After two days of tuning the beam, yesterday evening (~8pm), it was found out that within one ESR pattern using the new control system the harmonics of the cavities cannot be changed. This gives us a fatal limitation, that we cannot go lower 
than 10MeV/u with the beam energy.
-As a first attempt we try to reach this 10MeV/u with two steps deceleration (first to 30MeV/u). At this 10MeV/u we have the p,n channel opened as well, which based on TALYS gives significant, weird shaped background in the spot of the p,g 
peak both in xy and xE histos.
-A second option would be that we inject the beam to ESR roughly at 330MeV/u. Then we can decelerate until 5MeV/u, but there is no stochastic, neither e-cooling available. This result to a "hot" decelerated beam with intensity factor 5 less 
(in optimistic scenario). But for this the whole tuning phase (the first two days of the beam time) must be remade, we have to start basically from scratch. 




It is "funny" that we have a very limited 5 days of beam time which is spent estimately >99% with, from the physics point of view, completely useless beam manipulation issues, which in a normal world must be done already in the engineering 
beam time... 
It is quite challenging to stay positive at the current status (not positive in the sense of the growing Corona-virus).