5 shielding blocks have been moved from ITW to ITE, MAA area has been secured.

Nb#10target has been remotely  transferred from NHC to SHC. 

Tm2 has been successfully moved from SW silo to TCS.

 TM3 with new target SiC#46 was connected in ITE.

Tm3 has been moved from TCS to ITE. the move is smooth.

Tm3 has been moved from TCS to ITE. the move is smooth.

TM3 and UCx#44 ran in ITE but issues with the cyclotron prevented proton beam delivery. Nonetheless, the target was heated and provided stable beam to TITAN as well as for tuning and some tests.

Results of inspection of TM3 module after run:

The module looked pretty good. There were no marks on the polished surface of the containment box, next to the water blocks, that were visible. But we didn't remove the box, only looked with the camera and it was visible by turning the module. So some things may have been hidden. There were some black marks on the door, near the bolts that hold in the handle (see attachment). This seems a very unlikely spot for sparking as the fields should be considerably lower than at the target handles, lower down. Maybe the spots are from oil left on the door that had a chemical reaction? There is one very faint matching spot on the top of the copper trident connector, but it doesn't look much like a spark mark. The other two marks have no corresponding mark on the source tray. There were no marks on the ground electrode, or anywhere else on the source tray. There was a scuff on one of the trapezoidal insulators, but it could have happened during installation.

Results of inspection of the target after run:

The FEBIAD target developed the same cathode short we have seen on almost every FEBIAD we run online - a high resistance short from cathode to HVC that prevents voltage on the cathode. This time the short remained after cooling the target, and David measured 208kOhms with the ohmmeter on the module top (11kOhms with the megger). We used a multimeter in the hot cell to test after the target had been dismounted and we found no short. So it must be related to either the position of the target (upright vs face down) or time (a conductive trace on an insulator oxidizes and becomes non-conductive again) or some pressure/shaking during the de-installation.

There weren't many marks on the target - a faint mark near where the faint mark on the copper trident was observed, some marks on the EE which had no counterparts on the ground electrode. See pictures.

Tm3 electrical check with SiC#46 target  and HS line helium spray check at SHC. were done. everything is good. see attachment.

TM3 has been moved  from SHC to TCS.The move is smooth.

 5 gallon spent target pail, lifting long pole and hook assembly load test was done by Rupan, Keyur ,and David.  Load in pail 101 lbs, test time 10 minutes. No deform on pail( pail OD 29.8mm is not changed before and after test.  The test passed. Also 50 lbs load test on empty tray transit frame was done. The frame is good on test.  Rupan will have a test report on this job.

The pail handling tool which is used to move 5 gallon pails around the target hall was inspected by A. Newsome. The main tool was checked, but not the spare as it is currently in a disassembled and unusable state. The tool appears to be in good, working condition. The following items were checked.

• Inspect structural integrity of long tube - check for bending, warpage, dents, cracks, rust/corrosion
• Inspect structural integrity of hook assembly - check for bending, warpage, dents, cracks, rust/corrosion
• Inspect fasteners - check all fasteners installed as per drawings, fasteners are tight (note: one fastener on crane interface subassembly was loose - all fasteners in these subassembly were tightened as a precautionary measure)
• Inspect crane interface assembly - check for damage and wear where the tool connects to the crane
• Check alignment - verify the tool connects to the crane and hangs vertically with no major misalignment (this step was not done - alignment is regularly checked during operations, and there was no concern as the tube was straight)

 Note: these tools are being inspected monthly by D. Wang and F. Song.

Photos can be found in G:\remote handling\Facilities and Projects\ISAC\Pail Handling Tool\Inspections\June 2024

IMPORTANT: the maximum load capacity and lifter tag for the tool are not present. There is a plan in place to affix these two labels in the very near future.

The annual inspection of the main storage vault will be skipped this year since extensive inspection and testing was performed during the re-alignment job in May (see this e-log for details: e-log 2584). This included successful testing of the emergency close mechanism.

The mini storage vault was informally inspected by Adam Newsome on 2024-06-18. The following was checked:

• Cabling and cable management
• Connectors (note: the strain relief for the remote control input cable was loose - it was tightened)
• Controls box - external connectors and wiring
• Limit switches - wiring, mounting
• Motor visual check
• Drive wheels visual check
• Drive track visual check (note: the track had small pieces of metal shavings on it which were wiped off)
• Bearings visual check
• Miscellaneous fasteners visual check

Photos can be found in G:\remote handling\Facilities and Projects\ISAC\Mini Storage Vault\Inspections

The inspection was generally successful. No areas of concern. Regular inspection will resume next year.

Tm3 electrical check without target is done. Everything is good including 2 x 5 pin connectors( all OL at 250 V to 60 KV and each other)  see attachment.

A new gas system for FEBIAD operation was installed in ITE to enable us to use a calibrated leak which is attached to the target heat shield. This will allow us to control the quantity and purity of the gas going into the system, and to switch quickly between gasese and pressures.

