Category: Physics Group Meeting Minutes

5 December 2012 No Comments to the minutes of the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting of the 28.11.2012: GPS: – On Monday 26/11, removal of target #497 CaO Helicon and installation of target #496 with 44Ti source from PSI; – From Tuesday on, setting and tuning of the target and REX with stable beam. – Difficult

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28 November 2012 Date Action Comment 17.12. Stop protons, beam to MISTRAL, RILIS tests 18.12. RILIS tests 19.12. 7-7.30h: CERN-wide Power cut Test of Diesel generators 19.12. Stop of machine 20.12. Water stop January 2013 EBIS/REX emittance/FC tests Cooling water available 15.2. Cooling/ventilation group starts No water, power perturbations 25.2. Accelerator chain stops Hall extension

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21 November 2012 No Comments to the minutes of the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting of the 14.11.2012. TECHNICAL NEWS Since last week, both GPS and HRS have a plasma CaO target. GPS: HRS: REX: RILIS GENERAL ISOLDE: Beam-line survey: still on-going PHYSICS AND SCHEDULE o The first few days of beam were used to solve

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14 November 2012 No Comments to the minutes of the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting of the 07.11.2012: GPS: – On Monday 12/11, target #497 (CaO-helicon) has been installed on GPS; – Some problems occurred during the operations of installation: 1. The robot got stuck, eventually it worked fine; 2. The target was put in the

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7 November 2012 0. Comments to the minutes of the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting of the 24.10.2012: a. No comments. 1. Technical news from the last 2 weeks– HRS a. On Thursday 2 weeks ago yield checks finished with the UC target with a new n-converter geometry. b. ISOLTRAP took over the beam on Friday

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1 November 2012 1. Technical news: · Planned power cuts have occurred in the last weeks. Maintenance of power boxes at ISOLDE was performed before Christmas. · Currently there is no cooling water in the hall. · Cleaning was done in the HT room. Both power supplies have been checked by Jan Schipper. · The

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24 October 2012 0. Comments to the minutes of the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting of the 17.10.2012: a. No comments. 1. Technical news – GPS a. On Friday the ALARA3 procedure was granted in order to inspect the status of the GPS target. On Monday Richard et al. entered the target area, took off the

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17 October 2012 0. Comments to the minutes of the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting of the 10.10.2012: a. No comments. 1. Technical news – GPS a. The intervention concerning the extraction electrode problem which was scheduled this Monday is postponed due to the target cooling requirement. The ALARA committee will decide on Friday about the

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10 October 2012 0. Comments to the minutes of the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting of the 03.10.2012: a. Point 1b: Guilherme: "The abovementioned effect was neither observed in front of GLM nor in the focal plane of the magnet." should read: "The above mentioned effect was observed both in front of GLM AND in the

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3 October 2012 0. Comments to the minutes of the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting of the 26.09.2012: a. ”Ta:Sa” should read “Ti:Sa” (TEC). b. Céline Van Beveren came to work with RILIS and windmill setup, not MINIBALL (TEC). c. Marek is not included in the isolde-house mailing list (MP). 1. Technical news – GPS a.

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