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Accelerator Section



Accelerator Section

2006 Semi Annual Report












Prepared by L. Scott Walker

Accelerator Section President














Abstract: This report summarizes the activities of the HPS Accelerator Section from July 2006 thru January 10th, 2007.




















Report to HPS Board of Directors




1. The executive board of the Accelerator Session is planning the Special Accelerator Session, scheduled to be held during the annual HPS meeting. We have informed Chris Martel of our intention to support a special session. It is proposed to have a Morgan Lecturer (45 minutes) followed by two, 30 minute invited talks, in effect, a mini-plenary session. A request has been sent to President Brian Dodd regarding the feasibility of forgiving the meeting registration for the three invited speakers.


























Accelerator Section

Health Physics Society

Statement of Income & Expenses and Account Balance

For the Period Ending July 30, 2006


We are anticipating a large expenditure for the 2008 mid-year poster cost [~$1642.00] but that amount may be halved as it is scheduled to be shared with the Northern California Chapter. As of 01/09/2007, this is the accounting to the best of our knowledge*. Also not reflected is a $50 copyright and a $14 dollar overnight mail charge to use the San Franciso Bridge Picture for the 2008 mid-year meeting poster. Kindly note that this statement does not include 2007 dues, as they have not yet been posted, nor does it include the account management fee. We do not believe that there were any significant changes to this statement since its issue by the secretariat at the end of April, 2006.


ACCELERATOR

HEALTH PHYSICS SOCIETY

STATEMENT OF INCOME & EXPENSES AND ACCOUNT BALANCE

FOR THE 8 MONTH PERIOD ENDING APRIL 30, 2006



ACCOUNT BALANCE 8/31/05 6996.82



INCOME RECEIVED

Dues from HPS Members 655.00

Contributions 0.00

TOTAL INCOME COLLECTED 655.00


EXPENSES PAID

Collection & Management Fee 65.50


TOTAL EXPENSES PAID 65.50


NET INCREASE FOR YEAR 589.50


ACCOUNT BALANCE 4/30/06 7586.32


*Note: This is not the official treasurer’s statement, but is close.




Section Information


The Accelerator Section of the Health Physics Society held its annual business meeting during the 2006, 51st Annual Meeting of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island. At this meeting, newly elected officers were announced, and immediately assumed their respective positions. The officers of the Section for 2006-07 are:

OFFICERS

President

Scott Walker, Los Alamos National Laboratory

President-Elect

Kamran Vaziri, Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Past President

Lorraine Marceau-Day, Louisiana State University

Secretary

Ed Lessard, Brookhaven National Lab

Treasurer

Marcia Torres, Argonne National Lab

Newsletter Editor

Linnea Wahl, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Directors



Erik Abkemeier (2009), Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility


Richard Brey (2009), Idaho State University


Don Gregory (2009), Oak Ridge National Lab


Michael Sandvig (2008) Idaho National Laboratory


Douglas Wells (2007), Idaho State University


Gary Zeman (2007), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Robert C. Whitcomb Jr.,(2007) Director Liaison to the Accelerator Section



Section Activities


This has been an extremely active year for the accelerator section. During the spring of this year, Lorraine Day and Linnea Wahl worked to revamp the Accelerator section web page and reformat the newsletter web pages. The task was completed in a very satisfactory manner

Our primary presenter at the annual HPS meeting was Lutz Moritz who just retired from the TRIUMF accelerator facility in Vancouver, British Columbia. Lutz presented a fascinating lecture about the radioactive beamline facility (ISAC) at TRIUMF. His abstract follows. A new generation of accelerator facilities specifically designed to produce beams of exotic radioactive ion beams have been constructed or are being planned. The paper he presented described the radiological safety issues specific to these new facilities and some of the challenges that remain to be addressed, with emphasis on the experience at the ISAC facility at TRIUMF. Topics included the shielding of the high-power beam lines and target systems, the handling and disposal of the targets used to produce the ion beams, and the special challenges of using actinide targets.


Don Cossairt then presented a 30 minute invited paper entitled, Teaching Accelerator Health Physics to Non-specialists in the U.S. Particle Accelerator School. This health physics classes presented at the Annual U.S. Particle Accelerator School.


Finally, James Liu and Scott Walker teamed up to present a 30 minute invited paper titled: ANSI N43.1 Draft Standard: Radiation Safety for the Design and Operation of Particle Accelerators.


2008 Midyear Meeting and Professional Development School


While the Annual Meeting was in progress, the Accelerator Section board met to consider the annual section business meeting and the prospects for the 2008 Midyear. The board meeting lasted over two hours (the longest ever). We put fourth many ideas toward expanding the scope of the Midyear meeting and pushed again toward hosting the summer school. (We learned later that the decision had been made to change to a professional development school which was connected with the Midyear meeting). We also discussed the need to get more students involved in health physics , in particular to foster the training in the special field of accelerator health physics, so that there will be replacements for us when we retire.


Kamran Vaziri, Lorraine Day, and I met several times to discuss broadening the scope of the topics in the call for abstracts and the potential topics for the Professional Development School. We felt that we needed to lay a strong foundation for the Midyear and the school at the meeting. At that time, we didn’t even know where the meeting was to be held and the meeting venue had not been finalized. After meeting with Armin Ansari about the potential to host the Professional Development School, we decided to ask Don Cossairt and Vaclav Vylet to be Co-Deans for the Professional Development School. Both these individuals have previously put together week long schools at both the national and international level. The idea was advanced to prepare a poster to advertise the meeting and school one year in advance of the meeting. It was reasoned that advertising the meeting 6 months earlier than usual would give potential attendees the opportunity of including their travel plans in the budget for the coming year.


