Highlights:
We had a successful week of user operations providing FEL light to
the nanotube collaboration and preparing for
the start of next week’s first test run of laser material studies for
the JTO.
Our readers should see a review article on FELs that was written by
Pat O’Shea and Henry Freund and
published in the June 8 issue of Science.
Management:
Updated report material was sent to John Albertine who is editing the
report from last week’s DoD FEL
Technology Area Working Group meeting. Our comments included
our best current estimates for an FEL
development plan for scaling FELs to 100 kW and then to the MW level.
We prepared an agenda for the upcoming June 24-25 Maritime Technical
Advisory Committee which was
subsequently approved by the MTAC Chair ,VADM Al Baciocco and distributed
to the committee. MTAC
advises SURA/Jefferson Lab on our Navy funded FEL program. Given
the pace of developing interests in the
FEL both by the Navy and the JTO, the advice of MTAC will be timely.
Several papers related to the FEL design and performance will be presented
at next week’s Particle Accelerator
Conference in Chicago. Dave Douglas is presenting an overview
on the FEL Upgrade design (see next section
for the reference); Steve Benson is giving a paper on FEL harmonic
generation; Lia Merminga is giving a paper
on high average current effects in energy recovered linacs, and Charlie
Sinclair is giving a paper on our ion
implantation procedures for high voltage electrodes. This material
was presented to the FEL Upgrade review
committee at the March 27 semi-annual review.
Gwyn Williams prepared a revised pre-proposal for the joint VCU/Jefferson
Lab collaboration concerned with
the re-commissioning of the Helios synchrotron for nanofabrication
studies. This was submitted to the
Commonwealth Technology Research Fund office on June 14th.
WBS 3 (Beam Physics):
Analysis of difference orbit data in support of BBU studies continued.
Preparation for PAC2001 included the
following talk on the upgrade design:
http://www.jlab.org/~douglas/FELupgrade/talks/PAC2001.ppt
WBS 4 (Injector):
Worked on the FET system to obtain preliminary results for nitrogen
implanted titanium. Continued work on gun
chamber drawings.
WBS 5 (SRF):
The cavity team tested a 7 cell cavity structure which had previously
shown a degraded Q symptomatic of Q
disease. Following a bakeout, the follow-up performance test
showed improved Qs.
There is some concern that the niobium used for the recent cavity tests
may be more susceptible to Q disease
because it has a noticeably smaller grain structure than previously
used niobium. A careful comparison of the
chemical and physical characteristics of our existing niobium stocks
is being made.
WBS 8 (Instrumentation):
OBPM boards were completed and a daughter sample and hold board designed
and built for testing. They are
currently installed in the system and appear to be working as designed.
The "auto-lock" pico motors are being
tested today.
The beamviewer assembly area is almost ready to start production.
The clean area has been constructed and the
electricians ran power to the ventilation hood and lights, so we expect
this project to begin soon.
Drawings are nearly complete for the LSS connections to the hutches
in labs 3 and 6. All labs have successfully
completed high & low level certifications.
Several additional isolation and interface module VME cards have been
built. Some for testing the new timing
circuit which is nearing completion, and some for spares to other circuits.
The website has seen some changes this week as well. An inventory
of all available VME cards has been added,
along with a search function to see the location and status of each
card. Media gallery is now part of a database
making the addition of new pictures much easier. Anyone with
questions on how to do this should contact Mike
Aston. Also in the works is a search program for the task system
that will allow easy access to tasks that have
already been completed. This will provide a useful historical
data base as well as a way to prevent "re-inventing
the wheel" when two similar tasks are performed.
An additional user/camera power supply was built. System development
on the "Rabbit" board is progressing
well. Patrick will be presenting his project at the weekly I&C
meeting a week from Monday.
New drawings for the OBPM and the Absolute Value/Sample and Hold Board
were given to EECAD this
week. Drawings in EECAD: User Shutter Control Box; IPPS
Main Board Schematic and Assembly; MPS
System; Analog Differential Driver Board; Pyro-Electric OBPM Buffer/Amplifier;
Picomotor Relay Chassis
Wiring Diagram; VME Timing Module Schematic, Fabrication and Assembly;
Absolute Value/Sample and Hold
Board Schematic, Fabrication and Assembly.
