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Week 32: Machine coordinators: Gianluigi Arduini, Jörg Wenninger

Luminosity production

adiabatically increase beam intensity

 

Day

Summary

Link to report from morning meeting

Monday 15th August 
  • Cryo recovery
8:30 meeting
Cryo report on Pt8
Sunday 14th August
  • 00:24 Trip of the cold compressor
  • Morning: change of the control electronics of the cold compressor
  • Cold compressor restarted early afternoon after electronics exchange.
9:00 meeting
Saturday 13th August
  • Accesses for cryo in pt 8. Problems to restart the compressor. Interlock on the magnetic bearing position.
  • 17:30 Expert intervention completed. Cryo compressor restarted.
  • Expect beam in the night between Sunday and Monday
9:00 meeting
Friday 12th August
  • 10:40 Beam dump: end of STABLE BEAMS #2022 ~30 pb-1 in 5 hours. SUE on RCBXV2.R1.
  • Prepare for loss maps.
  • 14:00 Loss maps at 3.5 TeV with roman pots (TOTEM & ALFA).
  • 16:30 Injection, TL steering.
  • 19:00 STABLE BEAMS #2025 -  initial luminosity 2.2e33, 1.35E11/b.
  • 03:30 Beam dump: end of STABLE BEAMS #2025 ~50 pb-1 in 8.5 hours. Cold compressor Pt8.
8:30 meeting
Thursday 11th August
  • 02:00 Fill for physics.
  • 03:40 Beam lost in ramp - trip of RCBXH2.L2.
  • Access for EPC
  • 06:40 Refill 1.8E14/beam.
  • 07:45 Beam dumped at 3.4 TeV by SIS interlock on total voltage (problem due to gain change in RF LL).
  • Access during SPS magnet exchange.
  • 21:30 First beam back in SPS. Conditioning local vacuum.
  • 22:00 Precycle.
  • 23:00 50 ns beam ready in SPS.Conditionning vacuum.
  • 00:00 LHC closed.
  • Steering TLs.
  • 05:40 STABLE BEAMS #2022 -  initial luminosity 1.95e33, 1.3E11/b.
8:30 meeting
Wednesday 10th August
  • 01:30-03:30 Setting-up beam in the PS Booster.
  • 03:00: ALICE dump due to injection losses (due to bad RF capture)
  • Injection oscillation correction for Beam 2
  • Frequent injection inhibits due to poor beam quality and B1 injection kicker pulse length check
  • 05:49 STABLE BEAMS #2011 -  initial luminosity 2.1e33
  • 14:30 Beam dump: end of STABLE BEAMS #2011~45 pb-1 in 8.5 hours
  • Investigations on RF problems with beam1.
  • Loss maps at injection
8:30 meeting
Beam dump at injection at 03:00:50
Tuesday 9th August
  • 18:18 RQT12.R7B1 trip. End of STABLE BEAMS #2010 - ~86 pb-1 in ~19 hours
  • 20:30 No beam from PSB (RF problem in ring 4)
  • Loss maps at injection with nominal bunch while waiting for RF repair in PSB
8:30 meeting
Monday 8th August
  • Back in Stable beams 02:50 fill 2009 - initial luminosity 2.1e33
  • 18:10 Beam dumped, S81 trip. Integrated luminosity ~76 pb-1.
  • Investigations on Sector 81 trip (Quadrupole loop) + reset of a BLM crate delaying refilling
  • 23:30 STABLE BEAMS#2010. Initial luminosity 2.05e33
8:30 meeting