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Week 23: Machine Coordinators: Oliver Bruening, Joerg Wenninger

Latest plan: link PDF link XLS (version of 9 June, 12:00)

List of End of Fill studies (in work)

List of MD requests (in work)

Procedure for Physics fill and recover including squeeze

Day Short summary/plan Link to reports from 8:30 and 17:00 meetings
Sunday 13th June
  • 04:00 : Preparing for collimator setup.
  • 09:00 : Collimator setup at 3.5 TeV.
  • 13:00 : Beam dumped by BLMs.
  • 15:00 : Injection and ramp 1e11 for collimators.
  • 20:00 : Collimator setup at 3.5 TeV.
  • 21:15 : Beam dumped by BLMs.
  • 23:00 : Transverse damper.
Report from 08:30 meeting
Saturday 12th June
  • 04:00 : Recovered from cryo problem.
  • 06:00 : Injection. Problems with TI8.
  • 10:00 : Ramp 1e11.
  • 11:00 : Collimator setup at 3.5 TeV.
  • 13:00 : Beam lost. ramp down.
  • 15:00 : Access for PC cooling.
  • 20:00 : Transverse damper.
Report from 08:30 meeting
Friday 11th June
  • 08:00 : Lost cold compressor Pt2.
  • 09:00 : Access.
  • 15:00 : QPS test S78.
  • 16:00 : Pre-cycle.
  • 18:00 : Cryo problem Pt 8 (turbines).
Report from 08:30 meeting
Thursday 10th June
  • 05:00 : High intensity ramp with 8E10. Collisions at b* = 10 m.
  • 11:30 : Transverse damper.
  • 12:00 : Longitudinal blowup.
  • 16:00 : Transverse damper.
  • 23:00 : Access for QPS RB12.
Report from 08:30 meeting
Wednesday 9th June
  • 04:00 : Longitudinal blowup.
  • 14:00 : High intensity ramp and squeeze commissioning to 5m with OFB.
  • 23:00 : High intensity ramp with nominal bunch.
Report from 08:30 meeting
Tuesday 8th June
  • 03:00 - 10:30 : BI studies with 1e11/b
  • 10:30 - 12:30 : Hump studies.
  • 13:30 : Access
  • 17:00 : Pre-cycle
  • 19:00 : Damper.
  • 22:00 : TCDQ and collimator alignment systematic studies, aperture check.
Report from 08:30 meeting
Monday 7th June
  • Morning: inject and ramp 13b*2e10/beam. Beam lost on flat top due to collimator interlock. LVDT sensor broken.
  • 12:00 - 20:00: Controlled longitudinal beam blow up in the LHC
  • 20:00 - 03:00 : ABT injection studies
  • 03:00 - 10:00 : BI studies with 1e11/b
Report from 08:30 meeting