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June 24, 2021 Report - June 7 - July 2
Director - Todd Satogata
Todd Satogata
Previous two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- EIC Meetings (management, RF, crab, cryo, cooling, impedance, OPC, team, R&D)
- EIC Meetings (second IR), FCC-ee diagnostics (Jun 16), review report writing
- EIC Review of FPC dry run Jun 9, resource planning (Vasiliy/Fanglei)
- MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee, personnel)
- ADMIN APS DPB Education/Outreach/Diversity committee (Jun 18)
- ADMIN PSsQCD EIC 2nd IR OC meetings
- OPS Meetings (08:00 daily, BTeam, 1:30 Weds SAD, PAC49 TAC Jun 7)
- SICK Dr appt (oral surgery) AM Jun 17
- HOLIDAY May 31
Next two weeks (June 21 - July 2)
- EIC Meetings (management, RF, crab, cryo, cooling, impedance, OPC, team, R&D)
- EIC Meetings (second IR), resource planning (critical hires), Nb purchase guidance
- EIC PC review triage (Jun 23), scope/cost changes retreat (Jun 25)
- EIC TCCB review meeting (Jun 25)
- MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee, personnel)
- ADMIN JSA poster competition, user group meeting
- ADMIN PSsQCD EIC 2nd IR OC meetings
- ADMIN AI Lunch on collider data analysis (Jun 30)
- OPS Meetings (08:00 daily, BTeam)
- SICK Dr appt (physical) AM Jun 28
Alex Bogacz
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Attending IPAC’21
- Presenting Summer Students lecture on ‘Introduction to Accelerators ’
- ERL Roadmap Panel - writeup on ‘the LHeC ERL’
- Mentoring Rishi
- FFA@CEBAF multi-pass linac optics
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- One-on-one with Rishi
- ERL Roadmap Panel - writeup on the LHeC ERL
- PRAB paper review
- Letter of recommendation for Ben Hounsell
- Serving as a conveners for Muon Collider Roadmap Panel
Ryan Bodenstein
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- IPAC21 Attendence
- LDRD Proposal submitted on May 28th
- Summer student – help with project definition and guidance
- Help with guidance of Isurumali
- B-Team
- FFA@CEBAF collaboration
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- Operations meetings
- B-Team meetings
- Radworker I training test (passed)
- Radworker I training practical (scheduled for 15th)
- MAC training for MCC/CEBAF (for channel access)
- Summer Student guidance
- FFA@CEBAF collab work
- LDRD questions and updates
Rui Li
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Attend IPAC 2021
- Finishing up my two IPAC papers
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- Vacation 6/7-11
- Attending CeC monthly review meeting
- Attending EIC impedance/instability meeting
- Proceed with the tune scan for my study of the interplay between coherent beam-beam and coupled-bunch instability
Edy Nissen
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Attended IPAC 2021
- 1 contributed talk
- 2 posters
- Gave SAD update at GlueX collaboration meeting
- Was on vacation June 1-4
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- Attending EIC beam-beam meetings
- Attend Bteam meetings
- Correct proceedings papers
- Adding new data to DODGE paper for resubmission
- Communicating with KARVE group at Los Alamos for possible future collaboration
Chris Tennant
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Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang
Yuhong Zhang
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Max Bruker
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Bhawin Dhital
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Participated and presented a talk at IPAC'21. Two papers in this conference are presented and �nally accepted for the publication in the near future.
- Dual energy ring lattice design with isochronous arc is completed. Some initial parameters calculations were performed. Damping times, IBS times were calculated. RF parameters are explored and started a particle tracking simulation to understand the stability.
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- II will be taking courses at US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS). There are two courses, Spin Dynamics (June 06 - June 18) and Machine Learning and Optimization (June 21 - July 02). I will be busy with these courses. I will not be able to work with my dual energy storage ring within this time period.
Amy Sy
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Attending virtual IPAC2021. Following week: catching up on IPAC talks missed during on site work.
