Time

Descriptions

Studiers

SR Status

Fri, Sep 21, 2012 (Pre-Studies)

0800-1200

MPS validations, final checkout

Smith

1200-1600

Continue rf conditioning

RF group

1400-1630

Establish injection.

Sajaev

Stored Beam & Injection

1630-1930

Aperture scan, SCU0 test chamber, 1-2 mA (P1s)

Borland Emery Harkay Sajaev Zholents Boon

Stored Beam & Injection

1930-2100

Beam steering setup; preliminary beam-based alignment, SCU0 test chamber , < 25 mA

Borland Emery Harkay Sajaev Zholents Boon

Stored Beam & Injection

2130-2400

Accumulate 100 mA in 324 bunches; fill-on-fill. Measure x,y tunes at intervals of 5 mA. No P0 FB.

OPS

Stored Beam & Injection

Sat, Sep 22, 2012 (Pre-studies)

0000-1100

Accumulate 100 mA in 324 bunches (cont).

OPS

Stored Beam & Injection

1100-1700

FPGA BPM setup, < 5 mA

Sereno

Stored Beam & Injection

1700-2130

Accumulate 100 mA in 324 bunches. Measure x,y tunes at intervals of 5 mA (cont from 1100)

OPS

Stored Beam & Injection

1700-2200

Beam-based alignment, SCU0 test chamber, <80 mA

Borland Harkay Boon

Stored Beam & Injection

2200-2400

Dump beam, measure cooldown.

Borland Harkay Boon

Stored Beam & Injection

Sun, Sep 23, 2012 (Pre-studies)

0000-2400

Rf conditioning, 115 mA, 24 bunches. Measure x,y tunes at intervals of 5 mA. No P0 FB.

OPS

Stored Beam & Injection

1800-2200

Beam-based alignment (parasitic to 324-bunch accum)

Harkay Xiao Boon

Stored Beam

Mon, Sep 24, 2012 (Pre-studies)

Continuation of rf conditioning if needed

Stored Beam & Injection

0830-0900

Meeting: studies status

A1100

Initial set-up of Pinhole camera (more than 40ma – can be parasitic to RF conditioning)

Yang

Stored Beam & Injection

P0FB system setup (after conditioning)

Yao

Stored Beam & Injection

Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012

0000-0800

Pre-studies (OPEN)

0800-1200

BPLD validation.

Bui

Stored Beam & Injection

1200-1600

X-ray BPM checkout.

Hahne

Stored Beam & Injection

1600-2200

Orbit Recovery + switch to RHB

Xiao

Stored beam & injection

2200-2400

Install P1/P5 offsets

Xiao

Stored beam & injection

Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012

0000-0200

Install P1/P5 offsets (continued)

Xiao

Stored Beam & Injection

0200-0700

OPEN

0700-0900

Continue X-ray BPM checkout

cancelled due to IOC work

Hahne

Stored Beam & injection

0900-1300

Orbit cleanup

Sajaev

Stored Beam & Injection

1300-1700

RHB lattice correction

Sajaev

Stored Beam & Injection

1700-2100

Set up S35 Pinhole camera

Yang

Stored Beam

1700-1900

Scan PAR kicker timing and optimize par beam

Yao

Occasional injection

2100-2400

CPU Checkout 1

Xiao

Stored Beam

2100-2400

Set up the 150 MeV lattice to the BB-Dump

Sereno/Pasky

Occ. injection possible

Thursday, Sep 27, 2012

0000-0300

CPU Checkout 1 (continued)

Xiao

Stored Beam

0000-0300

Set up the 150 MeV lattice to the BB-Dump

Sereno/Pasky

Occ. injection possible

0300-0800

OPEN

0800-1200

PSS shutter tests

SI Group

No beam

0800-0900

Reboot lic iocs

Pietryla

No injection

0900-1100

Test RF conditioning sequence

Pietryla/Pasky

No injection

0800-1200

test booster ramp current ADC card

Yao, Shang, Wang, Xu

No injection

0800-1000

Investigate BEK Kicker power supply faulty digital meter

Hillman

No injection

0800-1000

investigate S16AQ5 unstable read backs

Puttkammer

No SR beam

0800-1000

Perform air temperature monitoring in SR Sector 25 converter cabinet 2

Sprau

No SR beam

0830-0900

HP survey at Zone E/F gate

Vacca

Access Zone E

0830-0900

Check BLM in S33

Brill/Dooling

Access Zone E

0900-1100

Troubleshoot 13-ID rotary encoder

Grimmer/ Merritt

Access Zone B

0930-1130

Replace S37 Cav 4 US & CAV 3 DS IR thermometers

Morrison

Access Zone F

0930-1130

Investigate low flow at S35BM FM2

Theres

Access Zone F, Possible access Zone E

0930-1130

Repair/replace S39:IK2 blower

Morrison

Access Zone F

1130-1200

Recover SR

OPS

Stored beam & inj.

1200-1500

Chromaticity /dispersion measurement of booster low-emittance lattice

Yao

No SR beam

1500-2100

IEX prepare 1

Xiao

Stored beam & injection

2100-2400

FPGA data collection

C. Wang

Stored beam & injection

Friday, Sep 28, 2012

0000-0200

FPGA data collection (continued)

C. Wang

Stored beam & injection

0200-0600

Injection optimization program debugging

Sajaev

Stored beam & injection

0600-0900

check and retune PID loops

on Water skids 2,12,14, and 40

Putnam

Stored beam

0700-0900

Continue XBPM studies

Hahne

Stored beam& inj.

0900-1300

24 singlet lattice set-up

Sajaev

Stored Beam & Injection

1300-1900

CPU Checkout 2

Xiao

Stored Beam & Injection

1900-2400

FPGA data collection (continued)

C. Wang

Stored beam & injection

Saturday, Sep 29, 2012

0000-0800

Switch to RG2

OPS

Limited injection

0800-1200

Bunch purity measurement set-up

Yang

Stored Beam & Injection

1200-1800

IEX prepare 2

Xiao

Stored Beam & Injection

1800-2400

Top-up Verification

OPS

Stored Beam & Injection

Sunday, Sep 30, 2012

0000-0600

Top-up Verification

OPS

Stored Beam & Injection

0600-0700

OPEN

0700-0800

Set-up for supplemental shielding tests

Borland/ Dooling

No injection

0800-1600

perform tests of the new supplemental shielding installed in the LTP and Booster

Borland/ Dooling/Vacca

No injection

1600-2400

Switch to RG1

OPS

Limited injection

Monday, Oct 1, 2012

0000-0900

aperture scans in 6ID and steering in 6BM

Harkay/Boon

Stored Beam & Injection

0900-1700

Final BPM checkout

Decker

Stored Beam & Injection

1700-2100

Final setup of pinhole camera

Yang

Stored Beam & Injection

2100-2400

Impedance test lattice setup (hybrid-like fill)

Sajaev

Stored Beam & Injection

Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012

0000-0300

Impedance test lattice setup (hybrid-like fill) (continued)

Sajaev

Stored Beam & Injection

0300-0600

Final lattice and injection setup.

Sajaev

Stored Beam & Injection

0600-0800

Prepare for user Operations (24 singlets RHB – Top-Up)

Ops

Stored Beam & Injection