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Date |
Author |
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Category |
Subject |
Text |
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513
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Wed Feb 22 21:51:40 2017 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | SIS first beam is N1+1 | Chris confirmed the first SIS beam would
be Na+1. Next Rb+1 and then Li+1 |
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512
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Wed Feb 22 21:46:27 2017 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Elog is working now | Elog is now functioning. We can start entering
notes |
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511
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Mon Sep 14 11:21:16 2015 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | Routine | General | 20Ne+2 beam saved | 20Ne+2 beam optics saved as 150914_1117_ios0iosfc6.snap |
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510
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Thu May 21 09:15:48 2015 |
Brian Minato | | | | Service of MCIS. Plasma chamber cleaned.
Repaired shorted, Right steering plate.
Added shields to help prevent coating of |
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509
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Wed Apr 29 07:48:22 2015 |
Brian Minato | Other | Other | Repair- Water leak inside HV cage | A water leak was reported inside the HV
cage (FR#8079). The cage was accessed
to determine the source of the leak (WP#I2015-04-27-1). |
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508
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Mon Apr 20 08:09:03 2015 |
Brian Minato | Routine | General | OLIS Shutdown Update | The OLIS 1 week shutdown has been completed
(WP 2015-04-13-1).
General- |
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507
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Wed Dec 17 13:17:13 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | Other | MCIS Update | The MCIS was vented with nitrogen yesterday.
The Se oven was drawn back into the tuner.
It was removed with the tuner and blanked. |
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506
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Tue Nov 25 12:23:28 2014 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | Routine | General | 76Se+13 tune saved | 141125_1159_OLIS_76Se+13.snap is saved
in reference directory.
El=3480/4303V |
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505
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Tue Nov 25 07:49:50 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | General | MCIS and SIS Update | MCIS-
the Se was loaded into the oven last
friday (21st). During the weekend the |
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504
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Wed Nov 19 11:34:55 2014 |
Raymond Dube | Routine | General | OLIS Electrical diagram with 3 I.S. | I updated
the electrical Diagram for OLIS Faraday
Cage with 3 Ion Source, ref: ISK4586D rev. |
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503
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Tue Nov 18 08:56:23 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | General | ALGA Update | There has been no noticeable loss of communication
to the ALGA 50watt amplifier. As a
test, the ethernet cable was removed for |
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502
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Thu Nov 13 16:34:29 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | Other | MCIS Update | The ethernet cable from the CPI TWT amplifier
has been temporarily moved to the Alga 50W
amplifier. The Alga had been experiencing |
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501
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Thu Nov 13 16:31:54 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | Other | SIS | A new SIS source has been installed.
The oven has been loaded with Sodium Hydrogen
Carbonate (Alfa Aesar 10863) and Rubidium |
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500
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Wed Nov 12 13:32:47 2014 |
Raymond Dube | Routine | General | New in-line resistors for IOS:PE | Today we replace the in-line resistors
for the Plasma Electrode (PE) it was a 25
ohm 200W (2 x 50 Ohm 100W) with a 50 Ohm |
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499
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Thu Nov 6 08:37:52 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | Other | OLIS Update | MCIS-
the source is off. It is under
vacuum and in the HV cage. |
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498
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Sat Nov 1 13:31:17 2014 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | MCIS readyness for 76Se | Supernanogan is running with oven no heat,
without 76selenium. MCIS:IG1=3e-7Torr.
Tune saved as 141101_1318_76Se+11tune.snap |
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497
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Fri Oct 31 20:39:56 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | Other | OLIS Update | MCIS-
the MWS Bias and PE have been moved
on to the MCIS (the MCIS connections have |
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496
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Thu Oct 30 23:44:57 2014 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | Routine | General | OLIS Supernanogan mass scan 6 to 7.5 | A/q
FC6 (only current over 100pA)
6.0 |
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495
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Thu Oct 30 23:37:58 2014 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | Routine | General | Mass scan 4 to 6 | A/Q
FC6
4 |
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494
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Thu Oct 30 22:44:45 2014 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | Routine | General | Mass scan 3 to 4 | IOS mass scan if faulty. These is a manual
scan from mass 3 to 4
Const22 = 0.04187 adjusted |
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493
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Thu Oct 30 22:09:02 2014 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Suoernanogan steering | IOS mass scan does not work.
A/Q
FC6 |
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492
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Thu Oct 30 13:14:51 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | Other | OLIS Update | MCIS-
a new oven assembly was installed
on the MCIS yesterday. The cart has |
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491
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Tue Oct 28 13:30:47 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | Other | MCIS Update | MCIS-
the cleaning has been completed.
The oven assembly is removed and the gate |
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490
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Mon Oct 27 15:13:18 2014 |
Brian Minato | | | | MCIS-
cleaning out source to remove potassium
and calcium. |
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489
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Fri Oct 24 10:50:20 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | Other | OLIS Update | The nitrogen bottle needs to be replaced.
MCIS- |
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488
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Thu Oct 23 10:52:21 2014 |
Brian Minato | Routine | General | ALGA Amplifier | The ALGA amplifier and its signal generator
have been turned off at the request of Controls.
They have had communication issues and are |
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487
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Wed Oct 22 07:58:32 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | General | MCIS Work | The remaining connections were done on
the MCIS.
A piece of 1/8" teflon was installed |
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486
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Tue Oct 21 07:14:26 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | General | OLIS Work | MCIS-
the cart was moved into the HV cage.
The facilities will be connected and an oven |
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485
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Tue Oct 14 08:31:53 2014 |
Brian Minato | Other | General | Water Flow Switch #3 | This entry was incorrectly added to the
OLIS logbook. it has been moved to
the I3 logbook. |
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484
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Fri Oct 10 14:02:56 2014 |
Raymond Dube | Routine | General | Test with new Alga, ALPA 50W RF AMP | We did a test yesterday with the new Alga
Microwave RF AMP, model # ALPA 50 Watt, serial
# 130684 to be used for the MCIS. We |
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483
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Tue Sep 16 11:55:28 2014 |
Raymond Dubé | Routine | General | MCIS info | I found
these files about the MCIS in Geoff folders
in M:\ISIS\Geoff-110715\OLIS\SuperNanogan |
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482
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Wed Aug 13 15:09:42 2014 |
Raymond Dubé | Routine | General | OLIS Attenuators #2 fixed, #1 gone! | Today
Probe group (Scott K.) installed the OLIS
Attenuator, they fixed the vacuum leak on |
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481
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Wed Aug 13 15:04:05 2014 |
Raymond Dubé | | | OLIS Bender Magnet PS (0-500 amps) | Arthur
and Derek had a look at the OLIS Bender Magnet
P/S and found a problem with the Polarity |
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480
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Wed Aug 13 15:00:27 2014 |
Raymond Dubé | Routine | General | OLIS Surface Source broken Ionizer Coil | We spent
most of the day looking at OLIS to find out
why the "Ionizer Coil" keeps breaking |
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479
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Fri May 16 08:44:27 2014 |
Raymond Dubé | Routine | General | OLIS work next week | Attached
is the scheduled work for OLIS next week. |
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478
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Wed Jan 29 12:27:57 2014 |
Raymond Dubé | | | OLIS Skimmers BOP & Labels | I updated
2 drawings that show the OLIS skimmers.
A. |
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477
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Fri Jan 24 09:15:10 2014 |
Raymond Dubé | | | New ISK4586D for OLIS with 3 Ion Source | I created
a new drawing: ISK4586D that shows the Optics
for OLIS with 3 Ion Source. |
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476
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Thu Jan 23 12:56:14 2014 |
Raymond Dubé | | | New & updated drawings for S.S. | I updated
an old drawing ISK4478D (MS & MCIS Optics)
and created 2 new ones: ISK4583D (Electrical |
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475
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Wed Jan 22 10:34:58 2014 |
Raymond Dubé | | | IN-line 100K for IOS:YCB1A removed | Last January 17th 2014 we removed an in-line
resistor (100K 10W) from IOS:YCB1A because
we do not think that it is needed. |
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474
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Mon Dec 17 14:10:22 2012 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Gas flow controller fault | Controls group may need some assistance
from OLIS group in order to trouble shoot
the problem. |
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473
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Mon Dec 17 14:08:52 2012 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | IRIS beam delivary is completed | IRIS beam delivery is completed with extra
3 days of beam providing to them.
18O2 and 40Ar+2 were delivered with |
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472
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Fri Dec 14 17:30:47 2012 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | 18OH2 and 40Ar+2 delivary | During the last week we delivered 18O+2
from microwave ion source to Ritu.
Over the week end changed to 40Ar+2. |
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471
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Sun Dec 2 23:36:13 2012 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | Routine | General | 16O+2 is ready for tuning. | MCIS finished xenon development. MCIS is off
and isolation valve is shut.
A new oxygen gas line is installed to microwave |
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470
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Sun Dec 2 22:34:09 2012 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Just finished 136Xe+25. ISAC reached 1GeV yesterday using OLIS Xe beam | |
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469
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Sun Dec 2 22:32:19 2012 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | Routine | General | Still cannot write anything other than Subject | |
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468
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Wed May 23 17:11:57 2012 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Changed beam to 12C++ beam | Removed titanium from the back plate and
clean the source.
But left the PE titanium insert since |
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467
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Thu Nov 10 09:57:57 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown | Supernanogan on overnight with 36Ar+7 on
FC6. Nice.
Today is the last day of scheduled |
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466
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Wed Nov 9 11:40:35 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown | Supernanogan 36Ar+7 source development
in progress. RF frequency scans are the agenda
for today. |
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465
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Tue Nov 8 10:02:54 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown | Supernanogan is online with 36Ar+7 on FC6
overnight. Looks good. Note: The source gas
arrangement (enriched 36Ar) utilizes double |
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464
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Mon Nov 7 09:58:17 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown | IOS pumped well over the weekend. Present
pressure is 1.5e-7. MCIS pumps off
for setup. |
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463
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Fri Nov 4 09:41:32 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown | MCIS continues to pump well. IOS DB assembly
planned for today.
Later... DB assembly complete and |
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462
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Thu Nov 3 09:50:05 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown | MCIS pumped well overnight. Source development
imminent.
Later... possible IOS intervention. |
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461
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Wed Nov 2 10:16:49 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown | MCIS pumpdown continues well. IOS optics
coming along. DB3 installed last night and
IOS is under vacuum very early. DB1/2 optics |
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460
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Tue Nov 1 10:18:02 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown | MCIS pumped overnight. Still coming down. |
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459
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Mon Oct 31 11:06:58 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown | Two weeks of OLIS Shutdown have begun.
The plan is to complete refurbishing this
week and pump next week, with 36Ar+6 beam |
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458
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Mon Oct 31 11:04:06 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S+6 from MCIS to DRAGON EOB | Deliver concluded yesterday morning around
09:00.
Pity to have to switch off the source. OLIS |
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457
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Fri Oct 28 10:18:53 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S+6 from MCIS to DRAGON | Delivery continued overnight. |
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456
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Wed Oct 26 10:17:53 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S+6 from MCIS to DRAGON | Delivery continued
uneventfully overnight and is continuing.
Later... source is just getting better |
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455
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Tue Oct 25 09:41:32 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S+6 from MCIS to DRAGON | Beam petered out earlier this morning after
an attempt to tweak the RF frequency. Restored.
Plasma was on throughout. ICR has lowered |
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454
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Mon Oct 24 10:10:34 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S+6 from MCIS to DRAGON | Delivery since Friday
Beam on but intensity
is dropping, suggesting that enriched 33S |
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453
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Wed Oct 19 09:53:27 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S from MCIS to HE Development Setup | MCIS configured for 33S+6 yesterday afternoon.
