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CREW CHIEF SIGN IN
THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY
ACCELERATOR OPERATIONS CREW CHIEF SIGN IN FORM
Date : 03-31-26
Time : 23:18:29
Day : Tuesday
Shift : Owl
Crew Chief : Howard
Program Deputy: Malace
Team : D
Arm : Chaudhary
Designated SSO: Price
LERF Operator:
Operators : Price, Chaudhary
This stamp certifies that the above Crew Chief has read/reviewed/received the following:
Crew Chief Shift Log, 2026-03-31 SWING
Start of shift: CW beam to Hall C
Crew Chief Timesheet Summary: 31 Mar 2026 SWING
xC request 12uA
xC request 10uA
smartRAT MYA mode can also help find draining cavities
Possible draining in 1L23-1
xC request 15uA
A few cavities indicating draining
Fig 1 has several cavities in 2L25 that have GMES correlated with linac current. The GMES rise for a couple of those cavities is near our accepted 0.1MV/m limit when Hall C was taking 40uA.
Fig 2 shows correlation between R1N1GMES and linac current. The GMES rise is small, but clearly non-zero with Hall C taking 40uA.
Perhaps it wouldn't hurt to step these cavities off a bit more.
xC request 1uA
Follow-up Re: Positional FFB Engaged
Worked with Ben to take open/closed loop data. BPMs used are: 3C08-X, 3C16-X; 3C07-Y, 3C16-Y. Correctors used are: 4H, 7H and 2V, 7V. Feedback update rate standard operations 1.8 kHz (harmonic 30). BPM frequency domain plots of beam attenuation at BPMs shown. Many are railed and likely the IOC stopped serving these (seen this issue before) waveforms. One does see in some the characteristic DC, 60, 120 and 180 Hz notches where the feedback system has large gain. FF was turned off as it was railing correctors.
Comparing NL Gangphase Drift March 2026 vs May 2025
There was a question about whether this energy drift was a "fixed" energy drift between this run and last run. In an attempt to rule that out, I decided to collect some data on Ops' NL GP corrections from this run and the last run.
For the data from this run, I looked at March 18 at 00:00 until March 22 at 00:00.
For the data from the last run, I looked at May 7 at 00:00 until June 1 at 00:00.
COMMENT ON Reconfiguration of Hall B vacuum controls (SAD 2026)
Jumpers were installed on the controls for temporary disabled valves VBV2H00A, VBV2H01A and VFV2H01A to simulate open positions on those valves to satisfy the FSD permit on FSD Node 2H02, CH4. These valves show green on the control screen but are not truly open.
ABIL #9609,9610,9611
Positional FFB Engaged
Had to steer up the hall line a tad before getting fast feedback up and running. Getting the selected horizontal BPMs at the entry and exit of the arc proved difficult so I did my best to equalize them around -0.5 mm. I tweaked the dipole string +700 G-cm to zero IPM3C12.XPOS. Vertical orbit wasn't too tough to tidy up at the selected FFB BPMs.
Positional feedback came up without trouble apart from feedforward which is still railing correctors even though I tried resetting it a few times and, on a lark, tried dropping the FF gain an order of magnitude, all to no avail.
xC request 15uA
FSD Masking Tool: Successful System UN-Masking for: BeamLossMonitor
User: bschauml
Areas: All
BeamLossMonitor Devices:
ILM0I07
ILM0L01A
ILM0L01B
ILM0L02
ILM2D00A
ILM2D00B
ILM0L04A
ILM0L04B
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ILM0L06A
ILM0L08
ILM0R01
ILM4D00
ILM0R03
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ILM1L01
ILM1L02
ILM6R08
ILM3S00
ILM7S00
ILM9S00
ILM5S10
ILM5E03
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ILM9A01
ILM3E02
ILM5A01
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ILM1A09
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ILM3R10
ILM9R07
ILM1R09
ILM2L03
ILM5R10
ILM5R05
ILM2L01
ILM2T09
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FSD Masking Tool: Successful System Masking for: BeamLossMonitor
User: bschauml
Areas: All
BeamLossMonitor Devices:
ILM0I07
ILM0L01A
ILM0L01B
ILM0L02
ILM2D00A
ILM2D00B
ILM0L04A
ILM0L04B
ILM0L05
ILM0L06A
ILM0L08
ILM0R01
ILM4D00
ILM0R03
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ILM0R08
ILM0R09
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ILM1L02
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ILM7S00
ILM9S00
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ILM5E03
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ILM3E02
ILM5A01
ILM1A04
ILM1A06
ILM1A09
ILM5A10
ILM1A16
ILM1A19
ILM3R10
ILM9R07
ILM1R09
ILM2L03
ILM5R10
ILM5R05
ILM2L01
ILM2T09
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