Minutes from the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting – 15th January 2015
Technical News
- Two targets (HRS #506 and GPS Ho target) used as plugs for ISOLDE front-ends
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Progress made on the new ISOLDE tape station
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Demonstrator is working and will soon be turned into a prototype
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Design of the tape boxes has been finalized
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RILIS
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Long-missing pump laser has been found in Building 157
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Working on laser windows, offline separator and graphite cavity
ISOLDE Shutdown Activities
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Taken out the old ISOLDE targets
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Working on diagnostic boxes – exchanged GPS scanners 482 and 483, HRS.FC490 and wire scanner in LA1 section
ISCOOL
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Working on installation of new He (pressure) controller
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Soon: Modifications to the RFQ – injector electrodes
Safety
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Tourniquet behind ISOLDE will be connected beginning of March (earliest)
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Morning of 27th January: Evacuation exercise in the ISOLDE hall
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Maintenance of the RAMASES alarm unit
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Building 508 – test of fire alarm system
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Will be another test at 4pm on 22nd January – nobody should be in b508 at this point
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Reminder: Contact Alexandre Dorsival for shipping any radioactive material outside CERN, especially possibly contaminated elements, like tape stations or collimators
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Safety files for experiments: No safety clearance, no running
- Still needed for IDS, TAS, NICOLE
- Will look through existing files for any modifications that aren’t in files
- Magda will check procedure for Building 508 – include in existing file or create a new one
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Electrical safety course next week for ISOLDE locals on 21-23rd January
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There will be a visit of the new DG to ISOLDE on 29th January at 10am
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Clean setups before then
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Organized common cleaning in morning of 28th January
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Magda will place bins for metal/electronics soon
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Magda and Maria will look at the end of next week to check setups
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Schedule
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Next INTC meeting will be 11 -12th February
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ISOLDE startup
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First protons just after Easter – April 7th TBD
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Physics will start probably around 14th April TBD
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Schedule will be in 3 parts again
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Beam time requests will be sent around the time of the next INTC meeting - incl. offline beam time requests
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Separator course will also hopefully be held towards the start of the setup
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HIE-ISOLDE Physics will start mid-October TBD – No HRS at this time
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Negative ions planned for the middle of the year – GPS TBD
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End of physics will be either mid-November or mid-December TBD
Building 508
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Fire alarm system was tested
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Transport is moving recuperation items out of SS lab to first floor
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More recuperation items will arrive on Friday to fill the rooms in 508
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There will be cleaning of the SS lab after all the furniture has been moved out
- Temporary locks and keys have been installed – outside the SS and chemistry labs, the exterior doors downstairs and the one door upstairs
- Magda has the keys and will be locking the building from Monday onwards
- It will be 3 weeks (earliest) before the new locks and keys will be installed
- All rooms will have the same keys – up to experiments to get separate keys
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Please label items in SS lab from recuperation that you would like for your lab
Building 275
- The AD urgently need space in Building 275
- There will be a viewing of Building 275 on Monday 19th January at 4pm
- Please move as much stuff out of 275 ASAP – to long-term storage or 508
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We will have to give up 50% of the building (ground and first floor) in the future – sharing 3 rooms with the AD
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Discussion of space needed for ISOLDE Cluster – in 275 or elsewhere
Seminar
There was no seminar this week.
Minutes taken by KML