[Brahms-l] Fw: SPY news update: Time Meeting Jan. 27, 2003 ... boring is good

FYI
update from the scheduling physicist

Flemming

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Flemming Videbaek
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory

e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov
phone: 631-344-4106
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kin Yip" <kinyip@bnl.gov>
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Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:15 PM
Subject: SPY news update: Time Meeting Jan. 27, 2003 ... boring is good


> ====== Scheduling Physicist -YIP (ie. SPY) news channel ========
>
> (1) The usual Time meeting will be held at 13:30 on Jan. 27, 2004
> in the Snyder Room (911A).
>
> (2) Status : uneventful or boring is good ... :
>
> All expts. have been praising how well the machine has been performing
> in recent meetings.   If I consider myself as a journalist here, it's
almost
> "uneventful" in the RHIC running, ie., we just have one physics store
after
> another from Friday to Monday ...... somebody say "boring is good" !   As
> I have seen in today's scheduling meeting, this apparently even helps
> reduce the time that we need to spend in arguing/bargaining.
>
> Minor things ... The new beam loss monitor that we installed last Wed.
> were found to be not too helpful and we are not using them at the moment.
> PHOBOS seems to have some more serious background problem ( but not
> worse than last year ) when we went to high bunch intensities/bunch
> patterns such as 61x61.
>
> (3) Schedule in the immediate future and beyond:
>
> On Tuesday Jan. 27, the following are scheduled :
>
>   (i) 09:00 - 11:00 Access (PHENIX/STAR/PHOBOS plus installing pole
>                                          tip for the warm dipole at 10
> o'clock )
>
>   (ii) 11:00 - 18:00 Machine Development
>
>   (iii)18:00 - 06:00 (Jan. 28) Beam Expts.
>
> I hope the snow is not going to give us too much trouble to this schedule.
>
> On Wed., there will be **NO** access but all physics running.
> On Thursday, there will be machine development from 09:00 to
> possibly 16:00 at the latest (and may be shortened).
>
> It also looks like we'll install the warm snake on Feb. 4 (the Wed.
> after this week) which may take ~12 hours.
>
> More on tomorrow's Time meeting ........
>
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