[Brahms-l] Fw: SPY news update: probably I could say "uneventful"

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Flemming Videbaek
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kin Yip" <kinyip@bnl.gov>
To: <kinyip@fnal.gov>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 11:22 PM
Subject: SPY news update: probably I could say "uneventful"


>
>
> ====== Scheduling Physicist -YIP (ie. SPY) news channel ========
>
> ************************************************************
>
> (1)  Status in my point of view:
>
>  (A) polarized-proton in RHIC :
>
>   --- We have already got collisions with the polarized-proton beams with
> 6x6 or more bunches.
>
>   --- The first polarization measurement was measured to be something like
> (53 +/- 5)% in RHIC.
>         This evening, one polarization measurement in the blue ring gave
> something like (44+/-3)%
>          which was almost the same as (45+/-2)% measured in the AGS
(shortly
> before).
>
>   --- Including rotator in the RHIC injection has shown to be too
difficult
> and it was decided then
>        to leave rotator off during injection.  The plan is to turn on
> rotator in "stores" at later
>        stage of the machine development.  ( The "rotator" is used to flip
> the vertical polarization to
>        horizontal. )
>
> (B) NSRL operation has been very smooth, especially compared with the week
> before.
> For example,  today when I was there to help out, all experiments finished
> shortly
> after 5 pm.   There has been one set of experiments this week which
exposes
> some
> radiation to the same mice at about the same time each day in the morning.
> It'd be
> a big blow to this set of experiments if NSRL failed or was seriously
> delayed for one
> day.
>
>
> (C) Personal view :
>
> To be honest (which I am good at :-), I spent much less time working as
the
> Scheduling Physicist the last week and I have got some time to do other
> things.
> NSRL and RHIC work simultaneously without problem and the RHIC experiments
> don't really play active roles in the machine development run yet.  And
> things go
> well ... so I've probably never been this relaxed since Oct. 2003.
>
> ************************************************************
>
> (2) As usual, the next Time meeting is this Tuesday (Apr. 13, 2004)
>     at 13:30 in the Snyder Seminar Room (911A).
>
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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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