Project Highlights
September 2000 was the fourth month of activity
for the IR Demo FEL Upgrade Project. Design and initial fabrication
activities for the IR Demo continued as noted below. The project
was given a favorable review
during the annual review of Jefferson Lab's Science
and Technology held by DOE and SURA on Sept. 25-27th. Cost and schedule
performance for the Upgrade Project are given in the appended "Performance
Assessment
Report".
Project Cost Performance
The project budget for the period June 1, 2000
to Sept. 30, 2001 is $9,029k. The project through the month of September
has a total of $1,193k of performance scheduled (assuming the project started
at the originally planned start date of April 1, 2000). The work
performed through the end of September was $1,427k, which is 16% complete
vs. 13% scheduled. The actual cost accrued through August totals
$1,047k. This results in a schedule variance of +$235k and a cost
variance of +$380k. The favorable cost and schedule variance continues
because of the large quantity of RF work (WBS 6) that was completed ahead
of schedule and under cost. With the current month's accrual, the
RF work complete to date is $718k or 75% complete.
Management Highlights:
We began planning with the FEL team and with our Navy contract monitor (J. Albertine), for the agenda for the next 6-month review on the FEL Upgrade project, which is scheduled for Oct. 23rd at Jefferson Lab.
The FEL Project received an excellent review at
the SURA/DOE review of Jefferson Lab’s Science and technology program on
Sept. 25-27. The review panel thought that the Upgrade project was
the right and proper
next step after the kilowatt demo. The committee
recognized our challenge to energize the user community behind scientific
applications of the present and upgraded FEL. They thought the FEL
had already demonstrated and had a strong potential to further enrich and
diversify the Jefferson lab mission.
A presentation on biological applications of the
FEL was given to the Virginia Joint (House/Senate) Subcommittee on Science
and Technology. The group is investigating ways the state legislature
can encourage the development of biotechnology in Virginia. The role
of the FEL as an attraction to the “superstars” of the field was discussed.
Steve Benson and Jim Boyce represented the FEL team and gave presentations
at the Opto Southeast meeting held in Charlotte on Sept. 18-19. Michelle
Shinn represented the team at a DOD Applications of Lasers
meeting, which was held Sept. 25-27 at the Pennsylvania
State University. Of the 100 people attending, a good cross-section
of industry and government was represented. A small group visited
Fishkill, NY, to investigate the compatibility of the IR Upgrade design
with higher energy (x-ray) photon production. Physical interferences,
control system status, and documentation were all reviewed. No major
hurdles were seen.
WBS 3.0 (Beam Physics):
The following is summary for the weeks of 9/11
and 9/19:
Longitudinal phase space dynamics for the upgrade
were investigated and scenarios for nominal operation were established.
In addition, a configuration leading to ultra-short bunches (~10-20 fsec
rms) was developed. This work is documented in JLAB-TN-00-020, available
on line at http://www.jlab.org/~douglas/FELupgrade/technote/JLABTN00020.pdf
Momentum acceptance measurements were made on
the driver; the latest (9/22) indicated the full momentum aperture was
only of order 5%, in contrast to the 6+% indicated by FEL operation.
Fascinating nonlinear effects (such as T346 induced vertical dispersion)
were observed and corrected by orbit ironing; additional work involved
implementation of the multi- (quad and sextupole) family compaction and
dispersion management schemes considered necessary in the upgrade.
Initial work on
UV bypass concepts yielded four candidate endloop
designs, 2 based on a stair-case (reverse bending with dispersion modulation)
geometry and two based on a single step (dispersion modulation only) geometry.
Analysis of each in a complete recirculator layout will start shortly.
Beam dynamics and engineering personnel initiated discussion of the energy
recovery dump and developed layout options for both upgraded Demo and large
aperture "garbage can" style dumps. Once established, these
footprints will provide guidance for the beam
optics design of, and instrumentation for, this region.
We began to organize our efforts needed to consider
changes in the electrostatics of gun electrode geometry. The upgraded
gun may allow a slightly larger and different shape cathode, which can
help the high field performance. We are going to start by resuscitating
the original electrostatic model done by D. Engwall and work from there
to evaluate potential modifications. B. Yunn will be spearheading
this task. Work continued on modifications of the lattice that will
allow the UV chicane/wiggler extension to be added to the baseline upgrade
lattice. This modification will be a component of the planned UV
program, which
has been proposed to AFOSR for start-up funding
in FY01.
