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Week 23: Machine coordinators: Mike Lamont, Jan Uythoven

Goals of the week: Reach 1 fb-1 integrated luminosity

LHC coordination vistar

 

Day

Summary

Link to report from morning meeting

Tuesday, 14th June

 

 08:30 meeting

Monday, 13th June

  • 03:22 Beams dumped, collimator interlock
    Integrated lumi 42 pb-1
  • 05:00 Access for change of power converter
  • 07:13 Injecting probe beam - injection steering
  • 10:36 Stable beams fill #1866. Initial lumi 1.1e33
  • 10:56 Beam dumped. RF voltage interlock in SIS during cavity switch on.
    Integrated lumi 1.3 pb-1
  • New SIS release
  • 12:15 Injecting physics beam
  • 13:25 Stable beams fill #1867. Initial lumi 1.15e33

 09:00 meeting

Sunday, 12th June

  • 00:29 Stable beam fill #1864. Initial lumi 1.1e33
  • 07:17 beam dumped by trip of RD2.L1 Int lumi 23 pb-1 Vacuum valves in due to valves controls problem. There seems to have been a bus-bar quench .Cooling problem on the link some time before.
  • 11:30 Injecting - some injection steering

·         13:56 Stable beam fill #1865. Initial lumi 1.1e33

 09:00 meeting

Saturday, 11th June

  • 22:15 SPS back, but RB.A81 trip due to a bridge cooling problem; access required EPC and CV piquets
  • 00:50 Cycling
  • 01:40 Injecting
  • 03:40 Stable beams fill #1863. Initial lumi 1.1e33
  • 13:17 Beam dumped due to cryo conditions MSL1, single event cryo PLC.     Int. lumi 30 pb-1
  • Waiting for cryo conditions and PS to be back
  • 15:00 Cryo conditions back, waiting for PS
  • 20:30 PS back. Wait for EPC and CV piquets access in point 8.
  • 21:15 Pre-cycle
  • 21:30 Beam back in LHC

 09:00 meeting

Friday, 10th June

  • 00:51 Fill #1862 Beams lost to inner triplet skew power converter fault
    Delivered lumi 33 pb-1
  • Access required - power converter
  • Access required - QPS
  • 06:00 Pre-cycle
  • Access required - beam dump
  • Friday morning - access - cleaning list before long weekend
  • 13:00 Injection - change LHCB polarity
  • 14:35 Start Q'' measurement. Problem with RF frequency program
  • 16:30 Problem with SPS main power supply cooling
  • 20:15 Pilot in for Q'' measurement, while waiting for SPS

8:30 meeting

Measurement of filamentation
Wolfgang Hofle

Thursday, 9th June

  • 01:09 Stable beams, lumi 1.05e13
  • 05:04 Site wide electrical glitch tripped the beam, caught by FMCM
    Int. lumi 13.3 pb-1
  • QPS not ok for RB.A56 (new QPS) and RB.A81 (old QPS)
  • 07:45 Start pre-cycle

·         09:00 Measuring filamentation time with and without octupoles, adjust octupole strength

·         11:30 Injecting for physics, Fill #1862

·         13:40 Stable beams, initial lumi 1.05e33

08:30 meeting

Wednesday, 8th June

  • 09:22 Fill #1855. Beams dumped by Alice dipole trip
  • BLM problems
  • 14:00 Inject for test ramp longitudinal blow-up
  • 15:30 Test ramp dumped
  • BPM calibration problem
  • 17:30 Some injection steering with 12 bunches on B1
  • 17:45 Injecting for physics fill #1858
  • 19:00 Luminosities around 1.1e33, but did not declare yet stable beams
  • 19:04 Beam dump fill #1858 due to Big UFO IP2
  • 20:04 Injecting probes fill #1859
  • 21:07 SPS extraction problem for B1; TI2 power converter problem
  • 22:20 SPS back but problems with IPOC server down – ok after server reset
  • 23:14 injecting probes fill #1859

08:30 meeting
PC_Imeas problem

Tuesdays, 7th June

  • 07:28 Beam dump due to bad current reading on RTQX2.R1
    Fill #1854 42 pb-1 in 15h30min, minus one hour without stable beams

·         09:30 Access for QPS + ...mixed bag of problems

·         20:15 Injecting for physics

·         22:34 Stable beams. Fill #1855. Initial lumi 1.0e33

08:30 meeting

Monday, 6th June

  • 00:31 Beam dump: QPS trigger on RQTL11.R7B1. Length stable beams: 15h05.
  • 07:30 Stable beams. Fill #1854.
  • 07:39 PC failure of RQ6L2. Length stable beams: 00h09.
  • 13:15 Beam lost at injection due to UFO
  • 15:56 Stable beams, lumi’s around 1.1e33 ¨
  • 22:30 Adjust for RF test, switching off one cavity per beam
  • 23:41 Stable beams back

08:30 meeting