Run Planning Meeting Notes, April 19-April 25, 2016

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Sunday, April 24

  1. Accelerator Status
    • Beam gone most of Day Shift, back at about 6 pm.
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Running overnight
      • ABUs 10.4 hours in 3 shifts
        • 55 mins day
        • 202 mins swing
        • 366 mins owl
      • Triggers (PARA 342 M trigs, PERP 299 M trigs)
    • mode 8 current scan
    • Beam profiler survey
    • Trigger studies (2 hours)
  3. Upcoming Run Plan
    • Production 50 um
  4. Offline Analysis?
  5. Any Other Business?

Saturday, April 23

  1. Accelerator Status
    • Beam gone for various reasons Friday afternoon. Came back ~19:30
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Running overnight
      • ABUs
        • >3hrs swing
        • >6hrs owl
      • Triggers
      • Online Monitoring
        • Good (all pages cycled through prior to hitting "Make elog entry")
        • Bad
    • Microscope alignment data taking
    • Empty Target run
    • Trigger studies
  3. Upcoming Run Plan
    • Mode 8 (raw mode) running for Lubomir
    • Production 50 um
  4. Offline Analysis?
  5. Any Other Business?


Friday, April 22

  1. Accelerator Status
    • Running smoothly
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
  3. Run Plan
    • Production 50 um
    • Empty Target run with 5 mm hole (Friday ?)
    • TAGM alignment (Friday ?)
    • Mode 8 (raw mode) running ??
  4. Offline Analysis?
  5. Any Other Business?

Thursday, April 21

  1. Accelerator Status
    • Running smoothly, harps scan a little bit larger
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
  3. Run Plan
    • PS harp scan with 5mm hole during magnet ramp
    • Trigger studies
    • Empty Target run with 5 mm hole (Friday ?)
    • TAGM alignment (Friday ?)
    • Production 50 um
    • Mode 8 (raw mode) running
  4. Offline Analysis?
  5. Any Other Business?

Wednesday, April 20

  1. Accelerator Status
    • Overnight running (reasonably good, lost time for orbit issues due to the Hall A beam and ion chamber issues in the north linac.
    • Scheduled accelerator down on Wednesday 20 April (7 am - 6 pm)
      • RF recovery, beam studies, Hall A pass change
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Running overnight
      • ABUs 14.8 hours in 3 shifts (day 371 mins, Swing 320 mins, owl 200 mins)
      • Triggers (PARA 354M trigs, PERP 375 M trigs)
      • High luminosity tests (30 minutes), trigger studies (4 hours)
      • Run Statistics
    • Hall D access Wednesday 20 April.
      • RadCon has been contacted.
      • Access possible in the morning
      • Beam studies in the afternoon (upstream slow locks)
      • Walkthrough (Hall and Tagger)
      • Collimator work
      • TRD work
      • Magnet work
      • FCAL bases exchange
    • Microscope gain balancing
    • Report on Trigger studies
    • Report on TRD studies
    • Latest Occupancy Plots look reasonable??
    • "20 micron" diamond radiator thicknesses
  3. Run Plan
    • Mode 8 (raw mode) running with cosmics during access
    • Production 50 um
    • Trigger studies
    • TRD studies
    • Empty Target run with 5 mm hole (Friday ?)
    • TAGM alignment (Friday ?)
    • PS harp scan with 5mm hole
  4. Offline Analysis?
  5. Any Other Business?

Tuesday, April 19

  1. Accelerator Status
    • Running overnight
      • ABUs 16.4 hours in 3 shifts (309 + 328 + 349 minutes)
      • Triggers (PARA 462 M, PERP 597 M, Unpolarized 150 M)
    • Scheduled accelerator down on Wednesday 20 April (7 am - 6 pm)
      • RF recovery, beam studies, Hall A pass change
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Report on Trigger studies
    • Report on TRD studies
    • Hall D access Wednesday 20 April.
      • Access possible throughout Day and into Swing, starting about 8 am. RadCon has been contacted.
      • No tagger access required???
      • Collimator work
      • TRD work
      • Magnet work
      • FCAL bases exchange
    • Latest Occupancy Plots look reasonable
    • Run Statistics
  3. Run Plan
    • Production 50 um
    • Trigger studies
    • TRD studies
    • Empty Target run with 5 mm hole (Thursday ?)
    • TAGM alignment (Thursday ?)
    • Mode 8 (raw mode) running?
    • Para/Perp luminosity studies?
  4. Offline Analysis?
  5. Any Other Business?