| Day |
Short
summary/plan |
Link to reports from 8:30 and 17:00
meetings |
| Sunday 11th April 2010 |
- Squeezed successfully in 1 and 5. Squeezed to 5.5 m in LHCb.
- 01:53 dump after > 20 hours at flat top (SB & squeeze)
- Pre-cycle Controls problems
- 05:43 beam back
- 10:00 – 16:00 Transverse feedback studies
- 16:20 beam dump MKB vertical kicker (GEN D), PTU fault - access
- Sunday evening: SPS RF problems postponed squeeze LHCb dipole switched off
- Monday 01:25 Stable beams
- 03:24 Lost cryo – S56 temperature sensor problem with ROD.A56B1, cryo-maintain back by 03:53
- Ramp-down combo & precycle
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Presentation at 08:30 meeting |
| Saturday 10th April 2010 |
Stable beams until 15:00, and then into adjust mode for squeeze commissioning. |
Presentation at 08:30 meeting |
| Friday 9th April 2010 |
Recovery from access during the morning, and start of a long session pushing up single bunch intensity at 450 GeV. Eventually succeeded in injecting 1.1 e11 (i.e. nominal bunch intensity), over-injecting onto a pilot.
A fill for physics was then established with stable beams being declared 06:15 Saturday morning. |
Presentation at 08:30 meeting |
| Thursday 8th April 2010 |
- Access
- Evening: recovery/powering tests. Beam back overnight
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Presentation at 08:30 meeting |
| Wednesday 7th April 2010 |
- 00h00: Recovery. Access.
- 07h00: Beam back.
- 08h30: At 3.5 TeV.
- 10:30: Stable beams
- 12:53 Lost cryogenics maintain in MSL2 faulty valve on DFBM in 12 16:30 Beam back
- 17:00 Ramp for squeeze QTF/QTD trips lost to RT trim following use of wrong tune references at start of ramp – will now systematically load references from sequencer
- 20: 15 Ramp for squeeze
- Overnight - successful squeeze to 2 m in Atlas and CMS
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Presentation at the 08:30 meeting |
| Tuesday 6th April 2010 |
- 01h00: Start of ramp.
- 02h46: Stable beams.
- 15h00: Beams lost due to undulator trip. Drift of the undulator RU.L4 resistive voltage signal during the last two days (no reset). During recovery RT trim checks.
- 19h30: Beams at 450 GeV. b3 trims adjusted. Introduce b3 trim for change of chromaticity during snapback ("by hand").
- 21:15: Start of ramp. Lost half of beam 1. No losses for beam 2. Chromaticity measured during the ramp for next iteration on b3.
- 22:15: Beams lost at 3.5 TeV while preparing for the squeeze, due to RT trims. Reverted b3 trims.
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Presentation at the 08:30 meeting
MP3 weekly summary
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Monday 5th April 2010 |
- Beams quietly colliding...
- 13h30: Physics fill lost after 19 hours in physics mode! Lost cryo maintain in 78 for very short time.
- 13h30-20h30: Recovery. Access required for RB.A87 switch problem. LHCb dipole polarity switched to positive.
- 20h30-23h30: Pre-cycle and setting up for injection. A few MKI B2 issues.
- Uptime: 17h. Unplanned maintenance: 7h. Technical stop: 0h. Physics: 13h30.
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Presentation
at the 09:00 meeting
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