Record of VLHC meetings and talks
1999 AT FERMILAB
AWAY FROM THE LAB

• December 22.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting

  • Vladimir Kashikhin, "Corrector Magnets and Lambertsons"

  • Gerry Jackson, "Straight Section 'C' Details"

  • Joe Lach, "TBM Monitoring Project status report"

• December 15.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting

  • Terry Anderson, "Vacuum system Design and Cost"

  • Gerry Jackson, "Revisiting Vacuum Requirements"

• December 10.  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting

• December 8.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting

  • George Krafczyk, "Energy Tripler Kicker Design and Costs"

  • Bruce Hanna, "Introduction to Vernier Kickers"

• November 19.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting. 

• November 12.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting. 

• November 10.   Energy "Tripler" Meeting

  • Ron Walker, "Heat Leak Measurements on Super-Insulators"

  • Gerry Jackson, "Outline for the Design Report and Writing Assignments

• OCTOBER 27.   Energy "Tripler" Meeting

  • Steve Hays, "Main Power Supply for the Energy Tripler"

  • Bill Foster, "What are at the ends of the magnets?"

  • Tim Burke, "Drop shafts, footprint" followed by a discussion of the Abort system

• October 22.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting. 

• October 22.  Tevatron Tripler Meeting.

• OCTOBER 20.   Energy "Tripler" Meeting

  • Jim Volk, "Permanent Transfer Line Magnets"

  • Ryuji Yamada, "Exploring the possibility of a second, high field machine in the same tunnel as the energy tripler"

• October 15.  Tevatron Tripler.  Peter Bagley:   "Collider experience from Run I and plans for Run II." 

• October 15.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting. 

• OCTOBER 13.   Energy "Tripler" Meeting

T. Murphy -  "Site-Riser Network Considerations"

Dave Johnson  -  "Lattice Definition Progress Report"

• OCTOBER 6.   Energy "Tripler" Meeting

G. Jackson -  "Initial Kicker Specifications"

G. Jackson -  "First look at Electron Multipactoring"

T. Burke - "Review of Initial Tunnel and Transfer Line Geometry"

• SEPTEMBER 22.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting

H.Piekarz - "Results from 100kA Conductor Test"

D.Wildman - "RF Cavity Design"

• SEPTEMBER 15.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting

C.Laughton - "Tunneling and Civil Construction Issues"

E.Malamud - "Final Footprint for Oth-Order Design Report"

• September 17.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting. 

• September 10.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting.  More analysis of data from Aug. 30 and new design of conductor.

• SEPTEMBER 8.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting.

• G. Jackson, "Straight Section Insertion Designs"

• G. W. Foster, "Dipole Correctors:  Strength and Design"

• September 3.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting.

• Analysis of quenches at 40, 50, 75 and 100 kA (two times)
• Assessment of suitability of this conductor to test other conductor samples
• Plans for the new conductor sample tests
• Plans for improvement of the cryogenic system for 17 m and 60 m loops

• SEPTEMBER 1.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting.

• G.W.Foster - "Crossover Lattice Concept For Crossing Between Inner and Outer Arcs"
  and "Design of Straight Section Quadrupoles"

• T.Anderson - "Vacuum System Design and R&D Program"AUGUST 18.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting.

• AUGUST 25.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting.

• A.Klebaner - "Present State of Cryogenics Design and R&D"
• T.Murphy - "Survey and Fiducialization Considerations"

• August 24.  Peter McIntyre, remarks on stress management, and R. Yamada, 25 TeV collider.

• August 24.  Beams Division Seminar.  Peter McIntyre "The Tevatron Energy Tripler"

• AUGUST 18.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting.

• M.May - "Boring Machines, Remote Muck Removal, Power, and Water"
• D.Johnson - "Transfer Line Design Options"

• AUGUST 11.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting.

• Shekhar Mishra, "Present State of Machine Lattice and Future Work Required"
• Bill Foster, "Present State of Magnet Design and R&D"
• Ernie Malamud: "Footprint Scenario update"

• August 6.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting.

• Analysis of quenches at 16 kA and 23 kA
• Supercritical liquid helium in the loop
• Plans for the next run on Monday, August 30.

• AUGUST 4.  Energy "Tripler" Meeting.

