Wednesday July 9, 2014

We will meet in TL 2236 on Wednesday July 9 at 3:30 pm EST.

For those calling in we'll use the ReadyTalk audio conference system.

1. Dial Toll-Free Number: 866-740-1260 (U.S. & Canada)
2. Enter 7-digit access code 4402297, followed by “#”

Agenda:

1- Bubble Chamber progress at Argonne

2- Summer Shutdown Installation:

JLab beam line fabrication update

Argonne installation at CEBAF

1. Rack space, cable pulls, and remote operation

2. What is plan and timeline for moving components to JLab, installing at CEBAF, testing?

3- Fall Operations:

Accelerator Run Period is September 19 - December 22

How about we generate a draft commissioning plan to understand tasks, requirements, goals?

4- General Info: ReadyTalk ends August 1st. Migrating to Blue Jeans [1]

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Notes from this meeting:

• Bubble Chamber: still looking for a solution to the nucleations at the interface between mercury and the N₂O.

1. Tried CO₂ but the problem got worse
2. Tried C₄F₁₀ as an intermediate buffer fluid but it mixes with N₂O.
3. Concluded that it is not a result of thermal hot spot on the surface of mercury
4. Next:
   1. will try differential cooling of mercury
   2. Otherwise will have to design and build a chamber with no buffer fluid

• Beamline drawings submitted to machine shop and due back at the start of August. The installation is planned in August and to be completed by the end of August.

• Meekins will make the collimator from copper on site (i.e, we do not need the copper from Argonne).

• Argonne to provide a list of cables need to run the bubble chamber.

• Planning to measure the photon spectra using a germanium detector. Will check with the Detector Group and with RadCon to see if we can borrow one.