past98

Record of VLHC meetings and talks
1998 AT FERMILAB
AWAY FROM THE LAB

Dec. 12. E. Malamud, "The VLHC" Users Executive Committee.
Dec. 2. Low Field Magnet Team. Meeting in MW-9
Nov. 25. Low Field Magnet Team status reports.
Nov. 20. ep meeting with Argonne people.
Nov. 20. Meeting with Caterpillar.
Agenda and links to talks given at the Magnet Technologies Workshop, Port Jefferson, LI, Nov. 16-18, 1998.
Nov. 11. Low Field Magnet Group. Nikolai Mokhov, "Beam-loss induced quench thresholds in the transmission line magnet."
Nov. 10. Tour to Boretec/Robbins and Cleveland Storm Sewer (Shaker Heights) Tunnel Project.
Nov. 5. Construction/Installation Team. Dan Nelson, ISGS, "The Illinois State Geological Survey Data Bases"
Nov. 4. Low Field Magnet Group.
- Kashikin: High-current test stand flatcoil measurements.
- Piekarz: Transmission line test loop status.
- Mazur: Report on spiders
- Discussion of writing assignments for Magnet Technologies Workshop.
Oct. 23. Construction/Installation Team. Bill Foster, presentation of his paper "An unmanned Battery-Operated TBM scenario."
Oct. 21. Low Field Magnet Group. Discussion of material to prepare for the Port Jefferson Magnet Technologies Workshop
Oct. 14. Low Field Magnet Group. Discussion of forthcoming Magnet Technologies Workshop.
Sept. 30. Low Field Magnet Group.
- Preparations for Sumitomo videoconference (Oct. 5)
- Status of CTS contract.
- MW9 infrastructure improvements.
- Hardware status reports from Walker and Piekarz.
Sept. 29. E. Malamud, "The Very Large Hadron Collider" Beams Division Seminar
Sept. 23. Low Field Magnet Team.

Peter Limon: Budget status for FY '99
Andy Oleck, H. Piekarz, V. Kashikhin, Design of flow plug region
H. Piekarz. Revised instrumentation layout for 100kA test loop
R. Walker: heat leak test setup update
W. Fowler, M. McAshan, Status of the CTS contract
E. Malamud, preliminary layout for FY '00 string test in MW beam line enclosure

Sept. 22. Special meeting. Discussion with Joe Roby, Robbins.
Sept. 22. Special meeting. Discussion with Eberhard Keil of CERN
Sept. 16. Low Field Magnet Team.

V. Kashikhin, Magnetic stored energy and quench survival
Bill Foster. A self-bucking quench detection scheme.
P. Mazur. Thermometry and miscellaneous instrumentation
H. Piekarz. Assembly status and schedule.

Sept. 8. E. Malamud, "The Very Large Hadron Collider" invited talk at the 17th International Conference on High Energy Accelerators, Dubna.
Sept. 2. Low Field Magnet Team.

E. Malamud. HEPAP presentation and workshop plans
Ron Walker. Update on heat leak measurement setup.
Bill Foster. Manpower, schedules, and budgets for FY99.

Aug. 26. Low Field Magnet Team.

H. Piekarz. "Floor plans and schedule for MW"
Bill Foster. "Manpower and schedules for FY99 activities"
Bill Fowler led a discussion on the CTS R&D proposal to develop a low heat leak transmission line support/insulation system.

Aug. 24. E. Malamud. "The Very Large Hadron Collider," presentation to HEPAP , Madison, Wisconsin.
Aug. 21. Physics Detector Group. S. B. Nurushev, HEP, Protvino, "Survey of Experimental Data in High Energy Spin Physics"
Aug. 20. Construction/Installation Team.

