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Target tests1st – 2nd Nov.
Chris Booth
Sheffield
7th December 2006
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• MICE beam pipe installed in ISIS, pumped down
• Target drive on support frame connected above gate valve
• Cables & optical fibres laid between MICE hall & ISIS vault
• Control electronics installed in MICE hall
• Power electronics installed in ISIS vault
• Scintillators installed by wall of ISIS vault– 10 m from target, at correct production angle
Installation late October
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Beam pipe and target stand
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Target drive in placePhotos
courtesy of Chris
Nelson & Paul
Drumm!
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Target drive in place
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Shielded RAL scintillation counters
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MICE hall - data taking in progress!
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• ISIS signals:
– Machine Start (MS) synchronisation signals
– Beam loss monitors
• Two RAL scintillators, in shielded box
• Two small Glasgow scintillators
• Target position readout
All digitised on scopes and read out by PC.
Instrumentation
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• Several mono-mode fibres damaged during installation, 2 beyond use
– No replacement in Europe!
– Specialist company located to repair & reinstall
• 3-channel semiconductor laser stopped working– Revived 4 days later when rep. arrived with spare!
– (but another channel later stopped for several hours)
• No motor drive for jacking mechanism– Required accesses to operate by hand, at start & end of shifts
• Problem with limit switches prevented gate-valve operation
– Fixed during access
Problems!!
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• Target drive electronics only 10 A max.– Only capable of modest accelerations
• ISIS running at 50 Hz 64
– Pulse every 1.28 s
• Survey run on night of 1st Nov.
– No signals into DAQ(!!). (Phone calls to control room!)
• Full run on night of 2nd Nov.
• Two target modes:
– Held static at various depths (to find beam size at injection)
– Maximum amplitude pulses, initially late then timing advanced to meet beam
Tests
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• Still very preliminary– Analysis of scintillator data continuing in Glasgow & RAL
– Beam loss studies in Sheffield
• “On-line” conclusions:– Beam is much smaller at injection than expected! (Does not “nearly
fill the pipe”)
– It has a hard edge
• Present state of analysis – from beam loss (see plots)– Acceleration of target only just adequate to sample beam at extraction
– Beam (halo) reaches maximum size ~2 ms after injection
– With optimum timing, target just scraped the shrinking beam through the ISIS cycle
– Beam shrinkage is ~16 mm
Results
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Beam loss versus position
Inje
ctio
n
Ext
ract
ion
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Beam loss versus position
Losses after ~2 ms Losses at
extraction
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Loss versus time and depth
Edge of pipe
Combined data – many run conditions
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• Still very preliminary– Analysis of scintillator data continuing in Glasgow & RAL
– Beam loss studies in Sheffield
• “On-line” conclusions:– Beam is much smaller at injection than expected! (Does not “nearly
fill the pipe”)
– It has a hard edge
• Present state of analysis (see plots)– Acceleration of target only just adequate to sample beam at extraction
– Beam (halo) reaches maximum size ~2 ms after injection
– With optimum timing, target just scraped the shrinking beam through the ISIS cycle
– Beam shrinkage is ~16 mm
Results
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• Drive remains in ISIS (electronics back in Sheffield)
• Old target drive recommissioned (with new optical readout) in Sheffield
• New drive electronics from Daresbury last week– Some problems, to be sorted
– Higher current, but significant voltage droop through the pulse
• Tuning of control electronics in progress– Higher accelerations seen
– Some reliability problems (due to droop?)
• Possibility of further run at end of ISIS period (week before Christmas)
• With higher acceleration, hope to clip beam at extraction only
Next steps
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• Tests were difficult, but successful
• Major effort by Sheffield, RAL, Glasgow(Thanks to all involved!)
• Much analysis still to do
• We hope we can obtain even more information in 2 weeks
Conclusions