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Detailed update on the present status, design, and schedule of the MICE radiation shutter assembly project, including manufacturing drawings, shipment dates, and installation timeline.
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MICE Radiation Shutter • Description • Present status • Plans, schedule and remaining work MICE CM26, 24-27th March, 2010
Description Two guided lead shutters Remotely operated, but with Manual control in reserve Control rods have to penetrate MICE vacuum volume Radiation shutter assembly Is bolted to spectrometer solenoid #1 prior to Step IV Design work by Peter Lau, Oxford
Present status • Shutter doors and guides have been made at FNAL, awaiting/undergoing fit check before shipping • All detail design work is done by Peter Lau • Some potential manufacturing difficulties need sorting out, nothing major • Probably some scope for simplifying the control rods and actuation
Remaining work and schedule plans • Completion of manufacturing drawings: • End of April, 2010 • Shipment of shutters & guides to RAL • Q2/3, 2010? • Design and manufacture of pre-assembly test stand • Mid-May, 2010 • Trial assembly and testing prior to installation • Q4, 2010 • Final installation in MICE • Difficult to tell just now – linked to Step IV