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Week 12: Machine Coordinators: Oliver Bruening - Joerg Wenninger

Latest plan: link (version of 27 March, 10:30)

Day Short summary Link to report from 8:30 and 17:00 meetings
Monday 22nd March 2010
  • 02:00 - 08:00 : Damper setting-up at 450 GeV
  • 08:00 - 12:00 : Access in the LHC
  • 12:00 - 15:00 : Recovery
  • 15:00 - 19:00 : Work without beam (SPS mains short).
  • 20:00 - 00:00 : Access for QPS + recycle
  • 00:00 - 07:00 : Tune feedback

Presentation at the 08:30 meeting
Presentation from MP3
Tuesday 23rd March 2010
  • 08:00 - 14:00 : Pre-cycle, ramp 3.5 TeV.
  • 14:00 - 15:30 : Orbit @ 3.5 TeV.
  • 15:00 - 20:00 : Collimator setup 3.5 TeV.
  • 20:00 - 04:00 : LBDS 450 + 3.5 TeV.
  • 04:00 - 08:00 : Beam dump at 2 TeV.
Presentation at the 08:30 meeting
Wednesday 24th March 2010
  • 08:00 - 12:00 : Inject and ramp to 3.5 TeV.
  • 12:00 - 13:00 : Collimator setup 3.5 TeV.
  • 13:00 - 20:00 : Cold compressor off S23 + recovery.
  • 20:00 - 24:00 : TL studies 1E11/bunch TI2.
  • 02:00 - 08:00 : Recovery...
Presentation at the 08:30 meeting
Thursday 25th March 2010
  • 08:00 - 12:30 : Orbit & optics at 3.5 TeV.
  • 12:30 - 13:30 : Recovery.
  • 13:30 - 04:00 : 18 kV fault Pt2. Cryo recovery, recycling.
  • 04:00 - 06:00 : 450 GeV collimator setup check.
  • 06:00 - 08:00 : Ramp to 3.5 TeV for collimator setup.
Presentation at the 08:30 meeting
Presentation from cryo (S. Claudet)
Friday 26th March 2010
  • 09:00 - 21:00 : Collimator setup at 3.5 TeV.
  • 21:00 - 00:30 : Preparation for STABLE BEAMS at 450 GeV.
  • 00:30 - 08:00 : Vacuum leak in TI2 in the mobile dump region.
Presentation at the 08:30 meeting
Presentation from EPC - ALICE spectrometer transformer (V. Montabonnet)
Saturday 27th March 2010
  • 10:00 : Leak localized on bellows of mobile dump.
  • 10:30 : Leak varnished. Starting pump down.
  • 13:30 : Quench heater for Rb in S12.
  • 13:30 : Synchrotron light undulator fault.
  • 15:30 : Water cooling fault for energy extraction resistors in IR3.
  • 16:30 : Problem closing vacuum valves in P2 (sensors).
  • 17:30 : Problem with temperature on current lead for RSD1.34B1.
  • 17:45 : Loss of Cryo OK for RQT13.R5B2 in S56 (fuse to be changed).
  • 18:10 : Problems with temperature readings for 120 A circuit next to Q7 in S81.
  • All access expected to be finished by 00:30.
  • Beam back in machine by 05:00.
Presentation at the 08:30 meeting
Sunday 28th March 2010  
  • 05:30 : Problem with ATLAS patrol box.
  • 08:30 : MKD problem for Beam 1. Requires access.
  • 11:30 : Beams back in the machine.
  • 12:30 : Start ramp with 2 bunches per beam.
  • 16:30 : Collimator and TCDQ setup.
  • 17:00 : Start 'end of fill' measurements with beam consumption.
  • 18:00 : Preparing new fill. Two more 'end of fill' measurements planned for the night. First one foreseen for 22:00 with test of 'stabel beam' flag.
  Presentation at the 08:30 meeting