Goal of the week: recovery from 2012/2013 Christmas Stop.
Proton-lead run scheduled to start 14th January.
Date |
Summary |
Link to report from morning meeting |
Mon 14 Jan |
- 02:20 beam loss due to instabilities
- 03:15 new injection
- 04:25 beta sqeeze, 80cm reached, optics checks.
|
08:30
meeting
frduval
|
Sun 13 Jan |
- 00:20 Cryo conditions back
- 01:30 UPS repair ongoing
- No beam before this evening
- 23:45 repair work done & checked, beam injection for beta squeeze
|
09:00
meeting |
Sat 12 Jan |
- 01:00 - 05:00 squeeze in steps down to 80cm
- 05:42 Dump beam at 4 TeV, end of beta beat measurements over squeeze
- 06:48 Start TDI alignment following intervention on TDI during TS
- 13:30 TDI alignment finished successfully
- 13:30 Start of BPMS interlock check after installation of new
attenuators during TS
- 16:30 Interlock checks finished successfully
- 16:30 Check of BPMS intensity limit with a single bunch: 1.5e9
- 17:30 Start check of BPMS with bunch trains at injection
- 19:15 Mains perturbation, cryogenics lost... and a lot more
- 22:03 Confirmation that an electrical rack has caught fire in RE88,
UPS damaged
|
09:00
meeting |
Fri 11 Jan |
- 00:48 All HWC tests finished
- 02:41 BIS loops closed, pre-cycle
- 06:50 RF conditioning M1.B1 finished
- 08:00 Access for pc replacement & RF low level
set-up
- 15:20 injection of one proton bunch (beam1) and one ion bunch (beam2)
- wrong bucket number due to SPS BQM settings
- test ramp p-Pb
- 16:30 4TeV reached successfully
- beam dump to check dump system
- 21:00 new injection, three p-bunches for squeeze test and beta beat measurements
|
08:30
meeting |
Thu 10 Jan |
- Cryo cooldown ongoing
- 09:30 Network routers restart, all went just fine.
- 12:00 All power converters from the arcs on at standby
- 12:00 ELQA test finished
- Circuit tests
- Still some selected accesses
- 17:40 Cryo Maintain OK for all sectors
- 18:37 Cryo OK complete machine
- Test of circuits and QPS
- 22:55 All vacuum valves open
|
Status Cryogenics
(S. Claudet), Status End Technical Stop
(K Foraz), Restart plan
(J.Jowett),
Router restart
(E.Martelli)
|
Wed 9 Jan |
- Cryo cooldown ongoing
- Machine in access
- End of Technical Stop, machine handed over to OP
|
No 8:30 meeting |
Tue 8 Jan |
- Machine in access
- Cryo cooldown ongoing
|
Status
Cryogenics (S.Claudet) |
Mon 7 Jan |
- Machine in access
- Cryo cooldown ongoing
|
No 8:30 meeting |