Beam grew nicely overnight. Beam development
expected after source hand-off. |
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452
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Tue Oct 18 10:27:44 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 19F/38Ar from MCIS for Beam Development | Cocktail beams continue today. |
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451
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Mon Oct 17 11:33:03 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 19F/38Ar from MCIS for Beam Development | Source set up for a cocktail beam since
yesterday, Sunday. |
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450
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Thu Oct 13 11:11:14 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 14N+2 from MWS to SEBT for Beam Development | Source setup took place earlier this morning. |
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449
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Thu Oct 6 15:15:09 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 19F/40Ar from MCIS for Beam Development | Slit calibration exercise was wound up
this morning. MCIS source gases were reconfigured
with 19F and 40Ar by request. A "cocktail" |
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448
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Wed Oct 5 10:11:28 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S from MCIS Source Development | The source stayed up overnight. A little
RF tweak, but 33S+6 beam still on FC6.
Later... IOS:MCOL3 slits calibration |
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447
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Tue Oct 4 10:37:38 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S from MCIS Source Development Setup | Beam development with 116Sn+18 finished
last evening around 21:00. Source was off
overnight. 33S material loaded into MCIS |
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446
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Mon Oct 3 10:08:50 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 116Sn+18 & 118Sn+19 from MCIS for Development | On Friday there was a request to repeat
some of the findings with tin beams. An agreement
was made to use OLIS for development in lieu |
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445
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Thu Sep 29 10:50:30 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 36/40Ar development with MCIS | Development with Supernanogan source continues.
Present beam is 40Ar+7, about 70enA. |
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444
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Wed Sep 28 11:56:15 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 36/40Ar development with MCIS | 40Ar source gas, ergo 40Ar+x beams. 40Ar+6
earlier, and 40Ar+7 presently. |
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443
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Tue Sep 27 13:29:23 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 36/40Ar development with MCIS | Beam development for forthcoming 36Ar run
is in progress. Initial yield numbers have
been determined. Source is running with Ar |
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442
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Mon Sep 26 09:47:12 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 13C+3 from MCIS to TACTIC | The 17O+3 (A/q=5.66) run to TACTIC finished
yesterday morning. Then a source switchover
was done to deliver 13C+3 (A/q=4.33) using |
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441
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Fri Sep 23 14:59:14 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 14N+3 & 17O+3 from MCIS to TACTIC at HEBT | Delivery continues. 14N+3 until mid-morning,
then a switch to 17O+3 for tuning. The switchover
from 116Sn to TIGRESS to 14N+3 to TACTIC |
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440
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Mon Sep 19 10:27:36 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 116Sn+18 & 118Sn+19 from MCIS to TIGRESS | Delivery continued over the weekend with
some interruptions here and there. A source
intervention was made late last night and |
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439
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Fri Sep 16 10:02:33 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 116Sn+18 & 118Sn+19 from MCIS to TIGRESS | Beam was changed to 14N+2 last evening
for sake of tuning to front of RFQ. Source
was tweaked earlier. Beam is presently set |
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438
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Thu Sep 15 12:09:25 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 116Sn+18 & 118Sn+19 from MCIS to TIGRESS Setup | Source switchover began last night after
22:00. There are some 200epA of A/q=6.46
(116Sn+18) on FC6 presently. Setup and tuning |
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437
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Thu Sep 15 11:29:39 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C+2 from MCIS to DRAGON EOB | Beam delivery was scheduled to end last
evening at 20:30. It was extended to around
22:00, at which point source switchover began. |
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436
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Wed Sep 14 10:00:05 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C+2 from MCIS to DRAGON | Delivery continues. Nice consistency. See
attached Stripchart. A source switchover
is scheduled for today, tonight, as it turns |
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435
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Tue Sep 13 10:00:56 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C+2 from MCIS to DRAGON | Delivery continued through the night. User
was taking the beam. Recovery from a DTL
tank trip is happening at the moment. Otherwise, |
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434
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Mon Sep 12 10:07:36 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C+2 from MCIS to DRAGON Setup | Setup began around 09:00. 400enA of A/q=6
on FC6 presently.
Later... By ~14:00 beam looks pretty |
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433
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Mon Sep 12 10:04:42 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He from MCIS to DRAGON EOB | Delivery continued through the weekend.
Some 300nA on FC6. The run ended at around
09:00. Source switchover is in progress now. |
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432
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Thu Sep 8 11:21:45 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He from MCIS to DRAGON Setup | The 58Ni delivery from MWS to TITAN ended
last evening. Beam was unused from about
18:30, and source switchover began at about |
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431
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Wed Sep 7 09:50:20 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni1+ from MWS to TITAN | Delivery continues. Source change scheduled
for 20:30 this evening. |
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430
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Tue Sep 6 16:37:24 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni1+ from MWS to TITAN | Pilot beam delivery continues. Keerthi
came in over the Labor Day weekend to help
out on something. |
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429
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Fri Sep 2 10:04:55 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni1+ from MWS to TITAN | Beam idled overnight. Average ~50pA at
FC6. About half that on ILE2T:FC3 presently.
Setup on TITAN side in progress. |
9x |
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428
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Thu Sep 1 10:01:25 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni1+ from MWS to TITAN | Beam was established yesterday. It has
grown nicely overnight. |
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427
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Wed Aug 31 12:12:39 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni1+ from MWS to TITAN Setup | Beam on FC6 drifted overnight. Touch up
a few things, notably the EE. 25pA on FC6
presently. I also increased microwave power |
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426
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Tue Aug 30 16:40:14 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni1+ from MWS to TITAN Setup | Source switchover from MCIS to MWS. Support
gases and liners were pre-fitted. Source
lit. Optics set for 20keV operation. ~50pA |
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425
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Tue Aug 30 10:01:30 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ from MCIS Reserved | We are on orders to retain OLIS for accelerator
development. The switchover to 58Ni, scheduled
for this morning, is on hold. |
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424
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Mon Aug 29 10:03:05 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ from MCIS to DRAGON | Delivery continues on autopilot. Looking
good.
ICR noted that a seemingly unusual number |
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423
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Thu Aug 25 10:54:34 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ from MCIS to DRAGON | Delivery continues. |
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422
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Wed Aug 24 10:49:41 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ from MCIS to DRAGON | Delivery continues. There were several
"PV1" trips over the past several
days. ICR now has a recipe for resetting |
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421
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Mon Aug 22 09:49:34 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ from MCIS to DRAGON | Delivery continues. The attached vacuum
trar suggests that this is about as good
as it's going to get. On the other hand, |
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420
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Fri Aug 19 10:01:52 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ from MCIS to DRAGON | Setup in progress. No foil at M:5. Source
has been running since yesterday. Note that
source was opened recently for MRO. Vacuum |
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419
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Mon Aug 15 10:19:18 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 84Kr from MWS to TITAN | The source was configured and switched
over on Friday. Some teething pains over
the weekend. Beam is on FC6 presently. |
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418
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Mon Aug 8 17:08:28 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | Supernanogan MRO | Cart removed for source servicing. Source
opened and split at front seal. Ground and
plasma electrodes removed. All internal areas |
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417
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Wed Aug 3 00:15:39 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | Other | General | 22Ne+2 | Source started at 800W of microwave power
and 2cc/min neon gas easily. New magnetron
produces more power than the old one. |
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416
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Fri Jul 22 15:56:08 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 27Al+1 from MWS for DRAGON status | There have been teething pains developing
a good 27Al beam. The Supernanogan sputter
source ate through aluminum rods like candy. |
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415
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Wed Jul 20 01:37:46 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Al beam development: |
Supernanogan is tested for Al+6
beam production.
A 8nA of mass |
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414
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Tue Jul 19 17:02:44 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 27Al+1 from MCIS Setup | The DRAGON run finished this morning. Switchover
to 27Al+6 in progress now. |
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413
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Mon Jul 18 10:02:42 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24Mg+6 from MWS for DRAGON | Keerthi came in early this morning to set
up OLIS for 24Mg delivery. HEBT tuning is
in progress. |
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412
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Mon Jul 18 09:53:05 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He from MCIS to HERACLES done Saturday and Sunday | Keerthi came in on Saturday morning and
set up the Supernanogan source for 4He delivery.
It looks like it went well. The original |
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411
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Fri Jul 15 10:30:11 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24/25Mg+1 from MWS for HERACLES on SEBT1 | 25Mg beam mostly sitting on FC6 now, as
HERACLES takes RIB. Source was opened
on Monday night to replace microwave window. |
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410
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Mon Jul 11 09:46:07 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24/25Mg+1 from MWS for HERACLES on SEBT1 | Well, the plasma electrode shorted again,
and Keerthi came in on Saturday to tear down
the MWS and clean it. Beam is steady as she |
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409
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Fri Jul 8 10:07:14 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24/25Mg+1 from MWS for HERACLES on SEBT1 |
Beam on FC6 overnight and very stable.
It grew overnight and continues to grow, |
8x |
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408
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Thu Jul 7 10:40:27 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24/25Mg+1 from MWS Setup | Source conditioned nicely overnight at
55kV with a little RF power on. Source gases
checked, final cage inspection. Ready to |
6x |
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407
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Wed Jul 6 13:20:15 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24/25Mg+1 from MWS Setup | Source opened, and aluminum components
removed. Magnesium components from previous
run cleaned and installed. Pumpdown in progress. |
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406
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Wed Jul 6 09:56:45 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 27Al+1 from MWS for DRAGON EOB | DRAGON has been taking beam since approximately
noon on Monday, and finished a little while
ago. Feedback I have received is that beam |
13x |
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405
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Sun Jul 3 09:56:47 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 27Al+1 from MWS Setup | A lot has happened since the last entry.
The source blinked out at some point. Cause
cited was a PE short. Actions were taken, |
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404
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Thu Jun 30 10:02:08 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 27Al+1 from MWS Setup | Source pumped overnight to previous baseline
(red trace on attached Stripchart). IOPS
conditioned it up to 42kV without a hitch. |
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403
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Wed Jun 29 15:49:16 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 27Al+1 from MWS Setup | Switchover from 58Ni+1/MCIS to 27Al+1/MWS
began just after noon. MWS cleaned and fitted
with aluminum liners. Pumping in progress. |
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402
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Wed Jun 29 09:45:50 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni from MCIS to TITAN | Last hours and minutes. Going well. Documentation
appended. Users have requested beam until
noon. |
8x |
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401
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Tue Jun 28 09:32:09 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni from MCIS to TITAN | Beam mostly idle overnight. Things are
resuming now. |
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Mon Jun 27 10:20:41 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni from MCIS to TITAN | From MCIS. It looks like things went fairly
well over the weekend for them. An interlock
glitch on MCIS:IV1 this morning, source pressure |
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Fri Jun 24 15:11:20 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 58Ni from MCIS to FC6 Setup | OLIS was switched from 22Ne2+ (MWS) to
58Ni+1 (MCIS). Works like magic. 100epA presently. |
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Fri Jun 10 11:35:24 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ for TUDA-II Pilot Beam | MWS online. Beam sitting on FC6.
Mel returned two flow controllers
today, borrowed in March |
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Thu Jun 9 16:51:09 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ for TUDA-II Pilot Beam | MWS online. Note: A/q display is white.
Possible culprit: IOSIOC. ICR will reboot
it at first convenient opportunity. |
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Mon May 30 14:44:01 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ for ICR Training | MWS online. Separator magstab program offline.
Check: Kepco is switched off and one lead
is physically cut and taped over. That's |
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Mon May 2 10:50:28 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | Alkalis for DRAGON EOB | DRAGON has been taking various species
of Na and Rb using the MWS. Run ended this
morning. Emittance scan of 23Na attached. |
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Fri Apr 1 17:02:09 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for Startup | Supernanogan is online with a bit of 12C2+
beam on FC6. Mag stability program is running.
