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Ass.Princ: C. Zecchin Ass.CC:

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

between

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE

and

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS, BASQUE COUNTRY UNIVERSITY (UPV/EHU), LEIOA SPAIN

concernmg

COLLABORATION IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF JOINT ACTIONS IN THE FIELD OF HIGH INTENSITY PROTON ACCELERATORS

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), represented by its President, Roberto Petronzio

on the one hand,

AND

The Department of Electricity and Electronics, Basque Country University (DEE-UPV/EHU), represented by its Director, Victor Etxebarria

on the other hand,

hereafter collectively and individually referred to as the "Parties" and the "Party" respectively,

have reached an understanding on the following points in order to promote cooperative research and development of the accelerator components. This cooperation, in the spirit of the 'European Research Area', is intended for the benefit of the respective scientific and industrial communities.

Article 1. Purpose

1.1. The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (hereafter:"MoU") is to establish an operational framework for scientific collaboration between the Parties in high intensity beam diagnostics, accelerator control systems, high intensity proton injectors and other domains of mutual interest (hereafter:"the collaboration field"). The Parties shall use the results of the collaboration for peaceful purposes only.

1.2. This MoU is without prejudice to the execution of any other agreement or Memorandum of Understanding entered into by the Parties.

Article 2. Organization of the collaboration

2.1. Any activity within the collaboration field shall be organized as specific projects (hereafter:"project" or "projects"). The Parties are under no obligation to accept a proposal for a project. The scope of each project, the required resources, the contribution by each Party, the time schedule and its management shall be laid down in Addenda to this MoU. The Addenda shall be subject to the terms of this MoU, it being understood however that in case of ambiguity or con£Jict, the term of the Addenda shall prevail. Any project shall cease tlu'ough tile termination of tile activity concerned or of this MoU.

Article 3. Forms of collaboration

3.1. A project may take any form deemed suitable by the Parties and compatible with their status and regulatory framework, including but not limited to participation in the other Party's research activities, training, licensing of intellectual property as well as manpower.

Article 4. Personnel for the collaboration

4.1. DEE-UPV /EHU agrees to contribute to the projects making available human resources, PhD students, scientists or technicians.

4.2. INFN agrees to make available to DEE-UPV /EHU expertise and facilities at INFN necessary for the execution of the projects on an appropriate basis. Efforts will be made by INFN scientists to guarantee high level h'aining of people at Article 4.1.

4.3. Except as agreed otherwise, each Party shall pay for the h'avel of its own personnel to the other Party or, as the case may be, to any other destination.

4.4. INFN personnel and DEE-UPV /EHU personnel taking part in the project shall remain employees of their home institutions, which as employers shall each bear exclusive responsibility for the remuneration and for the procw'ement of social secW'ity of its personnel, including health and accident insW'ance, as well as insurance against the financial consequences of death and disability. The employing Party shall also ensW'e that its personnel is covered against third party liability. Where a member of the personnel performs work at the other Party's premises, the level of his or her heal th, accident and third party liability cover must be adequate in the counti·y of the host Party. Each Party shall hold the other Party free and harmless from any liability connection with its obligations under this article.

Article 5. Safety

5.1. The persOimel of each Party shall comply with the rules of conduct and safety in force at the host Party.

5.2. Any equipment or other item constructed and used under this MoU shall conform to the rules for industrial safety in force at the Party where it will be installed and operated.

Article 6. Intellectual Property

6.1. Information disclosed under this MoU by one Party to the other Party shall not create any proprietary right in respect of such information for the recei ving Party.

6.2. Title in the intellectual property developed by a Party in the execution of this MoU shall be vested in that Party, who shall grant a free, non­exclusive license to such intellectual property to the other Party for the

execution of its scientific programme, including tlu'ough its partners and sub-contractors.

6.3. Where title in intellectual property is jOintly vested in the Parties, they shall agree on the making available to third parties of such intellectual property, provided that in any event, they shall grant to each other a free, non-exclusive license to such intellectual property for the execution of their scientific programmes, including through their partners and sub­contractors. They shall strive to make any jointly developed sofhvare available under open source license conditions.

