[Brahms-l] Fw: SPY news update: NSRL-2 finishes ! Polarized-proton run goes on (Jet calibration run doesn't start on Friday)

Dear Coll.
an update froim the scheduling phys. There will be owl shift physics running
as the last two nights until
the 7 days of physics running, The startup is still uncertaintee let us
stick to the shift schedule, but check every day
- owl shifts are certain -- more later

cheers
    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>
To: <kinyip@fnal.gov>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:30 PM
Subject: SPY news update: NSRL-2 finishes ! Polarized-proton run goes on
(Jet calibration run doesn't start on Friday)


>
> ====== Scheduling Physicist -YIP (ie. SPY) news channel ========
>
> **************************************************************************
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> (1) NSRL-2 (NASA) finishes on time !
>
> NSRL-2 run has finally finished and it finishes exactly on the date that
> people planned >6 weeks ago, ie., Apr. 22 (today !).  We've even
> finished a couple hours earlier.  In the first week, when the NSRL
> spokesperson came to the Time meeting and when he mentioned the end date
> of NSRL-2, he expressed serious doubt about it.  But nevertheless, we've
> done it.   This is actually partly due to his/our scheduling with enough
> contingency and the fact that we planned the expts. to finish in early
> evening.  Though it looks like bankers' hours as somebody said, it left
> us some degrees of freedom to deal with delay :-)
> Some days during the first couple of weeks, we typically ran over
> midnight.   But during the last couple of weeks, finishing on time or
> earlier has been pretty much the norm.
>
> It's really tiresome for the operators in Main Control Room to do the
> NSRL gate watch for the zillions of in's and out's of the experimenters.
> During each "in" or "out", an operator needs to do a series of procedures
> including pressing and holding a button for maybe as much as ~10s before
> the door is closed.  If they slip their fingers, we'd lose the "sweep",
> ie. we will need to send 2 people to the NSRL and do a "sweep" (check)
> to make sure nobody is in the NSRL target area.  This would take ~20
> minutes or so.  Fortunately, this hasn't happened too often.
> If it were me doing this, this probably would happen
> every hour or so ... Today, I have accidentally "tried" to slow down
> NSRL run by forgetting a couple times to do something that I needed
> to do in the NSRL target area and I wasted everybody's time by having
> to go in again and again :-( :-)
>
> So, the operators, Adam and I-Hung can all take a rest ... for about
> ~6 weeks before the NSRL-3 run starts on June 7, 2004 :-) :-) :-)
>
>
> **************************************************************************
>
> (2) Status/Schedule (RHIC polarized-proton) :
>
> RHIC polarized-proton has made good progress to increase the luminosity
> in the last few days.  Today, I've seen some more focus on the
polarization
> among other things.   The experiments have been very supportive of the
> a main goal of this machine development run --- to find the optimal
> working points for best luminosity and polarization that this machine
> may achieve.   Data-taking for them (at least the two BIGGER expts.) is
> secondary.
>
> The so-called Jet calibration run won't start this Friday.   When we'll
> do that is under a day-by-day evaulation basis by the machine people,
> the Jet target expt. group as well as the expts.  It may be early next
> week --- just a feeling ......
>
>
> **************************************************************************
>
> (3) K0PI0 beam test/Atlas LAr  :
>
> After the RHIC polarized-proton run finishes on May 7, 2004 at 08:00,
> the K0PI0 beam test will start.  After some "hard" work, I've finally
> been able to find out how many hours their budget can allow them to run.
> ( It's about 6 shifts for preparation and 13 shifts for data-taking. )
>
> If they just use maximally all the hours/money, this beam test will
probably
> finish on May 13, 2004 at 16:00.
>
> Right after that, the Atlas Liquid Argon (LAr) radiation test will start
and that
> may finish within a few hours.   And this finishes all our RHIC/AGS
programs
> until probably next ~Oct.
>
>
> **************************************************************************
>
> (4) There will be a Time meeting this Tuesday (Apr. 27) at 13:30 in the
>      Synder Room (911A).
>
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