Accelerator Radiation Safety Newsletter

	Accelerator Radiation Safety Newsletter
Fourth Quarter 2006 / Volume 15, Number 4	An Official Publication of the Health Physics Society's Accelerator Section
In this issue • From the Officers • From the Correspondents • 2008 Midyear & School News • Other News • How to Subscribe • Newsletter Archives Also of interest • 2008 Midyear & School Website • 2008 Midyear & School Poster	FROM THE OFFICERS The President's Message Scott Walker Last summer, when the Health Physics Society (HPS) authorized the Accelerator Section to work with the Northern California Chapter in putting together the 2008 midyear meeting on "Radiation-Generating Devices," a flurry of activity between the Accelerator Section and the Northern California Chapter began. read more The President-Elect's Message Kamran Vaziri The 2006 Accelerator Section Special Session at the annual Health Physics Society (HPS) meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, went very well. We had good attendance from the section members. Thanks to Lorraine and Scott, we had excellent speakers who gave fascinating talks. read more The Past President's Message Lorraine Marceau-Day Congratulations to all our crew working so diligently on the upcoming 2008 midyear. First, to Linnea who has revamped the accelerator newsletter site – très, très slick! The site also has links to the midyear website, including what to see and do. Tremendous progress has been made on both the meeting and the professional development school. read more The Editor's Message Linnea Wahl With a new year just around the corner, here’s a new look for our newsletter. If you get a minute, please let me know how you like it. And with our new look comes the hot-off-the-presses, drop-dead-gorgeous, call-for-papers poster created and produced by Scott Walker and Shirley Veenis. read more
OFFICERS President: Scott Walker, Los Alamos National Lab President-Elect: Kamran Vaziri, Fermi National Accelerator Lab Past President: Lorraine Marceau-Day, Louisiana State University more
2008 MIDYEAR & SCHOOL NEWS Call for Papers: 2008 Midyear Meeting on "Radiation-Generating Devices" Scott Walker The topic of the 2008 midyear meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS) will be "Radiation-Generating Devices." The meeting will be held in Oakland, California, from January 28-30, 2008, and will be jointly sponsored by the Accelerator Section and the Northern California Chapter of the HPS. A detailed call for papers is provided . . . read more 2008 Professional Development School Develops Linnea Wahl, Vashek Vylet, and Don Cossairt Even as this newsletter is being posted on the web, the Health Physics Society (HPS) Continuing Education Committee and Board of Directors are considering the final proposal for the 2008 professional development school (formerly called the HPS summer school). Expected to be held from January 31 through February 2, the school is tentatively titled "Topics in Accelerator Health Physics." read more Westward Ho: From Knoxville to Oakland in 2008 Linnea Wahl It's official: The Accelerator Section and the Northern California Chapter of the Health Physics Society (HPS) are teaming up to sponsor the 2008 midyear meeting of the HPS in Oakland, California. Members of the Local Arrangements Committee (Kathleen Dinnel-Jones, Dawn Banghart, and John Ahlquist) are already hard at work preparing for the meeting. read more	FROM THE CORRESPONDENTS News from Louisiana State University, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices Lorraine Marceau-Day Beginning December 23rd, the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) at Louisiana State University (LSU) will enter a scheduled shutdown period. In addition to ring maintenance, it is hoped to partially complete a new wiggler beamline. The shutdown is scheduled to last until mid-February, when we will once again provide user light. Currently the ring is operated 24 hours per day/14 days at 1.3 GeV and 200 mA, followed by 3 days of studies and/or maintenance. CAMD will replace a dipole chamber for the diagnostic beamline and install a new pin-hole camera. News from Fermi National Accelerator Lab Kamran Vaziri and Don Cossairt Over the last few months a large group of experimenters, accelerator physicists, and radiation physicists have worked very hard to prepare for the FermiLab Director's Review of a campaign to raise the NuMI 120 GeV beam power from 400 kW to 700kW and then to 1200 kW. These beam powers are needed for the NOvA experiment. NOvA (which stands for NuMI off-axis neutrino appearance) hopes to observe muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino conversion, of importance for telling us the mass hierarchy of neutrinos as well as possibly whether there is leptonic charge-parity (CP) violation. The experiment requires a 20-25 kTon detector located off the central axis of the NuMI beam, approximately 810 km away. The off-axis location (Ash River, Minnesota) results in a neutrino peak narrow in energy distribution. read more News from the Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Lab Don Gregory The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is currently in a planned one and one-half month maintenance outage. During the last beam period, we continued to ramp up operating power, performed extensive beam physics studies, and provided stable production beam to the three commissioned experiments. Production runs were at the 15 to 30 kW power levels on target, with a half-shift run at 60 kW. I am told by the beam physicists that SNS set two records during the last run – most protons stored in an accumulator (10¹⁴ protons per pulse, or about 15 microcoulombs), and most intense pulses on a target for neutron production (6.6 microcoulombs). read more
Subscribe or Update Your E-mail Address here	OTHER NEWS Job Opening at Argonne National Lab Accelerator Issues Discussion Group Forming
Designed by TemplateWorkz.com
If you wish to contact the editor of this newsletter click here