2017-02-17

Accelerator Physics

Todd Satogata

 Previous two weeks (Feb 6-Feb 17)
   - JACoW: board of directors telecon
   - ADMIN: Annual review meetings, CASA group meet
   - OPS: Hall D run setup/support; BTeam org, beam studies; Optics Feb 7-14
   - HALLD: GlueX collaboration meeting/talk (Feb 16-18)
   - IPAC18: SAB invitation management
   - JLEIC: Resurrect old gear changing simulations for GHOST collaboration
   - JLEIC: Reading impedance papers
 Next two weeks (Feb 20-Mar 3)
   - OPS: Hall D run setup/support; BTeam org, beam studies; Optics Feb 7-14
   - JLEIC: Work/meetings on ion bunch formation strategy
   - JLEIC: Collective effects, spreadsheet planning and nagging; R&D meet
   - JLEIC: reading impedance papers, start longitudinal simulations
   - JLEIC: Start 4/3 gear changing simulations for GHOST paper
   - IPAC18: Start organizing ideas for invited talk proposals (SPC task)

Alex Bogacz

 Previous two weeks (Feb 6-Feb 17)
   - OPS: Optics support, injector match evaluation
   - PERLE: lattice re-design, Feb trip/presentation prep
 Next two weeks (Feb 20-Mar 3)
   - PERLE:  Orsay kick-off meeting
   - PRAB article review
   - JLEIC: Booster meetings re injection/parameters

David Douglas

 Previous two weeks (Feb 6-Feb 17)
   - JLEIC: Finish up emittance exchange, including example; document;
     first pass appears unworkable
   - JLEIC: Continue work on CCR arc requirements tech note and arc design
   - ADMIN: Accelerator TRC review memo (later rendered irrelevant)
   - PERLE: Feb trip/presentation preparation (operations driven I&C)
 Next two weeks (Feb 20-Mar 3)
   - JLEIC: Write up of emittance exchange slides/tech note
   - JLEIC: Return to CCR arc requirements document, CCR architecture
     concepts document, and ERL/CCR beam exchange system requirements

Rui Li

 Previous two weeks (Feb 6-Feb 17)
   - Feb. 6-10: survey impedance budget studies, prepare and make
     presentation at the JLEIC R&D meeting
   - Feb. 13-18: understanding the state-of-art for the
     potential-well effect and the longitudinal single-bunch
     instability
 Next two weeks (Feb 20-Mar 3)
   - Feb. 20-26: understanding the logic and assumptions of ZAP, and
     see how its input can be related with the JLEIC
     database. Estimating JLEIC single bunch effects.
   - Feb. 27-Mar. 5: further understanding of the state-of-art for
     transverse single-bunch instabilities
   - Cheng-Ying needs more time to refine his thesis, so I expect to
     read and review it in a few weeks

Ed Nissen

 Previous two weeks (Feb 6-Feb 17)
   - JLEIC: Continue implementing gear changing script model for
     Guinea Pig for 4/3 gear changing evaluation
   - JLEIC: Continue evaluating/planning Booster injection design,
     literature search
   - ADMIN: Fighting with MFA (took a few days)
 Next two weeks (Feb 20-Mar 3)
   - JLEIC: Continue writing PRSTAB paper draft on beam-beam sims,
     iterate with Daniel Schulte at CERN
   - JLEIC: Continue implementing gear changing script model for
     Guinea Pig for 4/3 gear changing evaluation
   - JLEIC: Finish literature search, start documenting parameters
     for calculations and future simulations

Chris Tennant

 Previous two weeks (Feb 6-Feb 17)
   - JLEIC: analysis of CCR-like arc with collective effects (space
     charge, CSR, space charge + CSR) (it ain't good)
   - JLEIC: analysis of mitigation of CSR wake using RF cavity in
     circulator ring (still ain't good)
   - JLEIC: analysis of merger performance at 2 nC (it ain't good)
   - JLEIC: started combing through 2 years of
     notes/slides/TNs/results to summarize work done for the
     ERL-driven cooler concept (i.e. the previous baseline)
 Next two weeks (Feb 20-Mar 3)
   - JLEIC: continue work on aforementioned TN
   - JLEIC: simulate Slava's/Dave's emittance exchange (probably
     ain't good)

Randy Gamage

 Previous two weeks (Feb 6-Feb 17)
   - JLEIC: Continue BLonD simulations of debunch/rebunch with impedance
   - JLEIC: Longitudinal impedance reading
 Next two weeks (Feb 20-Mar 3)
   - JLEIC: Continue BLonD simulations of debunch/rebunch with impedance
   - JLEIC: Continue Longitudinal impedance reading, calculations
   - JLEIC: Continue writing outlines of initial dissertation chapters

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Accelerator R and D - Y. Zhang

Slava Derbenev

   Conceptual development of emittance exchange. Worked out one solution which was proved independently by David Douglas using a different method
   Unified field theory study 

Fanglei Lin

   Continued chromaticity compensation studies on electron ring optics and presented the progress in the bi-weekly non-linear beam dynamics meeting.
   Helped write a document describing the Compton/forward electron detection region in the JLEIC.
   Provided the electron ring lattice for beam-beam study in the JLEIC.
   Provided the positron luminosity parameters per nuclear physicists’ request.
   Miscellaneous: attended the CASA monthly meeting, attended the beam-beam code development meetings, attended JLEIC weekly R&D meetings, attended JLEIC parameter/Ion injector coordination meeting, attended the bi-weekly non-linear beam dynamics meeting, attended the bi-weekly ion polarization meeting, attended the bi-weekly simulation meeting. 

Vasiliy Morozov

   Crab crossing: working with Salvador on crab dynamics simulations
   Beam-beam simulations: generating high-order maps for current collider ring lattices
   Ion polarization: planning for further work
   Detector background: documenting detector region configuration
   Non-linear dynamics: optimization of the electron collider ring
   Heavy ion tagging LDRD: analysis of forward detection performance
   Miscellaneous: muon ionization cooling, positron working group and workshop planning, translation of Slava's thesis on electron cooling, detector simulations 

Amy Sy

   Skew PIC: Compared phase space plots and beam sizes over 101 periods in Skew PIC channel for aberration compensation using ordered vs. arbitrary harmonics. Arbitrary harmonics (periodic with Skew PIC cell but not sine/cosine like) tend to give smaller beam size but will need to be optimized using genetic algorithm techniques to handle large variable sets. Started implementing Chebyshev expansion of magnetic field into MADX with the goal of finding better representation of multipole fields needed for aberration compensation.
   Merger: Working on verifying properties of generated magnetized particle distribution and its transport through the associated "matched" solenoid. 

Guohui Wei

   Simulated 10000 events of ePb collision in JLEIC IR　section. Preliminary analysis all particles generated by collisions at IP and downstream area, like the exit of the third final focus quadrupole, the exit of the second dipole, and the second focus point.
   Continuing on dynamic aperture study with tune scan for the JLEIC ion collider ring.
   Prepare for the proceeding paper in IPAC'17 

Yuhong Zhang

   Developed a program for the JLEIC spring collaboration meeting
   Developed a plan and had a meeting for the next bunched beam cooling experiment in April
   Studied report of DOE EIC Accelerator R&D Review
   Attended various meetings 

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Computational Physics - Y. Roblin

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Diagnostic Development - K. Jordan