The schematic of the system is attached. The use of the ballast container is likely not needed - it was originally included in case we want to run the system at pressures greater than 1 ATM. The roughing pump inlet limit is 1ATM, so it was envisaged to used the ballast container to reduce the pressure to that level or below before opening the system to the pump. But since it has been difficult to commission the system over 1ATM and this opens the door to several concerns about gas leakage, it was deemed better to keep operation below 1 ATM. This tank will likely be removed.

The storage tank was implemented because we are not sure if irradiated gases will be pulled out of the target lines when we pump on them, and so this was devised as a way to test that. The alternative is to have the exhaust of this pump go directly into nuclear ventilation by way of a plastic tube leaving the faraday cage, however this solution is also quite some work to implement. So the consensus was to start with the storage tank and sample it several times to understand what sorts of radioactivity we are dealing with, then make a decision about future operations.

This system has been tested offline using the development target UCx#44 and appears to work well. Unfortunately there were no protons available for this beam time so the gas sampling part of the system was not tested.

The operation of the rest of the system worked reasonably well. Beam disappeared when pumping out the lines and reappeared when re-opening the gas bottle. It seems that the storage container can be used to pump out the lines about 7 times before it gets up to around atmosphere, as was estimated based on volume. The pump can get the lines down to about 250mTorr as read by the pressure gauge DG2 on the module top, given about 30mins of pumping.

We did have some issue with the gauges, HV sparks destroyed both controllers and so we were unable to monitor pressures as we would have liked. It is possible one gauge itself is broken as well, to be investigated.

It may be that the gas leak we used was too small, but the idea of changing the pressure on the module by changing the needle valve didn't seem to work. This is not sure since we didn't have a reading on the pressure, but watching the ion beam as you turn the gas back on seemed quite binary. You would see no change until you had the needle valve fully open. This may be different with a larger leak, since this leak required about 1ATM in the lines to see anything. It is still not clear why this behaviour was different than the tests at the test stand, in which 0.5ATM of upstream pressure produced about 2nA of beam.

This system is considered a prototype and is not turned over to ops for operation. Further commissioning is required.

IG1S elbow o ring seal and a blank off cap o-ring seal beside the elbow were replaced on ITE entrance module top last Friday. IG1s has a higher than normal reading so i leak checked entrance module top last Thursday and found leaks to 5x E-8 atm.cc/sec leak on one of (or both of )these two o-rings seals. they are too close to identify exactly on which one was leaking so both o rings were replaced.  other air to vacuum seal on entrance module are leak free. 

ITW has been behaving badly at higher voltages recently, even without protons on. I conditioned it up to 50kV with heaters off in the TCS and it was fine. But when I tried to do the same with heaters on in the station, it was quite sparky and it kept tripping the TGHT/TBHT. I went to 49kV where it was unstable, then lowered to 48kV where it looked fine for 30mins. But even operating at 40kV, it tripped the heaters several times. The TBHT voltage came back lower than before on the last trip, so I am getting worried about it.

I decided to make sure all the electronic spark protection was ok in the faraday cage. There is a resistor/gmov combination across the terminals of each TGHT/TBHT in which Tomislav replaced the gmovs for me because his tester did not work at those low voltages, so we couldnt see if they were broken. The electronics diagram called for 18V gmovs, the replacements are 22V because that's all we have.

We also tested and re-installed the capacitor-gdt-resistor combinations that John installed last year from TGHT/TBHT bubars to HV common. I originally removed them because we couldn't bias a FEBIAD with them on - this still has to be investigated. The measured values are 0.148uF, 90kOhms and a breakdown voltage on the gdt of 410-450V.

Hopefully this prevents sparking the power supplies off.

Sunday, June 16, 2024, 07:03 : power supplies have not tripped off since electronics repair. See data/TM4sparkingbehaviour_June152024.dat for sparking frequency over ~10hrs of protons (5-14uA). >14 sparks during this time (14 captured by PLC when voltage dropped, many more current peaks).

Tm3 has been moved form ITE to SHC. the move is smooth.

TM3 UCx#44 after operation electrical check at SHC . see attachment.

Carla: Looks like the short on the cathode observed while trying to operate the FEBIAD in cathode-bias mode is still there. Will do investigations in the hot cell during disassembly.

 TM3 with target UCx#44 was disconnected in ITE. 

  couple of E-8 to low E-7 atm.cc/sec leak were found on TM2 service cap top air to vacuum  o rings.  Replaced these leak o ring seals including o ring on IG1 and steerer service panel,o rings on MSP, EE, D blue nylon and copper feed through, and o ring on a round blank off beside MSP terminal on second row. 

2024-july-03 update: TM2 was leak checked again at TCS. no air to vacuum leak on module top. i helium pressure tested(60psi) all water cooling lines (except HS) . They are leak free.