vc110_nichols_projectreport

							                 MICE PM Report

•Installations to date
•Future installation work
•Preparations for Phase Two
•Target status




                          MICE Video Conference, 22nd May, 2008



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                   Installations to Date

Good progress over the last few months:
    – Partial cold test of decay solenoid complete – liquid helium
       demonstrated, compressor upgrade underway, full re-
       commissioning by 16th June
    – South shield wall supports well underway
    – Pre-fabrication started for North support structure started
    – First plates arrive 22nd May
    – Concrete removal is done, structural weakness OK after all
    – False floor design making progress – difficulty with quench
       forces, but now solved
    – Re-worked targets in progress, gate valve is open and
       agreement to use current target some more – see later
    – Conventional magnet installation is complete, Q7,8,9 are soak-
       tested and signed off

Don’t intend to cover detail here – see MICO page and MICE News page
http://mice.iit.edu/mico/
http://mice.iit.edu/news/weeklydigest.html



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                     Future Installations

For completion of Phase One we need to:
    – Install DSA roofing (ready to get quote)
        • Installation in August now
    – Build LH2 vent system (design in progress)
        • But this is a concern – not sure the access/labour/ISIS shielding
          problems are really solved
    – Final sign off of decay solenoid (mid-June)
    – Complete shield walls and install false floor (end July)
        • First batch of shield plates arrive today
    – Soak test and sign off all remaining conventional magnets (end
      May)
    – Hall and DSA PPS operational (end July)
        • Delayed due to shortened May shutdown
    – Complete electrical installation
        • Steve Griffiths has itemised and understood all the tasks, aiming for
          July/August, but some delays inevitable as other parts are late




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                         Installations to date




                                                 First shield wall support




Concrete removal in progress
Old photo, it’s actually finished




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             Preparations for Phase Two

Step One in progress
    – Sliding beamstop is designed and parts are being
       ordered
    – Long lead time means we miss May shutdown though
    – Less sophisticated but cheaper static version will be used
       (largely existing materials)
But the real concern is late delivery of TOFs, due to PM
problems
    – Fall-back is to mount TOF0 outside the DSA, so we are
       de-coupled from the DSA access during shutdowns




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            Preparations for Phase Two

•Detailed WBS and bottom-up cost estimates are
underway
•Various options to fit within likely funding profile
•RF Infrastructure project a significant part – previously
not on anyone’s list
•Mechanical integration drawings of each discrete MICE
step are being prepared – better able to assess the work
content that way.




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              Preparations for Phase Two

Status of major beamline components:
    – Spectrometer solenoid
        • Magnets being assembled by contractor, some minor assembly
          problems, solenoid #1 arrives at RAL August, #2 October
    – Diffuser
        • Mechanical assembly almost complete at Oxford, test programme
          agreed, physical integration trial with tracker at IC in July
    – RFCC
        • Final design review at Collaboration Meeting in June. Biggest
          component we fit, must not under-estimate the integration
    – KL & TOFs
        • Ever closer to delivery, problems with PM tubes , but fingers crossed
          KL itself and TOF & KL cables will be collected from Italy next week
    – Solid spool piece and absorber
        • In manufacture at UNIGE and FNAL, delivery in August, leak test at
          RAL




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                           Target status

Good progress with the target at both Sheffield and RAL
    – All new mechanical bits for both new targets are at Sheffield
    – New QA for actuator coil assembly and testing have been
      implemented
    – New coils (see above) are complete
    – Both target assemblies should be ready by the end of May
    – We miss the (now shortened) May shutdown to install the new
      on-line target, but that’s OK:
        • ISIS are happy for us to continue running the existing target in
          machine physics shifts
        • They have encouraged the target group not to hurry and to get a
          realistic amount of testing done with the new targets
        • On & Offline targets will now be installed during August shutdown
          (4th-28th)
        • The above is crucial to the success; it’s the trap we fell into last time




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