[Brahms-l] Fw: SPY news update: Time meeting on Apr. 13 ... RF cavities back in the blue ring ... last night with this new laptop

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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: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:32 PM
Subject: SPY news update: Time meeting on Apr. 13 ... RF cavities back in
the blue ring ... last night with this new laptop


>
> ====== Scheduling Physicist -YIP (ie. SPY) news channel ========
>
> (1) As usual, the next Time meeting is this Tuesday (Apr. 13, 2004)
>     at 13:30 in the Snyder Seminar Room (911A).
>
> ************************************************************
>
> (2) Status :
>
> Around ~01:18 on Sunday (Apr. 11) morning, a serious vacuum leak around
the
> accelerating RF cavity 3.2 in the blue ring was eventually found to be due
> to a crack
> ceramic window (which is called as such because it's transparent to the RF
> waves
> though not to our eyes).   The "window" was replaced by a spare and we
have
> re-sealed the system successfully after ~3 attempts.  Some 40 hours from
> the start of incident, the RF cavities (3.1 and 3.2) become available to
us
> after hours of conditioning.  Since this afternoon, we have been working
> with
> the yellow beam and hopefully soon we can have the full energy blue beam
> circulating as well.
>
> NSRL (NASA) today starts ~600 MeV Fe experiments which is the 2nd last
> species
> & energy in this run.  The last one will be Ti at 1 GeV on Apr. 20.  NSRL
> run will
> finish on Apr. 22.
>
> KOPIO test beam in the AGS D line will start to set up and run on May 7,
if
> the funding
> arrives before then.  The preparation work (around the AGS switch yard in
> the D line)
> needs ~ half a day --- I was told.    A short liquid argon radiation test
> (for the future
> Atlas expt. at CERN) will also take place.
>
> ************************************************************
>
> (3)  Schedule :
>
> If everything goes well, we will have an 8 hour unpolarized-proton
> collisions for
> the 4 RHIC expts. starting from the mid-night between Apr. 15 and Apr. 16.
> This
> will happen at the same time when we do some maintenance work for the
> polarized
> source.  We'll need to do 2 more of these during the remaining
> polarized-proton
> machine development run.   Approximately Apr. 21-29, there will hopefully
be
> polarized-proton collision for the Jet targets as well as the 4 RHIC
expts.
> Well, this is the plan !  All the dates here are subject to change.
>
> ************************************************************
>
> (4) Last night with this new laptop ... another new laptop tomorrow !
>
> Remember I told you that DELL gave me a "new" (refurbished) laptop to
> replace the old one.  In addition to being a newer model, the new one has
> bigger
> LCD but is heavier etc.  Some ITD people at BNL have been handling this as
> they seem to be sub-contractors for DELL.  This morning, I got a call from
> ITD
> and they told me that they gave me the wrong one !!!   So, most likely, on
> Tuesday
> morning, I would take this wrong new one and get the real replacement.
> Though
> it's a new model, it has the same LCD size and weight as the old one :-)
>
> Hopefully, I'll be able to use the real new laptop in the Time meeting
this
> Tuesday.
> I've really got a lot of fun in playing with 3 different laptops in the
last
> few weeks.
>
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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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