[Brahms-l] SPY news update: Who are working on Labor Day (infinitesimal schedule change) ... a new interesting security feature

FYI
burried in here is actual a possibility that the RHIC run may be 25 cryo
weeks,
rather than the 31 in the presidential budget being debatted in congress in
the fall session.
Do also note the start dates are quite firm.

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: <ogould@bnl.gov>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: SPY news update: Who are working on Labor Day (infinitesimal
schedule change) ... a new interesting security feature


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> (1) Who are working and not on Labor Day ... infinitesimal schedule change
>
>
> The 1st week of the NSRL-4 (NASA) run has been quite smoothly without no
> major problem.  The NSRL-4 run will actually continue on Sept. 6, 2004
> (Labor Day).
>
> But, due to the Labor Day, the Cryo group won't start the 80 K (nitrogen)
> cool-down for RHIC until Sept. 7, 2004 --- the infinitesimal change from
> the originally announced Sept. 6, 2004.  And this also postpones the
> helium (~4.5 K) cool-down by 1 day to begin on Oct. 7, 2004.    Obviously,
> we or I didn't think about this Labor Day when we changed it last time to
> Sept. 6.   I thought about it only this Monday and immediately (after ~1
> year's experience :-) I guessed that this date was probably not ideal. I
> called the Cryo group and my genius (though rather late) prediction was
> proven to be right.
>
> Tony's prediction for the 1st date for the RHIC ring (blue) to be cold
> is
>     Oct. 14, 2004 +/- 1 day (stat.) +/- 1 day (syst.)
>
> Though Tony didn't mention the words "statistical"/"systematic" errors,
> any smart particle physicists (such as myself) just understand when
> somebody said  "+/- 1  +/-  1".
>
>
> Confession: the other guy who is probably NOT working on Labor Day
> is myself due to my "randomly generated" NSRL physicists' schedule
> which doesn't include me on that day, just by coincidence :-)
>
>
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> (2) new security features => operator can't take both feet off the floor!
>
> In the past, the Main Control Room operators have needed to press a big
button
> (with some pressure) for several seconds during an access.  If their
finger
> slipped accidentally, the sweep was lost and we then need to suspend our
> operation and spend more or less half an hour to sweep the area in
question (to
> make sure nobody is inside that area ... though we know it's not).  Now,
the
> big button is replaced by a metallic "touch pad".  So, the operators only
need
> to rest (more comfortably) their palm or finger on the pad.
>
> The VERY INTERESTING "imperfection" is that, one's feet need to be in
touch
> with the ground/floor during the above "touch pad" operation. During this
week,
> one operator actually took both feet from the floor and we lost the sweep
in
> this new manner !  Isn't it an interesting feature ?
>
>
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> (3) A few minor points related to the coming RHIC run
>
> --- As advertised last time, the  first time meeting for the coming
>     FY2005 will be on Oct. 5, 2004.
>
> --- Next Tuesday (Sept. 7), the RHIC operation will have a dry run
preparing
>     for the coming FY 2005 RHIC run .
>
> --- Since Phil has announced, it's no longer a secret (since I learnt <~ 2
weeks
>     ago) that our "baseline" 31 weeks (according the so-called President's
budget)
>     has become 25 weeks for the coming FY 2005 RHIC run due to various
budgetary
>     reasons. These 31 or 25 weeks include everything from Cryo cool-down
to Cryo
>     warm-up.
>
>     After 1 year's experience, I can bet with you that this is probably
not
>     the final no.  Who knows ?!
>
>
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