TM1 was high voltage tested without a target on November 16, 2011 with Don Jackson, Pierre Bricault, and Bevan Moss. The module was able to hold up to 25 kV but between that and 32 kV there was lots of discharge which could be measured in the vacuum. See the attached plot for the voltage current and sparks.

TM1 full leak check in conditioning station has been fulfilled this morning.Both air to vacuum leak check and waterlines helium 80psi pressure test are fine.The result:

Air to vacuum helium spray:base leak rate on leak detector 1.6x E-9 atm .cc/sec.base pressure0.0xE-4 torr. sprayed helium around all flanges, turbo pumps,panels,bellow,insulation stands, gauges. No Response on leak detector. Air to vacuum seals on TM1 is leak tight.

Helium pressure test on all water lines.with 80 psi helium 3minutes test:

        PNG1 :2.4XE-7torr .PNG4 :2.6x E-6torr . IG1 :5.1xE-7torr.

A :target oven(+)  BL:2.0xE-9 atm.cc/sec .First minute no response,then climbed to1.9xE-8 atm.cc/sec. Stabled at 1.9xE-8 atm.cc/sec to 3 minutes.

B:target oven(-)    BL:5.5x E-9 atm.cc/sec.First 80 seconds no response, then climbed to 1.8xE-8atm.cc/sec. Stabled at 1.8xE-8atm.cc/sec to 3 minutes.

C:tube heater(-)   BL:8.0xE-9 atm.cc/sec .First minute no response ,then climbed to 2.7xE-8 atm.cc/sec. Stabled at 2.7x E-8 atm.cc /sec to 3 minutes.

D: tube heater(+) BL: 1.0xE-8 atm.cc/sec. First minute no response , then climbed to 1.8xE-8 atm.cc/sec. Stabled at 1.8x E-8 atm.cc/sec to 3minutes.

G:EE  BL:1.0xE-8 atm.cc/sec .First 1.5 minutes no response , then climbed to 1.7x E-8 atm.cc/sec. Stabled at 1.7x E-8atm.cc/sec to 3minutes.

F:heat shield   BL:1.2x E-8 atm.cc/sec. First  1.5 minutes no response , then climbed to 1.9 xE-8 atm.cc/sec. Stabled at 1.9 xE-8 atm.cc/sec to 4 minutes. Total test time 4 minutes.

I: mounting plate    BL:1.2 x E-8 atm.cc/sec.     NO RESPONSE on leak detector  in 3minutes.

M: window   BL:1.2x E-8 atm.cc/sec First 1.5 minutes  no response,then climbed to 2.0xE-8 atm.cc/sec . Stabled at 2.0xE-8 atm.cc/sec to 3minutes.

The base pressure on leak detector stayed at 0.0x E-9 torr through all the test, and no pressure response on high vacuum gauges.

 High Voltage (HV) testing was completed on TM1 today. Vacuum was very good 1.9 x 10^-7 T in the service cap, 3.2 x 10^-7 in the containment box, and 2.0 x 10^-6 in the secondary. The voltage was successfully brought up to 27kV with a current draw of 0.12mA and o sparking. At the next step, 30 kV, the current draw was above 0.3mA and sparking was beyond 20 sparks per minute. The module should not be taken above 27kV. There is the possibility this voltage can be increased with conditioning but it is very unlikely. See attached for a graph of the testing. These results are comparable to the results without the source tray (see previous elog)

TM#1 with UCx#3 moved from conditioning station to west target station. Move went well.

TM#1 with UCx#3 moved from the conditioning station to the west target station.

ITW and TM1 winter shut down vacuum leak check had been finished yesterday.All ITW primary vacuum vessel, secondary vacuum vessel, and TM1water lines had been leak checked.No any leak has been found .The ITW and TM1 are both leak tight.Some detail information below:

TM1 and ITW primary vacuum vessel and water lines:   The leak detector was hooked on BV2 after TP2.  Calibrate leak detector.leak detector BL 0.0xe-9atm.cc/sec,BP0.0xe-4 torr.

Sprayed helium to all primary vacuum vessel seals, flanges, turbo pumps,gauges, blank offs, bellows, and insulation blocks on TM1 and ITW. No any response had been found on leak detector.Also applied 60 psi helium to all water lines in TM1 for 5minutes each,no any response on leak detector.The leak rate stayed at 0.0xe-9 to 0.3 xe-9 atm.cc/sec all the time. All waterlines in TM1 are leak tight.

ITW secondary vacuum vessel:the leak detector was hooked on BV4s after TP4.Leak detector BL 0.0xe-9 atm.cc/sec ,BP 0.00xe-4 torr.  Sprayed helium to all secondary vacuum seals which include all bellows, tank to tank flange seals,tank flange to modules seals,beam diagnostics, gauges,turbo pumps, and EXIT 2 top service cap seals.No any response had been found on leak detector during the check. The secondary vacuum vessel is leak tight on ITW. 

All high vacuum gauges were read at 2-3xe -7 torr range  during the test time and no change during the test.

TM#1 with UC#3 was moved from the west maa to the south hot cell, move went well

UC#3 was removed from TM1 this morning. Upon removing the oven heater bolts BOTH legs fell demonstrating that both sides of the oven tube have broken off from the central block.

Target was put into a can under argon for disposal after the module is removed from the cell.

The source tray looked to be in very good, clean condition.

TM#1 has been moved from the south hot cell to the north east silo, move went well.

An autopsy was performed on UCx#3 yesterday afternoon. This autopsy followed the plan written by Anders. Indeed, both sides of the target oven had seperated from the central block.Pictures were taken by Anders and Pierre.

