1. News from ATF2 Frank Zimmermann KEK visit, 20-24 February 2012 Thanks to P. Bambade, M. Barnes, A. Faus-Golfe, K. Kubo, S. Kuroda, T. Naito, T. Okugi, K. Oide, Y. Papaphilippou, D. Schulte, T. Tauchi, N. Terunuma, N. Toge, R. Tomas Status, limits and plan for ATF spot-size tuning Follow up of planned CLIC contributions ground motion sensors, Q1 & Q2 quad’s, extraction kicker Future of ATF beyond 2013/14

2. ATF related discussions & activities 20.02. conversation w. Katsunobu Oide about ATF2 future 22.02. tour of e-beam welding and STF (A. Yamamoto) 23.02. 6:30 to ~10 am joining Toshiyuki Okugi for beam-size tuning in ATF control room 23.02. 10-12:00 discussing with T. Tauchi & with J. Urakawa 23.02. 15:00 meeting w Nobu Toge on ATF2 future and proposed CLIC contributions 23.02. 17:00 further discussions with Junji Urakawa 24.02. morning ATF control room, IP-BSM tuning 24.02. 15:00 ATF operation meeting, reports Naito & Okugi & Oroku 24.02. discussion with Toshiaki Tauchi on ATF2 future & CLIC 01.03. 12:00-15:00 back at CERN - lunch w Angeles Faus-Golfe, discussions on fast kicker plan Emails with Mike Barnes, Philip Bambade, Nobuhiro Terunuma, A.F.-G.

3. ATF2 parameters IP parameter nominalApril 2010Dec. 2010February 2012 beam energy1.3 GeV xx 2 nm1.7 nm1.8-2.7 nm1.84 nm yy 12 pm<10 pm28-64 pm15.6 pm x*x* 4 mm40 mm10 mm y*y* 0.1 mm1.0 mm 0.3 mm x*x*2.8  m10  m7.5  m4.3  m y*y* 35 nm900 nm439 (247?) nm 165 (100?) nm x2.5 x3.0 x3?

4. ATF IP BSM (Shintake monitor) Shintake monitor shipped from SLAC to Japan under test at U. Tokyo, 2006

5. ATF IP BSM (Shintake monitor) “Z scan” measured contrast (offset from ideal modulation) at 2 deg

6. Confusion of signal fluctuation with modulation (if bad S/N) ModulationFluctuation Fluctuation (“fake modulation”) : Δsig / sig ~ 0.18 (for S/N ~ 1/10) If fake M > expected M, it becomes confusing Expected M : 0.17 (300 nm) Expected M : 0.42 (200 nm) M. Oroku, 2011 in 2012 laser system is improved compared with 2011; more careful setup & optimization of laser paths, focusing & stability phase scan: change length of one laser path by changing distance of the delay line with piezo

7. 194.9 +/- 8.29 nm (10 measurements RMS) 17 February 2012

8. IP y spot size tuning relaxed optics:  x,y *=10 mm x 0.3 mm at present expected vertical beam size ~70 nm (  x =1.84 nm,  y =15.6 pm) IP BSM 30 degree mode (no signal at this mode in early 2011) multiknobs for tuning: always scan  y, D y, x’y coupling scan of xy coupling by upstream skew quadrupole – not orthogonal scanning the above three knobs for every step of xy; it would be better to rotate IP BSM, but not possible at the moment fluctuations in DR vertical orbit leads to change in IP beam size optimize, re-scan injected orbit with ZV1X corrector (angle at IP), the dependence is very strong, a change by 0.01 A (3  rad kick;  orbit < 500  m) changes spot size by ~30% first scan of the skew sextupole (placed at D≠0) showed dependence this skew sextupole should compensate for net skew sextupole component in all ATF2 quadrupoles (why is there such component in the first place?) IP BSM size reduction factor - significant, various contributions the real beam size is (~0.8 times?) smaller than measured below about 100 nm one can change to 174 degree mode attempt to scan DR  f rF affected timing synchronization with laser T. Okugi, 23.02.2012

