Highlights
We complete a successful Fall user run at the end of today’s second shift. Thanks to all of the FEL team and our Fall users for their dedicated work. Good progress was made this week on incorporating the configuration changes that were discussed at the October 23 review of the FEL Upgrade design.
NOTE: Due to the Thanksgiving Holidays (Nov.
23-24) there will be no FEL Project weekly brief next week
Management
The cost performance data for the month of October
was collected from our Finance Dept. and reviewed with the WBS Managers
in preparation for writing the October Monthly Report. Presentations
on the FEL Project were made at this week’s meeting of SURA’s Board of
Trustees held in Washington, DC.
WBS 3 (Beam Physics)
Analysis of injector simulations at 135 pC has led to a recommendation for the use of sector-dipole injection line geometry in the upgrade. This will be incorporated in the Revision 1.1 release of the machine design.
Design of Revision 1.1 has started; this will
feature the use of sector dipoles in the injection/extraction line, space
for use of 7-cell modules everywhere, revised magnet field roll-off values,
and will accommodate the footprint of the adopted 32 m near-concentric
optical cavity resonator. Initial studies of the injection line geometry
for this design has provided an explanation for the reinjection steering
observed in the IR Demo - it is due to the use of sector dipoles in the
reinjection line - and suggest this will be less significant in the Upgrade,
where the bend angles are smaller. Beam optics with revised linac
warm region slot lengths (allowing use of
7-cell modules) has been developed; integration
with the recirculator design is underway. A plot of beam envelopes in included
below.
WBS 4 (Injector)
The second nitrogen implanted electrode was run
at 30 MV/m in the field emission test system. Its base line current was
around 180 pA which was higher than the first (55 pA) but still well below
the limits of acceptability. The electrode was run for 7 hours at
30 MV/m showing a higher but less active baseline current.
WBS5 (SRF)
Visited the waveguide supplier for kick off of
the contract. Vendor looks capable and well suited to supply parts.
First Article helium vessels shipped today from PHPK, vessel vendor.
WBS 6 (RF)
Continued installation and check-out activities
in Zones 3 and 4
WBS 8 (I&C)
The optical beam position monitoring system (starting
with can 6) is now operational. There was a fair amount of trouble getting
the 32 channel VME sample and hold board to work in the "real" crate. This
new design Was
tested in a crate without a functioning IOC and
worked fine, when it was inserted into the crate in zone 2, the IOC failed
to boot properly. The problem was tracked down to the OMS stepper motor
controller - if a blank card extender was placed to the left of the OMS
card bus noise would couple in to the card and cause a failure. The cards
were rearranged and all worked fine. The quad pyro detector electronics
perform extremely well – the balanced signal is > 5 volts with rise times
of ~ 15 microseconds. The control screen displays both the position and
incident power
WBS 9 (Transport)
Dipoles
o Six vendors have the preliminary dipole package
for budgetary quotes as well as review and comment. George Biallas
walked one vendor through the package during the same trip as a Berkeley
Lab magnet review. No comments thus far.
o GW (optical cavity dipole) prototype
drawings are continuing to be developed. 3D magnetic models of the
GW have been run using three different materials for the Purcell Gap and
at multiple field strengths. K1 and effective lengths have been calculated
for all cases.
o Next Priority:
o Determine effective length and K1 from existing
baseline-GX model
o Build brand new 3D model of modified-GX accommodating
UV branching QX (3.125" Quad) Magnets
o Prototype Fabrication: vendor has started machining
the four steel pole tips with a projected delivery date of November 27th.
o Budgetary Quote: An encouraging quote was received
from Master Machine who proposed a mix of wire EDM and CNC machining.
Five additional requests are still outstanding.
o Measurement Probe: The litz wire coils are
being built in-house by a technician in the HPEE Group. Printed circuit
boards for these coils were made by Kim Ryan and Ty Pate. Drawings are
progressing and a meeting was held to discuss design, machining, and assembly
issues.
WBS 10 (Wiggler)
GS (dispersion dipole for optical klystron) Vendor
has received conductor. The steel was sent out yesterday. We
are writing up a description of the magnet measurements to send STI Optronics
for a cost estimate.
WBS 11 (Optics)
The drawings for the mirror test stand were signed
off and are being sent out for bids. All the optical windows for
the test stand have been ordered. Some of the ancillary equipment,
such as another vacuum pump, is
also being ordered. Our attention now turns
to completing the procurements for the mirror test stand, and integration
of the mounted mirrors into the optical cavity vacuum vessel. We've
met with our designer and he's begun work on the conceptual layout.
We've also had a telephone conference with the engineer at AES responsible
for finalizing the design for the HR mirror.
We received the quad pyros and associated electronics
from the I & C group, (c.f. WBS 8 for more details) and this was installed
onto the O-BPM mechanical assembly in the optics control room (OCR). It
has resulted
in a much improved ability to determine and fix
the beam position between the OCR and ModeMaster at the end-of-line (EOL).
During the next two weeks we will add the electronics to the O-BPM assembly
that exists in the accelerator vault, and in the EOL diagnostics hutch.
We installed the pyro array, with a magnifying
optic to increase the resolution, on the spectrograph port, in order to
monitor the FEL spectrum in real time. This has been only marginally
useful, and needs the addition
of better triggering and readout electronics
to take full advantage of it.
We received the custom-built enclosure for the
OCR optical table, and it will be installed soon. It will make purging
the table far easier and more effective.
Operations/Commissioning
This was the last week of FEL operations for the
Fall User run. The FEL ran well and very stably all week. Operations
were devoted to providing beam to G. Luepke (College of William and Mary)
to study the dynamics of H-implanted defects in Si. It pushes the
performance of the IR Demo to the limits in terms of amplitude, wavelength,
and position stability. So far, we've been able to meet these requirements.