Source development to follow. |
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Tue Mar 29 15:32:08 2011 |
Damien Gallop | | | Controls and Panel MRO | Controls is working on an interlock issue.
Electrical panel MCC-X maintenance is planned
for tomorrow afternoon. |
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Fri Mar 25 17:42:38 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | OLIS HV start up | High Voltage cage is on at ~17:43pm
Interlock cleard and HV (10kV) is
on at 17:53pm |
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Wed Mar 9 11:09:02 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | IOS:SSW failed | IOS:SSW failed unexpectedly. No reason
found. Came back on easily. |
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Sat Feb 26 22:06:03 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Ti+7 status | 90pA of Ti+7 is running smoothly. 22:05
Feb26th |
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Fri Feb 25 17:27:11 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Titaniums efficiency test | Small peice of titanium wire is installed
and running aroung 100pA of Ti+7 at FC6.
OSAC are OPs taking data. |
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Fri Feb 25 17:27:11 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Titaniums efficiency test | Small piece of titanium foil 0.0005"
thick is installed and running around 100pA
of Ti+7 at FC6. |
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Wed Feb 23 22:29:48 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | OLIS mahnet | Klixon at the OLIS bemding magnet is not
funtioning properly. |
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Tue Feb 22 18:54:43 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | EE and SSEE | Both EE and SSEE problems were solved.
They are working OK now. |
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Tue Feb 22 18:52:53 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Ti+7 efficiency studies | 2mm diameter Ti was installed to set the
optics. Later 0.0005 in thick foil will be
installed for real efficiency studies. |
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Fri Feb 18 11:43:32 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | IOS: EE Status | IOS:EE found damaged. It has been replaced
with IOS:SSEE-Michael B. |
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Fri Feb 18 11:05:50 2011 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | OLIS Problems | PE set point is ok but read back is half of
the real value. |
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Fri Dec 24 13:06:07 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | Merry Christmas and Happy New Year | Our very best to all of you. |
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Tue Dec 21 09:43:22 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | In Memoriam... Mike McDonald | At 5:00 this morning, after a lengthy battle
with cancer, Mike passed from this life to
his eternal reward. He has left us a great |
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Mon Dec 20 09:50:07 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Development & EOB | Development and the quest for gold continue.
Later... Mass scans in region of
197Au33 A/q=5.97, with graph of all theoretically |
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Fri Dec 17 09:18:57 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Development | Development continues in the search for
gold. A=197 Present A/q=5.94, which suggests
197Au+33. It could also be a tail of 12C+2. |
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Wed Dec 15 09:18:41 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Development | Source development in preparation for Au
beam in progress. |
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Tue Dec 14 09:15:58 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Development | Beam development started yesterday. Looks
like the HERACLES run, which started Thursday,
ended yesterday morning. |
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Tue Dec 7 08:57:26 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 80Kr14+/40Ar7+ for SEBT Development | Development should continue today. Looks
like Supernanogan went through a plasma mode
change overnight and settled into a new mode. |
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Mon Dec 6 09:08:52 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 80Kr14+/40Ar7+ for SEBT Development | The previous 12C2+ development run from
the Supernanogan ended Friday morning. Starting
Friday afternoon, the Supernanogan was prepared |
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Fri Dec 3 09:37:14 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for Commissioning | Last moments of beam development for SEBT
commissioning. Attached is an FC6 plot and
the present optics and 1mm slits. Decision |
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Thu Dec 2 10:02:46 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for Commissioning | Accelerator development continues. Save:
101201_2157.snaiosvault. Today's agenda:
emittance scans. Attached: overnight beam |
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Wed Dec 1 08:51:54 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for Commissioning | Continuing from Supernanogan. Source touch-up
last evening. |
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Tue Nov 30 08:47:47 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for Commissioning | Commissioning and development
continue. |
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Mon Nov 29 08:55:35 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for Commissioning | Supernanogan is online. MCIS:TP3 is off.
It should be on. It is required for best
production of higher charge states. |
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Thu Nov 25 11:50:14 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for Commissioning | Some start-up teething pains last night.
Decision: Go with the Supernanogan for now.
~20enA on FC6. Save: 101125_1148.snapiosdragon. |
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Wed Nov 24 17:08:41 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for SEBT Commissioning | Source switchover began at ~15:00. |
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Wed Nov 24 14:02:14 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 85Rb for TITAN | Last day of 85Rb delivery. Save: 101124_1400_snapiostitan.
Next up: 12C2+ for SEBT commissioning. We
took a few minutes earlier |
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Tue Nov 23 10:31:27 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 85Rb for TITAN | We are back to running a Rb beam using
the MWS. The run started last Thursday, November
18th. The previous Rb run ended on Monday, |
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Wed Nov 10 09:18:31 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for DRAGON | 12C2+ beam established yesterday from the
Supernanogan. Tuning to DRAGON began last
evening and is continuing presently. |
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Tue Nov 9 08:42:38 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for DRAGON | A good 12C2+ beam was established yesterday
from the Supernanogan source, driven by background
pressure only; no source gas actively injected. |
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Mon Nov 8 09:37:03 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for DRAGON | The 85/87Rb run from the MWS ended last
evening as scheduled. The Supernanogan source
was brought online (~21:30 Sunday?) and a |
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Fri Nov 5 09:23:53 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 85Rb for Polarizer | Beam was used yesterday. Mostly idle overnight.
Looks like a plasma mode change happened
at around 19:00 yesterday. It happens. Or |
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Thu Nov 4 09:18:15 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 85Rb for Polarizer | Source ran nicely overnight. ICR team set
up a tune into the Polarizer line. Experiment
setup is scheduled to start tomorrow morning. |
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Wed Nov 3 09:22:38 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 85Rb for Polarizer | Yesterday we handed over a 85Rb beam to
ICR. It will be used for a LEBT run using
the Polarizer line. Beam stayed on FC6 overnight. |
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Tue Nov 2 09:25:30 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS Development | 85Rb on FC6 overnight. After restarting
the source yesterday following development,
the beam intensity came back, but it's slightly |
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Mon Nov 1 09:30:15 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS Development | The source stayed up steadily over the
weekend, with 85Rb on FC6. Not a lot of current,
but pretty good for a first pass. More development |
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Fri Oct 29 09:41:20 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS Development | MWS source switchover yesterday was successful.
Leakchecking went well. A small leak on the
intermediate section sealed with a snug on |
6x |
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Thu Oct 28 17:51:49 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS switchover for scheduled 85/87Rb beams | A controls issue with IOS:BIAS was found
yesterday. Controls people resolved it today.
MWS source was switched over and prepared |
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Thu Oct 28 17:51:49 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS switchover for scheduled 85/87Rb beams | A controls issue with IOS:BIAS was found
yesterday. Controls people resolved it today.
MWS source was switched over and prepared |
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354
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Wed Oct 27 09:21:59 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TIGRESS EOB | The experiment ran overnight, smoothly,
by the looks of it. Beam is on FC6 now, so
they're likely done. EOB studies on Mg beam |
16x |
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Tue Oct 26 09:19:39 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TIGRESS | The TIGRESS run was scheduled to end at
08:30, but has been extended for 24h. The
ICR reports that they are getting "good |
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352
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Mon Oct 25 09:05:15 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TIGRESS | Smooth delivery (from OLIS point-of-view)
to TIGRESS over the weekend. An SCB RF amplifier
failed yesterday and was replaced. Tuning |
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Fri Oct 22 09:35:24 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TIGRESS | A 26Mg beam was handed over to TIGRESS
last evening. It is 26Mg6+ through ISAC-I
and further stripped to 26Mg10+ by the time |
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Thu Oct 21 11:46:14 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TIGRESS | The MWS was restarted yesterday, and a
26Mg beam re-established. ICR set up into
ISAC-II overnight, and tuning to TIGRESS |
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Wed Oct 20 11:30:32 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TUDA-II | MWS ran fine overnight. It was shut off
this morning to investigate bias sparking
issue, noted on FR#4894. The two MCIS turbopump |
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Tue Oct 19 09:20:40 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TUDA-II | MWS operating nicely. |
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Mon Oct 18 09:22:35 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TUDA-II | MWS is producing 26Mg, presently parked.
It was used over the weekend
for TUDA tuning. |
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346
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Fri Oct 15 09:23:03 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS switchover for scheduled 24/26Mg beams | Source is running nicely. Hand-off
to ICR occurred ~Wednesday night. Setup done
overnight. |
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345
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Wed Oct 13 16:15:03 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS switchover for scheduled 24/26Mg beams | Source conditioning most of today, to 59kV.
Striptool attached. Reset to 26Mg tune at
~16:00. |
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344
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Tue Oct 12 13:25:21 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS switchover for scheduled 24/26Mg beams | Source switchover in progress on WP#2010-10-12-1.
Magnesium material installed into MWS. Pumpdown |
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343
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Fri Oct 8 09:35:03 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for TIGRESS | Beam from MWS quietly sitting on FC6 awaiting
tune checks to TIGRESS. Next experiments
up are 26Alg5+ to TUDA and 24Na5+ to TIGRESS. |
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342
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Mon Oct 4 09:46:12 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for TIGRESS setup | A 20Ne1+ beam from the MWS was established
on Friday. Line tuning began Friday evening.
A tune to the front of the SC LINAC was in |
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341
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Mon Oct 4 09:40:30 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Maintenance and Development completed | The September Mini-Shutdown is now a memory.
The few days available to OLIS were used
for MCIS Development on 197Au. Productive. |
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340
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Fri Sep 24 13:22:00 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Maintenance and Development | Supernanogan on overnight, in the search
for gold. A trace of 197Au34 observed this
morning. Development continues. |
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339
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Thu Sep 23 09:20:34 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He1+ for DRAGON | DRAGON continues to take MWS beam.
Later... 14:00 EOB. Prepare for Mini-Shutdown. |
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338
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Mon Sep 20 09:34:44 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He1+ for DRAGON | MCIS Development finished Friday evening.
OLIS switched to MWS operation and setup
began for 4He1+ delivery to DRAGON. Beam |
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337
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Fri Sep 17 14:02:29 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Development | Today's agenda: RF frequency scans and
generally getting a feel for the new sputter
source. |
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336
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Thu Sep 16 17:06:22 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Development | A new sputter source was installed onto
the Supernanogan. A wire of Au is installed
in the source. Mass scans this morning with |
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Tue Sep 14 09:18:28 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Development | The 16O3+ DRAGON run just finished. MCIS
Development begins this morning for a few
days. The goal is to install and characterize |
8x |
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334
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Fri Sep 10 10:38:13 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O3+ for DRAGON | |
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333
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Fri Aug 13 09:27:49 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He1+ for SCC Development | MWS is running nicely. SCC development
continues. This is scheduled to end on this
coming Tuesday morning. It will likely continue |
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332
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Wed Aug 11 10:35:03 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He1+ for SCC Development | Beam used into last evening, then idle
overnight. Nice and stable. Maintenance Day
for the cyclotron and ISAC. |
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331
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Tue Aug 10 09:30:36 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He1+ for SCC Development | Beam idle overnight, and grew nicely. Source
tweaked up and throttled back a little while
ago. SCC development expected to continue |
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330
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Mon Aug 9 10:38:43 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He1+ Setup for SCC Development | We have a request
for changing over the source to 4He1+ operation
from the MWS. |
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329
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Mon Aug 9 09:09:36 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 35Cl2+ for DRAGON | Beam ran quietly over the weekend, with
the anticipated intensity drop-off. Source
gas canister at ~15"Hg and IOS at 3.3e-7 |
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Fri Aug 6 09:50:22 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 35Cl2+ setup for DRAGON | First beam appearing on FC6 presently,
after the source pumped overnight. Source
gas valving set up earlier this morning. |
6x |
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327
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Thu Aug 5 18:56:48 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 35Cl2+ setup for DRAGON | OLIS off Wednesday morning for source changeover
from 16O3+ to 35Cl2+. We have elected to
use the MWS for this run. Supernanogan is |
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326
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Thu Aug 5 17:47:04 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O3+ for TIGRESS EOB Tuesday a.m. | Delivery of 16O3+ for TIGRESS "buddy
beam" purposes ended early Tuesday morning, |
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325
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Tue Aug 3 09:31:30 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O3+ for TIGRESS | Beam idle for most of the weekend. Some
ion source ups and downs, in part due to
a WFB setting on the edge. Tuning began last |
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324
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Fri Jul 30 09:09:35 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O3+ for TIGRESS | Supernanogan is online. Setup done last
night. There is room for tweaking, but stable
3enA on FC6 of 16O3+ presently. We'll see |
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Thu Jul 29 18:12:38 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O3+ Setup | So... the long-awaited word to switch OLIS
beams and sources finally came through...
