1 MICE CMPB Contents: Progress to date Project management things Plans for the May shutdown Steps towards Phase Two Problems and open issues summary Andy.

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MICE CMPB

Contents:•Progress to date•Project management things•Plans for the May shutdown•Steps towards Phase Two•Problems and open issues summary

Andy Nichols, CMPB, 14th February 2008

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Progress to date

•Beamline commissioning a success– Target has been operated for an agreed number of

pulses– Beam counters & monitors installed and operating– Scientific progress has been summarised by the MOM

– I’m not a physicist, but my impression is that everything went well

– Hear Alain’s talk…..

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Progress to date

Magnets:– Problems with Q1,2,3 power supplies, fixed ones due

back from manufacturers today, then ready for soak test (May shutdown)

– D2 will be connected to permanent water in May shutdown

– ‘Near miss’ reported due to failure of magnet on lights – now fixed

– Q6 water leak – fixed, but more thorough job needed in May shutdown

– Q7,8,9 – water connections made

Summary:– Quad installation can be taken to be complete and all

should be operational by June – grateful thanks to Willie and his men

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Progress to Date

Q9 in situ

Water connections Q7,8,9

Q4,5

CAD Layout’Before…..

After!

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Progress to Date

Decay solenoid/He system– Transfer line has been routed to solenoid– Connected and leak-tested– Secondary pipework and cabling connected from panel

to turret, complete this week– Cold test with existing compressor scheduled to start

21st April• Then takes 7-14 days (nearer 14!)

– Then we need to:• Remove compressor rotors for upgrade – this will

hopefully fix the performance deficit

– Some minor jobs:• ‘Magnet On’ lights• Polarity check• Cold air ducting for compressor exhaust

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Progress to date

Infrastructure:– Instruction from OsC to progress at full speed– Concrete removal started, will finish soon, ahead of schedule,

but possible structural weakness discovered in the floor. OPUS structural engineers will report – worst case outcome is some local strengthening around shield wall supports

– Roughly one third of South shield wall is prefabricated off site – on site starts 25th April

– Phased delivery of wall plates will start early May in 35 tonne loads

– North wall support drgs signed off: aim to place order 18th April

– A/C units are here– False floor – some problems. Drawings basically done, but

magnetic modelling needed to verify – will very soon be critical path

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Progress to date

What have we done?

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Progress to date

Infrastructure:Mound excavation – not as easy as we thought due to:

– Instability of ground around ISIS– Difficult access– Craning anything over ISIS control room is precluded

But the right people are working on it– We put a pre-fabricated concrete ‘dam’ in position– Still aim to do the majority of the work in May

shutdown– But if we don’t it will have to run until July

• Problem: it’s then part of phase two

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Project Management things

Richard has now left– Internal vacancy for Programme Manager has been

approved – aim to interview on 28th April– Staff shortage & sick leave has compromised

supervision of electrical contractors– Steve Griffiths of DL and his group have agreed to

drive this• Already paying dividends – he is rapidly understanding

the many jobs going on• They will have a presence at RAL for three days a week

– Steve Griffiths & Steve York are also driving the target engineering project now

– Project is now tracked on a weekly basis by the MICO meetings and milestone table

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Plans for May shutdown

Effectively we get from 18th May till June 9th for access to synchrotron and DSA – it’s looming fast, we need to:

– Install new target*– Soak test quads*– Polarity check solenoid*– Restrain concrete shielding on solenoid– Install TOF 0*– Connect water to D2*– Add sliding beamstop to DSA– Install roofing, fence, walkway to DSA– Excavate mound

Tim & Willie are working on project plan– * these are probably priority, the rest might have to

wait

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Steps towards phase two

Revised step one has been agreed by MICE EB– It’s just the KL, TOF1, fixed and moving beamstops

Can take place on existing raised floorDepends on arrival of KL & TOFs in earlyMayMust finalise sliding beamstop baselineVery soon – planned for TB meeting

Careful planning needed to allow concurrentWork on shield wall supports – we have the space andL.Tortora has agreed if fence and stay/clear are provided

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Steps towards Phase Two

Permission granted for focus coils order, (two plus option for one)

– Kick-off meeting with Tesla scheduled for 18th April– Detailed shedule, design and manufacturing plan

should emerge then

Phase Two WBS, project plan, bottom-up staff & capital estimates underway – need another couple of weeks

– Many previously unknown (to me anyway!) inputs to this are now becoming clearer – which is good

Anxious not to underestimate engineering content, especially in LH2 and RF sub-projects

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Summary of problems and open issues

•Need to be re-assured the KL & TOFs will arrive in first week of May

– Problems with TOF PMs

•Magnetic modelling for false floor now very urgent •Stack-up of work for May shutdown – might have to delay non-urgent work to July shutdown – worry that we’ll never clear the backlog!•Not sure what the fall-back is if the PM recruitment is unsuccessful