Jefferson Lab Weekly Briefs
August 28, 2013
12 GeV UpgradeIn-tunnel testing of C100-9 is nearing completion, and testing of C100-10 is starting. Installation, including vacuum, diagnostics hookup and final alignment, is nearing completion for the beamlines in the main “racetrack” of the accelerator; leak checking for the vacuum system in the west recombiner is underway, and the last few pieces of beam tube are being installed in the west spreader. Completion of the beamlines is now focused on the extraction section, where alignment for hookup of the magnets and separator cavities is complete, and vacuum installation is underway. The radiofrequency waveguide circulator repairs are complete, and installation in the four zones in the south linac has begun. The in-place testing of the new box supply for arc 1 is nearing completion. Installation of the new box supply for arc 2 has begun. The new box supply for the beamline to Hall A will be shipped to Jefferson Lab this week. Retesting of the 4.5 Kelvin coldbox was delayed until Aug. 27, while some problems with the controls were resolved. PhysicsIn Hall A, a 100-ton 48D48 magnet from Brookhaven National Lab was delivered to Jefferson Lab last week. It will be used for the 70 millisteradian Super BigBite Spectrometer in Hall A. The Jefferson Lab Program Advisory Committee has already approved four experiments that will use the magnet, and several additional proposals are on the way. The SBS program (mainly for the nucleon form factor experiments) was approved for construction by the Office of Nuclear Physics within DOE's Office of Science in May 2012. The arrival of the magnet presents a significant milestone in the construction program. Center for Theoretical and Computational PhysicsThe measured value of the magnetic moment of the muon differs from the Standard Model prediction by more than three standard deviations. The largest source of error in the theory calculation is actually due to a dispersive analysis of experimental measurements that is used to determine the hadronic corrections. This recent work is the first four-flavor lattice QCD computation of these effects, and it confirms the dispersive analysis and the corresponding discrepancy with the Standard Model. EngineeringThe Installation and Vacuum groups continue their work on the 12 GeV Upgrade in the accelerator. In the southwest corner of the main ring, the ZA, YR, YA and YB magnets have all been installed. These magnets all allow multi-pass beams and allow operations to split beam off to the experimental Halls A, B or C, or to continue on for another pass to increase their energy. Additionally, beamline fabrication, installation, leak checking and pump down have been completed on the east spreader and east extraction regions. Low-conductivity water plumbing installation and beamline installation continues in the west spreader and west extraction, transport recombiner and west arc. Girders were assembled for the Hall D tagger line and the transport recombiner AT line. Facilities Management and Logistics Intermittent Power Outages Planned for Test Lab Aug. 29 |
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