WBS 4.0 (Injector):
Light Box preliminary design issues are being
discussed. Final concepts discussions are planned. The field
emission test system has been running with a 9um polished N2 implanted
SST cathode and a 1um polished SST anode at a 5 mm gap with excellent results.
The gap has held off 24 MV/m with a very small dark current (145 pA).
The conditioned gap at 21MV/m is drawing 90 pA. These results present
an excellent candidate material for the upgrade gun electrode.
WBS 5 (SRF):
In the cavity area, we tested the new vacuum seal arrangement for the 7-cell cavities that involves the use of Al-Mg diamond-shaped gaskets with Nb-Ti flanges. The flanges have successfully passed ambient temperature leak tests. Cold tests will follow. Nb cells for the first four cavities have been pressed and will now move to frequency measurement and weld-up. Material is on hand for the remaining 4 cavities. We received the final proposal from the vendor that will be manufacturing the warm-to-cold waveguide sections. The proposal is under evaluation.
Had an initial vendor visit to start vacuum vessel
and space frame fabrication. No outstanding cost, technical, or schedule
issues. Vendor is well prepared for contract. Waveguide and end can
procurements continue to make progress. Signed off top hat design
drawings. Heat shield design package is almost complete. We
had discussions with the SRF team (J. Mammosser) and our collaborator from
KEK (K. Saito) about KEK’s proposal to treat cavities by electropolishing.
Currently, we have sent one test 7-cell cavity to KEK and a second one
will be sent in the next month or so. As reported at the LINAC conference
in August, KEK has produced by electropolishing several 9-cell cavities
with gradients greater than 30MV/m. KEK will make a formal proposal
to Jefferson Lab to treat all eight, 7-cell cavities for the FEL upgrade
cryomodule in exchange for our performance test data.
RF Systems (WBS 6):
The installation of the RF hardware for the third cryomodule position (Zone 4) is essentially 95% complete. Only the klystrons remain to be installed and then testing of the Zone 4 RF system can commence. For the second cryomodule position (Zone 3), the low level racks are complete and the HPA is about 50% complete. Procurements have been written for the HPA HVPS, the circulators and the klystrons. We signed off on the technical specification for the HVPS for the HPA for the 100kW RF system in the injector (Zone 2). And it was sent to procurement to begin the order process.
We are working with Glassman HV to provide a slave
unit for the Gun HVPS to achieve 10 ma beam current.
Instrumentation (WBS 8):
Preparations continued in getting the contracts
on the street for the 3" BPMs (44) and for the 3" shielded beam viewers
(36). The prices are >$50 K for BPMs, and > $150 K for the viewers.
In addition to having the jobs bid locally packets will be sent out to
qualified vendors that Beam Instrumentation people from BNL, APS, Fermi,
and LANL have used. This will get us the best product & price.
These contracts given time to bid and pass through procurement should be
awarded in 3 to 4 weeks.
Improvements continue to be made on electron
beam and FEL diagnostics; the new sample/hold & integrator system is
tested and operational. The FEL main control menu has been gone over
to remove obsolete and redundant control screens. This will ease
the transition to having CEBAF operators controlling the various systems.
Also progress has been made on user lab patch and network systems.
The design for the 32 channel VME based sample and hold board is complete
and in EECAD for drawings and board layout. We hope to have a prototype
to test during the Oct. run. The optical BPM design is proceeding well
this should be ready for a prototype surface mount board layout by next
week. The user patch panels and user LAN connections are being worked
on and will be complete by the Oct. run. Also, the 32 channel pico-motor
multiplexer is
being finished up to allow control of turning
mirrors in each of the user labs.
We accomplished significant work on the development
and deployment of LiTaO3 pyroelectric sensors. These will be used as both
power monitors and optical beam position monitors. Five 10 mm square
detectors are being prepared for power monitoring at various brewster window
ports. These are position independent as well as wavelength independent
for maintaining a fixed average power to a given experiment whether the
beam is pulsed (to 10 microseconds) or CW. The electronics have been
somewhat challenging to provide sufficient gain
and response time with limiting the noise, rise times on order of a few
microseconds is desired. These outputs run to the sample & hold
card then to the A/D. The Optical Beam Position Monitors (OBPM) use
the same type crystal configured as four quadrants of 1mm X 1mm each.