Joe Lach and Chris Laughton, "Visit to Robbins and their proposal of a Tunnel Cost Reduction Study"
Pete Conroy, "How the components break down in the Kenny Construction Company Booster tunnel costs"

Aug. 19. Low Field magnet group. Status reports:

V. Kashikhin. Field quality test fixture.
H. Piekarz. Feed-can/heat exchanger/pump Dewar.
R. Walker. Heat Leak measurement setup.

August 3. Accelerator Physics Team.
July 29. Low Field magnet group.

Piekarz, "Results of the first run of the feed can-pump -heat exchanger dewar"
Kashkikin, "First results from the iron field quality test fixture"
Walker, "Heat leak test fixture"
Malamud, "BNL meeting"

July 24. Ken Stanfield "Fermilab's Plans for the Future," ICHEP98, Vancouver.
July 23. Construction Team. Small meeting.
July 22. Low Field magnet group.

Mazur/Piekarz: Final run planning for feed-can/pump Dewar
Foster: Status for field quality test fixture magnetic measurements
Walker: Heat leak test fixture developments.
Fowler: Trip report on visit to Cryogenics Technical Services, Inc. in Longmont, CO, on possible R&D contract for low heat leak cold pipe support.
Discussion of Nb3Al (Sumitomo) R&D proposal
Discussion of forthcoming vlhc steering committee meeting at BNL

July 14. Bill Foster, "vlhc" Annual Fermilab Users Meeting
July 11. Construction Team. Small meeting.
July 8. Low Field magnet group.

Magnetic force calculations on the "short sample" test loop (Kashikhin)
Run preparations & Status of Feed-can/pump Dewar. (Piekarz)
Run Plan for Pump/HTX test run (?) (Mazur)
Probe & drive status for field quality test fixture. (Makarov)
Spider design for heat leak tests. (Walker)
Issues relating to cold pipe support spec. for R&D contract.(McAshan)
First results from Gerry Jackson's 120-meter beam vacuum pump-down test.(gwf)

July 1. VLHC Low Field magnet group

Probe parts status for field quality test fixture.
Results from Feed-can/pump Dewar safety walk-thru & status. (Piekarz)
Check Valve for Stinger (Mazur).
Copper tape wrapping tool for transmission line test loop. (Piekarz)
Vacuum jacket parts procurement status for test loop (Oleck).
"Final" Dimpled Superinsulation Bid Specification.
Preliminary Drawings for Heat leak tests. (Walker)
Discussion of Engineering R&D contract to develop high performance
(i.e. low heat leak) support structure for transmission line cryopipe.

June 23. Joe Lach, "The Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) at Fermilab," HADRONS/98 (Crimea)
June 24. Peter Limon "vlhc R&D at Fermilab," Fermilab Program Advisory Committee, Aspen.
Vladimir Kashikhin Jr., Efremov Institute, Russia, "Pole Tip Optimization for the VLHC Magnet," poster paper presented at EPAC-98, 22-26 June 1998, Stockholm.
June 17. Low-field magnet team.

Copper tape wrapping for transmission line test loop. (Piekarz)
Feed can/pump Dewar safety approval status. (Mazur)
RC Servos for analog control valves for pump & HTX flows (Mazur).
Cryopipe & splice design being given to vendors of transmission line test sections. (Foster)
More plans & numbers on heat leak test. (Walker)
Probe & support procurement status for field quality test stand.
Dimpled superinsulation. (Arkady Klebaner and Bill Boroski)

June 11. Construction/Installation Team.
June 10. Low-field magnet team.

Report from 100kA current lead & power supply meeting.
B-H curve results from high-current test fixture. (Schlabach/Foster)
Feed can/pump Dewar status. (Piekarz)
Stingers & analog control valves for pump test run (Mazur).
Copper tape wrapping for transmission line test loop. (Piekarz)
Vacuum jacket parts procurement status for test loop.
Superinsulation & heat leak tests. (Walker)

June 9. Age Vissar, "Using 20 Transrex Power Supplies to create a 100 kA supply for the 1 km string test."
June 8. Lattice Team.
June 3. Low Field Magnet Team.

