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March 5 2020 Report - Feb 17 - Mar 13
Director - Todd Satogata
Todd Satogata
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- ADMIN 12 GeV PRAB writing/meets, group move planning
- MGMT Group meet (Feb 19), Stand-down (Feb 26), LMBB
- EIC Meetings, BNL work planning, parameter review
- OPS Optics on-call (through Feb 25), Hall D raster optics
- VACATION (Feb 27)
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- ADMIN 12 GeV PRAB writing/meets, group move planning, PRAB review
- MGMT Stand-down notes, JSA monthly, training updates
- MGMT AI for NP workshop
- EIC Meetings, BNL work/resource planning, parameter review
- OPS UITF tour, start CASA involvement; positron beams meet
- OPS CEBAF high current, diagnostics support planning
- OPS KLF discussions, proposal contribution
- ODU/SBIR Prep Sunil Pokharel for Xelera SBIR, grad student review
- IPAC Light peer review assistance (Peter McIntosh)
Alex Bogacz
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- Machine support
- Preparing for Graduate Student Progress Review
- Exploring Cornell’s magnets for ER@CEBAF
- Selection of REU 2020 Summer students
- Exploring Jupyter Notebook for USPAS course on Practical Lattice Design
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- Machine support
- Conducting Graduate Student Progress Review
- 'First cut' chicane layout with Cornell’s magnets
- PRAB paper review
- TRC invention disclosure review
'Rui Li
Previous two weeks (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
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Edy Nissen
Previous two weeks (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
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Chris Tennant
Previous two weeks (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
- Presenting a short AI talk at ODU/JLab Engineering Meeting
- Organizing all aspects of AI Hackathon
- Big effort with Lasitha to work on new models for SRF classifier
- Generate and submit pre-proposal with CNU for FOA ("Accelerator Stewardship")
- Generate content for possible AI (public) webpage
Next two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- Meet with communications group about AI webpage
- Deploy (hopefully) new models for SRF classifier
- Safety stand down
- Continue work for AI Hackathon
- Presenting work at AI Lunch Series about winning Problem of the Quarter #3
Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang
Yuhong Zhang
Previous two weeks (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
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Max Bruker
Previous (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
- Literature study on ferrite-based cavity tuning, harmonic kicker prototype, and cavity plasma processing
- Analysis of IMP experiment
- Consistency checks of electron bunch length and relative phase
- Comparison of relative beam loss and evolution of statistical moments
- Started analysis of dithering data; massive effect on RF spectrum not understood yet, reason for increase in beam loss unclear
Next (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- Continue analysis
Fanglei Lin
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- Worked on the storage ring cooler project
- Worked on teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class
- Studying eRHIC design and participated in the discussion of EIC task forces
- Miscellaneous: attended the Storage Ring Cooler meeting, attended meetings for the Spin@USPAS class,
attended the EIC accelerator design team meeting
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- Work on the storage ring cooler project
- Work on teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class
- Study eRHIC design and prepare for the contribution to the design of EIC
Bhawin Dhital
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- I got student grant to participate in AccApp20 conference which was supposed to held in Vienna, Austria from
April 05 - 09, Vienna, Austria.
- I was busy for visa application process and I got a visa to attend the conference.
- Understanding damping time and IBS time in a two-energy storage ring.
- Target Operator training at Hall C, Hall C walk-through training.
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- Calculating damping and IBS time.
- Participating JLab hack-athon and AI workshop.
- Canceling all reservation which was made for AccApp20, Now AppAcc20 is offcially canceled.
- Working intensely in a two-energy storage ring project.
- Acknowledgement: Thanks to Dr Vasiliy Morozov who has greatly helped us every time. He is very smart to
figure out the problems with solutions.