9. example IP multiknob scans  y scan optimum + 0.02 x’y scan optimum + 0.02  y scan optimum + 0.005 D Y scan optimum=-0.05 T. Okugi, 23.02.2012

10. other example IP scans skew sextupole scan (first ever) optimum + 8A ZV1X (incoming orbit) strong dependence – expected? xy scan optimum -10A T. Okugi, 23.02.2012

11. laser wire scan showed about 165 nm in 10 successive measurements first time switch to 174 degree mode (which should be used for final tuning!): attempt to find optimal focal range position; max modulation of 12 % reached; if true signal this would be a beam size around 100 nm next steps: towards nominal optics (more favorable background conditions and reduced sensitivity to orbit drifts in the high beta quads) further strategy – push only  y * or both  x * and  y *? week 13/2:  * y =1.0 mm ; 20/2:  * y =0.3 mm; 5/3:  * y =0.1 mm - however, backed off to higher  * y on 15/03; saw clear modulation with 30 degrees mode for all optics, but background level and signal jitter are increased for decreasing  * y movable collimator may reduce background chromaticity and geometric aberration scans not yet applied understand orbit effect stabilize extraction line emittance (correlation, orbit feedback?) longer tuning periods, larger team IP y spot size tuning cont’d T. Okugi, & M. Oroku et al, 23.02.2012

12. 10 scans with ~160 nm

13.  y ~100 nm 174 degree mode

14. history of beam size  y * [nm] Great Eastern Japan Earthquake & Recovery

15. present limitations laser set up & laser stability, intrinsic reduction factor relaxed optics strategy to move forward? nonlinear field components in final quadrupoles expected to be a limit only <60-70 nm; but observation that beam size strongly depends on vertical drift (angle drift at IP); model prediction? IP BSM Shintake monitor background on-going effort (halo measurements, simulation study of intercepting apertures, GEANT4 modeling of the post-IP and pre-IP regions, bremstrahlung photon collimation, steering optimisation, choice of beta*); improvements needed to go to 10mm x 0.1 mm (new “nominal”) and even more for ultra-low beta*; also stability will become more important emittance in the extraction line risk factor, lately EXT emittance improved significantly, similar to DR values of ~11-12 pm; however large growth at other times with strong dependances on steering conditions (at the septum, etc.) Likely dominated by non-linear fields (based on intensity dependence studies); wjen DR evolves over time the injected beam trajectory into the EXT changes slightly and can sample different regions of the EXT magnets; emittance blows up and background deteriorates; no good procedure to go back to the narrow good path. Two suggested ways to tackle this problem: 1) record history plots of DR + EXT trajectory reconstructions and correlate with EXT emittance; 2) study implementation of slow feedback to maintain injection steering within the "good path" (after carefully recording this "good path") Also, an effect it made to ensure that DR steering and tuning procedures include as constraint to keep the same orbit in the region where the beam is extracted. In the long run, maybe the EXT could also be improved with more instrumentation or better magnets lack of stable tuning time; insufficient training of the team members program for continuous operation would help to achieve more systematic tuning approach, and thus more stability; this requires a larger team of trained operators, to make the effort sustainable over long enough periods; in past weeks, significant progress has been made at KEK in this respect, with essentially only the local ATF staff and Tokyo university students working in the control room; plan to build on this to gradually expand the team of trained operators, such that we can sustain long term tuning efforts at ATF2; this could be critical to reach ATF2 goals; “planned CERN involvement in our new effort for long term stable dedicated operation is also very important, as it will both benefit the project itself and the training of the young people involved on a real system (as opposed to doing only simulation studies)”. P. Bambade

16. training programme A. Faus-Golfe P. Bambade T. Tauchi from ATF2 Strategy Meeting 15th February 2012

