Cockcroft-Walton Status

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Cockcroft-Walton Status
Carlo Bemporad Angela Papa Giovanni Signorelli
Peter-Raymond Kettle
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Overview

• Machine Production Status Schedule
• C-W Area Beam Line Status Schedule
• Integration into Beam Schedule 2007

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Machine Status

• original Completion Date
• mid-May 2007
• NEW Completion Date
• end-February expected
• Ready for testing mid-April 2007

MEG C-W. Status End 2006
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Beam Line Components
Bellows Section

• Bellows system Tested ready for shipment
• Beam Elements available
• Power Supplies available
• Beam Diagnostic Elements
• ( shutter, diaphragms, x-, y-slits, quartz
  crystalTV-camera)
• available or almost ready

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Machine Schedule

• Completion of manufacture
  end-February 2007
• Acceptance Tests in Amersfoort NL (or PSI)
• with HVEE, INFN, PSI mid-April
  2007 ?
• Shipment to PSI end-April ?
• Machine Installation
• Shipment/Guarantee Test
  mid-April to mid-May 2007

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Cockcroft-Walton Area

• C-W AREA
• Area presented Nov. 2006 at
• Coordination Committee Research
• Area West
• Officially in Shutdown Programme
• area infrastructure planned be
• installed by the end of Shutdown
• beam-axis extension survey end 2006
• infrastructure groups Health Physics
• notified need Ministry of Health
• clearance for the new area C-W
• ?M3 shielding to be removed now to
• check space

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Cockcroft-Walton Area cont.
?E5 Zone
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C-W Area Layout
Virtually all Standard Concrete Blocks
Still Problematic
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C-W Area Shielding

• Planned Work needed for Completion
• (By mid-April)
• removal of walls measure
• layout check - freeze design
• order special shielding start
• standard shielding construction
• infrastructure completion
• water, compressed-air, power
• Safety systems completion (Interlock)
• Ministry of Health Approval
• test of Safety System (Beg. April)

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Testing Integration into Beam Schedule

• Full test with LiF-target only possible when
• area safety aspects completed
• C-W beam line components magnets, vacuum
  chambers etc. at PSI
• C-W Bellows System at PSI (will arrive soon
  storage arranged)
• target prepared
• CONSTRAINTS
• cannot be tested in parallel with Beam
  Commissioning
• bellows system cannot be placed in zone DC
  insertion system needed
• C-W Bellows System cannot be in place during any
  DS Insertion
• TCs or DCs or End-Cap installation/removal !!!
• Proposed Commissioning mid-April
  mid-June
• ? SEE Proposed Beam Schedule 2007