MEIC15
MEIC Collaboration Meeting Fall 2015
October 5 - 7, 2015
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newport News, VA
Program
All sessions will take place in the ARC Building, room 231/233.
Monday, October 5, 2015 |
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| 8:00 – 8:40 | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| General (chaired by Yuhong Zhang) | ||
| 8:40 – 8:50 | Welcome and Charge | Fulvia Pilat (JLab) |
| 8:50 – 9:10 | New NSAC Long Range Plan | Rolf Ent (JLab) |
| 9:10 – 9:40 | MEIC Program Status | Fulvia Pilat (JLab) |
| Electron Complex (Chaired by Uli Wienands) | ||
| 9:40 – 10:05 | Electron Collider Ring Design | Fanglei Lin (JLab) |
| 10:05 – 10:30 | Electron Ring Injection from CEBAF | Jiquan Guo (JLab) |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee Break |
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| Ion Complex I (chaired by Mike Spata) | ||
| 10:50 – 11:15 | Specifications and R&D for Ion Sources | Vadim Dudnikov (Muons Inc) |
| 11:15 – 11:40 | Optimization of Ion Linac Design | Brahim Mustapha (ANL) |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Ion Booster Ring Design | Alex Bogacz (JLab) |
| 12:05 – 12:30 | Ion Collider Ring Design | Vasily Morozov (JLab) |
| 12:30 – 1:40 | Lunch Break |
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| Ion Complex II (chaired by Mike Sullivan) | ||
| 1:40 – 2:05 | Preliminary Ion Beam Formation Scheme | Jiquan Guo (JLab) |
| 2:05 – 2:30 | Simulation Studies of Ion Bunch Splitting | Todd Satogata (JLab) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Overview of RHIC Injector | Haixin Huang (BNL) |
| 3:00 – 3:20 | Coffee Break |
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| Nonlinear Beam Dynamics (chaired by Vasily Morozov) | ||
| 3:20 – 3:50 | Chromaticity Compensation Options for the Ion Collider Ring | Yuri Nosochkov (SLAC) (via BlueJeans) |
| 3:50 – 4:20 | Dynamic Aperture Study for the Ion Ring Lattice Options | Ming-Huey Wang (SLAC) |
| 4:20 – 4:45 | Nonlinear Dynamics and Error Studies of the Ion Collider Ring | Guohei Wei (JLab) |
| 4:45 – 5:20 | Discussion Session 1: Facility Design Optimization (Discussion Leaders: Haixin Huang and Uli Wienands) |
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| 5:30 – 7:15 | Networking Reception |
CC Lobby |
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 |
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| 8:00 – 8:40 | Continental Breakfast |
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| Beam Cooling I (chaired by Geoff Krafft) | ||
| 8:40 – 9:05 | MEIC Staged Cooling Scheme and Simulation Studies | He Zhang (JLab) |
| 9:05 – 9:35 | Development and Commissioning of 2 MeV DC Cooler | Vladimir Reva (BINP) |
| 9:35 – 10:00 | Overview of ERL MEIC Cooler Design Studies | Steve Benson (JLab) |
| 10:00 – 10:25 | Preservation of the Beam Brightness in the Injector | Fay Hannon (JLab) |
| 10:25 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
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| Beam Cooling II (chaired by Steve Benson) | ||
| 10:45 – 11:05 | Optical Scheme for Suppressing CSR Effect | Yves Roblin (JLab) |
| 11:05 – 11:25 | Progress of Bunched Beam Electron Cooling Demo | Lijun Mao (IMP) |
| 11:25 – 11:45 | Beam Diagnostic Requirements for Bunched Beam Cooling Demo | Haipeng Wang (JLab) |
| 11:45 – 12:10 | Development of High Current Bunched Electron Beam from a Magnetized DC Photo-gun | Riad Suleiman (JLab) |
| 12:10 – 12:35 | Dual-Frequency Approach to a High Average Current Thermionic Electron Source | Vadim Jabotinski (Euclid TechLabs) |