Heinryk Piekharz. Reports on feed can/pump dewar status and copper tape wrapping
discussion of stinger & instrumentation
Alexander Makarov. Probe support structure for field quality test stand.
Peter Mazur. Temperature bump method for testing Nb3Al transmission line sample.

May 28. Construction. Special meeting with Kenny Construction.
May 27. Low Field Magnet Team.
May 13. Low Field Magnet Team.

Jim Volk, Vladimir Kashikin, Stan Orr. Discussion of BM105 drive transformer configuration. Decided we do want a reversing switch and for initial work 2 coils is sufficient.
Heinryk Piekharz. Report on cryopump tests.
Discussion of safety approval for 50 m prototype.
Ron Walker. Invar cycling is now complete; next step is to dismantle and leak test.
Discussion of copper-tape-test wrapping for superconducting cable test loop.
V. Kashikin. Report on Poisson results for pole tip design. Now has good field uniformity to over 2 Tesla.
Ernie. Report on industrially-produced prototype transmission line samples.

May 7. D. S. Denisov, "Fermilab 3 TeV Booster." SPIN, RAMPEX, & NEPTUN Collaboration Meeting, Ann Arbor
April 29. Low-field Magnet Team.

Bill. Discussion and decision on using BM105 (currently in MP8) for initial drive transformer.
Henryk Piekarz. Status report on the Cryo pump/feed can.
Instrumentation for B-H curve tracing for iron ring samples on water-cooled copper test stand. (full current mode 2.4 T).
Bill: report on drive conductor designs based on 1 mm strand (information from American Supercon.)
Ernie. Report on April 24 meeting to form a Steering Committee to corordinate US efforts on vlhc.

April 24. Lattice Working Group. Leo Michelotti, "Proposals from the past: is there something to be learned?"
April 22. Low-field Magnet Team.

Paul Grant of the Electric Power research Institute (EPRI) will give a presentation on the status and installation plans for High-Tc power transmission lines. They are actually planning to install & operate a LN2 temperature transmission line in the Detroit power system by the end of the year.
Henryk Piekarz will give a brief status report on the Cryo pump/feed assembly/leak status.

1998 Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society

Session N14. DPB: Accelerator Physics Issues in Future Hadron Colliders Monday afternoon, April 20, 14:00 - 16:30
Room C122, Columbus Convention Center
Organized by C. Shekhar Mishra (mishra@fnal.gov)
Chair: David Finley

14:00-14:20	Design Issues in Future Hadron Colliders	Shekhar Mishra, Fermilab	20 mins
14:20-14:45	Affordable Hadron Colliders Beyond the LHC	William Foster, Fermilab	25 mins
14:45-15:05	High Field Approach to VLHC	Mike Syphers, BNL	20 mins
15:05-15:25	Eloisatron Review and the VLHC	William Barletta, LBL	20 mins
15:25-15:45	Ground Motion, Emittance Growth and Preservation in VLHC	Vladimir Shiltsev, Fermilab	20 mins
15:45-16:05	Transverse Instabilities and Dampers	John Marriner, Fermilab	20 mins
16:05-16:30	VLHC High Energy Physics	Sarah Eno, University of Maryland	25 mins

Session P16. DPB: Hadron Colliders Beyond the LHC
Tuesday morning, April 21, 08:00 - 10:30
Room C124, Columbus Convention Center
Organized by G. William Foster (gwf@fnal.gov)
Chair: G. William Foster

