UKNF/MICE Oversight UK plans for this FY......and beyond.....

UKNF/MICE OversightUK plans for this FY......and beyond..... • Background & local history • Schedule & planning considerations • Spectrometer solenoid update • Re-defining the UK project • Electrical engineering • Future plans Andy Nichols, STFC 30th June, 2010

......Circa 2007 But this is what we’re aiming for...........>> Circa 1963......

........Installation of MICE Step VI in R5.2

Schedule and planning considerations • Where we are today: • Have been ready for Steps II &III for a few months • Were geared towards Step II start in Mid-May, 2010 • Won’t happen till later in 2011, • What to do........?

Spectrometer solenoid update • Sensitive issue, project is at a critical turning point and at some risk! • Both magnets are partially dismantled at Wang in US • Both are ‘broken’ to some extent • Very difficult, if not impossible, to influence the course of action from outside US • Clear that a change of organisationis required: • Reinforce US labour force • ‘Start again’ with robust and properly policed QA and assembly plan • Cultivate a better environment for information flow • Efforts are being made to induce this approach from the US management • Hard to imagine that the recovery process will take less than eighteen months • Very bad position to be in......BUT • Technical and organisational issues ARE getting clearer

Re-defining the UK project • Steps II & III are delayed for at least eighteen months • UK installation team and infrastructure construction were very carefully geared towards spectrometer solenoid #1 arriving at May 15th and #2 six months later • We musthold the projectteam together, so: • Advance work on the LH2 system • Vent system • Civil engineering • Pipe/valve & gas panel work • Control and safety engineering • RF power work • Design of waveguide/power/cooling infrastructure, placement of amplifiers • Specification and procurement of hardware with US • ‘Hands on’ work at DL with RAL team – second LBNL amplifier • Both RF & LH2 projects contain significant technical risks – better to find out early

LH2 external infrastructure Extensive civil and mechanical engineering, design and installation working with BPG & ISIS All this has to be designed & built outside R5.2.

And it’s a similar story inside...... This is ‘just’ the R&D system, muchdesign, procurement and installation required Also controls and safety work There is also a huge and understandable safety overhead, but good progress already made Must not underestimate the LH2 work content.....!

RF Power • Two RF amplifiers from LBNL are being reconditioned at DL • One is complete, the other is waiting • Plan to deploy some of existing team on second amplifier • Important to do this early while we have time • Led by Daresbury Lab • Very beneficial DL/RAL relationship • RF amplifiers quite big, 4m high and 1 tonne – we have to fit four of them in a very confined space behind shield wall • Ultimately, STFC has to provide and support an RF power station

Need to fit all this........ .....Under here! Not trivial....

Electrical Engineering • Also led by Daresbury Lab: • All detector wiring and cabling • Electrical services in general • Complete implementation of PPS (Personnel Protection System) • Contribution to electrical substation upgrade project • Conventional and S/C magnet power supplies • Cooling Channel controls project • Target power, readout & controls • Liquid hydrogen system controls • Major contribution from BPG: • Power for heating, lighting • Implementation of fire detection • A/C power • Electrical substation upgrade project

Future Plans • Between now and 2014, MICE has to successfully build and install several large and complex subsystems, for example: • Two spectrometers • Three absorber-focus coils • Two RF-coupling coil magnets • And all their services and ancillaries • In a very confined space to a reasonable degree of accuracy • Also have to accommodate several different engineering ‘cultures’ and standards • Have demonstrated that a more rigorous engineering approach pays dividends – eg, the MICE target • Now want to read that across to the other subsystems • Easier said than done.......

Future plans • So we’re changing the emphasis slightly, from infrastructure and surroundings to the subsystems and interfaces • Top level assembly now successfully driven by one (large!) Solid Edge CAD assembly • We MUST reinforce the RAL/DL engineering team • Full time integration engineer is appointed • Am now working on support for him • Monthly MICE Technical Board will be forum for integration issues • Integration activity will be centralised at RAL - important • Discussions just beginning with subsystem owners to encourage information flow • Jason ready to start mid-late July

Future plans • Believe it’s also time to start planning staffing levels etc for future years, given: • External pressures on STFC • Inertia in the ‘system’ • Competition from other projects • Three phases to worry about: • Short-term • Mechanical design effort for integration support, liquid hydrogen, RF implementation and continued support for target project • Medium term • Cryogenic and installation support, theoretical, but also some ‘hands-on’ • Long-term • Resident (at RAL) RF engineer and specialist technical support • Need to start post FY 10/11 project plans and provoke discussion with PED/TEC

UKNF/MICE Oversight UK plans for this FY......and beyond.....