[Brahms-l] Fw: SPY news update: I am back ... Time meeting on Tuesday (Apr. 6) ... horizon at the top of the Alps

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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>
To: "kinyip" <kinyip@fnal.gov>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 8:15 PM
Subject: SPY news update: I am back ... Time meeting on Tuesday (Apr. 6) ...
horizon at the top of the Alps


> ====== Scheduling Physicist -YIP (ie. SPY) news channel ========
>
>
> (1) As usual, the next Time meeting is this Tuesday (Apr. 6, 2004)
>     at 13:30 in the Snyder Seminar Room (911A).
>
> ************************************************************
>
> (2)  Schedule :
>
> 3 day RHIC downtime will go on until 18:00 on Apr. 7 (Wed.) if the Jet
> Target group can finish their work before then; otherwise, we'll have
> to wait for them to finish.  Another crucial part that needs to be
> finished is G. Ganetis' work with the rotator in RHIC.
>
> NSRL is running until Apr. 22.
>
> ************************************************************
>
> (3) Brief status in my view :
>
> We've received enthusiastic compliments from all 4 expt. spokesmen
> for the higher and lower energy Au-Au runs.  And the run-coordinator
> has been promoted to be the "Associate Division Head" (for Upgrades)
> in the Accelerator Division.   I don't need to say any more about how
> successful we have been :-)
>
> The NSRL (NASA) run last week was very tough in the "mode switching"
> business --- ie., NSRL could run only during RHIC stores.  The stores are
> more
> or less 4 hours long but just the time between the stores are quite
> uncertain.
> But at the end, we have managed to finish all the epxeriments.   I am very
> sorry
> that I was not here to help last week  :-(   It's becoming easier from
last
> Friday
> as NSRL and RHIC polarized-proton program are running in a kind of
> co-existing
> PPM (pulse-pulse-modulation) mode.
>
> For some reasons, we didn't change the silicon for the AGS polarimeter nor
> did we add the "cooler" this morning.   So, we may need another time to do
> this in the future.  This morning's AGS access was short and the RSVP test
> beam people didn't get as much time as they have hoped for.
>
> Furthermore, A. Zelenski needs ~8 hours to "maintain" the polarized source
> every week.   I am hoping we may combine this work with the Jet target's
> dissociator maintenance... It's complicated ... we have to see and arrange
> and "optimize".
>
> BLIP has to be stopped whenever we do RHIC injection, which is very often
> during the machine development.  Last weekend, BLIP could only use 10%
> of the time.
>
> ************************************************************
>
> (4) NOT related to the BNL schedule/status .... but just my conference ...
>
> I have enjoyed my Moriond conference for a few different reasons.  I won't
> elaborate here as I haven't written my trip report for this foreign trip
:-)
> This one week seems longer than it was ...
>
> But this is my first outside (major) conference after more than one year.
I
> feel that one year is probably too long and I should try to go more often
!
> It somehow suddenly wakes me up and kind of says to me : "Eh !  There is
> something to learn outside the world of a Scheduling Physicist. "   I am
> talking about my interest in "physics" versus "scheduling".
>
> It's good to be away from something that one has been doing without really
> thinking for so many months.  Maybe, standing at the top of the Alps helps
> one broaden one's horizon.   Though our colleagues haven't found any
> extra dimension in their detector/accelerator (and one wouldn't be
> surprised),
> I probably see my own 0.5 of extra dimension for the future .......
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> Disclaimer: Whatever is being said here is not always 100% accurate
> though I try my best to avoid being 100% inaccurate :-)
>


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