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Week 33: Machine coordinator: Oliver Bruening

Main aims of the week:

Week33 beam schedule - tbd

List of End of Fill studies (in work)

List of MD requests (in work)

 

Day

Summary

Link to report from morning meeting

Sunday 22nd August
  • Recovery from cryo problem in Pt5.
  • 04:00: Glitch on electrical network results in several trips.
  • Morning: recovery from network glitch.
  • Rest of the day: Physics fill with 48 bunches per beam.
Slides from 9h meeting
Saturday 21st August
  • Recovery from cryo problem in Pt6. No beam before Saturday evenin.
  • 22:00: Preparing new physics fill with 48 bunches. Lost due to another Cryo problem in Pt5.
Slides from 9h meeting
Friday 20th August
  • Morning: Continuation of physics fill from night.
  • Noon: Potential for end-of-fill studies (Damper).
  • 5pm: Cryo problem in Pt6. No beam before Saturday noon.
Slides from 8h30 meeting
Thursday 19th August
  • Morning: access for various issues.
  • Noon: Problems with injector complex (no beam for several hours).
  • Afternoon: Injection setup for 48 bunch per beam
  • Night: Physics fill with 48 bunches per beam.
Slides from 8h30 meeting
Wednesday 18th August
  • Morning to evening: Physics fill with 25b per beam.
  • Late evening: Short access to repair quench heater power supply.
  • Night: Physics fill with 25b per beam.
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Slides from 8h30 meeting
Tuesday 17th August
  • 9:00 -  11:00 : LHC and SPS preparing machine and beam parameters for the first tests for bunch train operation (1 train of 4 bunches, each separated by 150 ns)
  • 11:00 - 14:00 : Injection tests of 1 train of 4 bunches
  • Fill for physics
Slides from 8h30 meeting
Monday 16th August
  • 09:00 - 11:00 : EOF (ADT and Roman Pots in)
  • 11:00 : Dump beams
  • 11:00 - 13:00: Ramp down + new BLM firmware release (dry tests)
  • 13:00 - 16:00: LHC in access
  • 16:00 - 20:00: LHC recover 450 GeV injection conditions
  • overnight: BLM requalification tests and test ramp
Slides from 8h30 meeting