PUMA@ISOLDE #11

Thursday 2 Oct 2025, 10:30 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

508/1-001 (CERN)

Preparation for the installation and commissioning

1 WP1: Management and Coordination

Speakers: Erwin Siesling (CERN), Oliver Aberle (CERN)

PUMA@ISOLDE 10_25.pdf

PUMA@ISOLDE 10_25.pptx

• Introduction for scope of this meeting: preparation for upcoming installation phase
• Current situation of the installation, rough timeline until desired handover of the machine by the end of Q2 2025

2 PUMA and RC7

News from PUMA

Speakers: Mark Julian Kirschbaum (CERN, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (DE)), et al.

absent

3 WP2: The RC6 beam line

Speakers: Pablo Arrutia (CERN), et. al.

PUMA_meeting_20251002.pdf

• Implementation of an optical model to electrostatically decelerate the beam for treatment on the HT platform implemented, optics not optimized yet
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4 WP3: Vacuum

Speaker: Dr Jose Antonio Ferreira Somoza (CERN)

WP3_20251002.pdf

WP3_20251002.pptx

• Delivery of chambers mid of October
• Budget total so far about 310 kCHF, a bit less than previously estimated
• Second ISOLDE style quadrupole doublet now under vacuum acceptance test 
• PLEASE SEND REQUEST FOR VACUUM SIGNALS TO VSC SOON!!

5 WP4: Beam instrumentation

Speakers: Chiara Pasquino (CERN), Federico Roncarolo (CERN), Miguel Martin Nieto (CERN)

2025-10-02-BI4Puma@Isolde.pdf

2025-10-02-BI4Puma@Isolde.pptx

• most parts apart from actuators delivered
• Vacuum tanks of HIE-ISOLDE type, feedthroughs are being welded and cleaned
• Next steps are calibrations, calibration stands ready to receive DBs soon
• New BI electronics racks installed on Mezzanine, now waiting for cabling
• Electronics discriminator board prototype tested with real signals in YOL2 and approved, switching between TDC readout and PAM readout within 2s
• Software FESA protoype currently under testing in BI lab and YOL2 with real signals, spare set of FEC and TDC deployed in YOL2 for R&D
• Delivery of DBs now forseen for December, will come straigtht from vacuum acceptance tests -> separate meeting for scheduling of delivery  
• Most budget spent (about 350kCHF), only cabling part remaining 

6 WP5: Handling and transport

Speaker: Roberto Rinaldesi (CERN)

No news

7 WP6: BEAM optics and elements

Speakers: Lukas Nies (CERN), Magdalena Kowalska (CERN)

20251002_RC6_Meeting.pdf

20251002_RC6_Meeting.pptx

8 Not covered by the WPs

Cabling, racks, IT, Timing, Software
Survey

Speakers: Antje Behrens (CERN), Ioan Kozsar (CERN), Nicolas Chritin (Unknown), Patrick Rene Gallay (CERN)

9 Summay and outlook

Speaker: Oliver Aberle (CERN)