'16
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Yuhong Zhang
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<li>The first week in vacation
<li>The second week I attended DIS2016 workshop and gave a talk on the JLEIC design.
<li>Worked on various issues of JLEIC
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