Following the meeting, many emails were exchanged between Kamran, Lorraine, Linnea Wahl, the section board and I regarding the content of the call for abstracts. The technical review committee was appointed (Scott Walker, Nisi Ipe, Elsa Nimmo). Nisi Ipe had to resign because of time conflicts, so Kamran Vaziri was appointed to take her place. Kamran will serve as the Accelerator section President during the 2008 mid-year. The Northern California Chapter was also given a chance for input toward the the development of suitable topics in the call for abstracts. We settled on the topics in about the middle of November 2006.


In September, the section asked Linnea Wahl to act as the liaison between the Accelerator Section and the Northern California Chapter. She agreed and has been a tremendous help since. At around that time, Lorraine Day sent a list of the items she remembered as priority to the Northern California Chapter.


During the months of August, September and October Don Cossairt and Vaclav Vylet prepared a proposal for the Professional Development School. During the same time period, Linnea Wahl was asked to be Administrative Dean for the school and she agreed. (She is currently performing three different jobs; Accelerator Newsletter Editor, Administrative Dean and Liaison between the section and the chapter). The proposal was sent to the Professional Development Committee for review and then sent on to the board for approval


At the end of November, the venue for the meeting had been established, the topics listed in the call for abstracts were completed and the school topical outline had been prepared and approved. Thus, everything was in order to begin working on the preparation of the poster to advertise the Midyear meeting. Los Alamos National Laboratory was kind enough to provide an experienced graphics designer named Shirley Veenis to prepare the poster. (She has prepared many posters for scientific meetings over the years). Shirley found an ideal photo to put on the poster, so we purchased the photo from the photographer and used the photo of the Oakland Bridge as the focal point of the poster. I also sent out a request to the accelerator section for photos of their accelerators to put on the poster.


Initially, we attempted to put far too many details on the poster concerning the call for abstracts. People from across the society were allowed to comment on the text until we reached the final form. I would like to acknowledge Linnea Wahl (particularly Linnea who was sharp enough to find all the minor detail errors), Radaslov Radov, Julie Clements, Elsa Nimmo, Lorraine Day, and Kamran Vaziri for their help in finalizing the poster text. I originally established a goal of completing the final version of the poster by December 15, 2006. Thanks to Brian Dodd and the HPS Board (who voted to accept the poster by email), the poster was completed and sent to the publisher by the proposed final date. The poster was also attached as a PDF file in the accelerator section newsletter. 2000 posters have been ordered. 1000 will be double scored (for folding) and put into envelopes and the remainder of the posters are to be used for distribution during both the midyear in Knoxville, TN and the annual meeting in Portland, OR


We have begun a significant effort to find the addresses of the organization where we plan to send the poster. So far, ~250 university hospitals from around the world have been added, accelerator section members have responded by sending physical addresses of their accelerator facilities and in addition, we have begun retrieving address of accelerator facilities around the world. Radaslav Radov has agreed to begin work on obtaining a list of addressees for homeland security facilities. Lastly, we need to begin preparing a list of industrial accelerator users.


We are planning a special accelerator section meeting for the annual meeting in Portland, OR. As part of that preparation, Kamran Vaziri has prepared a list of potential Morgan Lecturers. The accelerator section board voted to present Tony Sullivan as that potential candidate. Kamran has received letters of recommendation from several highly recognized accelerator health physicists who support Tony’s nomination. Kamran has also put out a call for papers to accelerator section members to submit papers for the special secession the annual meeting in Portland.


H. Wade Patterson Memorial Award


We continue to promote this award for outstanding research by a student working in the special field of accelerator health physics. We look to the Health Physics Society to aid the section in helping to promote this award. As in other areas of Health Physics, the accelerator section suffers a crisis in human capital. For experience in accelerators, neither Japan nor CERN are training students any longer. There is essentially no US counterpart and some HP positions have been vacant for more then 1 year, due to lack of qualified personnel. This is why the Patterson Award was created – to help to draw young people into the special world of accelerator health physics.


Accelerator Section Newsletter

Newsletter contributors included accelerator radiation safety professionals from US Department of Energy laboratories, universities, and international accelerator facilities. The newsletters included special articles on regulations, recommendations, and other issues of interest to accelerator health physicists. The officers of the Accelerator Section board of directors submitted articles on section activities such as elections, technical sessions planning, and awards. This newsletter is distributed world-wide, not just to the HPS community. We hope that it fosters international communications between like-minded individuals. The section is especially appreciative of the continuing efforts of our newsletter editor, Linnea Wahl, who is not even an accelerator-based health physicist. Her continued devotion is remarkable and deserves special mention.


ANSI N43.1: Radiation Safety for the Design and Operation of Particle Accelerators.


James Liu and Scott Walker used every spare moment at the annual meeting to complete the final edit of the ANSI N43.1 standard (Radiation Safety for the Design and Operation of Particle Accelerators). The standard was submitted to the ANSI N43 committee for comments during the winter of 2006. James and Scott spent much of the summer meeting addressing N43 committee member comments. This initial draft of the standard has been written over the eleven years. The standard was sent back to the committee for final and public comment during the fall of 2006.




Respectfully submitted,


Scott Walker





















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