at 17:45. |
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Thu Jul 29 15:31:21 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He1+ for TIGRESS | Beam in use intermittently. |
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Wed Jul 28 09:23:57 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 4He1+ for TIGRESS | Source switchover went quite well yesterday
morning. About 6nA of beam on FC6. Beam idle
overnight. Tuning has resumed now. |
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Tue Jul 27 08:55:49 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Maintenance | Today we switch from 74Ge1+ to 4He1+, about
as wide a switch as we've done at OLIS. We
will use the MWS for the 4He. |
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Mon Jul 26 09:41:46 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 74Ge1+ to TITAN | Beam is sitting on FC6 presently. Good
source operation over the weekend. Some pics
to come. RIB delivery to TITAN ended at 08:30 |
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Fri Jul 23 13:00:04 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 74Ge1+ to TITAN | Beam remained on FC6 overnight. Beam was
used for a tune check this morning. At noon
today beam was switched to 4He. |
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Thu Jul 22 09:25:21 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 74Ge1+ to TITAN | The Supernanogan is producing 74Ge
using the heater source, a first for the
Supernanogan. Development done over the last |
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Tue Jul 20 09:38:45 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Maintenance | Our work permit to leakcheck the Supernanogan
and IOS was signed this morning. The source
is off presently, and work is underway. The |
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Mon Jul 19 10:56:53 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for TIGRESS | Beam from the Supernanogan remains on standby
for TIGRESS pilot beam. There were a couple
of source trips over the weekend, at least |
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Fri Jul 16 10:22:35 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for TIGRESS | Tuning to TIGRESS is continuing. There
is a full expectation that they will take
RIB over the weekend. |
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313
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Wed Jul 14 09:23:19 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 12C2+ for TIGRESS | OLIS is set up for 12C2+ delivery, with
about 13enA on FC6 from the Supernanogan
source presently. Beam was reasonably stable |
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312
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Tue Jul 13 18:33:04 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Maintenance and Development | A source switchover day was negotiated,
with a goal to provide 12C2+ beam. As a practical
matter, it's been an OLIS Maintenance Day, |
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Mon Jul 12 10:55:14 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam used sporadically over the weekend.
Note temperature response in beam. A power
bump occurred at about 10:00, knocking out |
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Fri Jul 9 10:00:03 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Source drifted overnight. Operators made
a slight correction to silence an alarm.
I have tweaked this up. Shown below are before |
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Thu Jul 8 09:38:36 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam idle overnight. Source conditioned
and changed a bit. Slight tweaking required
to bring it back to stable. |
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308
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Wed Jul 7 15:21:36 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ for SCC Commissioning | A 16O1+ beam from the MWS is being used
for SCC development and commissioning by
agreement. Some sideshows getting there. |
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307
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Tue Jul 6 19:10:33 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Maintenance | Source pulled down for Mg removal and cleanup.
Done. Supernanogan refurbishing of MCIS optics
complete, plus a comple of other items. Opened |
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306
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Tue Jul 6 08:57:33 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TIGRESS EOB | Photo-finish for TIGRESS this morning,
apart from a cavity trip
at around 6:00 a.m.. The MWS is running very |
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Mon Jul 5 11:58:49 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TIGRESS | Beam was switched from 24Mg5+ to 26Mg6+
on Canada
Day. Also, the source blinked out on |
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304
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Wed Jun 30 09:11:25 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24Mg5+ to TIGRESS | Delivery / standby continues. |
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Tue Jun 29 09:16:33 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24Mg5+ to TIGRESS | Delivery to TIGRESS has begun. Beam from
the source looks perfect. Looks like happy
times for them. The plan is to eventually |
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Mon Jun 28 09:19:16 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24Mg5+ to TIGRESS | Delivery looks like it was pretty smooth
over the weekend. TIGRESS expects to receive
24Na from ITW via the CSB this week. Yield |
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301
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Thu Jun 24 11:52:34 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24Mg5+ to TIGRESS setup | Tuning into ISAC-II was done yesterday,
and continues today. The source was idle
overnight. There were a couple of magnesium |
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Wed Jun 23 09:17:34 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 24Mg5+ to TIGRESS setup | Mass change yesterday morning from 26Mg1+
to 24Mg1+ from the MWS. It was tough to get
stable beam from the source, and there are |
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Tue Jun 22 08:42:33 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TUDA-II | Beam was redirected to TIGRESS yesterday.
RIB delivery to TIDA-II was rendered impossible
due to a failure in the target or module. |
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298
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Mon Jun 21 09:20:30 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TUDA-II | Beam waiting quietly on FC6. There was
a power
bump on Friday just after noon that tripped |
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Thu Jun 17 09:21:56 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TUDA-II | TUDA-II began taking beam around midnight
last night. Beam on FC6 for a good part of
the night. Steady as she goes. |
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296
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Wed Jun 16 10:12:58 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TUDA-II | Beam idle overnight. Beam is being used
as a pilot beam for this run. Source was
knocked off by a power |
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295
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Mon Jun 14 09:44:06 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ for TUDA-II | On Saturday we opened the MWS and set it
up for Mg operation. Everything went well.
We are using the pair of half-moon Mg metal |
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294
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Sat Jun 12 11:23:40 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 26Mg6+ to TUDA-II source setup | After EOB activities from 15N4+ run that
ended this morning, we have begun preparations
to switch over the ion sources. Turbos off |
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293
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Sat Jun 12 10:20:14 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 15N4+ to TIGRESS done | Delivery to TIGRESS ended this morning
as scheduled. ICR took nice emittance
scans and is completing a target snapshot |
13x |
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Fri Jun 11 09:21:24 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 15N4+ to TIGRESS | Delivery of 15N4+ to TIGRESS continues.
Source gas canister is still at ~-22"Hg,
and MCIS pressure is 7.2e-8 Torr. ICR reported |
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Thu Jun 10 09:17:42 2010 |
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or so. ICR reported beam intensity drops
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Damien Gallop | | | 15N4+ to TIGRESS | Setup into ISAC-II began last night. Tuning
is in progress now. Beam on FC6 overnight.
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Tue Jun 8 09:27:54 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 15N4+ to TIGRESS | User tuning began Sunday night. Beam physics
expert chose to retire the IOS:Q1 defeat,
as he did not know until yesterday that it |
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Mon Jun 7 10:36:14 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 15N setup over the weekend | Keerthi set up the Supernanogan for 15N
operation and destined for TIGRESS, using
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Fri Jun 4 09:30:48 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S to DRAGON | Delivery of 33S6+ continues to DRAGON for
the final day. Some online tuning of the
line overnight. Source gas canister pressure |
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Thu Jun 3 09:29:11 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S to DRAGON | 33S6+ delivery to DRAGON continues until
Saturday morning. All the signs are that
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Wed Jun 2 09:19:04 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S to DRAGON | 33S6+ delivery to DRAGON continues. It
is Maintenance Day for everybody else today.
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Tue Jun 1 09:12:39 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S to DRAGON | 33S6+ delivery to DRAGON continues. Looks
like there was an RF tweak overnight. Source
gas canister still at ~-20"Hg. MCIS |
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Mon May 31 09:18:39 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S to DRAGON | Delivery of 33S6+ to DRAGON continues.
A couple of RF tweaks done over the weekend.
Source gas canister pressure at -20"Hg. |
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Fri May 28 11:02:59 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S to DRAGON | Beam tuning in progress. Source gas canister
at -20"Hg. MCIS pressure at 7.62e-8
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Damien Gallop | | | 33S Development and Handover | 33S on FC6 overnight. Preparing to send
beam to DRAGON
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Damien Gallop | | | 33S Development | Some 3enA of beam on FC6 presently. Let
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Tue May 25 22:02:41 2010 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | 33S spectrum | 33S spectrum is saved as 33S_spectrum.dat |
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Tue May 25 11:58:02 2010 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | 33S dev | after 24 hours background spectrum saved
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Keerthi Jayamanna | | | 33D dev | after 24 hours background spectrum saved
as "BackgroungNo33S002.dat"
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Keerthi Jayamanna | | | 33S |
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Mon May 24 22:42:51 2010 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | 33S development | Tried to see the background before 33S
installation. Found few problems: MCIS:YCB1 |
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Wed May 19 09:55:51 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for TIGRESS | ISAC-I tuning done yesterday. TBC today
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Tue May 18 09:15:16 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for TIGRESS setup | Prepare to switch beam from 22Ne2+ to 20Ne1+.
Skimmers from 22Ne2+ run shown below. Table
of tune options below. We will be using the |
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Tue May 18 09:03:32 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 EOB | EOB for SEBT1 run at 08:30, taking 11Li
from ITE and 22Ne2+ from OLIS when needed.
Attempted emittance scans last evening, but |
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Mon May 17 09:09:50 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | Last day of this pilot beam to TUDA-II.
Expect a beam switch tomorrow for sake of
TIGRESS. |
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Fri May 14 08:50:56 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | MWS continues to provide 22Ne2+ for pilot
beam use. Beam quietly sitting on FC6. Stripchart
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Thu May 13 09:25:38 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | Beam continues to be reserved for E1147
pilot beam use. Beam was nice and stable
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Wed May 12 13:40:01 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | Back to pilot beam status as of around
18:00 last night. A couple of sideshows through
the evening. ICR made an elog entry about |
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Tue May 11 08:55:41 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | Supernanogan development | Leak checking on the Supernanogan continues
today. We are preparing for an up-coming
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Mon May 10 16:42:55 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | Supernanogan development | By agreement, the source came down this
morning for continuing Supernanogan development.
Main event: leak detecting. |
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Mon May 10 09:39:34 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | Supernanogan development, mainly for the
sake of the upcoming 33S run, took place
for a little while on Friday. It was expected |
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Fri May 7 19:10:05 2010 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | Routine | General | OLIS status | MW source is back and running.
A new vacuum
chamber is added to the Supernanogan RF block.
SO2
is not filled in yet. |
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Fri May 7 12:29:41 2010 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Supernanogan development | Supernanogan development for 33S started.
All MW and MW and MCIS power sypplies are
off. |
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Thu May 6 14:33:07 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | Beam from MWS remains quietly sitting on
FC6, on standby for pilot beam use to SEBT1.
