[Brahms-l] Fw: SPY news update:schedule change/update --- potential access opportunity for K0PI0/Atlas

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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@fnal.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:41 PM
Subject: SPY news update:schedule change/update --- potential access
opportunity for K0PI0/Atlas


> ====== Scheduling Physicist -YIP (ie. SPY) news channel ========
>
> (1) Schedule change/update
>
>  (A) For "logistic" reasons, the polarized source maintenance
>  will be done from 07:00 to ~15:00 (depending on when they will
>   finish) on Friday (Apr. 16). At the same time, the machine
>   people will use the unpolarized beam to do machine development
>   with high beam intensities.
>
>   (B) The 1st owl shift for experiments to take data/set up will start
>   at 00:01 on Apr. 17 (Sat. morning) for 8 hours. From that day
>   onwards, we'll have owl shift every day unless it's stated otherwise.
>
>   (C) With somewhat larger uncertainty, we'll have an AGS polarimeter
>   "maintenance" work on Apr. 20 starting at 07:00 for ~8 hours behind a
>   long RHIC store. And yes, K0PI0/Atlas people etc may make use of the
>   time to do something in AGS.
>
>   At the same time, we'll try to have a long store (~8 hours) for the
>   experiments. That night, the owl shift will be given back to the
>   machine physicists to do machine development.
>
>   The proton-proton store length can be much longer than that of gold-gold
>   due to significantly smaller inter-beam scattering in the proton beam
>   compared to the gold beam.
>
>   (D) The plan for having 1 week (x24 hour) calibration run for the
>   Jets/data taking for the expts. will start on Apr. 21 --- which is
>   unchanged.
>
>
> **************************************************************************
>
>
> (2) Status :
>
> There was a scare (for me) when a quench link interlock escalated
> to the loss of AC power in Bldg. 1004B and when Tom Nehring discussed
> with me about it < one hour ago, one scenario could be a 8 hour
> downtime. Fortunately, we didn't get the worst and it's been fixed.
>
> Among other things, we seem to have sorted out the spin pattern
> problem for different bunches and this hopefully will not be
> the reason (though there may be other reasons) to give us 0
> polarization measurement.
>
> Somehow, after the half a year of being the Scheduling Physicist,
> I have developed a confidence or a sort of religion or an illusion (?)
> that no matter what's to happen, we'll overcome. Any "scare" is
> unnecessary :-)
>
> ====== ======= ====== ======= ====== ======= ====== =======
>
> This SPY news channel solicits YOUR input of any sorts.
> You'll be paid back with loads of gratefulness :-)
>
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>
> SPY's webpage :
>
> http://www.c-ad.bnl.gov/kinyip/SchedPhys/
>
> =================================================================
>
> 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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