RunPlan
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PREX Run Plan for Commissioning and Auxiliary Measurements
Updated: Jan 25, 2010
See also the Daily Run Plan
This doesn't include regular Production running. The experiment is approved for 30 PAC days; there are 2 weeks of "commissioning" listed, and then an additional 61 days for production.
Below is a list of tasks in the approximate time order, with person(s) responsible, approximate amount of time required, and comments about the conditions or needs. The time will, in most cases, be broken up into manageable chunks. For example, the GEM commissioning will occur in about 4 periods of time, each 4 hours, separated by at least one day.
Spillover from Beam Restore
- Basic Beam Setup -- 2 shifts Jay Benesch, Bteam
- Source and Parity Quality Beam -- 2 shifts Kent Paschke, Mark Dalton, Rupesh Silwal
Low Current Checkout with Water Cell (3-4 calendar days)
- Septum checkout -- 2 shifts
- Septum Commissioning (Priority activity) -- Bob Michaels, John LeRose
- Verify septum does not steer beam
- Thin target, low-current checks with A_T hole blocked
- Low-current cavities -- John Musson, Zafar Ahmed
- Need before Optics and Q2
- Should be on Day shift
- VDC Checkout -- Dustin McNulty, Alexandre Camsonne, Bob Michaels
- First spectra on specific thin targets
- Characterize collimator with A_T hole blocked
- Integrating detector checkout -- Dustin McNulty, Piotr Decowski, Jon Wexler
- Detector pulse height spectra
- If possible, compare 6 and 10 mm blocks
- LUMI checkout -- KK, Luis, Paul
- Short runs at high current on Tantalum target
- Run early enough before access for manipulating A_T tungsten plugs
- Septum Commissioning (Priority activity) -- Bob Michaels, John LeRose
- A_T hole characterization -- 1 shift
- Effect of graphite plugs (Priority activity) -- Bob Michaels, Dustin McNulty
- Accesses as needed to study impact of plugs
- GEM checkout -- Ole Hansen, Alexandre Camsonne, Nilanga Liyanage
- First attempt at GEM commissioning
- Take separate runs centered on A_T hole flux
- Effect of graphite plugs (Priority activity) -- Bob Michaels, Dustin McNulty
- Water Cell & Optics -- 2 shifts
- Absolute angle measurement (Priority activity) -- Nilanga et al
- Sieve Slit runs
- Angle calibration
- Access to remove water cell; then cool the target -- Dave Meekins
- Parasitic GEM/Detector studies -- GEM & Detector teams
- Accumulate statistics on detector pulse height
- A_T hole alignment
- Absolute angle measurement (Priority activity) -- Nilanga et al
Lead Target Checkout (1-2 calendar days)
- High Current Commissioning -- 1 shift
- Production target checkout (Priority activity) -- Bob Michaels et al
- 100 uA on thick Lead, monitor radiation levels, establish luminosity limits
- Electronics commissioning -- KK, Luis, Paul et al
- Establish LUMI performance characteristics
- Detailed measurements of various oversampling configurations
- Production target checkout (Priority activity) -- Bob Michaels et al
- Parity Commissioning -- 1 shift
- Parity Quality (Priority activity) -- Kent, Rupesh, Luis, Dustin et al
- IA feedback, beam modulation
- Evaluate LUMI regression performance
- Beam monitor calibrations -- ??
- Bulls-eye scan, fixed gain BPM calibration, BCM calibration
- Parity Quality (Priority activity) -- Kent, Rupesh, Luis, Dustin et al
- Q2 Measurement -- 1 shift
- Establish Q2 measurement sequence (Priority activity) -- Dustin, Nilanga et al
- parasitic GEM commissioning
- ARC energy measurement -- ??
- Establish Q2 measurement sequence (Priority activity) -- Dustin, Nilanga et al
- High Current Detector Commissioning -- 1 shift
- Characterization of Integrating Detector response (Priority activity) -- KK, Jon, Dustin et al
- Evaluate detector and LUMI noise peformance
- Evaluate BPM performance; compare strip-line regression to cavity regression
- Final parasitic GEM commissioning -- Ole, Nilanga et al
- Compare predicted and measured integrating width prediction at moderate current on thick target
- Characterization of Integrating Detector response (Priority activity) -- KK, Jon, Dustin et al
Polarimetry Checkout (3-4 calendar days)
- Double-Wien Spin Manipulator Commissioning -- 3 shifts Joe Grames
- Compton Commissioning -- 8 shifts Sirish Nanda, et.al.
- Beam Tune, Background reduction -- Bteam, Alexandre Camsonne
- Compton Cavity Checkout -- Sirish et.al.
- Photon Detector Checkout -- CMU group
- Electron Detector Checkout -- Alexandre Camsonne
- Moller Commissioning -- 8 shifts Sasha Glamazdin, et.al.
- Magnet Alignment -- 1 shift (swing)
- Raster size and pulse-mode -- 1 shift (day)
- Target commissioning - 3 shifts
- Pulse-mode target commissioning - 2 shifts
- DAQ checkout -- 1 shift
- Linearity Studies -- 1 shift Rupesh Silwal, Kent Paschke
- Transverse Asymmetry -- 3 shifts
- Spin Dance -- 1 shift
- Running with deliberately transverse polarization -- 2 shifts
- Background Studies -- 2 shifts
- Scans of Septum Magnet and HRS Dipole
- Thin Lead Target to check for inelastics at high-resolution
- Thin C12 to measure diamond background
Total time: approx 17 days ! Based on this list, each day we will come up with a schedule. Some flexibility will be needed to accomodate problems and changes in plans.
