Phobos Installation

Completed Items

Up to May 7, 1999

Magnet delivered to AGS to be assembled, wired with sensors, and tested briefly.

Si module support structures (octagon, 1 spectrometer arm, and 1 ring counter) arrive at UIC and MIT.

Detector rail system assembly starts at MIT.

Counting house and its utilities complete (including ORR).

Water-cooled bus installation.

Detector rail assembly at MIT completed.

Magnet installed and hooked up at RHIC.

Magnet cooling water system and power supply complete.

Setup for magnet mapping begins (including ORR).

Production magnet mapping begins.

Concrete block fabrication.

Production magnet mapping ends.

Concrete block installation.

First parts of detector enclosure fitted on magnet.

Fabrication of tooling for mounting modules on cooling frames.

Design of tooling for mounting cooling frames on plate and transporting assembled plate.

Cable tray in ports and outside berm complete.

All subsystems safety reviewed.

 

ABANDONNED

Tunnel trigger electronics installed in counting house and cabled.

Staging area (tent) installed in utility building.

Final checks of flex cable routing before Engineering run.

 

Unknown schedule (needs minor rework):

Be beam pipe arrives at BNL.

 

 

 

April 1999

Study installation of octagon and spectrometer rail systems.

Test & certify personnel safety system.

Cable tray system inside tunnel completed.

Detector water cooling system arrives at BNL.

Remaining parts for cooling system delivered (with exception of thermal shield manifolding).

Second spectrometer arm support structures and remaining ring counters delivered to BNL.

Metal plate and concrete block installation and levelling completed

Full rail, support structure, cooling system installation begins (first without Si).

Beam pipe holders installed

Vibration isolation material ordered

Electronics room racks installed, bolted down

Network fiber terminated

Dirty power in tunnel complete.

Test-fit thin steel beam pipe

Finalize mounting of octagon and spectrometer rail systems on concrete blocks

 

May 1999

Network fiber terminated, network installed

Clean power distribution in counting house done.

DAQ (without Mercury) installed in counting house.

Mount manifolding and plumbing of water cooling system.

Install temporary barrier fences.

Reinstallation and final hand alignment of octagon and arm structures

Reinstallation of the removable parts of the detector enclosure.

Online computer moved to BNL.

Minimal clean power distribution along beam line done.