6.4. The providing Party gives no warranty in respect of intellectual property made available by it to the other Party under this MoV and the receiving Party shall hold the providing Party free and harmless from any liability arising from its use (including by its partners and sub-contractors) of such intellectual property as well as of any other intellectual property developed under this MoV.

Article 7. Publications

7.1. Always subject to provisions of article 6, the Parties shall strive to jointly publish the results of their collaboration on an open-access basis.

7.2. All publications shall acknowledge the collaboration including, if so requested by a Party, the persons having taken part in the execution of the project concerned.

Article 8. Monitoring of this MoU

8.1. Each Party shall nominate an equal number of representatives who shall jointly constitute the Implementation Committee (hereafter:" the Conunittee"). The Conmlittee shall monitor the implementation of this MoV.

• INFN's representative shall be:

Emico Fagotti

• DEE-UPV JEHU's representative shall be:

F Javier Bermejo

or such successors as each Party may designate and conununicate m writing to the other Party

8.2. The Committee's mandate shall include but not be limited to:

• The identification of activities within the collaboration field; • The approval, which must be unanimous, of project proposal in the

light of available resources. Any approval is subject to the members of the Committee having obtained internal approvals and to the signature of the relevant Addendum.

8.3. The Committee shall meet at least once per year. If necessary, in order to carry out its mandate in a timely manner, the Committee shall hold extraordinary meeting and it may take decisions in meetings, bye-mail or otherwise.

Article 9. Liability

Except in case of gross negligence or willful misconduct by the other Party or as may result from articles 4.4 or 6.4 of this MoU, each Party shall bear its own loss and damage in connection with this MoU. Notwithstanding the forgoing, each Party shall hold the other Party free and harmless from liability for loss or damage caused by the former to third parties under or in connection with this MoU.

Article 10. Applicable law and dispute resolution

10.1. The terms of this MoU shall be interpreted in accordance with their true meaning and effect and independently of any national or otl1er law.

10.2. Any dispute concerning this MoU which cannot be settled amicably shall be decided by arbitration to be held in Rome, under such procedural rules as the Parties shall define.

Article 11. Addresses for correspondence

11.1. Documents addressed to INFN shall be sent to:

Enrico Fagotti INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro

Viale dell'Universita, 2 - 35020 Legnaro (P ADOV A), ITALY.

11.2. Documents addressed to DEE-UPV JEHU shall be sent to:

F Javier Bermejo Dept. de Electricidad y Electr6nica

Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnologia UPV JEHU 48940 Leioa, SPAIN.

or such successors as each Party may designate and comunicate in writing to the other Party.

Article 12. Duration

12.1. This MoD shall take effect on the date of its last signature. It shall remain valid for a period of tlu'ee year, unless terminated by joint agreement or by one Party giving the other six (6) months prior written notification. Articles 4.4, 6, 7, 9 and 10 of this MoU shall survive its termination, hoesoever caused.

12.2. This MoU can be renewed tlu'ough mutual consultation between the Parties at least six (6) months prior its expiration.

For Istituto Nazionale eli Fisica Nucleare (INFN)

Date 2'9 OTT. 2010

By Roberto Petronzio

For Department of Electricity and Electronics, Basque Counh'y University (DEE-UPV / )

By Victor Etxebarria

ADDENDUM I

Project: Design and construction of an Allison Scanner for very fast emittance measurements

Over the last 20 years, Allison scanners have been introduced in many laboratories to measure the emittance of low-energy ion beams. Allison scanners feature entrance and exit slits that are rigidly mounted on the same support base, thus allowing for their relative alignment within tight tolerances. The space between the slits is occupied by a set of electric deflection plates. Charged particles that pass both slits are collected in the Faraday cup, which features secondary electron suppression. A grounded shield surrounds the assembly, intercepting any charged particles that could produce ghost signals. A stepper motor moves the entire assembly through the beam to probe the different positions of the beam. At each stop, the beamlet crossing the entrance slit is scanned electrically across the exit slit to determine the distribution of the entry angles. After crossing the enh'ance slits, ions with a certain energy enter the elech'ic field betvveen the deflection plates, which are charged to opposite voltages. The deflection voltage-to-entrance angle conversion depends primarily on the length of the deflection plates and the gap between them. In this way it is possible to measure bean1let divergence simply measuring voltage difference between the active plate of device. INFN-LNL is developing an emittance scanner based on the Allison principle. Mechanical design and manufacturing of the emittance monitor is complete, but work is needed on acquisition elech'onics and control system. DEE-UPV / EHU will collaborate on the electronics and control project.