17. The different training periods proposed are: 1) April 9-13 (person-to-person) / April 16-20 (operation practice as sub-shift leaders) 2) April 16-20 (person-to-person) / April 23-27 (operation practice as sub-shift leaders) 3) April 23-27 (person-to-person) / May 14-18 (operation practice as sub-shift leaders) 4) May 14-18 (person-to-person) / May 21-25 (operation practice as sub-shift leaders) 5) May 21-25 (person-to-person) / June 4-8 (operation practice as sub-shift leaders) 6) June 4-8 (person-to-person) / June 11-15 (operation practice as sub-shift leaders) training programme A. Faus-Golfe P. Bambade T. Tauchi

18. R. Tomas, ATF TB 12.01.2012 proposed CLIC contributions/prototype tests for ATF2 & their time line on track next talk? plan consolidated require ATF operation in 2014 and beyond

19. CLIC extraction kicker for ATF stripline kicker unit itself built with Spanish government money by industry, ready end of 2012; this kicker unit will be installed in the ALBA light source for 6 months until end 2013, to check field uniformity and impedance with beam (PhD thesis), then removed from ALBA again matched pulser (inductive adder) produced at CERN, ready by mid 2014 kicker & pulser can be installed at ATF/ATF2 late 2014 or 2015 if kicker replaces existing extraction kicker: 1.5 m free length, 5 mrad if kicker is installed next to the existing kicker: 0.6 m max. length and larger kick angle needed issues: availability of 15-kV pulser, rigidity of stripline electrodes (deformation from heating caused by SR or wake, difficult masking?) formal proposal for the kicker installation at the ATF: presentation to the next-to-next TB meeting at the end of 2012 or early 2013?! A.Faus-Golfe, M.Barnes, Y. Papaphilippou, N. Terunuma

20. ATF beyond 2014 “decision process and time line in KEK not clear” (Katsunobu Oide) presently following KEK 2008-2013 roadmap new 5-year roadmap to be developed change of KEK management April 2012 4 new trustees will make the decision

21. New KEK Management Structure from 1 April 2012 DG IPNS IMSS Acc L Adv RL J-PARC Directors nominated Masanori Yamauchi Kazuyoshi Yamada Katsunobu Oide Syuichi Ban Yet to be nominated Atsuto Suzuki JAEA

22. New KEK Management Structure from 1 April 2012 DG Trustees nominated Yasuhiro Okada Masaharu Nomura Nobukazu Toge Yet to be nominated Atsuto Suzuki Research Promotion Int’l Corporation J-PARC Education Future Research Plan Budget Planning Public Relation Network

23. other good news following my meeting with Nobu Toge, he, Tauchi-san and Terunuma-san discussed with the KEK DG Suzuki san about the CERN request to know the future plan in view of the proposed hardware contributions the KEK DG indicated that ATF will certainly (or almost certainly) continue beyond JFY 2013 as a central part of the KEK ILC effort; we could ask to get this in writing if (when) required to proceed with hardware development at CERN

24. LAL Workshop FJPPL-FKPPL Workshop on ATF2 Accelerator R&D from Monday 19 March 2012 at 08:30 to Tuesday 20 March 2012 at 18:30 (Europe/Zurich) at LAL - Orsay Description: Research on the Accelerator Test Facility 2 at KEK (Japan) is conducted at LAL (Orsay), LLR (Palaiseau) and LAPP (Annecy) in the context of the FJPPL "Toshiko Yuasa" and FKPPL Associated International Laboratories, in close collaboration with several Asian, European and American partners. This workshop will review recent activity, progress and plans towards the two main goals of ATF2: Goal 1 (establish and maintain a 37 nm vertical beam size at the interaction point) and Goal 2 (stabilize the beam spot at the interaction point with a 1-2 nm precision using feedback). In addition, an interim review will be organised for several future projects planned to start in 2012 and beyond, covering both their scientific objectives and technical discussions. Organizer: Philip Bambade

25. FJPPL, FKPPL, FCPPL? FXPPL = France X Particle Physics Laboratory where X = Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam networks co-funded by CNRS, CEA and the funding agencies in the corresponding country, with the goal to promote / foster joint research and various exchanges of personnel, including students P. Bambade

26. thank you!