------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu Aug 23 23:54:10 2001, Shift: 16:00-24:00 Supervisor: JJG, with: EJ Log book#8 pages 10 - 14 Shift Summary: ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. No beam today. No beam this evening, but plenty of pedestals. 2. Access to the IR during the day. 3. Ramiro operated on section 2 of T3 and surgically removed all life support systems of the V plane. This means that T2 anode can be raised to operating voltage (read also in the logbook). 4. Dana and EB have completed the finger counters for the FFS. They are now positioned just behind C1. The counters are separated by 2.5". JJG and Erik have cabled up , adjusted disc., applied HV and checked that pulses come out to the FEE. See details in logbook 8 and C1 logbook. 5. HV has been set using the FFS1440 HV pgrm to -1600V. Need to include this in BRAVO (?), implement the data readout (FV?) and enable display in supermon(JIJ, KH?). 6. FV and Betty + more have worked hard on the HPSS link. FV says it is now operational. Since I have nothing to transfer, I cannot verify this. 7. It is now 11.25PM and RHIC says: heavy ions have been restored to W-dump. This sounds ominous, but is perhaps a good sign. I will soon also retire to the B-dump. 8. In any case, JJG leaves BNL tomorrow. Event though the machine hasn't performed brilliantly (nice euphemism) the experiment is in pretty good shape, thanks to the many efforts of dedicated collaborators. The data analysis is also coming well along, so things look faily bright to me. Keep up the good work and lets all look forward to some exciting physics results. Here ends the pastoral missive...Goodnight. ------------------------------------------------------------
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