8:00-8:20	High Field Magnet R&D at LBL	Ramesh Gupta, LBL	20 mins
8:20-8:40	High Field Magnet R&D at Fermilab	Peter Limon, Fermilab	20 mins
8:40-9:00	The BNL Program for High Field Accelerator Magnets	Peter Wanderer , BNL	20 mins
9:00-9:15	Low Field Magnet R&D at Fermilab	Vladimir Kashikin, Fermilab	15 mins
9:15-9:35	3 TeV Ring Vacuum System	Gerry Jackson, Fermilab	20 mins
9:35-9:55	Power Transmission Lines	Paul Grant, EPRI	20 mins
9:55-10:10	Cost Model for a 3 TeV VLHC Booster Tunnel	Joe Lach, Fermilab	15 mins
10:10-10:30	Summary and R&D for the VLHC	Ernie Malamud, Fermilab	20 mins

Apr. 17. Accelerator Physics Team. Lee Teng, "Parameters of an e-p collider."
Apr. 15. Low-field magnet team.

Andy Oleck: status of cryo pump/feed can assembly.
Vladimir Kashikin. Discussion of options for transmission line coupling transformer
Ron Walker. Invar test has reached 500 cycles. Will end when 1000 cycles achieved and then taken apart and welds inspected.
Bill, led discussion on probe & stage for field quality measurements
Bill. status of superconductor loop
Joe Lach. Report on visit to Caterpillar Technical Center
discussion of APS mini-symposia
Bill. Schedule and Milestones

Apr. 10. Dima Denisov, "100 TeV Hadron Collider," University of Florida HEP Seminar.
Apr. 8. field trip to Caterpillar Technical Center, Peoria.
Apr. 3. Construction/Installation. Meeting with Dr. Sanai LKosugi, Sumitomo Metals on the "Pipeline Capsule" method of muck removal
Mar. 25. Low-field magnet team.

Ron Walker. "status of 50 m invar test"
Status of 100 kA Water-cooled copper field quality test stand"
status of protytpe cryogenics status
status of M-West rigging.

Mar. 13. Physics/Detector team. Andrew Brandt, "Forward Physics program in Run II at Dzero & CDF and comparisons to possibilities at the VLHC Booster"
Mar. 12. Construction/installation team. Discussion of the draft paper, "Cost Model for a 3 TeV VLHC Booster Tunnel"
Mar. 12. Tevatron University. Bill Foster. "The Superconducting CheaperCollider"
Mar. 11. Low-Field magnet team. Vladimir Kashikhin, "Iron cross section, pole tip design, forces on the conductors, and 3-D modelling of the water-cooled copper field quality test stand
Mar. 7. Ernie Malamud, "The Very Large Hadron Collider." Presentation to the URA Visiting Committee
Mar. 6. Accelerator Physics Team.

Bob Noble,"Advanced Accelerator R&D Department plans and goals."
Shekhar Mishra, "VLHC Beams Division Activities"

Feb. 25. SPECIAL MEETING TO DISCUSS FORMATION OF A NATIONAL VLHC COLLABORATION
Feb. 25. Low-field magnet team.

Ron Walker, "Invar test status"
Age Vissar and Hans Jostlein, "Discussion of 100 kA Power Supply options for future sstring test"

Feb. 25. Physics/Detector Group. ep discussion at ANL
February 20. Shekhar Mishra. Los Alamos NP2 Seminar.
February 18. Low-field magnet team.

Arkady Kebaner & Joel Misek. "High-Performance superinsulation procurement."
Bill Foster, "Prototype status"
Jim Volk, "M-West rigging"
Ron Walker, "Invar thermal cycling status"

February 11. Low-field magnet team. Brief status reports on R&D projects.
Jan. 23. Physics/Detector Team. Cyrus Taylor, "Full Rapidity Physics Possibilities at the VLHC Booster"
January 20. G. W. Foster, HEP Seminar at Cal Tech
January 14. Low-field magnet team. Bill Foster, "Prototype system: goals, non-goals, floor layouts, operating modes."
January 12. Construction/installation team. Meeting with representatives from Kawasaki Heavy Industries
January 9. Physics/Detector Team.

Dave Hedin, "Higgs searches at 6 TeV cm"
Dima Denisov, "UNK program: pp vs ppbar option"