Condolences:
Jefferson Lab and the scientific community were saddened this week
by the passing of our dear friend
and colleague, Nathan Isgur, who lost a courageous battle with cancer.
For the last decade Nathan
served as Jefferson Lab’s Chief Scientist, Head of the Nuclear Theory
Group and the University
Relations Office. A memorial service is being planned for September
in Williamsburg. Information will
be posted on the following website: http://www.jlab.org/Isgur/.
Highlights:
This week the FEL was used to continue Gunter Leupke’s superb series
of measurements on the
nature of hydrogen defects in silicon and to continue our measurements
of FEL beam quality. (See the
“Operations Section). Next week we will take up more harmonic
generation experiments with our
collaborator from Aerospace Corporation (Henry Helvajian).
Management:
We have submitted contractual documents to the DOE Site Office that
will allow the funding to
commence for the JTO funded laser-materials studies as of July 31 and
for USAF funded UV FEL
project for expected start-up in August. We learned this week
that the funding for the UV project has
been released to the AFRL Program Office.
WBS 3 (Beam Physics):
Driver issues for MW class performance was documented (JLAB-TN-01-034).
Octupole
requirements were developed (JLAB-TN # not yet assigned).
WBS 4 (Injector):
The gun chamber drawings have been signed off and are in the shop for
fabrication. The top hat flange
assembly drawings were also signed and submitted.
Gun HVPS - Progress is being made with the design of the new Gun Tank.
It will be a cylinder 70" in
diameter and will not require any removal of the short concrete wall
or pad. All of the parts of the
HVPS returned from Glassman are being identified for their mounting
in the tank.
WBS 6 (RF):
Zone 3 - The HVPS for this zone was installed and is being connected.
The circulators, waveguides,
couplers, shorts and test couplers were also installed this week.
Connection to AC power will wait
until after the summer run is over.
Zone 4 - No change. Waiting for 7 RF Control modules, the installation
of the last circulator, and the
completion of the punch list.
Quarter Klystrons - The factory tests may have to be postponed 1 week
to allow CPI time to test the
first article before we witness the tests. They do not anticipate
any additional problems.
Quarter HVPS - We are ready to place the orders for the upgrade transformer,
inductors, rectifier
assemblies, and SCR controller.
WBS 8 (Instrumentation):
A power supply box was built for the detector Gwyn Williams will be
using for the terahertz radiation
measurements being conducted. Some cable modifications were completed
to detectors that will be
used by Steve Benson during his experiment on mirror heating/distortion.
We worked on the installation of the intercom system. There are
still some cables that need to be
pulled in labs that are currently being used, the Optics Control Room,
Drive Laser Clean Room and the
Control Room. Installation will not be completed until after
the summer run.
Several hours were spent working with the new OBPM design. There
are still some design issues that
need to be addressed before this system will become fully functional.
Absolute value/Sample and Hold
boards for the system have been designed and prototype boards are on
their way. An associated 32
channel Instrument Amplifier board has also been designed and the artwork
completed. Prototypes
should be ordered next week.
A programmable delay card for the new pulse controller has been designing
has been built and is in the
final stages of testing. Several VME GPVS cards were successfully
tested as well.
The task system on http://laser has been updated grouping tasks by
system for ease of locating specific
tasks and historical archiving. The website has also been updated
to include a cable database. Both of
these items will continue to be upgraded as more information becomes
available.
We regretfully say goodbye to James Jones as he leaves us for the Baltimore
area. He will remain on
as a casual employee for the time being. Good luck James.
No new drawings were provided to EECAD this week. Those completed
were: Programmable Delay
Card Schematic, Fabrication and Artwork; Pyro-electric Detector Buffer/Amplifier
Schematic,
Fabrication, Assembly and Artwork and the revision of the Beamviewer
Solenoid Box Wiring
Diagram.
WBS 9 (Transport):
Dipoles
Optical Chicane Dipoles (GW)
o The bid documents are ready to be sent out by Procurement.
Injector Dipoles (DU/DV)
o The revisions to the drawings of the Injector Dipoles (GU &
GV) are going through internal review
at DULY and have started to be sent to us for a
final check.
Arc Dipoles (GY, GX, GQ)
o AES continued design of the Reverse Bend (GQ). Field
clamps were completed, the position
adjusters placed and assembly refinement started.
o In magnetic modeling, the 180 Dipole (GY) is going through
final adjustment that hinged on the
design of the GX. The bulk field and current
is being matched to the GX by adjusting the Purcell gap
and the gap.
Following that, AES is checking the saturation due
to our reduced field path length correctors and
will then adjust the end face position and the angle
of the path length coil slot to bring the field integrals
throughout the good field region into 180 degrees
of effective length.
Quadrupoles
QX (3 inch quad)
o We are sending steel to New England Techni-Coil to start core
production.
o Magnet Enterprises International is perfecting their winding
technique on the first article coil.
QT (Trim Quad)
o All the pieces of the 3D drawing model were modified to the
narrow configuration as a precursor to
starting on the 2D detail drawings.
Sextupole
o No progress as Robin Wines was handling the Octupole engineering
service task order with DULY
Research and generating a final GW magnetic model.
Octupole
o DULY Research responded to the task order for magnetic modeling
and design. In response, we
are refining our specs and reducing the task to
magnetic analysis until we understand more about the final
configuration. This will allow DULY to get a better
picture and be more realistic with regard to the
drafting design task.
o Dave Douglas refined his specification for the octupole in
a soon to be published tech note. The final
result is a further reduction in field by over half
but higher quality, going from 10% to 1%.
Beam Line and Vacuum
o Work continued on the Interface Control Document for the task
definition for the Arc and Optical
Chicane chambers. Better definition of the
optical requirements lead to less drastic requirements on the
specialty chambers through which the optical beam
traverses.
o The bid package drawing set for the girders in the return leg
are nearing completion.
General
o We generated the first pass at the paperwork for the CRADA
for the collaboration between
Jefferson Lab and STI Optronics to test out their
compact 180 degree bend design on the FEL
Upgrade machine.
WBS 10 (Wiggler):
The corrector coils for the wiggler are wired up. The wiggler
is now ready for measurements. The
measurement apparatus should be done early next week. It must
then be calibrated before
measurements can start. That is expected to happen in the middle
of August.
The dispersion section vacuum chamber is ready for welding. The
machine shop which fabricated it is
now working on the wiggler chambers. We hope to have the dispersion
section chamber ready for the
final measurements of the dispersion section.
WBS 11 (Optics):
Design progress for the optical cavity chambers continues. We
have made a decision to purchase the
UHV-compatible actuators for the mirrors, and a PR will be placed today
(7/27).
We did our first measurements of absorption levels in our 6 micron
HR mirrors in the mirror test stand
(MTS). Data analysis remains to be done, but IR thermometry results
are consistent with a loss less
than 500 ppm.
Operations/Commissioning:
Provided optics hardware and support to G. Luepke (College of William
and Mary). A beautiful set of
data was obtained on H-lifetime vs. temperature from 77k to RT. This
continues Prof. Luepke’s string
of publication quality measurements every time he runs.
We began checking equipment and hardware/software for measuring phase
noise. Optimized
alignment of the FEL autocorrelator, and found zero-crossing point.
Will continue testing when we
have beam upstairs next week. Installed hardware to measure FEL
laser mode and beam quality at the
FEL. This will be removed at the end of the day. We have
begun setting up hardware for next week's
experiments (materials processing, UV generation, and micromachining).