BTA guidelines
Proposed beam time accounting guidelines (based on Mark D's proposal in https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Run_Planning_Meeting_Notes,_Feb_1-Feb_7,_2018)
Accelerator beam time
- ABU: acceptable beam used
- BANU: beam acceptable but not used
- BNA: beam not acceptable
Experiment beam time
- ER: experiment ready
- PCC: planned configuration change (when beam is masked while radiators are moved, etc)
- UED: unplanned experiment down (unpleasant surprises, hardware failure, extended daq issues)
When the information is loaded from epics it contains automatic calculations of accelerator beam time from beamline monitors and 100% UED experiment down.
Proposed guidelines
The shift leader should ensure that the accelerator timesheet is consistent with ours. In particular, BANU should equal PCC+UED, the total time when no beam was requested.
During physics running, ABU + BANU should be the duration of good quality beam delivery.
During initial setup following beam restoration the beam quality is not so critical, so beam-time spent checking radiation levels and harp scans etc should be counted as ABU.
Total time should be estimated to the nearest minute?
(The shift leader should also make a log entry at the end of each shift showing the stripcharts for beam current and position following our whiteboard instructions.)