The collaboration is based for the moment on documents exchanges and short visit, up to few months, without hardware or fund transfers being involved.

The contact person at DEE-UPV /EHU is: J. Ortega

The contact person at LNL is: M. Poggi

ADDENDUM II

Project: Design and construction of a FoUl' Grid Analyzer fo1' neutralization measurements

Low-energy (70 - 80 keY) beam transport (LEBT) of high-current (50 - 100 mAl positive­ion beams in background gas pressures of order 10-5 mbar are predicted to have their space charge (s.c.) largely neutralized by electrons accumulated in a beam plasma. The degree of s.c. neutralization f is an important parameter in bean) transport calculations. One technique developed for the experimental investigation of f for positive ion beams is the measurement of the slow ion energy distribution, In a one-dimensional axisymmetric model of the beam-plasma interaction, where plasma ions are born cold (25 meV), measurement of the ion-energy distribution can be interpreted in terms of the residual beam space potential. This method has the advantage of not intercepting the primary ion beam. A four-grid energy analyzer (Fe A) allows relating beam space charge potential to the maximum energy spread of the secondary ions produced.

FeA will be an extremely useful diagnostics for the low energy beam transport lines of both laboratories. DEE-UPV JEHU - INFN-LNL ,';'ill work in the development of a new FeA.

The collaboration is based for the moment on documents exchanges and short visit, up to few months, without hardware or fund transfers being involved.

The contact person at DEE-UPV JEHU is: J. Ortega

The contact person at LNL is: M.Poggi

ADDENDUM III

Project: Development of control systems based on EPICS architecture

DEE-UPV JEHU and II\TFN-LNL will collaborate in the development of EPICS control systems for different applications which can be developed or improved based on the interests of both institutions.

Among applications, the beam profiler control system, implemented in EPICS at LNL, the analysis of traffic network load using an EPICS IOC network (such as NAL and ALH) and stress-studies to verify the reliability and fault-tolerant of EPICS database aJ'chivers aJ'e good choices to be studied.

The collaboration includes initiatives for the evaluation of the cloud and virtualization technologies applied to EPICS conti'ol systems.

Using a real-time embedded system, an application will be created, tested and documented with the aim of testing the performance of the EPICS protocol interfaces.

The collaboration is based for the moment on documents exchanges, the possible stay of researchers of one institution on the second one, for collaborating purposes, including the tutorage of the work of students in such topics.

The contact person at DEE-UPV JEHU is: J. Jugo

The contact person at LNL is: M. Giacchini

ADDENDUM IV

Project: Study and optimization of high intensity proton injector

INFN-Ll\TL high intensity proton injector is a microwave source (TRIPS), otherwise called off-resonance ECR. It can extract a maximum current density of 220 mAJ em' at 80 keV with an rms emittance of 0.2 mm-mrad. Current is limited by power supply. However, even without any power supply limitation, the maximum current compatible with the specified emittance is 140 mA. Proton fraction can be as high as 90 %. Main components of the source are a 2.45 GHz Magnetron, two independently energized and movable solenoids and a five electrodes extraction column. First version of the source suffered some problems related to sparks, alignment and vacuum: The second version sb'ongly suppressed discharge and aligrunent problem, but maintained the vacuum one caused by a non optimized engineering of extraction column.

DEE-UPV JEHU is involved in the installation of a new plasma laboratory and in the development of a new high intensity proton source, which should produce a bean1 up to 70 rnA at 70 keV with an nns emittance of 0.2 nun-mrad, both in CW and in pulsed mode.

The collaboration is based for the moment on documents exchanges and short visit, up to few months, without hardware or fund transfers being involved.

The contact person at DEE-UPV JEHU is: J. Feuchtwanger

The contact person at LNL is: E. Fagotti