Vasiliy Morozov
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- Resubmitted a PRL article on spin transparency
- Planning of collaborative work with BNL
- Work on detector solenoid integration
- Work on two-energy storage ring cooler
- Spin tracking for the transparent spin experiment
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- Preparation of a PRAB paper on spin response function
- Work on detector solenoid compensation
- Spin tracking simulations
- Work on beam-beam modeling
- Work on crabbing dynamics
Amy Sy
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- H- intrabeam stripping estimate in JLEIC ion linac using PyORBIT. Cleaning up of the lattice model used by M.
Clyburn to split the superconducting RF cavities to incorporate three gaps versus a single gap per cell.
Calculations of the H- intrabeam stripping cross-section as a function of the relative beam velocity. First
pass at calculating the fractional beam loss as a function of linac length.
- Longitudinal Schottky signal analysis for the IMP cooling experiment including dithered electron beam data.
Dithering the electron beam by 100 - 1000 Hz at different electron and ion bunch lengths generated more
sidebands in the cooling process that persist even in the later stages of the cooling duration. Additional
satellites at the dithering frequency are sometimes seen in the spectra, but not for every parameter set, so
conclusions on general behavior are difficult to make. Focus will be on the fixed frequency data for the
resultant publication.
- Discussions with A. Hutton and Y. Derbenev on new electron EDM experiment concepts.
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- Participation in the AI for Nuclear Physics workshop.
- Continued work on the H- intrabeam stripping estimates.
- More discussions on electron EDM.
- Completing Radworker 1 training.
Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin
Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
- Vacation (until Jan 8)
- AI workshop organizing committee meetings and organizational work
- Accelerator restart, BTEAM meetings
- TRC committee meetings
- FOA report on beambeam
- Staff evaluations
Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
- Hall A recommissioning, review of specifications for beam deliveries
- USPAS meetings
- Preparation of slides for summer USPAS teaching
- Preparation of lecture notes for USPAS
- Staff evaluations, final step
- Calculations for spin transport IPAC contribution (with J. Grames/M. Joyce)
Randi Gamage
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- IPAC papers
- Multipole correction for jelic icr (not converging probably due to too many correctors?)
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- IPAC papers
- Multipole correction for jleic icr
- Looking at EIC detector solenoid compensation
River Huang
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- CASA Beam-Beam package - We are working on revising Lie-operator code part of CASA Beam-Beam package, the
part will record the details of “slice-slice” kick which acts on the 6 phase space coordinates at s=0(the IP)
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- Continue working on revising CASA Beam-Beam package.
Isurumali Neththikumara
Previous two weeks (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
- Tried to obtain the same diffusion plot for eRHIC parameters as in FOA-18.
- Prepared a report for Oral qualifying exam.
Next two weeks (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
- Figure out the inconsistency of diffusion rate results with BNL plots.
- Start working on simulations for DODGE project.
Dennis Turner
Previous two weeks (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
- AIPINJ
- Updated elegant deck to reflect layout changes from ME.
- Verified apertures wide enough for solenoid scans
- Match with Darmstadt triplets vs. various wien angles.
- Hall A target position excursion
- Attended emergency meeting
- Recompiled Chime for RHEL7
- Provided scripts and Chime configs for target positions and current lock
- Fixed the above scripts when they became broken overnight.
- 12GeV PRAB
- Searched for sources for beam locks section
- 'AHLA
- Spoke with Chris Slominski about taking over Fopt; he is not retiring after all.
- Optics On-Call
- qsUtility tweaks
- MultiWire tweaks
- Provided input to Chris Tennant for the DOE AI for NP teleconference
- qsUtility for UITF
- Attended BTeam, AIPINJ Modeling, CASA, AI Lunch, 12GeV PRAB, DOE Town Hall meetings
- Registered for USPAS and AI Workshop
Next two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- AIPINJ
- Provide nominal fields for solenoids and Darmstadt triplets to assess cooling requirements, etc.
- Include field maps in the elegant deck as they become available.
- Beam Studies
- Test QTSnyder and MultiWire if Beam Studies time becomes available.
- 12GeV PRAB
- Write draft Beam Locks section
- Attend BTeam, AIPINJ Modeling, CASA, AI Lunch, 12GeV PRAB meetings.