- Laser particle counter: On site visit by vendor on 5/26 and 5/27. A 6-channel prototype was delivered instead of the 12-channel prototype expected due to hardware delays. Initial visit to familiarize ourselves with the hardware and GUI for data-taking. The current prototype can only record data from two channels simultaneously, so an obvious action item is to enable simultaneous recording of data from all six available channels.
- Submitted an action item list to the vendor. Vendor will return with prototype detector either 6/3 or the following week.
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- Evaluating candidates for the open SS1 position as part of the search committee.
- Laser particle counter: vendor visit 6/10-6/11 with prototype detector and new software. New software for simultaneous recording of 6 channels of data was quarantined by anti-virus software - working with the vendor to try to resolve this. Vendor will return 6/14 with new software. Data analysis of 2 channel data collection using the vendor's MATLAB data parser, and also jupyter notebook to more easily handle the datasets. Discussions with the detector group on methods for testing wire and particle passage through the 6 available channels for both vacuum and ambient pressure testing setups.
Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin
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Randi Gamage
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River Huang
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Attended IPAC 2021 meeting and worked on EIC Beam-Beam project.
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- Working on EIC Beam-Beam project, especially focusing on the research of the emittance growth in SPS lattice due to the different noises.
Isurumali Neththikumara
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Dennis Turner
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- CED Import
- Continued tweaking and bugfixing elegant2ced, including exploring ways to speed it up.
- Modified elegant2ced to work with svn baseline decks, since they handle the linacs differently from ced2elegant
- Started on code to audit for consistency and correct optics
- AIPINJ
- Corrected floor coordinates for PREINJ deck to match up with svn baseline
- Scheduled to perform emittance measurments vs wien configurations, but IHA0I02 broke
- Ops Procedure Review
- Sent Brian write up on how to validate match with harp measurement
- Worked on Aperure Scan procedure
- Provided input for the Pathlength Correction procedure and spreader matching section of ORFP
- 'HLA
- ced2elegant bugfixes and tweaks. Removed "fix" for negative length drifts
- Attended AI Lunch Series, Accelerator Seminars
- Attended 0800, AIPINJ toolbox, AIPINJ beam drivers, AI FOA, BTeam, PPB meetings
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- CED Import
- Continued ironing out elegant2ced
- Explored accounting for Hall A and C elevation change in CED
- AIPINJ
- Worked with Alicia to finalize injector solenoid conversions (B to I to KS and back)
- Verified changes to the Injector Quick Reference, PREINJ deck, and CED all agree
- Met with Joe Grames and Reza to discuss MDR coil fixture rotation test plan
- Worked with Mamun to take solenoid scan data with IYG0I02. Prepared scripts to analyze the data once the pixel to mm
calibration is complete.
- HLA
- Modified cs2sdds and eDT to account for new solenoid unit conversions.
- Verified qsUtility works with the new conversions
- Attended AI Lunch Series, Accelerator Seminars
- Attended 0800, AIPINJ toolbox, AIPINJ beam drivers, AI FOA, BTeam, PPB meetings
He Zhang
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Attend IPAC’21
- Add to TPSA lib the feature: generate a symplectic map from a given truncated map.
- Parallelize the element-by-element tracking and IBS calculation in JSPEC.
- Update the IBS rate calculation in JSPEC using F. Zimmerman’s model according to their latest paper.
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- Write a section for ICFA paper.
- Finish writing the tests for the TPSA lib.
- Writing FMM paper.
Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan
Kevin Jordan
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Working on organizing talks for IBIC conference
- Updated Faraday Cup website
- Prepared the worksheet & packages for SPC members of the three Faraday Cup award candidates
- Continued working on the Magnetron controls interface & cooling water connections
- Worked with Joe & I&C to get new SLMs connected and tested
- Started preparing my invited talk for Aries workshop on Materials and Engineering Technologies for Particle Accelerator Beam Diagnostic Instruments
- Helped Carlos on GTS gun HV troubles
- Began “homework” for upcoming Canadian Light Source MAC meeting
Next two weeks (June 7- June 18)
- Helping Carlos & source group to get the GTS operational
- Attend Aries workshop & present talk on boron based materials for accelerator diagnostics
- Hopefully begin Magnetron commissioning
- Attend Canadian Light Source MAC Meeting (June 28 & 29)
Joe Gubeli
Previous two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Isotopes –
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Michael Tiefenback
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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson
Previous two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- Researched Steady State Micro-Bunching (SSMB) option for SRFEL
- Worked out transfer of funds for harmonic buncher completion
- Reviewed several papers for IPAC
- Reviewed FEL mirror information with Export Control lawyers
- Negotiated with Leigh on LDRD proposal travel plans.
Next two weeks (June 21 - July 2)
- Track down mirror vendor information for lawyers
- Rewrite and submit the LOSP for User Lab 4
- Continue developing longitudinal model for CeC ERL on LiTrack
- Get CRADA with HZDR set up
- Explore Super-radiant undulator operation
Andrew Hutton
Previous two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- Isotopes: we will start preparing our closeout report, and decide whether it is worth our time to prepare a response to the FOA if we don’t have the support of the lab.
- ERL Panel: this activity will continue unabated as we start working towards the Roadmap itself and interacting with the various European scientific committees.
- ERL sub-panel: we held our kick-off meeting on June 9 with all the members present. We agreed on the path forward and our first “interview” with Vladimir Litvinenko and Thomas Roser will be around June 16. In the meantime, I am collecting questions from the sub-Panel members to be transmitted to the authors. The sup-Panel members are: Chris Adolphsen (SLAC, Reinhard Brinkmann (DESY), Oliver Brüning (CERN), Andrew Hutton (Jefferson Lab) - Chairman’ Sergei Nagaitsev (Fermilab), Max Klein (Liverpool), Peter Williams (STFC), Akira Yamamoto (KEK), Kaoru Yokoya (KEK), and Frank Zimmermann (CERN). We held a second meeting to hear a presentation by Thomas Roser and Vladimir Litvinenko of CERC, initiating an ebullition of emails and comments.
Loida should have made some progress on her project, she is already collecting up information she will need as input.
- ALCC:attended a meeting June 10 and presented the ERL sub-Panel. The group is excited by the possibilities and scared of the Telnov proposal derailing the ILC. Lots of discussion!
- AccApp'21: I got active, drafted the letter explaining the mixed in person/remote conditions and invited four speakers. Two accepted, one declined (I need a replacement) and one I haven’t heard back from.
Next two weeks (June 7 - June 18)
- Isotopes: I have been told not to submit a proposal that involves irradiations at LERF until he talks with the DOE. At this time, I am working with my UVA collaborators to craft a proposal where they buy copper 67 and carry out all of the radiochemistry. I still need to close out the current grant, after which, I do not see how I can l can keep our team together, which will make it difficult for Jefferson Lab to get back into isotopes. Sad!
- On the other hand, Loida is doing really well with her program to search for new radioisotope production pathways. She has submitted an Abstract to AccApp’2021 and I have contacted the Program Chair regarding student funding for her to attend in person.
- ERL Panel: The ERL Panel is getting more active again; I will be presenting the present status to the Particle Physics community on July 9 (haven’t received the info yet).
- I have a PERLE Collaboration Board meeting on Friday, June 25. We are informed that the CNRS have signed the ICRADA and sent it via DHL to Jefferson Lab, but we haven’t seen it yet. All the other collaborators have signed the Collaboration Agreement except for BINP. Emails to the BINP representative went unanswered, so I contacted the BINP Lab Director and he immediately agreed to sign it and appointed a new representative. Our participation will be more difficult with the departure of Frank Marhauser.
- Next week, I hope to have the last meeting on the CERC and prepare my ERL talk - when I know the audience!