Monday Operations Meeting : 23/3/2015¶

Agenda:¶

• Action Items from previous meeting
  • Show Dean the latest plan for the Wednesday tuning procedure and get comments (Steve)
  • Define BLOC cover (Henry/Ken/Steve)
  • Organise a SOC phone (Steve)
  • Check the progress of the action items from the Mock Data Runs with Pierrick and Rhys (Steve)
  • Contact Elaine Lancaster regarding MICE/ISIS meeting on Friday (Ken)
    
• Review of weekend run
  • VERY PRELIMINARY TOF calibration:
    • Trigger from TOF0 Tof0_resol_trtof0.png, Tof1_resol_trtof0.png ToF02ToF1.png
    • Trigger from TOF1 Tof0_resol_trtof1.png, Tof1_resol_trtof1.png
  • Final calibration to be made by Durga
  • 2015-03-23 Physics shifter report

Decisions made ¶

• We will keep the run condition spreadsheet going in parallel with the CDB until we are sure that the
  CDB contains all the information we need.
• Be more methodical when going the checklists

• Actions from previous runs
  • Fence from Q9 down to main door should be in place
  • Cranes should be in right place
  • Method statement for operating beamline not followed
  • Overview of readiness list from MDR1 and MDR2 : http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/projects/operations/wiki/Operations_Readiness_To_Do_List

• Plans for March 28/29 running
  • Data taking plans : http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/projects/operations/wiki/RunPlan20150328
  • Training plans
  • Shifters

Decisions made¶

• Check pion run from last weekend is OK (Victoria)
• Saturday data taking will be debug session to deal with the little problems that have been observed so far
• Sunday :

  **Take data without trigger system for comparison
  **Do CKOV HV scan

• At shift handover Henry will run extra target training

• Friday training
  • 9:30 - 10:30 : BLOC Training
  • 1 pm : Control room training
  • 3 pm : Hall search. No PPS tutorial, but refresher for shifters.

• Longer term plans
  • 28/29Mar15: CKOV, TOF0, TOF1, no DS

    *Establish smooth operation from target to TOF1;
    *Carry out an initial calibration of TOF0 and TOF1;
    *Take data to allow a comparison of the performance of the old and new trigger systems;
    *Take pion-beam data to allow a first test of the reconstruction algorithms required for MICE Muon Beam commissioning;
    *Complete BLOC training on target tuning.

  • 11/12Apr15, 18/19Apr15 and 25/26Apr15: DS, CKOV,TOF0,TOF1, EMR, KL, TOF2 (& tracker?)

    *Check the TOF calibration. It will be important to take some data to be sure that the calibration is stable;
    *First pass of MICE Muon Beam (MMB) commissioning:
    *Start with the currents used in Step I to check the degree of reproducibility of particle rates;
    *Based on the revised simulation of the beam line (Jaroslaw Pasternak), start the search for the optimum magnet settings;
    *Commissioning and calibration of TOF2, KL and EMR will begin as soon as the south-side PRY is complete and the magnets and downstream
    detectors are in their final Step IV positions.

• AOB

• Next meeting : 11 am Friday 27th March

Phone access : http://www.mice.iit.edu/phonebridge.html

Actions arising from meeting¶

• Check with Andy on the safety implications of the change of hall configuration during search (Steve)
• minor changes to checklists (Steve)
• Save current run summary spreadsheet from Sunday run to wiki (?)
• Enhance Elog DAQ error messages so that physics shifter has a better idea of what went wrong and whether it is serious. Include error message in Elog entry (All)
• Think about adding an "Analysable" flag to the run conditions spreadsheet for the near term (Chris)
• Chase the OnMon changes in the MRD action items (Steve)
• General comment : Please be methodical when going through checklists and ensure that all steps are carried out. (All)