1. CHARM facility update 23/04/2015

2. 1st year
Construction of the facility has been finished last year on the 9th of October
Intensive commissioning period from 10/10/2015 during 1 month
First operation period has been performed from 12/11/2014 to 15/12/2014 (≈ 1 month)
Within this period we made radiation tests for 10 users on 14 different equipment (in parallel)

3. 1st year - 2014 14 equipment 10 users Group Technical responsible
Equipement
EN/STI
Giovanni Spiezia/Raffaello Secondo/Salvatore Danzeca
RadMON V6
Ruben G, Alia / Slawosz
SRAMs
Gilles Foucard/Paul Peronnard
JDI tester
IT/CS
Alberto Garcia Molero
IT beacons
TE/CRG
Nikolaos Trikoupis/ Juan Casas Cubillos
Cryogenic electronics crate
LEDs
TE/EPC
Slawosz Uznanski
Components
SRAM Renesas
ADS1271 Delta-Sigma ADC
Lionel Foro / Louis de Mallac
Components tester
(Op-amp, Comparator, power MosFETs etc …)
UM2_EN/STI
Raffaello Secondo
Cubesat
Julien Mekki
Capa MOS
INFN
Massimiliano Fiorini
PCB board and wires
14 equipment
10 users

4. Dedicated test position
1st Run Analysis
Radiation levels at the different locations are being analysed
Benchmarking is being performed between experimental measurements (RadMON / BLM) and Fluka simulations
Results have been provided to the users
TID
1 MeV neutron eq. fluence
HEH fluence
Dedicated test position
Radiation test period

5. Winter Shutdown
From 15/12/2014 to about Mid-April 2015 → Winter Shutdown
Dedicated to the upgrade of the facility – Main activities:
Montrac upgrade → Allow for a proper connection with the cable holder chain
Revolver redesign and upgrade of the control system → Allow for a better accuracy
Movable shielding → Bug with the switches solved
EN/EL activities (light, new cabling, activities inside the facility) → Done (activities outside still to be done)
Reception / Test / finalization of the installation for the AGV → Tests with the cables holder chains
See video
Repair of the Mantion System + new variators for the motor + speed adjustement for the conveyers
Dry run station for water cooling finished
And others… →

6. 2nd year
Planning for Run2
Next 2 weeks → Commissioning

7. 2nd year - 2015 Planning for Run2
We start to operate with users on the 11th of May

8. 2nd year - 2015 Planning for Run2
In-beam test periods → No target and blown-up beam

9. 2nd year
Planning for Run2
High Intensity period

10. 2nd year - 2015 CERN users (25 users) External users (14 users)
EN Department (10 users)
EN/STI → 7 Users (Components test / Tester / Sensors / Cubesat / Optical fibers / RPL dosimeters…)
EN/EL → 3 Users (Data concentrator / Light system / UPS system)
TE Department (8 users)
TE/EPC → 3 Users (FGCLite/ Components test / Tester / Full power converter system …)
TE/MPE → 2 Users (Remote I/O interlocks equipment, QPS equipment)
TE/CRG → 3 Users (Beam screen heaters system / Remote Sipart positioners …)
BE Department (3 users)
BE/RF → 2 Users (High bandwidth solid state amplifiers / PS electronics)
BE/ASR → 1 User (Ionization chamber electronics for Linac4)
IT Department (1 user)
IT/CS → 1 User (Safety and network repeaters)
PH Department (3 users)
PH/ESE (collaboration with PH/UAT and University of Liverpool)→ 1 User (ASICs test)
PH/AID → 1 User (MAPs sensor)
PH/ULB (collaboration with INFN) → 1 User (LHCb RICH readout detector system)
External users (14 users)
France : University of Montpellier, Zodiac system company → Cubesat / Memories / Mixed Analog Digital devices / Full digital system / dosimeters …)
Spain : University of Malaga → Dosimeters
USA: Brown University → CMS HF Front end electronics cards / full crate
Germany: DLR, Infineon → Applications for Robotic in space / Memories
Czech Republic: IEAP → Timepix
Japan: KEK, Hiroshima University → NE213 measurements
Russia: URSC ISDE Institute → Cross calibration / space applications
+ More → Still in discussion

11. List of users – Requests Received
For the Moment I got 7 radiation test requests:
TE/EPC : Components tester
TE/MPE: Remote I/O interlocks equipment
TE/MPE: nDQQDG board
PH/ESE: ASICs test (Blown up beam)
PH/AID: MAPs Sensors
PH/UCM: CMS HF Front end (electronics board + crate - 2 slots of irradiation)
EN/EL: Field concentrator for the supervision of the electrical network
Any others ?