After the disection the target was placed back in a can under argon. Any small piece were placed in a zip lock bag and also put in the can under argon.

UCx#3 was packaged into a spent can, double bagged and the bag and cans filled with argon as much as possible. Lid was attached and can moved to the storage vault. The target was placed in in Pail 93, and placed into slot 1C of the vault, it was 11.7mSv/hr when removed from the south hot cell. See attached file for latest vault details

chad fisher wrote:

An autopsy was performed on UCx#3 yesterday afternoon. This autopsy followed the plan written by Anders. Indeed, both sides of the target oven had seperated from the central block.Pictures were taken by Anders and Pierre. After the disection the target was placed back in a can under argon. Any small piece were placed in a zip lock bag and also put in the can under argon.

Pictures are available on DocuShare:

https://documents.triumf.ca/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-8189

ISAC e-log entries:

https://web.accel.triumf.ca/isac_elog/Elog_shift_view.pl?shiftid=10803

See attachment for autopsy plan.

TM#1 has been moved from the NE silo to the Conditioning Station.

TM1 moved to conditioning station to today. After moving, I connected the vacuum system which include all gauges ,vacuum lines , controllers,and fans.I started roughing the station through two turbo pumps(on TM1) . After 2 hours roughing, the station vacuum went to 100 mtorr. I started TP1 and TP2 on TM1 and turned on 3 gauges (png1 on service cap, ig1 on service cap ,and png4 on emittance box) . All  turbo pumps and high vacuum gauges work fine .The pumping down of the station is smooth so far. With only 1 hour turbo pump on all three gauges readings are at low -5 torr range. The fans for cooling the turpump are also turned on. Everything is fine.

  I hooked up the leak detector to the TM1 and conditioning station vacuum system, and did the air to vacuum leak check on TM1 and station. The leak detector base leak rate 0.0x-9Eatm.cc/sec,base pressure 0.0x -4E torr. I sprayed helium around all water quick connectors (especially heat shield),gasline and valves, all gauges, turbo-pumps, bellow,  flanges, and blank-offs. There is no any response on leak detector. The TM1 is leak tight on air to vacuum seal. All   water lines on this module had been pressurized with 80psi helium when module was located in ITW on this January, and they are all leak tight. Bevan and I did a leak check on new installed diagnostic box and all vacuum lines, gauges, and turbo pump last week, and they are all leak tight. So I would say the whole vacuum system on TM1 and conditioning station now is leak tight. Right now, the PNG1(inside containment box ) is 6.5 xE-6Torr, the IG1 (top service cap which close to turbo) is 2.1xE-6 torr, and the IG4 (inside diagnostic box) is 4.1xE-6 torr.  

 A high voltage test was completed on a target free TM1 in the conditioning station. Only the turbo pumps on the target module were operational due to phase 2 construction. Testing started at 2:51PM with the following vacuum gauge readings, 1.6 x 10^-6 Diagnostics Box, 7.4 x 10^-7 Service Cap, 2.0 x 10^-6 Containment Box. Voltage was increased ~3kV at a time every minute until 21 kV was reached with a current of 0 uA. Voltage was then increased in ~1.5kV steps every 2 minutes until 30 kV was reach at a current of 60uA. This was held for 7 minutes until a spark occurred and the current spiked to 300uA and the voltage dropped. The voltage was dropped back to zero. The vacuum gauges had increased and read the following  1.6 x 10^-6 Diagnostics Box, 7.9 x 10^-7 Service Cap, 2.1 x 10^-6 Containment Box. Testing was restarted 2 minutes later (the vacuum gauges were still recovering for ~ another 2 minutes) and the voltage was quickly increased to 24kV reaching a current of 100uA. at 3:22 The current then fluxuated but trended up for the next 12 minutes peaking at a total current of 240uA. After this point the current started deceasing, at 3:41 the testing was concluded and the average current was ~170uA. The vacuum gauge readings were 1.6 x 10^-6 Diagnostics Box, 7.4 x 10^-7 Service Cap, 2.0 x 10^-6 Containment Box. It was deemed that this is "not ideal but good enough" to put the target on.  The maximum known required voltage will be ~22kV for Berillium which TM1 should be capable of providing.

Nb#6 has been inserted into the south hot cell in preparation for ionstallation onto TM1. During the pre-insertion inspection I noticed that I could see the foil installed into the ionizer tube and that in did not seem to be seated or concentric to the tube itself. I had Anders and Friedhelm check this and they deemed that it was ok.

TM#1 moved from conditioning station to the south hot cell, the module had a field of 16mSv/hr.  The move was not without excitement as the crane decided on its own to move 2 inches west on two occasions during the move.On the second time that the errant moved happened I hit the E-stop on the crane kill the power, the first time it happen it stopped the errant movement on its own.

Electrical check has been completed of TM#1 with Nb#6 attached. Our new micro-ohm meter was also used for the first time for this test.

Chad and I did a leak check on TM1 Nb5 target heat shield circuit. The leak detector was connected to heat shield circuit.The pumping down  of the  circuit is very smooth.Base leak rate is 0.0xE-9atm.cc/sec,and the base pressure is 0.0xE-4 torr. Chad checked the helium flow downstairs .He sprayed helium to both up and down VCR joints 2seconds each time. There is no any response on leak detector(30 seconds waiting time). Both joints did the same test twice, no response . Finally, he flushed helium around the target for 10 seconds,and i didnt see any response on leak detector either.The heat shield circuit on TM1 Nb5 target is leak tight at this stage.