The cyclotron is still down with cryogenerator |
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Wed May 5 09:46:40 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | Beam on standby for pilot beam. Cyclotron
is still down with vacuum troubles since
~03:00, so no RIB to ISAC. |
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Tue May 4 14:19:18 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | Beam from MWS continues for pilot beam
use into SEBT1. There are cyclotron issues
with cryogenics, so 11Li delivery from ITE |
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Mon May 3 18:12:12 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | Beam was switched on Friday morning from
16O1+ to 22Ne2+. This time it's a pilot beam
for a 11Li experiment. |
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Fri Apr 30 13:02:17 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 | Mid-morning the source was switched over
from 16O1+ to 22Ne2+ operation for a new
experiment. OLIS will be used as the pilot |
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Fri Apr 30 12:58:21 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV to SEBT2 | Delivery to S1151 went quietly overnight
for their last few hours. The run ended at
~08:30 as scheduled. Marco and ICR did some |
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Thu Apr 29 09:11:27 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV to SEBT2 | Another quiet night of beam to S1151. |
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Wed Apr 28 10:08:05 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV to SEBT2 | Beam delivery continued nicely through
the night.
Yesterday Controls repaired and reinstalled |
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Tue Apr 27 09:04:13 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV to SEBT2 | Nominal beam operation to SEBT2 overnight.
A chart of beam over the last few days is
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Mon Apr 26 10:58:46 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV to SEBT2 | Our first experiment of the year started
right around midnight last night, after extensive
tuning. As I understand it, S1151 |
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Fri Apr 23 10:18:32 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Marco and experimenters are busy at it,
tuning the DTL. Regarding the source, he
is "happy as always!" Well, that |
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Thu Apr 22 14:57:25 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Accelerator development continued this
morning. Beam from source was reported to
be "good". ICR showed me their |
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Wed Apr 21 15:30:09 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam up as of last evening. Controls performed
some network upgrades today, which impacted
beam operations. One glitch on our side: |
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Tue Apr 20 09:02:18 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Maintenance | Maintenance Day for OLIS started late yesterday
afternoon. Source up at end of the day. See
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Mon Apr 19 17:12:55 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Maintenance | Just in: an active work permit for OLIS
maintenance. Underway through tomorrow (Tuesday)
evening. |
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Mon Apr 19 10:11:17 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Development on Friday; idle over the weekend.
Stripchart attached.
Meanwhile, there was a power bump |
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Fri Apr 16 09:26:01 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam development through accelerators continues
today. Beam was rock-stable overnight. |
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Thu Apr 15 09:39:11 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Yesterday's RF troubles in ISAC-I are reportedly
solved. Beam development is expected to resume
this morning. |
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Wed Apr 14 17:28:32 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam reserved for continuing accelerator
development, but there are some ISAC-I RF
phase troubles. However, maintenance was |
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Tue Apr 13 10:20:27 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Accelerator commissioning has resumed for
the day. Beam was nice and stable overnight.
See attached Stripchart. |
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Mon Apr 12 11:53:22 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam was used last week for DRAGON commissioning.
Successful run, completed yesterday, as reported
by Colin this morning. |
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Thu Apr 1 09:23:08 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam idle overnight. Another night of super-stable
beam. If no users today, then we may take
it for MRO. |
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Wed Mar 31 09:43:30 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam set up for accelerator commissioning.
Sophia took beam yesterday. Beam idle overnight.
Stripchart of overnight performance attached. |
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Tue Mar 30 10:27:09 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ at 32.64keV for accelerator commissioning | 16O1+ beam requested yesterday. Source
switched over and beam ready by evening.
Nice overnight Stripchart, attached. Sophia |
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Mon Mar 29 12:15:00 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for accelerator commissioning | OLIS sprung a water leak last night. Problem
was sparking through a coiled cooling
line. I replaced the pair of cooling lines |
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Fri Mar 26 09:31:04 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam idling overnight. Yesterday ICR called
me regarding an IOSIOC reboot and consequent
fallout. In short, it turned off IOS:MB. |
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Thu Mar 25 12:43:16 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam stable as a rock overnight. Pity we
have no-one using it at the moment! Stripchart
attached. |
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Wed Mar 24 11:42:32 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for accelerator commissioning | Beam is on standby. Target
snapshot in IOPS elog. Over the
last little while... |
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Fri Mar 19 09:00:21 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for accelerator commissioning | MWS is running well. Tune save: 100319_0901.snapiosdragon
with beam observed to Prague magnet. Stripchart
of last 24h attached. |
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Wed Mar 17 09:25:27 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 40.8keV for accelerator commissioning | 20Ne1+ set up from the MWS and handed over
to Sophia & Marco for accelerator recommissioning.
Strip to 5+ at M:5. First day of beam. Happy |
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Fri Mar 12 11:35:34 2010 |
Keerthi | | | Cusp water cooling | Cusp source water cooling (#4) interlick
does not work. |
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Fri Mar 12 11:33:09 2010 |
Keerthi | | | IOS:IG! | IOS:IG1 is faulty. Need to replac it during
next earliest window. |
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Thu Mar 11 23:02:18 2010 |
Keerthi | | | OLIS status after shutdown | Microwave source is up and running.
Supernanogan: grounding rod is stuck,
RF generator does not clear the interlocks |
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Fri Feb 19 17:54:40 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown in progress | Partial disassembly of DB1 optics today.
Shielding of insulators is definitely working
and indicated for unshielded insulators. |
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Wed Feb 17 18:28:33 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown in progress | More materials prepared for optics refit. |
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Tue Feb 16 16:04:18 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown in progress | Preparations for rewiring the DB1/3 optics
have begun. Sgan gas manifold work is in
progress. Note: IOS:MP1 is scheduled for |
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Fri Feb 12 14:42:06 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown in progress | Supernanogan cart removed from Faraday
cage to dock today. Some beam safety tests
on FC6 in progress presently. FC3 was already |
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Wed Feb 10 17:18:24 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown in progress | OLIS Shutdown has been in progress for
a week. IOS is vented, was swiped clean and
opened. DB3 was craned out, a precision job. |
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Wed Feb 3 16:30:02 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS Shutdown began today | We prepared stuff last night. This morning
we vented IOS to argon, then swiped. Clean.
Lu and Ajit craned out DB3 for us. Nice job, |
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Tue Feb 2 10:06:41 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | Supernanogan development wind-up | We ran 32S5+ overnight. Keerthi has been
working with the new surface source oven
for the last couple of weeks. His results |
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Fri Jan 15 15:30:02 2010 |
keerthi | | | Supernanogan oven start up | Voltage
Current
MCIC:IG1 |
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Thu Jan 14 09:57:05 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ beam from MWS for 8pi diagnosis | Beam is on for 8pi diagnosis by special
request.
We set up beam in IOS yesterday. |
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Wed Jan 13 18:16:22 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development with MWS at 28keV | We will be delivering a 28keV beam to the
tuning boys tomorrow for further diagnosis
of the 8pi line. In anticipation, I restarted |
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Mon Jan 11 17:46:31 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for 4He2+ beam loose ends | OLIS was shut down over Christmas. We did
a "soft start" of the MWS last
Tuesday, after refurbishing and installation |
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Mon Jan 11 17:40:07 2010 |
Damien Gallop | | | Happy New Year! | Welcome to 2010. Shutdown is underway across
the site, while beam development is going
on at OLIS. |
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Thu Dec 24 10:13:00 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development 20Ne1+ from MWS | The MWS stayed up flawlessly overnight.
Beam grew from about 2µA to over 5µA
this morning. Was it the pre-conditioning |
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Wed Dec 23 11:09:37 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development | So... lots has happened.
* Supernanogan *
Heater components installed in plasma |
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Mon Dec 21 10:22:33 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - installation cont'd | Keerthi and Marco achieved visible 4He2+
through the RFQ on Friday (or so). Mass spec
attached. Development continues today. |
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Fri Dec 18 13:14:01 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source continued | Yesterday: Busy! Source filment changed
last night. Source pumped overnight. First
start this morning. |
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Wed Dec 16 14:07:37 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source continued | Today we vary source gas pressure.
Later... Several iterations of pressure,
tuning and standing on our heads. Representative |
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Tue Dec 15 17:50:38 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source continued | Four larger apertures were installed yesterday.
This morning we fired up the modified source.
It lit immediately. Plenty of beam. Development |
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Mon Dec 14 10:01:52 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source continued | Development over the weekend. Results to
come. Restart source now and let it warm
up. 4He2+ on FC6. Plasma at zero, to duplicate |
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Fri Dec 11 18:03:30 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source continued | Today we swapped power supplies between
the arc and plasma electrode. This gives
us a higher voltage range on the arc, at |
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Thu Dec 10 08:59:05 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source continued | Source stayed up quietly overnight. Current
dropped off gradually. I will tweak things
shortly. |
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Wed Dec 9 10:24:45 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source continued | CUSP source was off for the night, following
Keerthi's development. He had increased the
current on FC6 and the arc current substantially. |
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Tue Dec 8 12:40:17 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source continued | Fuse for FUG power supply obtained and
installed. Source is up and warming up. ~100enA
on FC6. |
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Mon Dec 7 09:48:24 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source continued | The OLIS cage was open over the weekend.
IOS pressure is in the 4e-7 range, with source
gas manifold closed and external helium bottle |
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Fri Dec 4 18:15:19 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - gas lines & water | We received back the source this morning.
First order of business was to take some
EOB scans. See earlier entry. Then we shut |
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Fri Dec 4 09:58:08 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 28keV for 8pi delivery complete | Mike declared successful EOB this morning.
"Best beam I ever used" or something
like that! EOB emittance and mass scans attached. |
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Thu Dec 3 14:12:56 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 28keV for 8pi delivery continues | Beam was idle overnight. We took the beam
for a while this morning, and ran a mass
scan. We opted to not go into the cage to |
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Wed Dec 2 19:03:55 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 28keV for 8pi delivery | The source ran well overnight and today.
There is an issue with an ILE Faraday cup.
Tuning is ended for today, and beam is on |
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Tue Dec 1 12:33:58 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ at 28keV for 8pi | By agreement, we are providing OLIS beam
to the Beam Delivery group for the purpose
of checking out transmission in the 8pi line. |
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Tue Dec 1 09:27:17 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - first overnight running | The CUSP source ran well overnight, notwithstanding
local control of source power supplies. Filament
supply had dropped to 115A this morning, |
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Mon Nov 30 16:53:31 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 20Ne1+ to 8pi planned for tomorrow | OLIS beam to 8pi is planned for tomorrow.
A 20Ne1+ beam of ~3nA at 28keV is the agreement.
The 8pi line diagnosis is likely to take |
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Mon Nov 30 15:41:00 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - initial tests | We completed the services by end of last
week. Of course they could always be better,
but everything is fine for this iteration. |
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Mon Nov 30 15:41:00 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - initial tests | We completed the services by end of last
week. Of course they could always be better,
but everything is fine for this iteration. |
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Fri Nov 27 13:36:09 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - installation cont'd | Arc power supply replaced. Water leaks
down to one or two pinholes on source body;
manageable. Minor mechanical in progress. |
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Thu Nov 26 16:08:42 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - installation cont'd | Services completed today. There are still
some teething pains, particularly the arc
p/s as noted earlier. But we did have some |
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Thu Nov 26 06:22:58 2009 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Cusp source | Arc power supply does not hold any voltage. |
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Thu Nov 26 06:20:21 2009 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | Supernanogan Development | Swiched off all the pumps and ion gauge
for oven installation.
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Tue Nov 24 13:55:55 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - installation cont'd | Keerthi found and fixed a couple more vacuum
leaks last night. Present vacuum at IOS:IG1
= 4.4e-7 Torr. Electrical and water services |
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Mon Nov 23 10:32:34 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - installation cont'd | 4He2+ "alpha" CUSP source under
vacuum: IOS:IG1=7.3e-7 Torr. Electrical installations
today. |
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Fri Nov 20 17:26:57 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source - installation | Today we installed the CUSP "alpha"
source on the MWS port at OLIS. It is vacuum-tight.
Looking good. Also we installed remaining |
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Thu Nov 19 11:14:19 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | OLIS development for CUSP source | Pumps were switched off last night. IOS
was vented to Ar and swiped clean this morning.
