BLIP operations 3-2-10

• Status – running at ~139MeV

– BLIP average beam up to 98.3µA, with a high of 103.3µA on 2/26.

Operation with beam 161hrs.

• Operations issues– Ion source pulse timing problem has reduced effective pulse rate

below the expected 6.67Hz. This will be corrected next

maintenance day.

– No target problems this week

– Research irradiation at 139 MeV began 3/1.

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