2016-01-08-Operations¶

Operations report¶

• DC and MOMs
  • Victoria, Paul Hodgson, Henry and Craig are now DCs (last 3 have gone through STFC safety training, Victoria will do so early February)
  • Working well together and with me and the MOMs.
  • DC roster is now on the Operations page on micemine
  • MOMs are no longer needed 24/7 around the year. The post will be rearranged around the user cycles, and will be slightly shorter (3 weeks instead of 4)
  • MOM/DC handover procedure defined and tested
• ISIS Schedule :
  • 2015/04 : Feb 16 - Mar 25
  • 2016/01 : Apr 12 - May 20
  • 2016/02 : June 28 - July 27
  • 2016/03 : Sep 15 - Oct 28
  • 2016/04 : Nov 15 - Dec 16
• 2015/04
  • Plan to take straight track data with LiH in March. There will be little running in Feb, apart from expert-led startup runs.
  • Planning to run 16 hours / 24
    • no absorber data (both for baseline comparison with LiH, and alignment)
    • LiH straight track data
  • Need to call for shifters in the next week or so
• 2016/01
  • Run Plan for April depends on whether the spectrometer solenoids will be operational
  • no SSU or SSD : Data-taking may not be necessary
  • no SSD :
    • channel matching and optics validation
    • beam-based alignment
    • input emittance measurements
    • scattering measurements
  • both SSU and SSD :
    • channel matching and optics validation
    • beam-based alignment
    • input emittance measurements
    • scattering measurements
    • emittance reduction measurements
• 2016/02 - 2016/04
  • depends on how much channel commissioning work we have done in April. Still being discussed.