As Bill Franklin stated, last night Budzar oil Cooler for Transmitter 6
failed and required attention by the experts. The unit is about 1 year
old and had to be swapped with a spare unit. Multiple hard soldered
plumbing connections, both water and oil connect the cooler to each
transmitter. The circulating pump failed on TX6's unit.
The lab personnel responded quickly and replaced the unit and restored
all connections. It took a total of about 8 hours and beam was back to
BLAST at round 7:30 this morning.
As discussed in the daily BLAST planning meeting, Bill Franklin and
Taylan will use the beam this morning to setup and get the bugs out of
the spin flipper that will be good to have for the BLAST production runs
now in progress.
In the end I must add that there are many thousands elector mechanical
components that form the accelerator complex, all must be working for
the beam to be useable for the experiment.
And dear Vitaly, a great project you can think of after you graduate is
to design an accelerator that does not have as many components as
current generation of accelerators do. For now, while on shift, please
be more specific when you report to the collaboration describing a
problem.
Manouchehr
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Manouchehr Farkhondeh manouch@mit.edu
Principal Research Scientist
Division Head of Physics, Accelerator
MIT, Bates Linear Accelerator Center tel (617)253-9298
Middleton, MA 01949 fax (617) 253-9599
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