MCIS ready for disembarking from F-cage. |
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Wed Nov 18 23:46:14 2009 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | OLIS development started | All turbos in the OLIS and MCIS are off.
No controls for the MCIS. Pumps switched
of by pulling the CG cable. |
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Tue Nov 17 09:18:37 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 21Ne4+ to DRAGON for charge distribution studies | After their EOB with 17O3+ yesterday, DRAGON
switched to 21Ne4+ running for charge distribution
studies. Keerthi changed over the source |
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Mon Nov 16 10:00:41 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ beam to DRAGON end of run this morning | DRAGON declared EOB at around 08:00 today.
Source and beam were switched to 21Ne4+ for
calibration studies. |
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Fri Nov 13 10:26:07 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ beam to DRAGON continuing | Beam and energy changes continued over
the weekend. The ICR reports that things
are going swimmingly, and that the users |
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Tue Nov 10 09:36:39 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ beam to DRAGON continuing | Beam ran well overnight. Last evening Vacuum
Group diagnosed and repaired a catastrophic
leak in the ILT cross region. You can see |
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Mon Nov 9 09:30:10 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ beam to DRAGON | Beam delivery continued through the weekend.
As noted on Saturday, current dropped precipitously
due to source gas pressure. We have 2.3e-6eµA |
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Sat Nov 7 12:21:35 2009 |
Keerthi Jayamanna | | | 17O hand valve status | 17O+3 at FC6 became 550nA.
17O hand valve found to be closed.
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Fri Nov 6 11:17:54 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 17O3+ setup to DRAGON | As noted, we handed over the beam to our
users yesterday by noon. Setup to DRAGON
is continuing. The report this morning that |
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Thu Nov 5 09:45:03 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS online with 17O3+ on FC6 overnight | Beam was quiet overnight. Keerthi touched
up the tune this morning, and it is quieter
yet and a little more of it too. |
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Wed Nov 4 09:46:07 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS online with 17O3+ on FC6 for development | Beam stayed up overnight nicely. Development
today. RF scans in progress now.
Later... scanning done for the moment. |
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Tue Nov 3 09:25:31 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS online with 17O3+ on FC6 overnight | We completed 33S operation last night,
and roughed in a setup for 17O. We had 17O3+
on FC6 overnight; chart attached. It grew |
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Mon Nov 2 17:42:54 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS online with 17O3+ on FC6 | As noted earlier, we have opened the OLIS
cage and set up the source gases for 17O
operation. It will take a while for the SO2 |
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Mon Nov 2 09:32:40 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 over the weekend | Beam came up nicely on Friday, and
stayed up quuietly over the weekend. Note
the absence of periodic spikes in the separator |
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Fri Oct 30 09:44:49 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 overnight | Controls finished with IOSIOC work yesterday.
ICR had restored most optics. I restarted
the source last evening. As you can see below, |
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Thu Oct 29 09:42:23 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | IOSIOC work in progress | Yesterday there was an IOSIOC reboot for
a purpose. It was an opportunity to demonstrate
to Controls that IOSIOC reboots materially |
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Wed Oct 28 09:55:28 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Planned IOSIOC reboot | Controls is rebooting IOSIOC. I have inserted
MCIS:FC1 for the duration. Let's see what
comes of it all. |
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Wed Oct 28 09:33:51 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 overnight cont'd | Beam was quiet overnight. I noticed a slow
drift that seemed to follow the source pressure.
My best guess is that our source gas "regulator" |
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Tue Oct 27 09:22:14 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 overnight | I had optimized the RF yesterday, but the
source went into a dual-mode toggling regime.
It is hairline to find a nice point. I also |
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Mon Oct 26 10:56:52 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 over the weekend | On Friday we left 33S5+ on FC6. The separator
magnet power supply tripped at some point
for unknown reason. The operators turned |
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Fri Oct 23 09:55:41 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 overnight cont'd | Beam stayed on quietly overnight, as did
the separator stability program. Periodic
pulsing continues to occur. No explanation |
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Thu Oct 22 15:54:24 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 overnight cont'd | The Supernanogan was on overnight quietly.
FC6 went in this morning. (Didn't check if
fingers were involved.) I now notice |
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Wed Oct 21 11:01:37 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 overnight cont'd | I alsmost want to write, see yesterday's
entry! Source ran quietly with no interruptions.
FTR, the separator stability program is also |
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Tue Oct 20 09:25:29 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 overnight | The source stayed up quietly overnight
with about 4enA on FC6. Once in a while a
little burp occurs, visible as small beam |
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Mon Oct 19 10:09:13 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS on with 33S5+ on FC6 | Switch on source for stats. Source lit
up perfectly. Slight adjustment on RF frequency. |
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Thu Oct 15 21:06:10 2009 |
Keerthi | | | OLIS status | 33S development is completed. A 3nA
of 33S+5 can be produced with 10W of RF power
and 2.5mm aperture. |
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Thu Oct 15 09:43:00 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS development with 33S5+ | Source started. 33S5+ beam on FC6 using
gas flow determined yesterday. At first blush,
it appears we need a slightly higher flow. |
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Wed Oct 14 12:06:46 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS development with 33S5+ | MCIS was running with background only.
Prepare to open SO2 source gas...
MCIS:IG1 = 5.4e-8 Torr |
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Wed Oct 14 09:52:09 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS development with 33S5+ today | The source is on. There is background beam
on FC6 presently, less than yesterday. That's
probably a good thing. Let it cook for a |
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Tue Oct 13 14:14:17 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS setup for 33S5+ | Keerthi has reinstalled the SO2 source
gas bottle onto MCIS. Presently it is closed
off to the source. We have restarted the |
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Sun Oct 11 17:11:31 2009 |
Keerthi | | | MCIS turbo pumps power levels | MCIS:TP1 = 12W
MCIS:TP2 = 11W |
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Sun Oct 11 17:09:52 2009 |
Keerthi | | | Vacuum with IOS:IV7 | IOS:IG4 reads 1.25 e-7 Torr and IOS:IG1
reads 9.8e-8 Torr with IOS:IV7 is open
IOS:IG4 reads 8.35 e-8 Torr and IOS:IG1 |
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Sun Oct 11 13:17:37 2009 |
Keerthi | | | Neon Leak closed | Neon leak close for upcoming 33S development. |
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Sun Oct 11 13:16:39 2009 |
Keerthi | | | MCIS:TP3 was off | MCIS TP3 foumd off by 1:00 pm. Restarted
without a problem
Before TP3 is on MCIS:IG1 is 5.47e-8 |
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Fri Oct 9 16:33:45 2009 |
Keerthi | | | 33S development | SO2 gas line is connected
again. Leak hand valve is closed. |
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Thu Oct 8 09:39:52 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | CSB Development with MCIS | Friedhelm and Marco have requested 20Ne2+
from the Supernanogan, and plan to bring
up the same from the CSB today. I am beginning |
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Wed Oct 7 16:54:33 2009 |
Keerthi | | | | Today Supernanogan vacuum found to be down in
the morning. Restarted easily. |
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Tue Oct 6 15:28:31 2009 |
Keerthi | | | OLIS A/Q changed to 5 (20Ne+4) | Changed OLIS A/Q to 5 (20Ne+4) to satisfy
the CSB and ISAC development changes. 8nA
is sitting at the FC6 |
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Tue Oct 6 15:22:43 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 22Ne4+ & 20Ne4+ operation | Over the weekend, Keerthi had set up 22Ne4+
to FC6 for the purpose of developing a tune
matched with a similar tune from the CSB. |
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Sun Oct 4 19:16:46 2009 |
Keerthi | | | OLIS status | Supernanogan is ready with 22Ne+4 for upcoming
CSB run. EL, HV and RF are on. The anlyzing magnet
and the other optics are set for A/Q=5.5. |
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Fri Oct 2 15:58:36 2009 |
Keerthi | | | 17O and Ne gases are now connected | A 1e-5 atm.cc/sec of 17O leak and
a 1e-6 atm.cc/sec of neon leak are connected
to the source through center tube of the |
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Fri Oct 2 09:38:26 2009 |
Keerthi | Routine | General | 33Sulfur development completed successfully. |
Sulfur-33
development completed successfully.
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Wed Sep 30 15:30:04 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S6+ from MCIS for DRAGON setup | Beam is stable enough to let Marco set
up something to DRAGON. We are a couple of
days early. |
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Mon Sep 28 14:16:47 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Cart down for TP1 Replacement | We are taking the opportunity to replace
TP1 today. Edi Dalla Valle is on it. Also,
Diagnostics has a WP in the queue for looking |
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Mon Sep 28 14:12:17 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 33S5+ from MCIS on Friday 25-Sep-2009 | A sustained 33S5+ beam was generated in
the Supernanogan on Friday, September 25th.
Attached is a trar plot. |
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Wed Sep 16 18:14:29 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Test scans for publication 2 | 090916_1206ILTEMIT.txt
Graphics with "color" in
the filename will look in print the same |
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Wed Sep 16 12:48:13 2009 |
Keerthi | | | 17O+5 double peaks | 090916_1242ILTEMIT.txt 17O+5 has
two peaks.
090916_1355ILTEMIT.txt Repeat |
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Wed Sep 16 12:26:51 2009 |
Keerthi | Routine | General | 17O+3 emittance with changed steering | 090916_1222ILTEMIT.txt Changed the
MCIS steering to center the beam in the EL.
17O+3 ~5uA, 50x100 |
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Wed Sep 16 12:20:10 2009 |
Keerthi | | | 17O+3 emittance with increased EL | 090916_1215ILTEMIT.txt
EL increased, ~4.5uA, emittance increases,
50x100 17O+3 |
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Wed Sep 16 12:12:04 2009 |
Keerthi | Routine | General | 17O+3 emittance sacns | 090916_1156ILTEMIT.txt
17O+3 good settings 50x100 ,
333nA Scale, ~4uA |
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Tue Sep 15 20:02:46 2009 |
Keerthi | | | 17O8+ on FC6 from MCIS | 0.4nA of 17O+8 is sitting on FC6. Development
will continue tomorrow. |
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Tue Sep 15 19:46:21 2009 |
Keerthi | Routine | General | Supernanogan emittance scans | 090915_1915ILTEMIT.txt = 17O +3, 4.4uA
new tune, scanner offset +10V, scanner
scale 100nA , 100x50 matrix |
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Tue Sep 15 16:56:03 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Test scans for publication | Here are pix of the same scan: original,
then greyscale, then cropped, using The GIMP.
Not bad. |
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Tue Sep 15 16:09:31 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Development 17O emittance scans | We noticed a double peak effect in the
16O3+ scan. I will set up the line for 17O3+
and see. |
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Tue Sep 15 10:32:39 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS Development | So. We are preparing for a few days of
Supernanogan development. The present run
plan is to obtain good emittance scans for |
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Tue Sep 15 09:54:22 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O3+ run to DRAGON ended on schedule at 08:00 | The DRAGON run ended uneventfully. (That's
a good thing.) I ran a few emittance scans
on the beam as-is. It is clearly monoisotopic. |
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Fri Sep 11 23:42:45 2009 |
Keerthi | Other | General | MCIS turbo pump | MCIS TP1 is not running well. Needs investigation
as soon as S1219 is completed.
Later... TP1 failed completely, and |
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Tue Sep 8 15:14:45 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Back from vacation | I'm back from vacation. Physically, anyway.
