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Week 37: Machine coordinators: Mike Lamont, Jorg Wenninger

Main aims of the week:

Bunch train commissioning plan (version 09/09/2010)

LHC coordination vistar

Day

Summary

Link to report from morning meeting

Monday 20th September
  • Loss maps and asynchronous dump tests
  • TOTEM RP beam based alignment
Slides from 8:30 meeting
Sunday 19th September
  • loss maps and asynchronous dump tests
Slides from 8:30 meeting
Saturday 18th September
  • morning: collimator set-up in collisions
  • afternoon: injection protection qualification
  • night : quench test at 450 GeV
Slides from 8:30 meeting
Friday 17th September
  • overnight: loss map
  • evening: ramp for loss maps
  • afternoon: access for skew quad & PIC revalidation
  • a.m. collimator setup
Slides from 8:30 meeting
Thursday 16th September
  • Off-momentum loss map +1000 Hz
  • Thursday morning - access
  • PIC problem on RB.81
  • 22:00 ramp, squeeze & collide orbit cleaning.
  • Overnight Wed - Thursday: loss maps
Slides from 8:30 meeting
Wednesday 15th September
  • Morning - ramp, squeeze & collide pilot bunches
  • Afternoon-evening - injection protection qualification
  • Overnight - loss maps.
Slides from 8:30 meeting
Tuesday 14th September
  • Evening - ramp nominal for collimator studies at 3.5 TeV
  • Injection protection through the afternoon
  • 11:00 recovery and setup for injectiom & protection studies
  • Lost patrol in point 2 - problem with search box
  • 7:30Collimation studeis ended with beam 2 loss maps
Slides from 8:30 meeting
Monday 13th September
  • 07.00-13.00 No beam from injectors, trip of S78 nQPS
  • 13.00-18.00 Injection protection
  • 18:00 -23:00 Ramp and squeeze probe
  • 23.00-07.00 Collimator set up 3.5 TeV with 170urad
Slides from 08h30 meeting