The new 32 channel VME
sample & hold card layout is nearly complete,
the initial boards will arrive late next week and will be operational ~10/10/00
just prior to the start of the run. Progress continues to be made
on providing pico-motor control for two turning mirrors in each of the
six optical labs. A chassis, which multiplexes one pico-motor channel
to 32 individual outputs, was completed this week. The VME control
card is the FEL standard general purpose I/O.
Beam Transport System (WBS 9):
Dipoles
Details of the steel yoke parts of the GX Prototype
are complete. The 3D model the of the GX dipole, using the optimum
bump on the pole edge was constructed and ran to completion. The
results are being processed to assess the improvement.
Quadrupoles
Poles: L&L Tool machined the first
of four poles. We will measure it for conformance to the ideal shape.
The Survey & Alignment Group performed a detailed CMM inspection of
the First Article quadrant. The inspection showed that most of the
milled surfaces were within tolerance but that there was a small systematic
offset from pole to back leg and most of the holes were out of tolerance.
Dave McCay and Jeff Karn are working the problem with the vendor.
J. Dail attached the cooling plates to the quadrupole coil set for the
prototype.
Other Transport Hardware:
Differential Pumping stations are being
modified to accommodate a three-inch aperture. We made two layouts integrating
the wide-angle beam dump and its required shielding into the machine so
Dave Douglas could continue the design iteration.
Wiggler (WBS 10):
Manifold fabrication continued. We measured
the pole tip gaps. They have about a 0.002 inch gradient and the
center gaps were larger than the ends by several thousandths. We
are working on improving those readings and making them reproducible.
An assembly procedure guaranteeing better gap
uniformity is being developed.
We formulated a plan to see if we could bring
the pole tips into conformance with the gap specifications by simple assembly
technique. If the plan is unsuccessful or not repeatable for several re
assemblies, we may be forced to use the clamps and spacer bars that we
thought we could abandon. An insulator plate and its mounts for the
main leads of the NG Wiggler were missing from the drawing package and
will have to be drawn and fabricated. Copies of the drawings and
specifications were
made for the dispersion section. In discussions
with BNL we found out that we cannot use their magnetic measurement apparatus
to characterize our wiggler sections because the maximum length is limited
to 2m with the BNL apparatus. We are investigating options using
ANL or commercial equipment.
The top assembly drawing of the Optical Klystron
was completed, reviewed and signed-off. The Dispersion Section package
is out for bid.
Optics (WBS 11):
Conceptual designs of the Optical beam Position
Monitoring (OBPM) system were reviewed and approved. The system will
be tested in the existing Optical Transport System. Monitoring detectors
have been received and position controllers of several types will be ordered,
tested, and evaluated as to compatibility and reliability. Pyroelectric
array diagnostics for spectral measurements were installed in the OCR for
characterization. Initial use will be manual with the full software
suite added when functionality has been confirmed. A pyroelectric
detector with chopper was added to the OTS as a real time macropulse
power diagnostic when married with a new sample
and hold circuit. This will be tested on the next laser run.
The Modemaster system was realigned and checked out in preparation for
more detailed studied of mirror heating distortion and its effect on the
FEL lasing process. A designer is preparing drawings of the planned
mirror test stand which will be used to characterize performance of the
controllable curvature mirror. We will decide soon which system to move.
We spent considerable time on the design of the
new optical cavity which will be presented to the review committee at the
Oct. 23 project review. We recalculated parameters for a ~ 32m near-concentric
cavity and began rewriting requirements document, based on the new parameters.
Beam Operations
The FEL was operated for one week in September for Gunter Luepke from the Dept. of Applied Science at the College of William and Mary. Gunter and his team are continuing their studies of the dynamics of hydrogen vacancy complexes in silicon (their first results were recently published in Phys. Rev. Lett 85,1452, 2000). His preliminary results from this week’s work appear equally as exciting and worthy of publication. No further user runs are scheduled until the October run. As usual, our current user requests for the Fall run exceed the run period time allotment by a significant margin.
We operated the FEL this week two days this month
to make beam transport measurements. This will help determine the
energy aperture of the upgrade.