WBS 9 (Transport):
Dipoles
Injector Dipoles (DU/DV)
o The drawings of both dipoles are checked and will be transferred
to the folks from DULY at the Particle
Accelerator Conference next week.
Arc Dipoles (GY, GX, GQ)
o Advanced Energy Systems worked on the details of the leads,
bus bars, manifold, alignment cartridge mounts
and lead cover of the Arc Bend Dipole (GX).
All these parts have to be able to work in both a left hand
configuration as well as a right hand for two positions
and the left hand configuration when the magnet is flipped over for the
remaining two positions.
o In magnetic modeling pursuit of flat longitudinal field, the
use of a Purcell gap or the widening of the field clamp
gap failed.
o Comparisons between the symmetric preliminary GX and the present
axisymmetric design, showed that the
central flat field zone shifts toward the narrow
end by a few cm but remains nearly identical at about 57 % of the steel
length at the highest field, thus cross checking
the TOSCA and ANSYS.
o The IR Demo is successful at about half field where the +-1
part in 10,000 flatness extends to 65% of the
length. AES will run a magnetic model for the upgrade
at 145 MeV/c (near the field the machine will run for its
commissioning and early running). If the results
show that we get 65% flatness, we will petition to David Douglas
to define the operating point at this field and
evaluate all our results on all the magnets at this momentum. A
similar process was used on the IR Demo
Quadrupoles
QX (3 inch quad)
o The core manufacturing bids were received and evaluated.
A series of questions for the vendors to clarify
their submissions were generated.
o The first multifaceted cuts on the chamfers of the ends of
the poles reduced n =10 pole but the N=6 pole rose. We
are evaluating the results
QT (Trim Quad)
o Design work continued.
Sextupole
o Robin Wines continued work on the 3D model in TOSCA.
General
o The Dipole Steel order is awaiting vendor response to the flatness
tolerance expected of the slabs.
o We are working on an Interface Control Document for the task
definition to be used by an engineering service
contractor for design of the arc chambers.
o The vendor response to the copper for all the dipoles was being
evaluated.
o Butch Dillon-Townes was able to advance the vacuum design by
tabulating the vacuum pump needs of the
Upgrade and publishing them. A few areas need
further evaluation but we now have numbers we can work
with.
WBS 10 (Wiggler):
Four end coils are now wound for the wigglers. A meeting was
held to finalize plans for the measurement of the
wiggler. The designer for the Hall probe carriage is on travel
this week and will finish up the drawings next
week. The 3D Hall probe is due next week. A plan for calibrating
the probe was accepted at the meeting.
WBS 11 (Optics):
The optical cavity assembly design has progressed in the following
areas: we've made changes to the placement
of the relative cavity length lvdt, and added an attachment to the
top of the gimbal yoke to facilitate installation an
removal. We've increased the size of the openings across the
gimbal support frame to facilitate removal of the
deformable mirrors. K. Jordan kindly offered to supply a stepper
motor that will be used for the y motion of the
assembly. Work is transitioning to the detailing phase, with
calculation of loading on the rails (used for y and z
motion), thickness of support structures, etc.
We received our Veeco laser interferometer, and scheduled installation
for July 12 & 13. We defined the
assembly of parts for the outgassing tests. (Thanks to T. Siggins &
D. Bullard)
The following work was done this week to support Operations: Assisted
in installation and check out of new
O-BPM detectors. The rest of our broadband mirrors were received
and we are putting them through QC.
Operations/Commissioning:
We assisted the JTO-funded research team from NRL with initial checkout
and integration of their diagnostics
with our set-up in preparation for next week’s start of the JTO run
for “lethality” measurements. We installed the
majority of our diagnostics. We will complete the sample translation
when the stage arrives on Monday. We
ordered more material for the experiments, and made arrangements to
receive other materials from NRL.
The nanotube team (CWM, NASA, Penn State) was given approximately 20
hours of run time which they used
very successfully for nanotube production. They believe that
they have generated sufficient material for extensive
purification and characterization of the fibers.