 Mon Jun 28 09:19:16 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 24Mg5+ to TIGRESS 
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| Delivery looks like it was pretty smooth over the weekend. TIGRESS expects to receive 24Na from ITW via the CSB this week. Yield goes today. |
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Tue Jun 29 09:16:33 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 24Mg5+ to TIGRESS 6x
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Delivery to TIGRESS has begun. Beam from the source looks perfect. Looks like happy times for them. The plan is to eventually deliver 24Na5+ via the
CSB. Maintenance Day for the radioactive lines is in progress now.
Later... This is about as good as it gets for magnesium beams from the MWS. Attached are screen shots of the source setup. |
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Wed Jun 30 09:11:25 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 24Mg5+ to TIGRESS
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| Delivery / standby continues. |
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Mon Jul 18 10:02:42 2011, Damien Gallop, , , 24Mg+6 from MWS for DRAGON
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| Keerthi came in early this morning to set up OLIS for 24Mg delivery. HEBT tuning is in progress. |
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Fri Jul 8 10:07:14 2011, Damien Gallop, , , 24/25Mg+1 from MWS for HERACLES on SEBT1 8x
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Beam on FC6 overnight and very stable. It grew overnight and continues to grow, but hasn't hit 1pnA yet. Marco is tuning with what he has. Let's
see how it goes. |
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Mon Jul 11 09:46:07 2011, Damien Gallop, , , 24/25Mg+1 from MWS for HERACLES on SEBT1
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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 goes presently. Delivery
continues today in lieu of RIB unavailability for today. A switch to RIB is expected this evening. |
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Fri Jul 15 10:30:11 2011, Damien Gallop, , , 24/25Mg+1 from MWS for HERACLES on SEBT1
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25Mg beam mostly sitting on FC6 now, as HERACLES takes RIB. Source was opened
on Monday night to replace microwave window. Beam will be u sed again towards the end of the HERACLES run, then EOB tomorrow morning, Saturday. |
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Wed Jul 6 13:20:15 2011, Damien Gallop, , , 24/25Mg+1 from MWS Setup
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Source opened, and aluminum components removed. Magnesium components from previous run cleaned and installed. Pumpdown in progress.
Later... Pumpdown looks wonderful. A couple of cycles with partial vent with N2 to help evaporate the methanol.
Later... Power is on. HV at 55kV for the night to condition. No plasma, no beam overnight. |
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Thu Jul 7 10:40:27 2011, Damien Gallop, , , 24/25Mg+1 from MWS Setup 6x
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Source conditioned nicely overnight at 55kV with a little RF power on. Source gases checked, final cage inspection. Ready to start.
Later... Source is lit. Let it grow.
Later... Lots of beam on FC3 but not a lot on FC6. Beam is broad. Hand it over to ICR for the night as-is. |
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Tue Oct 6 15:22:43 2009, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne4+ & 20Ne4+ operation
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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. However, yesterday
it turned out that the CSB could not generate a 22Ne beam sufficiently bright for tuning. So the project was scrapped. Keerthi then changed the source
for 20Ne4+ operation, and handed it over to Marco yesterday. I think that is going well. Here is a trar plot of overnight beam. |
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Thu Jun 9 16:51:09 2011, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ for TUDA-II Pilot Beam
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MWS online. Note: A/q display is white. Possible culprit: IOSIOC. ICR will reboot it at first convenient opportunity.
Earlier, Supernanogan was set up with empty canister in preparation for Kr heavy ion run planned for this weekend. Canister and lines pumpdown
in progress. However, a FR was issued for MCIS:BP1, which is losing ground pretty quickly. The two MCIS screenshots below were taken some five minutes |
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Fri Jun 10 11:35:24 2011, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ for TUDA-II Pilot Beam
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MWS online. Beam sitting on FC6.
Mel returned two flow controllers today, borrowed in March and April. |
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Mon May 30 14:44:01 2011, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ for ICR Training
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MWS online. Separator magstab program offline. Check: Kepco is switched off and one lead is physically cut and taped over. That's pretty definitive.
Later... Keerthi has found that the EPICS probe has more diurnal variation than the separator power supply itself, so he disconnected it permanently.
There is a USB issue with using our precision Hall probe that will require some expert Linux assistance to resolve. |
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Tue May 18 09:03:32 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1 EOB
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EOB for SEBT1 run at 08:30, taking 11Li from ITE and 22Ne2+ from OLIS when needed. Attempted emittance scans last evening, but no data showed, and no
more time to investigate. So be it. Another time. |
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Fri Apr 30 13:02:17 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1
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Mid-morning the source was switched over from 16O1+ to 22Ne2+ operation for a new experiment. OLIS will be used as the pilot beam during this 11Li run
to SEBT1/TUDA-II. |
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Mon May 3 18:12:12 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1
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| 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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Tue May 4 14:19:18 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1
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Beam from MWS continues for pilot beam use into SEBT1. There are cyclotron issues with cryogenics, so 11Li delivery from ITE is suspended temporarily.
Later... we purchased a small UPS for the MCISRFIOC server. It arrived yesterday. After overnight charging, we installed it today. This is in response
to the hardware failure a couple of weeks ago. |
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Wed May 5 09:46:40 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1
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| 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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Thu May 6 14:33:07 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1
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Beam from MWS remains quietly sitting on FC6, on standby for pilot beam use to SEBT1. The cyclotron is still down with cryogenerator issues. Latest prediction
is first protons this evening. |
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Mon May 10 09:39:34 2010, Damien Gallop, , , 22Ne2+ at 22.44keV for SEBT1
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Supernanogan development, mainly for the sake of the upcoming 33S run, took place for a little while on Friday. It was expected to go through tomorrow
(Tuesday), but we got the call for beam on Friday evening just before the Canucks game started. So it's up again. The beam was used for a while on Sunday
to check beam energy. |