From: Flemming Videbaek (videbaek@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 19:31:16 EST
Dear Collaborator, I hope you have been following the progress, albeit slow on the run-3 dA run, through the e-log, that is a very nice tool. As you may know the budget situation is still not clarified, with the house and senate budget bills in conference. There is hope (an rumours) this will be resolved during the next week, and pending general cuts may result in either a full run or somewhat reduce run. I sincerely hopes this goes through, stay tuned. We have completed a significant fraction of the survey program, almost complete with the MRS, and about 60% done for FS. The running have been plauged by high, varying and quite sensitive backgrounds i.e small change in beam parameters make huge differences in observed backgrounds. RHIC understands the seriousness of this problem an has been working on this all along. This implies that part of the time is beeing spend on machines developments reucing the overall amount of time available for experiments. During the next week where I am away the daily coordination will be taken by JH, and progress issues as usual discussed during the standard Monday and Thurday meetings. best regards Flemming -- Flemming Videbaek Brookhavne National Laboratory Physics Department tlf 631-344-4106 fax 631-344-1334 e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov
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