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Week of January 25, 1999

Hello All!

HAPPENINGS:
Lei, Uday and I are all back to work here in WI.
I have a "PRIVATE LINE"! (Don't knock my excitement) office#: 608-263-2967
HOLE DRILLING
The hole drilling is tentatively set for March 15, 1999. The machine
down time is expected to be between 5 and 6 weeks. I highly recommend
that we have ALL components of the primary and secondary transition
chambers FULLY assembled and leak checked by MARCH 7. If EVERYTHING
is ready to install, Mark will most likely drill our hole first. If
we are not COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY READY, he may not drill our hole first.
MACHINING OF PRIMARY BEAM LINE TRANSITION CHAMBER
The machine shop here in Madison is currently working on the primary
beam line chamber. The materials that we ordered (mini-conflats,
nipples, and rotatable conflat) and supplied (hemisphere) have all
arrived. I stopped in early last week to let them know I was here,
and to deliver the drawings for the snout that mates with the MST
chamber. Before delivering the drawings, Mark Thomas made a few minor
dimensioning changes to the drawings. Lee Potratz, the machine shop
supervisor, has arranged to have the chamber leak checked by someone
here in the physics department (I didn't ask for a name). I expect
that the chamber will be done sometime early to mid February. The one
request from the shop was for an assembly drawing of the chamber.
John is working on this.
RPI MACHINE SHOP
The RPI machine shop has machined the panels for the vacuum interlock
controllers. The drawings for the accelerator control panel were
sent to John last Wednesday by Uday, and are in the machine shop.
Also in the queue is the shutter arm for the primary transition
chamber.
HIGH VOLTAGE SHELF AND PRIMARY BEAM LINE SUPPORT STRUCTURE
I spoke with Tom last Thursday regarding the status of both designs.
He has been tied up with some other issues and is not as far along as
he would have hoped to be. He assured me that these other issues
would soon be resolved, and he would devote time to our shelf and
support structure. I have asked that he design the HV platform first.
Should the HV platform be designed within the next couple of weeks,
and the material order, we should be able to start installing the high
voltage platform on the maintenance days remaining before the hole
drilling.
HIGH VOLTAGE CAGE DESIGN
The high voltage cage is being designed by Uday. He is working out
the structural design, and seeking advice from Bill Zimmerman
(technician?) and Tom Lovell. He will soon be ordering the materials
needed to build the cage. He will also look into what portions of the
cage can be built prior to its installation (this will hopefully allow
us to get it into place shortly after the HV shelf is built).
TRAJECTORY CALCULATIONS FOR THE LEVITATED DIPOLE EXPERIMANT (LDX)
Lei has taken a look at the LDX web page and begun modeling the Bfield
to be used by the trajectory code. He is now trying to work out some
minor file uncompression problems he is having on the RPI computing
system and verifying accuracy of the calculated field..

IMMEDIATE ACTION ITEMS
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LEI
LAST MONTH
collect secondary beamline/MST interface
drawings, send drawings to John
and clarify all dimensions with John complete
reconfirm secondary beamline port location
with Mark Thomas complete
begin learning to run MST in-progress
unpack crates from storage complete
unpack hibp4 complete
assemble primary beam line complete
calculate cross angle complete
THIS WEEK
Revisit old trajectory calculations complete
to determine secondary sweep location
Work on trajectories for LDX in-progress
Install HV Rowe connectors in 10 and 20kV in-progress
Treks
Modify electronics for primary beam line in-progress
(incorporate beam current readback etc)
Help Uday with HV cage
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UDAY
LAST MONTH
request nickle plated magnet dimensions,
choose and indicate feasable options,
fax information to Paul complete
fax to Paul inventory of items relocated
to Madison unknown
send dimension drawing of interlock and
control panels to John (to be delivered
to Machine shop) complete
give preliminary drawings of HV Cage
dimensions to Tom Lovell complete
order magnets for primary beam line complete
THIS WEEK
Drawings of accelerator control panel
to machine shop complete
Drawings of vacuum interlock boxes to
machine shop unknown
Design, order materials, and
pre-fabricate HV cage in-progress
Update/Complete list of HIBP control/readback/
status signals in-progress
Order additional equiptment needed for
computer control (ie. Jorway timing
module, LabView, fiberoptic cable)
Assemble electronics for vacuum controllers
Install into BPM controller additional
connector for Camac read-back
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DIANE
LAST MONTH
retrieve chambers from Reynolds Moving and
Storage complete
coordinate primary beam line assembly with
MST personnel complete
assemble primary beam line complete
contact MST machine shop complete
Discuss computers with Larry complete
Discuss billing with Dale Schutte complete
Primary beamline transition chamber
drawings and hemisphere to MST machine shop complete
Order materials needed for primary
transition chamber complete
THIS WEEK
Review primary tansition chamber snout drawings
with Mark Thomas, deliver drawings to shop complete
Discuss HV platform and support structure with
Tom Lovell complete
Interface with MST machine shop re: primary beam
line transition chamber in-progress
HIBP13 disk to Madison in-progress
Develop a schedule through end of drilling down time
for both us and MST (will give a version
to Tom Lovell) in-progress
HIBP4 up as an X-terminal in-progress
Work on Particle Transport paper in-progress

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PAUL
THIS WEEK
Look over Rowe literature - I put it in the mail
Monday 1/25

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KEN
THIS WEEK
Specify for John secondary beam line magnet
orientation and apperature size
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JOHN
THIS WEEK
Primary beamline transition chamber assembly
drawings for Diane and MST machine shop
Begin work on secondary beam line transition
chamber design
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MISC.
Literature re: Rowe 20-6.6 kV connectors seems to be contradictory.
The question remains - Did we order the correct connectors. We're
looking into it.
Feel free to contact me by phone (608) 263-2967 or email (diane@hibp)
at any time.
Diane