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  321   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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  322   Thu Jul 29 15:31:21 2010 Damien Gallop  4He1+ for TIGRESS

Beam in use intermittently.

  323   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. Luverly. Anyway, we're on it. Basic idea: 4He1+/MWS -> 16O3+/MCIS. Users only care about A/q being as close to 72/13 as possible using standard beams. Last moments of 4He beam shown below. MWS is running very nicely.

Later... Supernanogan is up and delivering 16O3+. Note that MWS solenoid valves and flow controller are just so for this to be possible. Leave them alone.

Later... Mass scans and some optimization. All better. Intensity is still drifting and will overnight.
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  324   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 if ICR has room for tweaking before handover to users. Yes, we have clearance.

MCIS RF scan in progress.

MCIS vacuum: 8.17e-8 Torr

IOS vacuum: 3.15e-7 Torr

Later... No-one has called so far for the beam, but they can have it anytime. Right now, about 15enA on FC6 with an RF frequency that is midway between lots of current and ruler-flat stability. There are other choices too.

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  325   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 evening. Some funny business overnight with apparently disappearing and returning beam.

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  326   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, followed by CSB setup as an ion source Tuesday day. MWS behaved very nicely. Beam off Wednesday morning for switchover.

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  327   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 removed from OLIS and parked at its service dock. Lots of leakchecking done on both sources. Both sources are under high vacuum presently and improving. MWS will be ready to start in the morning.

  328   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.

Later... We have a whopping 5nA of 35Cl1+. We expect orders of magnitude more. Mass scans and investigation in progress.

Later... Another scan after some source gas changes. Much better. 35Cl+1 = 575nA 35Cl+2 = 3.5pnA with 1mm slits.

Neon support gas hand valve is closed. Source wuill require expert intervention to reignite, if there is a power bump, etc.

Later... Final tweaking done. ~10enA on FC6 with 1mm slits in, and ~23enA with 2.5mm slits in. A Stripchart of the last little while, plus present IOS tune and skimmers. Hand over to ICR at 13:25.

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  329   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 presently. Several DRAGON energy changes were done as planned.

Later... at ~09:45 DRAGON is done.

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  330   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.

Later... OLIS opened. Canister purged with N2 and pumped via IOS, then valved off and disconnected. ICR has restored a recent 4He1+ tune.

  331   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 today.

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  332   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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  333   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 for a couple of days, after which there would be a beam switch to 16O2+ from the MWS for TUDA-II setup.

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  334   Fri Sep 10 10:38:13 2010 Damien Gallop  16O3+ for DRAGON
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  335   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 the new sputter ion source.

Below are vacuum pics before and after closing MCIS:IV0. There was a bit of a spike during closing. All three turbos switched off. TP3 is down now.

Later... Keerthi requests we look at 16O7+ production as a measure of source performance. Done. Chart appended below, with source panels. Mass scan next.

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  336   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 source at equipotential. Source patched to MWS EE supply and biased to ~1kV tunable. That makes a significant improvement in intensity. Beam at FC6 is 197Au24+ presently.

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  337   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.

Mass scan plots in region of 197Au25+ attached below, taken with and without the sputter source on. Matlab post-processed pics to come shortly.

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  338   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 handed over to experiment last night.

  339   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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  340   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.

A/q: 5.7941

FC6: ~500epA

Bias: 10,876V

EL: 4274V

Sputter source bias: 1262V

RF frequency: 13.60175 GHz

RF amplitude: 10dB (~16W FP)

MCIS:IG1: 6.8e-8 Torr

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