Welcome to Philip Hofmann, who started work as a surface scientist at ISA yesterday. Philip is in room 522-122, tel. 3640.
Congratulations to SPM, who has won the EPS-IGA 1998 accelerator prize for the design of ELISA. In 1996 Jeff Hangst won the prize which is awarded bianually, so it seems that things are going well for accelerator physics in Aarhus!
The microtron is running well, but is still suffering from a possibly defective circulator in the
RF-waveguide. A new circulator has been ordered, and once that is installed, we can hopefully
increase the RF-power, thereby getting more current in each pulse.
When used with the positron beamline, the repetition frequence should be increased, and in order
to make that possible, we must install cooling in the pulse transformer tank. NH will look at
other necessary modifications.
The undulator beamline is running well. The first spectrum was measured yesterday, after which the undulator gap was adjusted slightly to optimize the intensity at the desired energy.
The SGM has been realigned, and now has a image size of 1 by 3 mm, SVH reports.
The SX-700: The Copenhagen group will finish their measurements on Friday, and Monday, the Odense group will take over.
The SGM-2: The grating problems have now been resolved, so everything is now under control, and should be ready in about two weeks.
The X-ray microscope is a very busy facility, and RM reports, that things are going well. Since the last modifications to beam position, the microscope has lost some intensity (about 30%), which perhaps could be regained by moving the microscope. RM is reluctant to do it now, since it would take up to a week without any guarantee of increased performance.
The new injection beamline will be discussed at a small meeting later this week with the
purpose of freezing the design.
3/3 1998 NH+SPM