Daily Run Plan for PREX (latest at bottom)
| Date (2010) |
Shift |
---------- Activity (Responsible) ---------- |
--- Status ---
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| 03/19
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Day
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pump down; Møller, Compton, septum install; Q2 repair
Insert sieve. (Techs)
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done
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| 03/19
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Swing
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Beam restore (B-team)
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done
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| 03/20
|
Owl
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- 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)
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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
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| 03/20
|
Day
|
Beam off & hall open 9:00 am
Quads repair; Compton install; GEM install; signals debugging. Leave sieves in. (Techs)
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done
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| 03/20
|
Swing
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- 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)
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done
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| 3/21
|
Owl
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- Low current cavity monitors setup (Musson, Zafar)
- Access for GEM installation (Camsonne)
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done but GEMs not ready
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| 3/21
|
Day
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- 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
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done
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| 3/21
|
Swing
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- Low current cavity monitors setup (Michaels, Zafar)
- Remove sieves
- Initial look at sieve out data
- Replace sieves
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done
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| 3/22
|
Owl
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- 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
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done
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| 3/22
|
Day
|
Sieve OUT. NB Current limit 2 uA!
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done
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| 3/22
|
Swing
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- Optics continued, sieve IN. NB Current limit 2 uA! (Shift Crew)
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done
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| 3/23
|
Owl
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- Quartz detectors resolution studies (KK, Dustin, John W)
- Lumi studies (Luis)
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| 3/23
|
Day
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- Remove water target. (Target, Techs)
- Reconfigure Moller cryo.
- Beam studies ~ 2pm, study of helicity correlated position differences for spin flipper states. (Dalton, Rupesh, Reza)
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water cell removed, rest not finished
|
| 3/23
|
Swing
|
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done
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| 3/24
|
Owl
|
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done
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| 3/24
|
Day
|
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done
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| 3/24
|
Swing
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- Tune high current beam into Hall A
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done
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| 3/25
|
Owl
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- Commission lead target, 50 uA (Bob)
- Lumis and oversampling tests (KK, Luis, Paul)
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in progress
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| 3/25
|
Day
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- Access to fix left dipole
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done
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| 3/25
|
Swing
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- Parity Quality commissioning (Kent, Rupesh, Luis, Dustin)
- Beam monitor calibrations (Diancheng Wang, Xiaoyan Deng)
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postponed
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| 3/26
|
Owl
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- High Luminosity Detector Commissioning
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in progress
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| 3/26
|
Day
|
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postponed
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| 3/26
|
Swing
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- High Current on C12 (thick and thin)
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partly done
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| 3/27
|
Owl
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no beam
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| 3/27
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Day
|
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no beam
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| 3/27
|
Swing
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- 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)
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done, high-current tests continue
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| 3/28
|
Owl
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- 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)
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not finished
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| 3/28
|
Day
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- Comparison Study of Optics Tunes (Seamus, Nilanga, Kiad)
- Sometime before Monday, submit the ATLIS plan for Dithering test (Rupesh)
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done
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| 3/28
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Swing
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- Continue Optics if necessary.
- Continue High Luminosity Commissioning
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done
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| 3/29
|
Owl
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- Mini-production run (shift crew)
- Stop beam at 07:00 or whenever Ed Folts asks to.
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done
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| 3/29
|
Day
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- 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)
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done
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| 3/29
|
Swing
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- Moller magnet cooldown
- Optics and acceptance studies (Seamus, Ahmed, Nilanga)
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done
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| 3/30
|
Owl
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- Commission charge feedback (Mark)
- Current monitor calibration and pedestals determination (Mark)
- Quasi-production on Empty Target (owl shift crew)
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done
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| 3/30
|
Day
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- Access do work on Moller and Compton.
- Some GEM installation work. (Alex, Seamus, Kiad, Nilanga)
- Possible linearity/LED study. (Luis)
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| 3/30
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Swing
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- First Commissioning of Moller -- Beam Checks (Sasha, Javier, Roman, Jay)
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| 3/31
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Owl
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- Scans of Septum and quad Q1 for tunes A and B. (Bob)
- Beam Studies of Helicity Correlations
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| 3/31
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Day
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- Beam Tuning (Jay Benesch)
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| 3/31
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Swing
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- Either or both of these:
- a) Moller Commissioning (Sasha, Javier, Roman, Jay)
- b) Tests of Dithering and other Beam-Related things (Kent, Rupesh)
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| 4/1
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Owl
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- 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)
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| 4/1
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Day
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- One of these:
- a) Beam Tuning (MCC)
- b) Access to work on Moller or Compton
- c) Moller Commissioning
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| 4/1
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Swing
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| 4/2
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Owl
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- Assuming the HRS tune has been frozen
- Check detector alignment
- A_T studies
- Q2 Measurements
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| 4/2
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Day
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| 4/2
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Swing
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| 4/3
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Owl
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| 4/3
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Day
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| 4/3
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Swing
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| 4/4
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Owl
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| 4/4
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Day
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| 4/4
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Swing
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| 4/5
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Owl
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