1. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting1 CD help for AD Note: BEAMS (BD) == ACCELERATOR (AD) Date of Last Report - April 25, 2003 (Division Briefing session) cdinternal.fnal.gov/Org2003/BriefingMtg/2003Briefings/CDhelpsBDupdate.pdf This report: –Will present updates on projects reported at that time and report on some ongoing work. –Some new projects: TeV BPM project – see talk by S Wolbers TeV IPM project –Planning for new projects: software applications, controls –Other projects SCIDAC simulations – P Spentzouris (a few slides) AD will have an ongoing need for new software applications to allow them to take advantage of their new instrumentation. –(We are already contributing – should we do more?)

2. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting2 Booster Monitoring G. Guglielmo (CD) Project complete (June 2003) – –providing minimal support and consulting –Project extensions are to be done by AD Booster group Features added: –Writing via the datalogger –Running under Webstart –Documentation in document database

3. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting3 Recycler BPMs Project completed August 2003 (Calibration/software?) Contacts in BEAMS – B. Webber and P. Prieto CEPA/ESE work had been completed by May 2003 CSS/ESS (Equipment Support Services) provided Engineering Support for Echotek A/D boards & Beam Position Monitor Pre-Amps for the recycler. Work completed: -Performance verification tested (70) Echotek A/D boards. -Fabricated (40) Calibration Boards (daughter cards for Pre- Amps). -Modified & calibrated (275) BPM Pre-Amps. Level of effort(CSS/ESS): –Nov 1, 2002 through Apr 30, 2003 (25 weeks) = 75% effort (1) FTE –May 1, 2003 through Aug 5, 2003 (14 weeks) = 100% effort (2) FTE Calibration Software (Marc Mengel)

4. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting4 VXWorks Support CD: Dinker Charak AD contact: FE Group Head/Controls Ongoing support Tornado 2.x and VxWorks 5.x support. –Provide standard build kernel or as per specific request. –Provide support to application builders adn help with debugging kernel issues. If needed, request for technical support from Wind River Inc (they make Tornado and VxWorks). Level of effort 40% for 1 person The main task is to provide support so progess can be evaluated in terms of issues raised and issues resolved. Until now 49 out of 56 issues have been resolved.

5. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting5 Pbar flying wire upgrade CD: Dave Slimmer AD: Jim Zagel Project plans –Replace front end electronics and motor controllers. –Replace Mac front end computer with IBM clone. –Adapt flying wire code from Recycler (controls 2 wires) for Pbar (6 wires with different front end configuration and newer version of Motion control library). –Integrate new Pbar program with new Pbar Acnet page. Help commission system. Start Date Nov 2003 End Date: Feb-Mar 2004 Commissioning done as accelerator schedule allows; estimate 1-2 weeks work remaining on the code, and 1 week commissioning time. Status –The Recycler code has been adapted for Pbar and appears to working correctly in the lab with laser source/test can on all 6 wires. New ACNET parameters have to be integrated with the existing code, and the program has be tested/debugged with the new ACNET page.

6. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting6 Tevatron Ionization Profile Monitor (IPM) Project Ionization Profile Monitor (IPM) Buffer Module –Develop a PCI buffer card to receive data from the QIE based IPM front-end system. This module resides in a PC and is connected to the front-end through a 100 meter parallel optical link. It has an input bandwidth of approximately 1.5 GBytes/sec, and holds 1 GByte of data. –HW status: The schematics are complete...board layout and parts orders are in progress. IPM Software: –Adapt or re-write existing TeV IPM program for new front end hardware and larger data sets. Start Date: Nov 03 End Date: Sep04 (HW) Dec04(SW) Level of effort: –Rick Kwarciany 8 months @ 75% Jan04 to Sep04 –Mark Bowden 10 months @ 5% Nov03 to Sep04 –Jim Franzen3 months @ 60% Jan04 to Mar04 –ESD (assembly) 2 months @ 50% Apr04 to May04 –Dave Slimmer 2-3 months

7. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting7 SDA Analysis The Shot Data Analysis (SDA) tools developed by CD and AD allow us to study offline the performance of the accelerator complex. The project consists of writing specific analysis classes based on the existing SDA software –(i) Provide tables of beam physics variables such as beam lifetime, emittances, luminosities summarizing the performance of the machine for a given store –(ii) dedicated analysis, studying the performance of a particular beam physics topic or a particular instrument. (K.L.G.) Detailed studies of the Tevatron flying wires system, leading to a deeper understanding of the beam's emittances and the tevatron lattice (P.L.) Studies of diffusions mechanism and related lifetimes. –Results are presented to the Instrumentation group and the Tevatron Dept and particular on a weekly basis. –SDA tools, such as SDAViewer, StoreChecker, etc, are discussed during the weekly SDA meeting with members of AD/Integration and AD/Controls.

8. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting8 SDA Analysis CD: P. Lebrun, K. Genser AD contacts: J. Slaughter, V.Lebedev Start Date : April 2002, project is ongoing Level of effort : ~ 1.25 FTE currently Progress status: KLG is currently studying the effective emittance (emittance measured via luminosity counters) and the Flying Wires. Documents are in the AD DocDB. KLG also has made substantial contributions to the Derived Table effort by validating the algorithms used to compute the emittances in the Super Table and in the Open Access Client process that is used online. A major rewrite of the set of classes for emittance calculations has been done P.L. is implementing analysis classes for the Tune Fitters. Two PAC03 publications on SDA results last year: one on Luminosity calculation and one on beam lifetime during stores and Intra-Beam scattering.

9. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting9 SDA Tools SDA Tools: 1.OSDA – a Java API to the shot data that abstracts the DAE interface and can be used outside or inside the firewall. 2.Store Checker – a Java web application checking each store and sending email to subscribers of particular checks. 3.Derived Tables – a Java web application for building tables of the Tevatron lifetimes, luminosities, and emittances for each store. CD: Suzanne Panacek, (P. Lebrun) AD contacts: J. Slaughter Project Status: ongoing Start Date: 4/2002 Level of effort: - average of 15% FTE Status: Maintenance –Since time of the last report: Deployed the web applications (Derived Tables and StoreChecker) on beams division web server. Several refinements of the StoreChecker criteria. OSDA inside/outside the firewall option.

10. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting10 Java Controls Application Tutorial Develop a class/tutorial on the developing Accelerator Controls Application in Java. –Suzanne Panacek plans to teach this class in the training room, so that people can use the work done in class as a spring board for their development. CD: Suzanne Panacek AD contacts: J. Slaughter and Controls group Project Status: on going Start Date: 12/2003 End Date: March, April 2004 Brief report on progress: Suzanne spent time in the Main Control room to meet the people and study the use of the existing Accelerator Controls Applications. She has modified an modified application to use as an example and has identified 4 steps to teach a developer how to get from nothing to a live graph of the intensity. the first draft of the four lessons is done and is Currently working on a web site for the class

11. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting11 BLASTdb Accelerator Magnet Database Create and do early populating and critical applications for a modern and maintainable unifying several sources of magnet and alignment data "owned" by Accelerator and Technical divisions. Milestones agreed on are: 1.Agreement on what we are doing. 2.Creation of a good database, meeting agreed key purposes 1.Repository for the data previously in N. Gelfand's database 2.Adequate scheme for accepting new survey data 3.Repository for some part of the "other" data that AD has currently in pseudo- and real databases. Use case applications for populating and simple access. 3.Refinement of that database, for decent performance, completion of schema to include all the critical data categories, and incorporation of all formulas needed for users to conveniently access data in their preferred forms. 4.Incorporation of other data sets for maximal usefulness to AD and TD.

12. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting12 BLASTdb CD Dennis Box developer (60-70%) AD contact: J. Butler Start Date: 10/03 End Date: 4/04 Status: –A good agreement on what is to be done is in place (milestone 0). –Milestone 1 was recently met, at about 20% more time than original estimate. –Dennis is coordinating with users to see how to make DB optimally useful. Smooth incorporation of the alignment data would be the goal to meet in the next couple of weeks, along with one or two "big win" use case applications –There should be a meeting next week to discuss aspects of additional crucial data to be incorporated; this is logically part of milestone 3. (May require additional manpower)

13. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting13 Beam Smoothing Tools Provide a set of tools to enhance the Tevatron Beam Orbit Smoothing process. These include better visualization capabilities and algorithms to determine optimal DFG settings based on a sequence of BPM-reading snapshots. Milestones includes: 1.Development of visualization capabilities "off-line". 2.Development of optimization capabilities "off-line". 3.Integration into the control system for maximum convenience to the accel. division users. Work on hold pending completion of the Cusper project. Start Date: 10/02 End Date: 8/04 CD: Mark Fischler and John Marraffino AD: M. Martens Rudimentary visualization in an inherently off-line form is developed, in common with the CUsper project. An understanding of the problems, issues, and theory is in hand. Actual work toward providing an orbit-smooth calculator will start after the CUsper) is near completion.

14. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting14 Tevatron Cusper Software Software to accept orbit snapshot data from the Tevatron BPMs, and using heuristics, fitting, and AI techniques, –determine which measurements are likely due to unreliable BPM readouts (reject these) –calculate the best fit to a theoretically justifiable curve with multiple "cusps“ due to field distortions These results will be valuable for Beam Smoothing and possibly for understanding sources and causes of luminosity decrease. There are 4 main milestones: 1.Ability to parse Tevatron lattice file and snapshot files, and produce viewably curves and rudimentary fits. 2."Theoretical cusper" with intelligence thought to be suficient for analysis of single-frame snapshots. 3.Exploration of how well this does when faced with actual Tevatron data, and tuning of cusper for best performance. 4.Interfacing cusper into the control-room-usable system.

15. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting15 Tevatron Cusper Software Start Date: 2/03 End Date: 5/04 Mark Fischler, John Marraffino AD: M. Martens Status: –Milestone 0 completed –Milestone 1 near completion (about 4 weeks) –Milestone 2 should take 4 weeks of 1/2 time work for team –Milestone 3 should take 6 weeks of 1/2 time work for team It may be desirable, particularly if the BPM's have frequent unreliable readings, or if the Tevatron data is particularly noisy, to extend to incorporate an entire multi-frame snapshot (time-series of frames) to refine the positioning of distortions and identification of mal-functioning BPM's. –Until some experience is gained with the single-frame cusper, it will not be known whether this is desired.

16. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting16 Tevatron Tune Fitters Short Description: The tune fitters are software packages which report fitted values of the betatron tune and ancillary quantities such as the chromaticity of the Tevatron. Two distinct resonators are currently installed : the old 21.4 MHz and the new (installed a year and 1//2 ago) 1.7 GHz Schottky detectors. –The 21.4 MHz system is a relatively narrow band system, reporting precise tunes (up to ~5 Hz/47.7 ~ 10^-5) for beams with a small momentum spread. –The second one (1.7 GHz) has a much smaller Q (broad band) and is therefore able to see individual proton bunches. Ongoing. End Date : Beginning of FY-05. CD: P. Lebrun Level of Effort: –last 4 months: CP/CEPA/APS : 75% AD/Controls ~1.0 FTE –Before, ~50% FTE from CP/CEPA/APS. Also 1/4 AD/Tevatron FTE over the last 4 months.

17. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting17 Tevatron Tune Fitters Progress Status : in both cases (21.4 MHz / 1.7 GHz) the software has been designed. –21.4 MHz upgrade: Hardware purchase : done, mostly. We have the digitizer board and VME system. We might have to beg to buy additional linux server Software Implementation: VME/VxWork : ongoing (J. You) About to test this new system with fake signals. Next step is to validate the FFT's and averaging done on in VxWork. After that, upgrade the existing tevtune OAC and the fitters. –1.7 GHz : The C++/Root fitter, OAC (written by Z. Yuan from AD/Controls) and the GUI 99% is written and being commissioned. Results are encouraging: we recently established the head-on beam-beam tune shift time dependence during stores and compared it to predicted values, successfully. The second milestone is to see the bunch number dependency of the beam-beam tune shift (due to parasitic collisions). We reached this milestone a few days ago, we will need confirmation.

18. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting18 Run II Luminosity Upgrade Project Asst. Project Manager (P. Bhat) –Organized many internal reviews at http://www-bd.fnal.gov/reviews/http://www-bd.fnal.gov/reviews/ –Prepared for (many) external reviews –Reviewed project plan v1.0 (last summer) –Organizes meetings with L1, L2 and L3 managers –Worked on V2.0 project plan for submission to DOE last week. http://www-ad.fnal.gov/doereview04/ –Plenary talk on the project plan at recent Temple review (and for upcoming Lehman review)

19. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting19 MCR software project Decription of project: Bring lattice calculation and fitting capabilities to MCR Project Status: planning Start Date: 2 weeks ago. End Date: end of 2005 CD: J Amundson, P. Spentzouris Contact in AD: Leo Michelotti Expected level of effort: 2 x 0.2 FTE (will need more)

20. Feb 4, 2004P L McBride Project Status Meeting20 Controls Ron Rechenmacher has has been consulting on AD Controls: –Investigate port of VAX software to UNIX. –Investigate performance of Java framework. –consult/aid Paul Lebrun with applications development. –Sit in on BD_CONTROLS_WG meetings. Start Date: 7/2003; End Date: possibly 8/2005 (?) Level of effort: 50% for the past 7 months Status: –Further demonstrated the inefficiencies of the Java framework by comparison to developed UNIX C code. –Compiled 80% of VAX C files -- enough to get user interface windows. Follow-up Project - Official project to port the VAX code to UNIX. (???)