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Daily Run Plan

Here are details of the daily run plan. See also the global Run Plan. The person responsible should ensure that a crew of experts is available for the shift. This schedule will be updated frequently by the Run Coordinator as the situation on the ground changes.


Daily Run Plan for PREX   (latest at bottom)
Date (2010) Shift ---------- Activity (Responsible) ---------- --- Status ---
03/19 Day pump down; Møller, Compton, septum install; Q2 repair

Insert sieve. (Techs)

done
03/19 Swing Beam restore (B-team) done
03/20 Owl
  • Septum checkout (Michaels: Page when beam imminent & spectrometer ready)

also:

  • Initial look at low current cavity monitors (Zafar: Page when beam imminent & spectrometer ready)
  • Target alignment (Michaels)
  • VDC checkout (Michaels)
  • Quartz detectors checkout (McNulty, Wexler -- page when VDC tracks seen)
  • GEM checkout (Camsonne -- page when VDC tracks seen, if left dipole is operating)
done

All at 1-2 µA.
Scattered energy ~ beam energy = 1.063 GeV.
Quad settings:

  • Right arm:
    • Q1: dI/dP= 411.2474 Amps/GeV/c
    • Q2: dI/dP= 436.2014 Amps/GeV/c
    • Q3: dI/dP= 433.3897 Amps/GeV/c
  • Left Arm:
    • Q1: dI/dP= 419.8772 Amps/GeV/c
    • Q2: dI/dP= 435.6273 Amps/GeV/c
    • Q3: dI/dP= 434.9682 Amps/GeV/c

"Usual" polarity

03/20 Day Beam off & hall open 9:00 am

Quads repair; Compton install; GEM install; signals debugging. Leave sieves in. (Techs)

