Gun Test Stand Meeting Minutes and To-Do Lists
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Gun Test Stand Meetings
2018
- GTS meeting 3_12_18 Emittance around damaged spots on photocathode
- GTS meeting 3_05_18 ASTRA Beam size sensitivities
- GTS meeting 2_26_18 Emittance Simulations vs spot location on photocathode
- GTS meeting 2_19_18 Emittance vs spot location on photocathode, Emittance near damaged spot
- GTS meeting 2_12_18 Emittance vs beam current, Emittance vs spot location on photocathode
- GTS meeting 2_05_18 Emittance vs laser spot size, Beam size vs z for different Solenoid I, New beamline Drawing and 3D Views
- GTS meeting 1_29_18 Harp and Viewer emittance measurements (5-300 kV), Laser profile
- GTS meeting 1_22_18 Emittance measurements at Viewer 3, Harp scans
- GTS meeting 1_08_18 ASTRA simulation, Harp commissioning
2017
- GTS meeting 12_18_17 Final IPAC18 Abstracts, Harp commissioning
- GTS meeting 12_11_17 IPAC18 Abstracts Poelker's edits, Harp commissioning, New beamline Drawing,
- GTS meeting 12_04_17 IPAC18 Abstracts, Harp commissioning
- GTS meeting 11_27_17 Fiber laser sizes, beam commissioning plan, GPT modelling
- GTS meeting 11_20_17 Gain switched diode laser update, beam commissioning plan
- GTS meeting 11_13_17 Gain switched diode laser update, beam commissioning plan
- GTS meeting 11_06_17 Shutdown activities, gain switched diode laser update, beam commissioning plan
- GTS meeting 10_30_17 Shutdown activities, gain switched diode laser
- GTS meeting 10_23_17 Shutdown activities
- GTS meeting 10_16_17 Shutdown started today
- GTS meeting 10_09_17 Remaining tasks before shutdown
- GTS meeting 10_02_17 High current runs, laser heating, Jay's GTS Magnetic field model, remaining tasks before shutdown
- GTS meeting 9_25_17 High current runs - 3 mA
- GTS meeting 9_18_17 New activation, differential orbits, new shutdown start date
- GTS meeting 9_11_17 High current runs, differential orbits, shutdown plans
- GTS meeting 8_28_17 Emittance measurements, shutdown plans
- GTS meeting 8_21_17 Emittance measurements
- GTS meeting 8_14_17 ASTRA simulation and emittance measurements, YAG facts.
- GTS meeting 8_07_17 ASTRA simulation and emittance measurements
- GTS meeting 7_31_17 ASTRA simulation and emittance measurements
- GTS meeting 7_24_17 ASTRA simulation and emittance measurements
- GTS meeting 7_17_17 Updates on magnetized beam sizes, ASTRA simulation and slit emittance measurement.
- GTS meeting 7_10_17 Updates on magnetized beam sizes, ASTRA simulation and slit emittance measurement.
- GTS meeting 7_03_17 Updates on magnetized beam sizes and rotation angles, ASTRA simulation and slit emittance measurement.
- GTS meeting 6_26_17 Updates on magnetized beam sizes and rotation angles, ASTRA simulation and slit emittance measurement.
- GTS meeting 6_19_17 Updates on magnetized beam sizes and rotation angles, ASTRA simulation and slit emittance measurement. Yan's UGM poster.