Keerthi did comprehensive emittance scans
during Supernanogan Development over the |
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Tue Aug 18 11:16:16 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS "PV" PLC trip overnight | Another in the on-going saga of MCIS:PV1
trips occurred again this morning. The operators
recovered most of the vacuum devices except |
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Mon Aug 17 15:53:54 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS mass scans & initial emittance scans | High resolution zero to 25. Save file:
masscorr_mcis_090817-highres.txt
Ack! Elog server went down at ~17:00!!! |
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Mon Aug 17 13:58:35 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Supernanogan Development begins today for one week | Supernanogan Development begins. It will
be a marathon. Main goals are high-charge
emittance scans and RF frequency scans. Tall |
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Fri Aug 14 13:53:34 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg end of run data | Marco gave us the all-clear this morning
to shut down the MWS. We are preparing to
remove the MWS head from the Y-box and blank |
10x |
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Tue Aug 11 09:54:28 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg operation overnight & MCIS cart installation | As noted earlier, the MWS beam dropped
out at some point after yesterday afternoon's
playtime, due to insufficient PE. Plasma |
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Mon Aug 10 18:29:32 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS source trip & restart | Well, so it goes. As I was penning a note
for OPS, the source tripped. It easily reignited
with a little extra Ne. I left the flow slightly |
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Mon Aug 10 18:06:09 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg reduce intensity with PE | So... we have had this on-going problem
with intense Mg beam coating our optics.
Keerthi found a good recipe last week with |
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Mon Aug 10 17:42:18 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg emittance scan with original settings | Finally, here is the "original"
beam. Can you tell the difference (side-by-side
at bottom)? I can't. |
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Mon Aug 10 17:20:55 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg emittance scan with zeroed vertical steerers | Here is a variation I thought might be
appropriate.
Data file: 090810_1724ILTEMIT.txt |
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Mon Aug 10 17:16:20 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg emittance scan with downstream quads off | Here is the emittance scan that Rick requested,
beam with Q4/5/6 off. Note that present numbers
for these quads do not match theoretical. |
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Mon Aug 10 16:43:59 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg emittance scan with slits open | Before proceeding, I nudged in each of
the slits, watching for first clipping. With
the current emittance (nice), the beam cleared |
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Mon Aug 10 16:36:33 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg emittance scans | A series of 25Mg emittance scans for Rick.
Starting scan with everything as-is,
i.e. slits closed. |
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Mon Aug 10 16:12:28 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg operation over the weekend | Summary: good.
Details: A trip occurred at some
point. I restarted the source over the weekende |
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Fri Aug 7 14:42:29 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg beam reduction | Around noon, Keerthi adjusted the PE down
to reduce the intensity of the Mg beam, as
we are running with attenuators in. He ended |
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Fri Aug 7 10:16:38 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg emittance scans | While there is an SC cavity issue, I have
been repeating last evening's emittance scans.
Here is the best one. About 70nA of 25Mg |
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Thu Aug 6 17:02:00 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 25Mg tuning to TIGRESS in progress | Tuning has been on-going through the day.
Here are a couple of emittance scans taken
in-between heartbeats. The first is zoomed |
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Wed Aug 5 11:29:51 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS operation overnight and 25Mg status | So... there evidently was a power bump
overnight, because the stability power supply
was "disconnected" from the system. |
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Tue Aug 4 11:13:04 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS source tuning for 25Mg operation | The source stayed up overnight just fine,
with a little 25Mg beam on FC6. This morning
I did a few mass scans to get a fix on Mg |
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Mon Aug 3 08:39:31 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS 21Ne -> 25Mg switchover | Conveniently scheduled for BC Day, we are
preparing to switch over the MWS to sputter
operation with MG source material. Operations |
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Mon Jul 27 14:39:22 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 21Ne5+ to TUDA-II | 21Ne has been available from the MWS since
mid-week. Here is roughly how last week unfolded
to now: |
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Wed Jul 22 14:31:28 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 21Ne setup to TUDA-II is underway | Last night Keerthi resolved the sparking
issue in MWS and started the source while
I was present. There was a frozen interlock |
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Wed Jul 22 01:33:29 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS initial startup summary | Vacuum came down to ~7e-7 Torr. On startup,
bias sparked over somewhere. Vacuum leak
was caused. Later we found that HV had sparked |
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Tue Jul 21 17:11:33 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MWS preparations for 21Ne operation | With the MCIS cart removed, Geoff hooked
up the leak detector to the MWS source gas
line. He did a couple of hours of leak checking |
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Mon Jul 20 17:28:01 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS cart removed from cage and parked | We discussed whether or not to leave the
Supernanogan in the OLIS Faraday cage, and
decided no, because the up-coming runs will |
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Mon Jul 20 09:25:35 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O4+ run to TIGRESS complete | The 18O4+ run at about 5MeV/u ended this
morning with reasonable success, I'm informed,
despite MCIS vacuum trips, SC cryo trips |
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Fri Jul 17 11:10:21 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Supernanogan development done | Beam switched back to 18O4+ by 11:00 as
agreed. Some glitches. Here are snapshots
of how it looked at handover time. |
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Fri Jul 17 10:46:06 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O6+ recheck | A/q = 2.666 Field = 767.1G FC6 = 3enA |
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Fri Jul 17 10:32:42 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O8+ recheck | A/q = 2 Field = 667.3 FC6 = ~10enA |
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Fri Jul 17 10:30:27 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O7+ recheck | A/q = 2.2857 Field = 710.5G FC6 = 100pA |
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Fri Jul 17 10:28:09 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O7+ recheck | A/q = 2.571 Field = 753.5 FC6 = 50epA |
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Fri Jul 17 10:03:07 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O6+ recheck | A/q = 3 Field = 813.9G FC6 = 2.2enA
I tweaked the adjustment of the displayed
A/q calibration to fit this one. |
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Fri Jul 17 09:47:16 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O8+ recheck | Go fishing in the range 2.24-2.26, but
no fish in this pond this time. However,
there is a relatively strong beam at 2.3. |
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Fri Jul 17 09:33:09 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Supernanogan epilogue | There are the last couple of hours of Supernanogan
Development for this set. Our run plan included
17On+ studies. Time will not permit it this |
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Thu Jul 16 17:15:50 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16/18On+ survey summary | Here is a summary of emittances gleaned
from the aforementioned elog entries.
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Thu Jul 16 17:09:52 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O1+ survey | A/q = 18 Field = 1987.1 FC6 = 161nA |
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Thu Jul 16 17:05:29 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O1+ survey | A/q = 16 Field = 1873.4G FC6 = 204enA |
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Thu Jul 16 16:50:41 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O2+ survey | A/q = 9 Field = 1405.0G FC6 = 55enA |
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Thu Jul 16 16:40:11 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O2+ survey | A/q = 8 Field = 1324.8G FC6 = 172enA |
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Thu Jul 16 16:33:28 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O3+ survey | A/q = 6 Field = 1147.2 FC6 = 39.3enA |
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Thu Jul 16 16:15:39 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O3+ survey | A/q = 5.3333 Field = 1081.6G FC6 = 110nA |
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Thu Jul 16 15:58:53 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O4+ survey | A/q = 4.5 Field = 993.5G FC6 = 20enA |
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Thu Jul 16 15:49:46 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O4+ survey | A/q = 4 Field = 936.7 FC6 = 54.0enA |
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Thu Jul 16 15:41:35 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O5+ survey | A/q = 3.6 Field = 888.6G FC6 = 6.2enA |
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Thu Jul 16 15:38:58 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O5+ survey | A/q = 3.2 Field = 837.7G FC6 = 14.5enA |
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Thu Jul 16 15:22:51 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O6+ survey | A/q = 3 Field = 811.2G FC6 = 1.6nA
Not quite enough beam for an emittance
scan. |
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Thu Jul 16 15:11:16 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O6+ survey | A/q = 2.6667 Field = 764.7G FC6 = 3.0nA |
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Thu Jul 16 14:50:38 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O7+ survey | A/q = 2.5714 Field = 751.1G FC6 = 40epA
No emittance scan possible. |
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Thu Jul 16 14:46:52 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O7+ survey | A/q = 2.2857 Field = 708.0G FC6 = 70epA
(noisy)
No emittance scan possible. |
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Thu Jul 16 14:44:06 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O8+ survey | A/q = 2.25 Field = 702.5G FC6 = not visible
It looks like last night's vacuum
trip is biting us here. |
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Thu Jul 16 14:41:46 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 16O8+ survey | A/q = 2 Field = 662.3G FC6 = 150epA (unstable)
No emittance scan possible. |
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Thu Jul 16 14:25:27 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O4+ survey | A/q = 4.5 Field = 993.5G FC6 = 24.0enA |
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Thu Jul 16 14:11:43 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCOL3 slits calibrations | I ran through a calibration exercise for
the IOS slits. Here is my data. I have moved
each set to the midpoint of the largest (5mm) |
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Thu Jul 16 14:06:56 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS vacuum trip overnight | The MCIS vacuum system tripped last night
again. Fortunately the operators
noticed it and restarted stuff. Otherwise |
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Wed Jul 15 16:37:01 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Bias for IOS emittance rig | Graham looked up the list of IOS bias assignments.
None was form the emittance rig. I quickly
tested the list in ILT, but nothing jumped |
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Wed Jul 15 14:41:25 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O5+ survey | A/q = 3.6 Field = 888.6G FC6 = 10nA
Two emittance scans, one with the
as-is emittance rig, one with a manually |
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Wed Jul 15 10:52:25 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O6+ survey | A/q = 3 Field = 813.2 FC6 = 2.9nA
Beam is too faint for a good emittance
scan, but it's visible. Redo with reverse |
7x |
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Wed Jul 15 10:51:25 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O7+ survey | A/q = 2.571 Field = 752.9 FC6 = 88pA |
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Wed Jul 15 10:41:23 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O8+ survey | A/q = 2.25 Field = 704.7G FC6 = <pA
Well, it's there, but pretty faint.
The attached stripchart shows no beam then |
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Wed Jul 15 10:27:18 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O4+ overnight and emittance check | Repeat emittance scan of present 18O4+
beam. It compares okay (somewhat broader
emittance numbers) with yesterday's |
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Wed Jul 15 09:20:26 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Supernanogan development in progress | Proposed run plan for this time:
Document TIGRESS tune.
18O4+ emittance scan.
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Tue Jul 14 15:19:51 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS mass scan | I have begun a mass scan from 0 to 25.
It will be a while. Data file: masscorr_mcis__0-25_090714.txt.
25nA of 18O4+ restored to FC6. |
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Tue Jul 14 09:47:14 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O4+ tuning to TIGRESS this morning | We have a change of schedule. Due to circumstances,
Sophia will continue tuning to TIGRESS this
morning. Sgan Development will resume this |
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Mon Jul 13 17:41:04 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | Supernanogan development Monday morning | As noted, Keerthi was called to restart
the source after a power bump. He continued
Supernanogan development through the night |
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Mon Jul 13 17:19:29 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | MCIS vacuum trip at ~15:30 | An MCIS vacuum trip occurred somewhere
around 15:30. Sophia observed a drop-off
in beam. The cause looks like the PLC-related |
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Mon Jul 13 09:49:52 2009 |
Damien Gallop | | | 18O4+ tuning to TIGRESS today | As per our agreed deal last week, today
is reserved for Supernanogan tuning to TIGRESS.