done
03/20 Swing
  • Close up hall
  • Benesch tuning (1/2 - 2 hours)
  • Verify quad polarities (Camsonne)
  • Cavity monitors basic function test (Zafar)
  • Low current cavity monitors setup (Musson, Zafar)
done
3/21 Owl
  • Low current cavity monitors setup (Musson, Zafar)
  • Access for GEM installation (Camsonne)
done but GEMs not ready
3/21 Day
  • Spectrometer checkout:
    • Quartz detectors checkout (McNulty, Wexler)
    • Lumi checkout (Mercado) (2 µA on Ta)
    • GEM checkout (Camsonne?)
  • A line tuning (Benesch)
  • Raster checkout
  • Access:
    • Low current cavities
    • Target position
    • Quartz
    • Scintillator alignment
    • LQ2
done
3/21 Swing
  • Low current cavity monitors setup (Michaels, Zafar)
  • Remove sieves
  • Initial look at sieve out data
  • Replace sieves
done
3/22 Owl
  • Pointing measurement (Riordan)
  • Remove sieves
  • Repeat pointing measurements with no sieves
  • If done or unable to continue before 4 am page Luis Mercado to do lumi checks
  • After 4 am page Dustin McNulty for detector work
done
3/22 Day
  • Optics (Liyanage)Sieve OUT. NB Current limit 2 uA!
done
3/22 Swing
  • Optics continued, sieve IN. NB Current limit 2 uA! (Shift Crew)
done
3/23 Owl
  • Quartz detectors resolution studies (KK, Dustin, John W)
  • Lumi studies (Luis)
3/23 Day
  • Remove water target. (Target, Techs)
  • Reconfigure Moller cryo.
  • Beam studies ~ 2pm, study of helicity correlated position differences for spin flipper states. (Dalton, Rupesh, Reza)
water cell removed, rest not finished
3/23 Swing
  • Target pumpdown
done
3/24 Owl
  • Target pumpdown
done
3/24 Day
  • Target cooldown
done
3/24 Swing
  • Tune high current beam into Hall A
done
3/25 Owl
  • Commission lead target, 50 uA (Bob)
  • Lumis and oversampling tests (KK, Luis, Paul)
in progress
3/25 Day
  • Access to fix left dipole
done
3/25 Swing
  • Parity Quality commissioning (Kent, Rupesh, Luis, Dustin)
  • Beam monitor calibrations (Diancheng Wang, Xiaoyan Deng)
postponed
3/26 Owl
  • High Luminosity Detector Commissioning
in progress
3/26 Day
  • Moller Checkout
postponed
3/26 Swing
  • High Current on C12 (thick and thin)
partly done
3/27 Owl no beam
3/27 Day no beam
3/27 Swing
  • High-current on thick C12, adjust HV (Luis or Bob)
  • Finish the commissioning of thick Pb target (Bob, Ahmed)
  • Electronic Commissioning (KK, Luis, Paul, Jon et al)
done, high-current tests continue
3/28 Owl
  • Continue with the above, if necessary.
  • High Luminosity Commissioning (Rupesh, Luis, Jon, Bob)
  • BCM/BPM calibration (Rupesh)
  • Establishing Parity Measurements, Charge feedback, blinding (Rupesh, Jon)
not finished
3/28 Day
  • Comparison Study of Optics Tunes (Seamus, Nilanga, Kiad)
  • Sometime before Monday, submit the ATLIS plan for Dithering test (Rupesh)
done
3/28 Swing
  • Continue Optics if necessary.
  • Continue High Luminosity Commissioning
done
3/29 Owl
  • Mini-production run (shift crew)
  • Stop beam at 07:00 or whenever Ed Folts asks to.
done
3/29 Day
  • Open Hall A to set up Moller and Compton (Ed Folts, Sasha, Sirish, et.al.)
  • Work on GEMs (Alex, Seamus, et.al.)
  • MCC to do beam studies while Hall A open
  • Detector linearity/LED tests (Luis)
  • Setup WAC analysis (Mark, Mindy)
done
3/29 Swing
  • Moller magnet cooldown
  • Optics and acceptance studies (Seamus, Ahmed, Nilanga)
done
3/30 Owl
  • Commission charge feedback (Mark)
  • Current monitor calibration and pedestals determination (Mark)
  • Quasi-production on Empty Target (owl shift crew)
done
3/30 Day
  • Access do work on Moller and Compton.
  • Some GEM installation work. (Alex, Seamus, Kiad, Nilanga)
  • Possible linearity/LED study. (Luis)
done, except linearity
3/30 Swing
  • First Commissioning of Moller -- Beam Checks (Sasha, Javier, Roman, Jay)
done
3/31 Owl
  • Scans of Septum and quad Q1 for tunes A and B. (Bob)
  • Beam Studies of Helicity Correlations
done
3/31 Day
  • Beam Tuning (Jay Benesch)
3/31 Swing
  • Either or both of these:
  • a) Moller Commissioning (Sasha, Javier, Roman, Jay)
  • b) Tests of Dithering and other Beam-Related things (Kent, Rupesh)
Moller was done
4/1 Owl
  • If Kent's tests not done on Swing, continue here. (Kent, Rupesh)
  • Beam and Septum scan with new tune (Seamus)
  • Helicity-correlated beam studies (Shift crew)
done
4/1 Day
  • Beam Tuning (Jay)
done, successful
4/1 Swing
  • More beam tuning if necessary
  • Moller Commissioning
done
Friday 2 April Owl
  • Assuming the HRS tune has been frozen
  • Check detector alignment
  • A_T studies
  • Q2 Measurements
partly done, needs more work
Friday 2 April Day
  • Tuning Beam for Compton
Friday 2 April Swing
  • 20:00 Obtain sieve runs (optics mini-run plan), Q2 measurements (Bob)
Saturday 3 April Owl
  • Continue optics
  • Pseudo-production (empty target)
Saturday 3 April Day
  • Moller Commissioning
  • Work on getting into production mode (Mark, Rupesh)
  • Compton commissioning (Sirish, Alex, Megan)
Saturday 3 April Swing
  • Moller commissioning (actually any time they want)
Sunday 4 April Owl
  • Lead production 50 uA
Sunday 4 April Day
  • Lead production 50 uA
Sunday 4 April Swing
  • Q2 measurements (Bob) -- could slide to owl.
Monday 5 April Owl
  • Lead production 50 uA
Monday 5 April Day
  • 12:00 Set up vertical polarization and measure A_T
Monday 5 April Swing
  • 16:00 Spin dance
  • 22:00 Set up horizontal polarization
Tuesday 6 April Owl
  • Run horizontal polarization
Tuesday 6 April Day
  • Run horizontal polarization
Tuesday 6 April Swing
Wednesday 7 April Owl
Wednesday 7 April Day
Wednesday 7 April Swing
Thursday 8 April Owl
Thursday 8 April Day
Thursday 8 April Swing
Friday 9 April Owl
Friday 9 April Day
Friday 9 April Swing
Saturday 10 April Owl
Saturday 10 April Day
Saturday 10 April Swing
Sunday 11 April Owl
Sunday 11 April Day
Sunday 11 April Swing
Monday 12 April Owl
Monday 12 April Day
Monday 12 April Swing