GTS meeting 3 8 16

• We met with J. Coleman, O. Garza, and P. Vasilauskis on Thursday March 3 to discuss the GTS timeline, and what is needed to instrument the beamline.
  • The objective is to run beam in early May.
    • 1) dc laser light making dc beam. Shukui thinks he has all the necessary epics control to adjust laser power and open/close a shutter
    • 2) We need current supplies for two solenoids and up to four corrector pairs
    • 3) we need to insert three pneumatic viewers and deliver video upstairs to a monitor
    • 4) we need to measure current on anode plate and current in the dump, via picoammeters
    • 5) we will read vacuum by monitoring the current on John's UHV ion pump power supplies, I think there are 5 ion pumps
  • Near term plans include:
    • 1) a tune mode generator to reduce duty factor of beam, to protect the viewers. need a clock for this
    • 2) better video cameras to grab images for emittance measurement (synched to the clock?)
  • Then in August or September, Riad's solnoid arrives. Would be nice to have the 500A supply in place by then.

• The beamline is baking at 175 C since last Friday. We are planning to activate the NEG pumps Wednesday morning and start cooling down.
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