• Gerry Jackson:  "Potential Missions and Subsequent Machine Parameter Sets"
• Ernie Malamud: "Possible Footprint Scenarios"

• July 27.  Informal meeting on "High field magnets in Tevatron Tunnel"  Speaker:  M. Wake.

• July 9.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting in MW-9.

• July 2.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting in MW-9.

• June 23.  VLHC construction/installation meeting

• Robbins cost reduction study
• TBM Instrumentation

• June 23.  VLHC low-field meeting. 

  • Piekarz: 100 kA test loop status
  • Walker: heat leak test
  • Kashikin: corrector magnet design
  • Foster: ultra-low-heat leak cold pipe supports

• June 18.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting in IB2

• June 11.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting in IB2

• June 4.  VLHC low-field Technical meeting in MW9.

• June 2.  VLHC low-field meeting.  Nb3-Al transmission line conductors, report by Henryk on test loop assembly & instrumentation, plan for evolution of the MW9 test stand to drive longer magnets (Foster), mechanical gap spacer tests and magnetic calculations on return conductor forces (Kashikin)

• May 28,  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting:  final system assembly plans, final responses to the Safety Panel, cabling and DAQ hardware status, system commissioning plan.

• May 21,  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting:  cryosystem assembly, responses to Safety Panel, gas/cryo controls and system commissiong, iron shields, cabling and DAQ hardware status

• May 14,  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting:  status, responses to Safety Panel, gas/cryo controls, DAQ hardware/software status, commissioning, temperature bump

• May 7,  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting:  status, responses to Safety Panel, gas/cryo controls, DAQ hardware/software status, commissioning, temperature bump, poster session

• May 4, Construction/Installation team meeting.

• April 30,  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting:  loop status, safety review, gas/cryo controls, DAQ hardware/software status, posters for DOE review

• April 23.  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting:  loop status, safety review, Sumitomo status and temperature bump.

• April 16.  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting

• April 14.  Low Field Magnet Meeting.  Mike McAshan, "Possible thermal shield designs and tradeoff for both the transmission line and the cryo distribution line."

• April 8.  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting

• Status of loop assembly and schedule.
• Safety/run plan document.
• Splice heaters, temperature bump for  Sumitomo cable.

• March 25.  VLHC low-field Technical Meeting

• March 3.  Low Field Magnet Meeting at MW-9.

• March 1.  Construction/Installation Team Meeting

• Pete Conroy:  "Tamrock TBM estimate and comparison with Kenny estimate"
• Chris Laughton.  "Robbins R&D contract to study ways to lower tunneling costs"
• Bill Foster.  "Concept for a "retractable" TBM"
• Mike May, "Concept for a floor "squaring off" machine"

• Feb. 24 - 26.  vlhc Wire Workshop, Lake Geneva, WI

• Feb. 22 - 25  vlhc Accelerator Physics Workshop at Fontana, Wisconsin

• Feb. 17.  Low-field magnet meeting.

• 100 kA test loop status (Piekarz)
• CTS consulting contract (McAshan)
• Discussion of vlhc workshops on accelerator technologies and accelerator physics

• Feb. 8 - 11.  vlhc Accelerator Technologies Workshop at Thomas Jefferson Laboratory

• Feb. 3.  Low-field magnet meeting.

• Status Report on CTS consulting contract (Fowler)
• Mechanics for setting & holding magnet gaps in production (Kashikhin)
• Samples of swaged Invar "tube-in-tube" conductor & vendor visit (Foster)
• Hardware status reports (Piekarz, Walker)
• Jan. 20.  Low-field magnet meeting.
  • Piekarz:  transmission line test loop status
  • Walker:  Heat leak measurement system status
  • Demo of "cold shrink" tubing
  • discussion of Feb. 8-11 Accelerator technologies workshop
• Jan. 13.  Low-field magnet meeting.
• Piekarz:  transmission line test loop status
• Kashikin:
• MHD quench analysis by N. Shatil
• Specifications for 20-element hall probe array system
• Walker:  status of heat leak setup
• Foster:  discussion of Accelerator Technology workshop
• Jan. 8. VLHC technical meeting.
• January 7. G. W. Foster, invited talk at Future Accelerator Projects session at the DPF annual meeting, UCLA