- GTS meeting 6_15_17 Updated to-do list, discuss our simulation wish list
- GTS meeting 6_12_17 Updates on magnetized beam sizes and rotation angles, emittance measurements, ASTRA simulation and slit emittance measurement
- GTS meeting 6_05_17 JLab Annual Users' Group Meeting: Yan's Abstract and Poster Outline
- GTS meeting 5_22_17 0.5 mA magnetized beam
- GTS meeting 5_15_17 Instrumenting the Wire Scanner
- GTS meeting 5_09_17 Meeting in LERF Break Room - Software Tasks
- GTS meeting 5_02_17 Meeting in LERF Break Room - Attempting to deliver 1 mA - Cornell, Pozdeyev and Grames papers on ions, links to GTSLOG
- GTS meeting 4_25_17 Meeting in LERF Break Room - Upgraded the laser system. Latest Drawings and 3D Views
- GTS meeting 4_18_17 Meeting in LERF Break Room - Running beam to the dump
- GTS meeting 4_11_17 Meeting in LERF Break Room - Finished bake of second part of beamline
- GTS meeting 4_04_17 No Meeting - Open to finish second part of beamline - Summary of tasks for the down
- GTS meeting 3_28_17 Meeting in LERF Break Room - Attempting to center gun solenoid - Emittance vs Gun HV
- GTS meeting 3_21_17 Meeting in LERF Break Room - Attempting to center gun solenoid
- GTS meeting 3_14_17 Meeting in GTS Control Room - Delivering magnetized beam. DO NOT TURN MAGNET ON WHILE GUN AT HV
- GTS meeting 3_07_17 Meeting in GTS Control Room - GTS beam in ON
- GTS meeting 2_28_17 Remaining Tasks - Very close to run beam
- GTS meeting 2_21_17 Beamline and Prep Chamber successfully baked
- GTS meeting 2_14_17 HV and Magnet conditioning seems to be OK for beam. Updates on cathode prep chamber and beam line. POISSON simulations comparing the T-electrode to the spherical electrode inside CEBAF style gun vacuum chamber
- GTS meeting 2_07_17 HV and Magnet conditioning. Updates on cathode prep chamber and beam line
- GTS meeting 1_17_17 Gun with Magnetized beam coil turned ON!!! Updates on cathode prep chamber and beam line
- GTS meeting 1_3_17 Emittance measurement techniques
2016
- GTS meeting 12_20_16 Gun conditioned to 350kV in vacuum, up to 365kV w/Kr, new scheme for puck grabbing in prep chamber, etc.
- GTS meeting 12_06_16 High voltage conditioning with barrel polished electrodes, beam line, cathode solenoid magnet, etc...
- GTS meeting 11_15_16 Laser power, gun bake update, beam line update
- GTS meeting 11_08_16 Beamline update
- GTS meeting 10_31_16 Gun HV chamber under vacuum, Improved Cathode prep chamber with Mamun's puck holder design is under vacuum!
- GTS meeting 10_24_16 Gun HV chamber assembled, Cathode prep updates, beam line, P3 Workshop
- GTS meeting 10_11_16 Updates: SS ball electrode assembly, gun chamber, prep chamber, beam line
- GTS meeting 10_04_16 Updates on gun chamber, cathode prep and beam line.
- GTS meeting 9_14_16 Shutdown work progress and discussion about photocathode 'arcing' during 1 mA beam runs, including Carlos' ERL'09 talk with FEL gun high current run observations.
- GTS meeting 9_13_16 Shutdown work progress and really cool pictures of the removed multi-alkali photocathodes.
- GTS meeting 8_30_16 Shutdown started!
- GTS meeting 8_23_16 The way forward plan
- GTS meeting 8_9_16 Discuss the new magnetized beamline
- GTS meeting 7_25_16 Update since our last meeting, 1 mA for >6 hours!..battered cathode holds QE!!..QE scanner operational!!!...FE induced by hand-held magnet!!!!
- GTS meeting 7_05_16 Better stability at 1 mA and 300kV with biased anode. Summary, what have we learned so far?
- GTS meeting 6_27_16 100uA 300keV beam for 5 hr, but 1 mA attempts difficult. Summary of multi-alkali LN-cooled cathode work.
- GTS meeting 6_20_16 Demonstrated 1 mA Beam at 275 keV!!!!
- GTS meeting 6_14_16 Progress!!! Full control of laser power & first CsKSb cathode in TL1137 for the summer!