He Zhang
Previous two weeks (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
- Finshed the SBIR proposal and related forms.
- Started running turn-by-turn simulation for IMP experiment.
- Testing new version of JSPEC. Add a new feature to JSPEC: load the ion beam sample from file, which could be used to continue a saved
simulation or to use user-defined ion beam distribution.
- Calculated the effect on the cooling rate by the momentum spread of the electron beam
Next two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- Finish revising the UI and start document the codes.
- Perform simulations on IMP experiment.
Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan
Kevin Jordan
Previous two weeks (Feb 3 - Feb 14)
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Joe Gubeli
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- Isotope Experiment – Reinstalled the camera that images the alignment target after another RADCON mock
run. Prepare for next week run.
- Halo monitor – The missing $27k was returned to Radiabeam. They have asked guidance on how to wire the
funds to us but nobody seems to be helping them. Not sure we will ever see it.
routine code and the funds went to the State Department instead of DOE.
- ARDDOT – Preparing an installation manual for the CEBAF Viewer replacement. Took sometime this week to
clean up Lab 2 after quarterly safety walk through remarks.
- HPWS - Had some meetings to decide on functionality of the controls and GUI.
- Safety - Had the Quarterly as well as the Monthly Saftey LERF inspection. Housekeeping and low
illumination was the only concern. Housekeeping was remedied and FM is working the lights.
Next two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- HPWS – Design a test setup to pulse a diode laser that simulates the electron beam. This will allow us
to test the scanner’s acquisition in pulsed mode.
- ARDDOT – Continue working with Zemax. Start working on a couple of different optical designs that will
allow the cameras on the CEBAF SLMs to be in a lower radiation environment. The current beam setup in CEBAF
allows for much higher production of radiation at the detriment of the electronics in the tunnel.
- Isotope Experiment - Support 1kW run.
Michael Tiefenback
Previous two weeks (Feb 3 - FE 14)
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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- Assist in the isotope line commissioning run but administrative limit error cancelled production run.
- Hosted seminar by Carlos Hernandez-Garcia
- Worked on setting up task forces for EIC at BNL
- Prepared for an attended the final CBETA review. Wrote up report for it.
- Analyzed Straight-merger coil magnet measurement data and signed off on shipping them to ANL
- Assisted William and Mary Property staff to find W&M property in the LERF
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- Assist in commissioning run and production isotope run the week of March 9
- Host seminar by Ying Wu.
- Set up simulations of EIC cooling
- Send Straight merger coils to ANL
Andrew Hutton
Previous two weeks (Feb 17 - Feb 28)
- EIC, participated in some meetings, I am unimpressed! I also have been advising Yuhong about a different
parameter set with more, smaller bunches.
Next two weeks (Mar 2 - Mar 13)
- EIC, Michelle Shin and Manouchehr were visiting today and Mike Spata told them about my proposal to change
frequency to 800 MHz. I met them both at lunchtime so I got the chance to do a sales pitch. They were
receptive - particularly with regard to ONP being the contact for the future CERN SRF, not HEP! So when
there is an explosion from BNL about DOE knowing about the frequency change proposal, it wasn’t me! I
attended a video conference on SRF where the enormous problems caused by the few, big bunches were discussed.
I think they would be very receptive to a change in the operating mode that distributed the charge more
uniformly.
- Isotope preparations continue. We heard today that Jamal will not be able to accept the crucible until his
new lab is set up - and we have no date for that. I am maintaining the 1 kW run and will move ahead to use
the data to prepare for a 5 kW run, perhaps sometime in April.
- I participated in VNECA which is now focusing on generating a strategic plan for nuclear energy in Virginia.
I can’t participate in preparing the plan, but they would welcome someone from JLab.
- I am in the process of canceling my trip to AccApp 2020. A clear instruction from DOE forbidding foreign
travel would be most helpful in getting reimbursements.
- I signed up for HPI training next week - did you know it is two mornings, 2 1/2 hours each?