RIA Facility Workshop
March 9-13, 2004
Organized jointly by the NSCL and the ANL Physics Division
 

List of Topics and Tentative Program for the RIA Production Area Working Group

RIA Facility Workshop, MSU, East Lansing, March 9-13, 2004

Conveners:
Georg Bollen (bollen@nscl.msu.edu)
Tony Gabriel (tag@ornl.gov)
Jerry Nolen (nolen@anl.gov)


    Topics Contributing short talks

Wednesday
2:30-5:30pm

Target/Beam Delivery
Joined Session
Chair: J. D’Auria

Target area layout – common infrastructure
Remote handling concepts
General Safety and operation aspects of target areas
Fragmentation/ISOL – hot labs
Fragmentation:
- Layout of target and primary separation area
- Beam profiles and power densities
- Magnet concepts
- Target concepts
- Beam dumps

M. Rennich: Remote handling at SNS and concepts for RIA
Y. Park: True robotics for RIA
C. Reed: Li target concept
A. Zeller: Radiation hard magnets
R. Gupta: Radiation hard magnets (HTS)
L. Moritz: Safety and operational aspects at ISAC

Thursday
9:30am-12:30pm

Target – Driver Linac
Joined Session
Chairs: T. Gabriel, P. Ostroumov

Reliability – beam stability
Beam trips and restart cycles
Switchyard/Beam sharing
Variable beam intensity ratios
Beam change and tuning time
Beam size and shapes on target requirements

J. D’Auria: Low-energy p production
A. Hutton: Lessons learned from CEBAF commissioning
C. Hovater: CEBAF switchyard
J. Nolen: Requirements to the beam switchyard
P. Ostroumov: Variable intensity mode of the RIA driver linac.

Thursday
2:00-3:30pm

Target/Beam Delivery
Joined Session
Chair: P. Schmor

Shielding – facility classification and segmentation
Harvesting – where, what is required

D. Vieira: Isotope harvesting and radiation facility
L. Ahle or J. Boles: Facility classification and segmentation
R. Ronningen: Shielding calculations
I. Gomes: Inventory, environment

Thursday
3:30-5:00pm

ISOL-target I
Chair: P. Schmor

Number of stations
Power limit 100 kW, 400 kW, more?
Front-end concepts
Maintenance of components - remote handling
Used target storage and disposal
Beam dumps
Basic target systems – target lifetimes
Component activation
Multi-user operation
Beam sharing with flexible intensities
Desired running and maintenance schedules

P. Schmor: ISAC-review - what would I change?
G. Bauer: Remote handling issues as SINQ
H. Ravn: ISOLDE remote handling issues

Friday
9:30am – 12:30pm

ISOL-target II
Chair: H. Ravn

D. Stracener: Remote handling at HRIBF
M. Rennich: Remote handling and mercury loop
G. Stanford: ISAC module design, maintenance, and handling
A. Young: ISOL neutron source

Friday
2:00-5:00pm

ISOL-Beam Preparation
Chair: D. Vieira

Pre-separation
Beam transport after pre-separator
High-resolution separators
Beam cooling
Charge breeding
Harvesting of ISOL beams

S. Schwarz: Beam cooling for high resolution mass separation
G. Bollen: Charge state boosting
M. Portillo: High resolution separators
L. Ahle or D. Vieira: Harvesting at ISOL stations

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