Week 19: Machine coordinators: Mike Lamont, Jorg Wenninger.
Goals of the week: Technical stop, re-establish physics conditions, alignment
of RPs, VdMs.
Day |
Summary |
Link to report from morning meeting |
Monday,
16. May |
- Overnight Sunday to Monday: 50 ns injection optimization, issues with transverse damper settings, ramp lost to electrical network glitch early morning
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8:30 meeting |
Sunday,
15 May |
- Van der Meer scans all day
- Beams dumped at 23:30
|
8:30 meeting |
Saturday, 14. May |
- Recovery of cryo.
- 14:00: cryo recovered. Precycle.
- Beam back briefly
- AUG TI2 - took out sector 12 & 23
- beam back mid-evening - ramp, squeeze & collide pilots - test dump
- Next fill lost to beam dump system - access required
- Ramp, squeeze, collide 2*nominal bunches, stable beams, loss maps
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8:30
meeting |
Friday,
13. May |
- Morning: Checking RF settings for
injection of both beams. Problems with IQC and XPOC.
- 11:30 Lost cryo in Pt8.
- Access for D3 (valve and temperature)
|
8:30
meeting |
Thursday, 12.May |
- Technical stop end.
- 18:30 cryogenics ready for powering.
- VELO ion pumps off (for higher beam gas
rates).
- 22:15: Problems with quench loop in S23
fixed.
- RF beam1 not ready - must condition
overnight.
- Quench of RD3.LR4 - HTS. MP3 piquet
investigating.
- 05:00 Pre-cycle.
- 07:00 Fist injection on beam 2.
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Wednesday, 11. May |
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Tuesday, 10. May |
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Monday,
9. May |
- 06:00 End of MD, Start of technical stop.
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8:30
meeting
MD
report |