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Wednesday December 1
The day shift began with the Antiproton Source (Pbar), Tevatron (TeV), Recycler, and MiniBooNE all conducting studies.
At 1:09 PM, an attempt to raise intensity in Main Injector (MI) caused a number of vacuum bursts and vacuum valves to close.
A MI expert began a three-hour slipstacking study at 2:09 PM.
Operations received permission to send beam to the Switchyard dump at 2:24 PM.
Operations reported the following on beamline status at 4:36 PM:
- Tevatron will measure and smooth orbits, and set tunes and possibly chromaticities
- SY beam is on hold due to power supply work
- Recycler will first work on optimizing compensation between the Recycler and MI ramps and then work on tune coupling
- MiniBooNE wants to take as much beam as possible
- NuMI worked on getting beam through MI
At 8:44 PM, Operations reported the first of many MI trips due to vacuum bursts while trying to send beam to the SY dump.
Pbar experts completed their study at 11:14 PM. During their study, they managed to stack at a rate of 4mA per hour.
At 11:53 PM, the TeV began suffering from aborts at sector F2. Operators discovered a number of vacuum valves closed in the P3 line; the P3 line transfers beam from MI to SY through F sector in the TeV. Operators opened all but one of the valves from the service building.
Thursday December 2
The midnight shift began with Pbar conducting reverse proton studies, with TeV conducting ramp studies, and Recycler conducting studies, and with MiniBooNE taking beam.
At 2:37 AM, Pbar's lithium lens tripped off. It reset okay.
Pbar experts reported at 5:44 AM that they were having problems with their reverse proton study due to large beam oscillations in their transfer lines.
Operators began preparing Pbar for a tunnel access at 8:43 AM.
NuMI experts began a study period at 8:45 AM.
The Pbar access ended and they resumed stacking at 11:31 AM.
Operators prepared TeV F sector for an access at 12:36 PM.
Preaccelerator experts accessed the H- Source at 12:42 PM.
Cryo system technicians began work at 1:03 PM on wet engines at TeV sector B3 and C1.
Operations prepared Booster for an access at 1:09 PM. They came out of access an hour and a half later.
Vacuum techs reported at 2:49 PM that the TeV sector F19 valve had resumed working.
Operators reported that they had interlocked NuMI at 3:28 PM.
Operations resumed sending beam to MI, Pbar, and MiniBooNE at 3:38 PM.
Operations began sending beam to SY at 4 PM.
TeV came out of access and at 5:24 PM completed its first 980 GeV ramp. At 5:37 PM, they went into a dry squeeze. Operations established beam in the TeV at 6:06 PM.
A MI expert completed her coalescing study at 7:48 PM and a NuMI expert finished his ramp study.
A Recycler expert began a study at 9:36 PM.
Friday December 3
The midnight shift began with Pbar stacking, with the TeV, Recycler, Pbar, and SY conducting studies, and with MiniBooNE off.
Pbar stacking studies ended at 1:08 AM.
SY studies ended at 2 AM.
Recycler studies ended at 2:41 AM.
TeV experts reported at 6:08 AM that they had measured chromaticities up the ramp, but couldn't decouple the particle central orbits.
Operators prepared MiniBooNE for an access at 6:30 AM.
Plans for the Weekend
NuMI will attempt to take beam today, 12/3/04. The plan is to continue with beam startup.
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