ILC Positron Source Collaboration Meeting

29 Oct 2008, 08:00 → 31 Oct 2008, 18:00 Europe/London

The Cockcroft Institute

The next ILC Positron Source Collaboration Meeting will be held at the Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory from 29th to 31st October 2008. The meeting will discuss the recent studies carried out by the team and assess the future work requirements.

Wednesday, 29 October

09:00 → 10:30 Opening Session

09:00 Welcome & Meeting Overview

Speaker: Jim Clarke (Daresbury Laboratory)

Slides Clarke-Introduction.pdf Clarke-Introduction.ppt

09:20 GDE Issues & Minimum Machine

Speaker: Nick Walker (DESY)

Slides Walker-GDE_Issues.pdf Walker-GDE_Issues.ppt

09:50 Discussion

10:10 Summary from CLIC 08

Speaker: Ian Bailey (Cockcroft Institute / University of Lancaster)

Slides Bailey-CLIC08_Injector_Complex_summary_IRB_edit_281008.pdf Bailey-CLIC08_Injector_Complex_summary_IRB_edit_281008.ppt

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:30 Undulator Session

10:45 Undulator Manufacture and Measurement

Speaker: Jim Rochford (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides Rochford-ILC-talk-daresbury-Oct2008.pdf Rochford-ILC-talk-daresbury-Oct2008.ppt

11:30 → 12:30 EDMS Training

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 EDMS Training continued

14:30 → 15:30 Source Modelling

14:30 Modelling update

Speaker: Wei Gai (ANL)

Slides WeiGai-ILC-Collaboration-Meeting-10-29.pdf WeiGai-ILC-Collaboration-Meeting-10-29.ppt

14:50 Activation and capture simulations

Speaker: Andriy Ushakov (DESY)

Slides Ushakov-activation.pdf

15:30 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:15 Source Modelling

15:45 Impact of minimal machine on physics and calibration

Speaker: Gudi Moortgat-Pick (IPPP Durham)

Slides Moortgat-Pick-sources-1008.pdf Moortgat-Pick-sources-1008.ppt

16:05 Capture Linac Solenoids

Speaker: Jim Clarke (Daresbury Laboratory)

Slides Clarke-Solenoids.pdf Clarke-Solenoids.ppt

16:15 Conversion efficiency at 250 GeV

Speaker: Alexander Mikhailichenko (Cornell University)

Slides Mikhailichenko-Conversion_at_250_GeV.pdf Mikhailichenko-Conversion_at_250_GeV.ppt

Thursday, 30 October

09:00 → 10:00 Compton Session

09:00 Status of Compton Studies

Speaker: Tsunehiko Omori (KEK)

Link to regular Compton Meetings http://www-jlc.kek.jp/~omori/EuroJapanMeeting/

Slides Omori_DaresburyE+Meeting2008.pdf

09:20 Stacking Simulations update

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

Slides stacking_simulations_update_-_Daresbury_e+_Source_Meeting_2008_-_Frank_Zimmermann.pdf stacking_simulations_update_-_Daresbury_e+_Source_Meeting_2008_-_Frank_Zimmermann.pptx

10:00 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 12:45 Polarization Session

10:15 Low energy polarimeter

Speaker: Ralph Dollan (Humboldt University Berlin)

Slides Dollan-rd_ps_meeting_1008.pdf Dollan-rd_ps_meeting_1008.ppt

10:35 Frequency of helicity reversal

Speaker: Sabine Riemann (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen)

Slides Riemann-SR_Daresbury_1a.pdf Riemann-SR_Daresbury_1a.ppt

10:55 Calculation of depolarization at the IP

Speaker: Tony Hartin (DESY)

Slides hartin_PosSource_Daresbury_Oct08.pdf

11:15 Polarization requirements at the Z-pole

Speaker: Gudi Moortgat-Pick (IPPP Durham)

Slides Moortgat-Pick-sources-pol-1008.pdf Moortgat-Pick-sources-pol-1008.ppt

11:35 Intentional depolarization of positrons

Speaker: Larisa malysheva (Liverpool University)

Slides Malysheva-Daresbury_29_10_08.pdf Malysheva-Daresbury_29_10_08.ppt

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:45 EDMS Training

15:45 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 Target Station Session

16:00 Overview of Actions

Speaker: Ian Bailey (Cockcroft Institute / University of Lancaster)

Slides Bailey-_Current_Target_Actions_IRB_edit_271008.pdf Bailey-_Current_Target_Actions_IRB_edit_271008.ppt

16:10 High power photon collimators

Speaker: Lei Zang (Liverpool University)

Slides Zang-High_power_photon_collimators.pdf Zang-High_power_photon_collimators.ppt

16:25 Baseline target prototype

Speaker: Leo Jenner (Cockcroft Institute/ University of Liverpool)

Slides Jenner_Positron_Target_PosWorkshop.pdf Jenner_Positron_Target_PosWorkshop.ppt

16:40 Target survivability studies

Speaker: Stefan Hesselbach (University of Durham)

Slides Hesselbach-talk.pdf

16:55 Channeling target studies

Speakers: Ian Bailey (Cockcroft Institute/ University of Lancaster), Robert Chehab (LAL)

Slides Chehab_HYBRID.pdf

17:10 OMD

Speaker: Dr Jeff Gronberg (LLNL)

Slides Gronberg-OMD.pdf

17:25 Gamma Dump

Speaker: Alexander Mikhailichenko (Cornell University)

Slides Mikhailichenko-gamma_dump.pdf Mikhailichenko-gamma_dump.ppt

Friday, 31 October

09:00 → 10:00 Source Integration

09:00 Auxiliary source studies

Speaker: Masao Kuriki (Hiroshima University)

Slides Kuriki_081031_Daresbury.pdf

09:20 Source integration update

Speaker: Norbert Collomb (Daresbury Laboratory)

Slides Collomb_PosiSource281008_Integration.pdf Collomb_PosiSource281008_Integration.ppt

10:00 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 12:15 Closing Session

10:15 Discussion, Action Items, & Future Work Plan

Speaker: Jim Clarke (Daresbury Laboratory)

Slides Clarke-closing_session.pdf Clarke-closing_session.ppt

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:15 Visit to Target Experiment (optional)