| E-Cooler, Stacker Integrated with Ion Ring: x8 Boost in Ion Current, MEIC Luminosity | Peter McIntyre | |
| 12:35 – 1:40 | Lunch Break |
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| Beam Physics (chaired by Slava Derbenev) | ||
| 1:40 – 2:05 | Electron Polarization | Fanglei Lin (JLab) |
| 2:05 – 230 | Ion Polarization | Anatoly Kondretenko (Sci Tech. Lab Zaryad) |
| 2:30 – 2:55 | Overview of MEIC Collective Effects | Rui Li (JLab) |
| 2:55 – 3:25 | RHIC Collective Effects (Beam-Beam, eCloud and Electron Lens) | Haixin Huang (BNL) |
| 3:25 – 3:45 | Coffee Break |
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| 3.45 – 3:55 | High-Performance Modeling of Electron Cloud Effect and RF Diagnostics | movie | Seth Veitzer (Tech-X) |
| 3.55 – 4:20 | Status of MEIC Beam Synchronization | Vasily Morozov (JLab) |
| Engineering and Site Development (Chaired by Mike Spata) | ||
| 4:20 – 4:45 | Engineering Issues in MEIC | Tim Michaski (JLab) |
| 4:45 – 5:05 | MEIC Site Development | Rebecca Yasky (JLab) |
| 5:05 – 5:25 | Radiation Protection | Pavel Degtyarenko (JLab) |
| 5:25 – 6:00 | Discussion II: Beam Physics and Cooling (Discussion leaders: Slava Derbenev and Geoff Krafft) |
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015 |
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| 8:00 – 8:40 | Continental Breakfast |
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| Detector (chaired by Pawel Nadel-Turonski) | ||
| 8:40 – 8:45 | Introduction to the Detector Session | Pawel Nadel-Turonski (JLab) |
| 8:45 – 9:15 | Integration of Polarimetry and Low-Q2 Measurements | Dave Gaskell (JLab) |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Ion Polarimetry Experience at RHIC | Haixin Huang (BNL) (not confirmed) |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Physics Drivers for Forward Ion Tagging | Charles Hyde (ODU) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Overview of the Central Detector | Zhiwen Zhao (Duke) |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee Break |
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| 10:50 – 11:20 | Overview of MEIC Detector Software and Simulation | Markus Diefenthaler (JLab) |
| Interaction Region (Chaired by Uli Wienends) | ||
| 11:20 – 11:45 | Overview of Interaction Region Design | Vasily Morozov (JLab) |
| 11:45 – 12:10 | Integration of Crab Crossing to IP and Beam Dynamics | Alejandro Castilla (CERN) (via BlueJeans) |
| 12:10 – 12:35 | Detector Background | Mike Sullivan (SLAC) |
| 12:35 – 1:40 | Lunch Break |
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| Technology Development (chaired by Fulvia Pilat) | ||
| 1:40 – 2:05 | MEIC RF R&D | Bob Rimmer (JLab) |
| 2:05 – 2:30 | SRF Crab Cavity R&D | Jean Delayen (ODU) |
| 2:30 – 2:55 | Study of PEP-II Magnets for MEIC Electron Ring | Tommy Hiatt (JLab) |
| 2:55 – 3:20 | Progress of MEIC Super-ferric Magnet Development | Peter McIntyre (Texas A&M Univ.) |
| 3:20 – 3:50 | Discussion Session III: Detector/IR, and Technology Development (Discussion leaders: Pawel Nadel-Turonski, Bob Rimmer and Mike Sullivan) |
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| 3:50 – 4:10 | Coffee Break |
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| Future R&D and Closing (chaired by Yuhong Zhang) | ||
| 4:05 – 4:35 | Thoughts on MEIC Accelerator R&D | Slava Derbenev (JLab) |
| 4:35 – 4:55 | MEIC R&D Plan and Expectation for the Next Six Months | Fulvia Pilat (JLab) |
| 4:55 – 5:25 | Discussion Session IV: Future R&D and Collaboration | |
| 5:25 – 5:35 | Closing Remark | Fulvia Pilat (JLab) |