- GTS meeting 5_31_16 1.6 uA 300keV DC beam on the dump!
- GTS meeting 5_24_16 Struggling to keep the beam On. Some progress in diagnostics.
- GTS meeting 5_17_16 The BEAM in ON!!!
- GTS meeting 5_3_16 Getting ready for beam update, New puck drawings
- GTS meeting 4_26_16 First multi-alkali photocathode in the GTS!
- GTS meeting 4_12_16 Beamline, HV, Depo chamber, Barrel polishing surface characterization, and SCHEDULE
- GTS meeting 4_5_16 Updates, and some HV.
- GTS meeting 3_22_16 Updates.
- GTS meeting 3_15_16 Beamline bake is done, and gun+per chamber bake is cooling down.
- GTS meeting 3_8_16 Update on beamline instrumentation and bake
- GTS meeting 3_2_16 Coil Procurement
- GTS meeting 3_1_16 Gun magnet drawings and update on barrel polishing (Sheds) and cathode prep chamber.
- GTS meeting 2_22_16 3D EM modeling of the GTS gun chamber with R30 insulator and electrode, update on prep chamber
- GTS meeting 2_19_16 Discuss design tasks for Magnetized Beam LDRD
- GTS meeting 2_16_16 Beamline magnets and diagnostics itemized list and LDRD gun magnet update
- GTS meeting 2_9_16 Beamline and LDRD gun magnet updates
- GTS meeting 2_2_16 LDRD gun magnet discussion & Shed for R30 black insulators
- GTS Beamline 2_1_16 Beam line side view gun to dump with pics
- GTS photos 1_29_16 Assembly of beam line and gun for LDRD
- GTS meeting 1_26_16 Shed design and Beamline update
- GTS meeting 1_19_16 Update: Yan's modeling with NEGs, Beamline update
- GTS meeting 1_15_16 Meeting with Vashek Vylet about radiation shielding
- GTS meeting 1_12_16 Update: Yan's optimized R30-shed, multi-alkali chamber work, GTS schedule drafting
- GTS meeting 1_5_16 LDRD gun magnet design
2015
- GTS meeting 12_15_15 optimized shed for today's gun plan Y
- GTS meeting 12_8_15 status and to-do list
- GTS meeting 12_1_15 status and to-do list
- GTS meeting 11_13_15 present status of Plan Z (using the large FEL black insulators)
- GTS meeting 11_10_15 SYSTEM R30 white + Shed & full electrode ready for High Voltage!!!.
- GTS meeting 11_03_15 SYSTEM IS UNDER VACUUM!!!.
- GTS meeting 10_27_15 Sheep chamber saga, electrode assembly update.
- GTS meeting 10_20_15 Update on sheep chamber vacuum setup, electrodes and RadCon.
- GTS meeting 10_06_15 Update on sheep chamber vacuum setup and electrode polishing.
- GTS meeting 9_25_15 Update from Yan on fields from John's Shed, update on sheep chamber vacuum setup and electrode polishing.
- GTS meeting 9_15_15 Met at the GTS with Danny and Josh, Sheep chamber attached to gun valve.
- GTS meeting 9_8_15 350 kV vs 500 kV guns, Yan poisson field maps
- GTS meeting 9_1_15 More discussion, optimized sheds and plan y and z
- GTS meeting 8_25-15 More discussion re: shed optimization for gun Plan Z
- GTS meeting 8_18_15 Global GTS talking points, the big picture, VA beamline etc., to do list
- GTS meeting 8_11_15 More poisson results, discuss revisiting the white R30 insulator + shed test
- GTS meeting 8_4_15 Yan's poisson results, Danny's latest drawing, electrode inventory, insulator inventory
- GTS meeting 7_14_15 discuss gun Plan Z
- GTS meeting 7_7_15 kick off and to-do list, review Carlos' HV results
To-Do Lists
- GTS Improvement List - Summer / Fall 2016 Plans to improve on GTS when installing magnetized beam cathode magnet