Development will resume tomorrow. |
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Fri Jul 10 11:47:07 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18On+ frequency scans & resonances | The Supernanogan was restarted this morning,
after last night's power bump. 18O4+ on FC6,
cooking for about an hour. Looks very good. |
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Fri Jul 10 11:46:55 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18On+ frequency scans & resonances | The Supernanogan was restarted this morning,
after last night's power bump. 18O4+ on FC6,
cooking for about an hour. Looks very good. |
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Fri Jul 10 09:55:25 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O8+ beam overnight | Here is a striptool of 18O8+ beam (magenta
trace) last evening from about 18:00 to 22:30
when there was a large power bump coincident |
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Thu Jul 9 16:07:56 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O8+ frequency scans | Keerthi did some 18On+ frequency scans
this morning. He observed 18O8+! I am attempting
to repeat it myself now. Reverse bias on |
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Wed Jul 8 19:51:33 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18On+ summary for the day | The 18O source gas bottle is online. The
ion source was optimized for 18O4+ and kept
the same throughout. Emittance scans of each |
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Wed Jul 8 19:13:15 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O8+ emittance scan | A/q = 2.25 FC6 at reverse bias MB = 736.9G
@ 42.9A
Not enough intensity for an emittance |
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Wed Jul 8 19:07:15 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O7+ emittance scan | A/q = 2.57 FC6 = 0.25nA MB = 790.0G @ 46.2A
Not enough intensity for an emittance
scan. |
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Wed Jul 8 18:57:09 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O6+ emittance scan | A/q = 3 FC6 = 5.5nA MB = 851.5G @ 50.1A |
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Wed Jul 8 18:47:43 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O5+ emittance scan | A/q = 3.6 FC6 = 12.5nA MB = 931.8G @ 55.3A |
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Wed Jul 8 18:38:21 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O4+ emittance scan | A/q = 4.5 FC6 = 29.5nA MB = 1041.8G @ 62.4A |
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Wed Jul 8 18:20:43 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O3+ emittance scan | A/q = 6 FC6 = 49.5nA MB = 1201.4G @ 73.1A |
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Wed Jul 8 18:12:25 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O2+ emittance scan | A/q = 9 FC6 = 50.0nA MB = 1470.8G @ 90.8A |
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Wed Jul 8 17:58:02 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O1+ emittance scan | Here we go. A/q = 18 FC6 = 141.0nA MB =
2078G @ 130.2A |
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Wed Jul 8 17:47:26 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O4+ emittance scans | First up is a check scan of 18O4+. There
is a definite vertical offset compared to
earlier today. Otherwise, it correlates well |
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Wed Jul 8 16:12:51 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Mass scan in progress | A mass scan from A/q of zero to 25 is in
progress. Data file (large): masscorr_mcis_090708.txt.
The source is optimized for 18O4+. Fishing |
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Wed Jul 8 11:52:54 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Supernanogan development run plan for the remainder of this set | * 18On+ emittance scans at present ion
source settings: complete today.
* 18On+ frequency measurements: Thursday. |
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Wed Jul 8 10:57:46 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O4+ emittance scans | Tune saved as 090708_1200.snapmcisfc6.
I settled on the 15.486GHz optimal frequency,
and tweaked that for effect. Then I ran a |
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Wed Jul 8 09:34:58 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O4+ frequency optimization | Starting frequency: 15.7864GHz => 870pA
on FC6 Step size: 1MHz. Selected peaks
shown. There were many smaller resonances |
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Wed Jul 8 09:22:07 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O4+ beam growth overnight | After accessing the OLIS cage and opening
the 18O source gas valve, I restarted the
Supernanogan source last evening around 18:00 |
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Tue Jul 7 17:47:14 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18On+ beam & emittance | As noted earlier, we have 17O and 18O source
gas attached to the Supernanogan source chamber.
Both are valved off presently. The source |
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Tue Jul 7 15:43:19 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | ISIS emittance rig tests this morning | Keerthi and I were front and centre doing
ISIS emittance rig testing this morning.
He ran it, and I tried to find ways to run |
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Mon Jul 6 17:34:24 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O background studies | Well... my browser blew away just before
I submitted version one of this entry. Let's
try again. |
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Mon Jul 6 10:57:08 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Beam stability versus temperature over weekend | We had 16O3+ on FC6 on Friday. An IOSIOC
reboot occurred mid-afternoon Friday unfortunately.
Operators restored beam at about 06:00 on |
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Fri Jul 3 10:29:15 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | RF frequency scans versus each charge state of 16O cont'd. | 16O2+ beam on FC6 = 10nA as before. Move
to 16O3+ A/q = 5.33...
A frequency scan between 13 & |
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Fri Jul 3 10:03:11 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Overnight beam stability on FC3 | Here are some pics and data from total
MCIS beam on FC3 overnight. A bit inconclusive,
but there may be a temperature correlation. |
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Thu Jul 2 16:55:04 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | RF frequency scans versus each charge state of 16O | Let's take a look at varying frequency
versus beam current for 16O2+. Starting RF
values shown below. FC6 = 1.09enA. |
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Thu Jul 2 11:58:18 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Supernanogan development in progress | Happy Canada Day!
I noticed a long-term trend in beam
intensity. I have every reason to believe |
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Tue Jun 30 17:39:13 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Compare 16O2+ beam from start of run to today | There seemed to be some small change to
the beam over the week of TACTIC running.
I would like to poke around a bit. The emittance |
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Tue Jun 30 17:16:25 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 16O2+ emittance scans with slits open | First, with upstream slits opened, then
with both open. Original slit setting was
1mm. Finally, restore slits to 1mm and see |
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Tue Jun 30 10:56:26 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 16O2+ emittance scans | The first emittance scan sort of got interrupted;
it auto-restarted just before the previous
scan had finished. I thought the resulting |
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Tue Jun 30 10:30:17 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Initial development setup | Setup teething pains... The Start button
on the emittance panel worked this time.
But ICR called, requesting a few minutes |
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Tue Jun 30 09:33:00 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Supernanogan Development begins today for two weeks | Supernanogan development starts today.
The TACTIC run, which ended around 08:30
today, appears to have been a success. TACTIC |
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Mon Jun 29 10:35:35 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 16O2+ pilot beam to TACTIC in progress | We handed over a 16O2+ beam on Wednesday
morning to Sophia for TACTIC setup. On our
side, everything went well. TACTIC switched |
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Wed Jun 24 10:27:23 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 16O2+ tune ready for Sophia and Marco | See ISAC elog entry today.
Keerthi developed a dual-mode tune last night,
so that we can run the MWS at will if so |
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Tue Jun 23 18:04:30 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | MCIS HV conditioning to 20KV | Supernanogan bias for this run is 16.32KV.
After we were finished with source tuning,
etc., we conditioned up to 20KV. Then beam |
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Tue Jun 23 16:48:00 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 16O2+ on FC6 after source tuning | After a first round of source and line
tuning for good current with minimum RF power,
we have about 8nA of 16O2+ on FC6. Here is |
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Tue Jun 23 15:02:38 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 16O2+ on FC6 | We now have about 80nA of 16O2+, using
the same source parameters as before. Keep
a watch for a while, then tune the source |
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Tue Jun 23 10:33:43 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Effects of RF on charge state | Today is the last day of this set of Supernanogan
Development. The source ran at 16KV overnight,
in anticipation of 16O2+ delivery later today. |
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Mon Jun 22 20:28:37 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Preparations for 16O2+ delivery | In anticipation of 16O2+ delivery mid-week,
we checked 16O2+ production from the Supernanogan
source. No problem. We did have to use the |
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Mon Jun 22 16:00:04 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Emittance thoughts and other matters | An emittance scan of the 16O7+ beam follows.
Also, a stripchart of the same beam on FC6
overnight. Keerthi did some studies over |
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Fri Jun 19 20:15:19 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Summary of 16On+ emittance scans | Here is a list of 16On+ emittance scans
for today. Although IOSIOC got rebooted,
restored tune was identical and trouble-free, |
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Fri Jun 19 11:59:49 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 16On+ emittance scans continue | Keerthi developed a nice 16O7+ beam to
FC6 last night. Beam current is about 3nA
presently. Here is the first emittance scan |
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Thu Jun 18 09:38:52 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Check Supernanogan beam after IOC reboot yesterday | As mentioned before, IOSIOC was rebooted
yesterday afternoon to unfreeze the emittance
rig panel. It cost us our tune, which unfortunately |
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Wed Jun 17 17:01:07 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 16On+ emittance scans | A series of 16On+ emittance scans. Benchmark
scan of 16O5+ matched well with same scan
done this morning. Subsequent scans beginning |
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Wed Jun 17 10:14:57 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 16O5+ on FC6 overnight | The 16O5+ beam stayed up OK overnight.
ICR took some emittance
scans this morning. They look interesting. |
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Tue Jun 16 16:47:02 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Mass scan around 16O5+ | Keerthi suggested using 16O5+ for optimizing
the source. I did a tight mass scan in that
area, and 16O5+ is clearly visible. I will |
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Tue Jun 16 12:10:17 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 84Kr charge states begun |
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Mon Jun 15 17:49:23 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 84Kr charge states begun | We began looking at 84Kr this weekend.
Keerthi had 84Kr19+ on FC6 this morning,
which I was able to tweak up from ~300epA |
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Fri Jun 12 14:24:49 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 17O3+ beam at optimized RF | A comment about RF power came up at the
presentation this morning. Intense X-rays
can be produced not only at the peak efficiency |
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Fri Jun 12 14:12:04 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | OLIS & Supernanogan Facilities presentation | Presentation this morning in Auditorium.
Players:
Keerthi: science |
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Thu Jun 11 12:10:22 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Supernanogan status | Pumping went well overnight. TP3 turned
on around noon. Issues with Kepco communications. |
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Wed Jun 10 18:48:53 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Krypton source gas fitted | Krypton source gas teed directly into ion
source. A Nupro valve and tee also added
for 17O line. At present, the 17O gas bottle |
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Wed Jun 10 17:49:40 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Beam to RFQ | We handed over the beam to Sophia for testing
Rick's new tune. Although there are RF issues
at the RFQ presently, her feedback to the |
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Wed Jun 10 11:22:59 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Supernanogan development mass scans | Main event this morning so far: mass scans
and post-scan analysis using Gabe's tools.
We have a pretty good recipe now. Tight scan |
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Tue Jun 9 20:49:32 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Supernanogan RF & IOS slits | I have been testing various RF power settings
for cold starts and beam stability. No surprise,
the best tuner setting is approximately midway |
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Tue Jun 9 16:53:55 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Supernanogan development in progress | Keerthi started the Supernanogan source
today. His primary goal was to test out Rick's
theoretical tune calculations. He was ecstatic |
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Mon Jun 8 09:31:39 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Emittance scan of 18O beam from MWS | The TIGRESS run ended this morning. Supernanogan
Development begins now for two weeks. Begin
an 18O1+ emittance scan and also take some |
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Thu Jun 4 10:46:37 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O source operation overnight | The MWS delivered 18O overnight, mostly
onto FC6. Sophia complained about source
stability this morning. It definitely could |
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Wed Jun 3 16:17:51 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | MWS started for 18O1+ production to TIGRESS | A couple of weeks of 17O3+ to DRAGON ended
yesterday with a photo finish. Supernanogan
went off at 10:00. Preparations for 18O began. |
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Fri May 22 15:03:55 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Temporary fix on IOS:TP7 | Vacuum Group applied a temporary fix to
the lower body seal on IOS:TP7, which we
found last night to be leaking. Edi tells |
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Fri May 22 12:31:36 2009 |
Raymond Dubé | | | Test | Hello world |
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Fri May 22 10:50:06 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | MCIS online with 17O3+ on FC6 | The previous 18O4+/8+ run to TUDA-II finished
midday yesterday. OLIS was prepared for 17O
delivery from the Supernanogan source. Leak |
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Thu May 21 16:23:37 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | 18O4+/8+ to TUDA-II declared done around noon | End of run diagnostics done. See ISAC elog.
Supernanogan cart is already installed and
at high vacuum. Prepare to run 17O from Sgan |
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Fri May 15 14:12:45 2009 |
Geoff Wight | | | 1st test | test |
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Thu May 14 12:02:09 2009 |
Damien Gallop | Routine | General | Testing 2 | My first OLIS elog entry. |
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Thu May 14 11:07:33 2009 |
Hossein Rafighi | | | Test | Testing! |
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