[Brahms-l] RHIC running for RUN-5

Dear Collaborator,

let me give you an update on the schedule for this years RHIC run. 

Albeit the PAC meeting to deal with the BUP is not until September 8 it has already been decided
that the heavy ion part of the run will be Cu-Cu. The CA-D needed the information and 3/4 experiments
had requested ions around mass 60. It is almost certain it will also be followed by a substantial pp physics run.
Base on the rerading of the BUP's the likely scenarios will be
i) CuCu at 200 GeV 10/11 weeks.
   - If the run goes well an achieves the requeste luminositie the last `1-2 weeks could be at 62.4 Gev.
ii) pp at 200 GeV 11/10 weeks
   - phenix has also request ~ 1 week at 62.4 GeV pp, with caveat of sufficient lum until then.
    (For this pp run our request is for ~4-6 weeks of running, not all 10).

The scenario above assume the pres. budget with 31 cryo- weeks.

The RHIC schedule is thus rather firm.
October 1 cryo-cool down  2 weeks
October 14 beam setup with IR closed up.
~october 28  rampup and initial exp. setup (owl shifts) 
~ November 13(15) Physics Running start with CuCu
   +10/11 weeks that is November 15 - 1 February
~ Feb 1. switch over to pp (2+1) week
~ Feb 21 start of pp physics running.


I thus urge all groups to plan according to this schedule

regards
    Flemming

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Flemming Videbaek
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory

e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov
phone: 631-344-4106



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