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B Laser (-30 to 30) + C laser (90 to 120), PB off, 10 uA CW
MBC4A01H mismatch
B laser chopper scan, PB off, 10 uA gun current
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MQA8A10 mismatch
MBC4A01H mismatch
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iocse15 restored
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THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY
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Date : 06-02-26
Time : 23:12:01
Day : Tuesday
Shift : Owl
Crew Chief : Deir
Program Deputy: Moser
Team : A
Arm : Samari
Designated SSO: Shriner
LERF Operator:
Operators : Samari, Shriner
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Crew Chief Shift Log, 2026-06-02 SWING
Start of shift: Kernal patch restore on-going.
Crew Chief Timesheet Summary: 02 Jun 2026 SWING
PARTIALLY COMPLETED Investigate sources of beam motion at HWien and 0I02
Investigated breathing motion starting at IPM1I07 as well as presumed charge buildup at 0I02.
The former remains inconclusive as it is hard to discern on the timescale of such a test (small amplitude, long period). Tried missteering in PB, no obvious effect, so probably not related to phase or cavity temperature. Could still be a magnet or Wien HVPS.
The charge buildup problem can be provoked by beam loss on A2 but is 10x smaller than observed before, not sure if due to harp retraction or other dissimilar conditions.
BSList #120360: beam motion investigation
Figure 1: setup as found; C beam CW with 60 uA to FC1, 5% loss on A1, 0.1% loss on A2, 15% on MS.
The presumably HWien-related issue may or may not be there (archive data says it's only 0.05 mm amplitude on IPM0I01, hardly discernible over half an hour).
To expose if something charges up at 0I02, we will create a nice shower of x-rays and secondary electrons at A2. Lowered MFX0I01 to 145, dumping 7 uA on A2.
Figure 2: This provokes the drifts and jumps.
Something is charging up in response to beam loss at A2.
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COMPLETED Beam QE scan and Spot Move
Looking at the beam orbit from the gun after the hardware work showed a slight shift of the coordinate system but not by as much as previously seen, about 200 units.
https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/4507886
Ben learned to perform the QE scan calibration (from scratch with a new rectangle, which the procedure does not yet account for), the QE scan, and a practice spot move back and forth.
Unfortunately, the calibration run required a new corrector table for the initial guess, which I had to produce manually as the previous one was too far off.










