Run Coordinator report: winter 2023 w8

The run coordination period began with MCC performing a maintenance day, so we really "settled in" to this term before continuing our GlueX-II Production. We worked on resolving TAGM issues on rows 1-3, doing a number of test runs with rows 4/5 and row 4 enabled, choosing to go with Row 4. A detector prototype for SciGlass has been removed and later in this term, a BCAL prototype was installed behind the CCAL. Data on the BCAL prototype started late in this term and will be analyzed soon. We have encountered communication issues with the DIRC, TPOL, and TAGH mainly; the DIRC was addressed Friday, TAGH was intermittent throughout the week, and TPOL has alarmed on the last day of the week. Our most notable BANU would owe to one instance of this where scaler readouts on the TAGH were not reading out, likely a hit from the beam when MCC was trying to align the magnets and get us going Monday night. Not to mention, MCC had to work on the 4th pass separator for Hall-A which resulted in plenty of no-beam during the days leading up to Tuesday, where beam was restored to all four halls during Swing. We were able to deliver preparation for and some running with the TAC on Saturday using bleed-through from Hall-C. Late in this term, high intensity tests continued at currents up to 900nA using a selection of foils inserted into the beamline at the collimator cave in order to mitigate the higher intensity.

ABU amounts to ~61h and BANU amounts to ~10h. Major causes are (2.5-3h) resolving the more critical TAGH trip on Monday night, planned configuration changes, restoration of beam, scans, and resolving FCAL lockups and DAQ errors, among any other unlisted causes of BANU.

Production otherwise ensued where special work was not done, and it felt more the exception than the norm to have smooth production.