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Wednesday February 2
The day shift began with Operations monitoring store 3956, with the Antiproton Source (Pbar) stacking, and with MiniBooNE and the Meson experiment MCenter taking beam.
At 8:19 AM, quadrupole power supply (I:Q703) tripped off. This put a halt to stacking. Experts began their repairs.
At 9:48 AM, a Tevatron (TeV) RF station (TRF2) tripped off on Low DC Voltage. It was left off until after the store ends.
Power supply experts reported at 12:16 PM that they had replaced the Q703 power supply.
Pbar resumed stacking at 12:35 PM.
Experimenters at MTest asked for beam at 12:49 PM.
NuMI experts began a study around 5:35 PM.
A Pbar expert began a stacking study at 6 PM.
MTest experimenters reported at 10:18 PM that they were finished with the beam for the night.
At 11:18 PM, I:Q703 tripped off, but it reset okay.
Thursday February 3
The midnight shift began with Operations monitoring store 3956, with Pbar stacking, and with MiniBooNE and MCenter taking beam.
At 5:50 AM, I:Q703 tripped off. It reset okay.
Operations terminated store 3956 at 8 AM.
At 8:17 AM, I:Q703 tripped off and wouldn't reset. Operators notified an expert.
Cryo system technicians began replacing the TeV sector C3 wet engine flywheel at 8:46 AM.
Power supply techs completed their repair of I:Q703 at 9:55 PM. Stacking resumed, as did Switchyard (SY) beam.
Cryo techs reported at 10:19 AM that they had completed the C3 wet engine work.
An RF expert reported at 10:46 AM that TRF2 was back up and running.
Operations put the TeV into shot setup at 11:36 AM.
Operations established store 3958 at 2:22 PM with an initial luminosity of 104.0E30. Pbar resumed stacking.
Operations resumed sending beam to MCenter and MTest at 2:54 PM.
At 3:52 PM, the TeV suffered a sector E1 quench. Experts investigated and found a problem the T:VA35 regulator.
NuMI experts began taking beam at 4:25 PM and sending it to the Main Injector (MI) dump.
Operations made the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and D-Zero (D0) ready for access around 6 PM. They were both out of access about two hours later.
NuMI experts finished their studies at 10 PM.
TeV experts began a study period at 11:49 PM.
Friday February 4
The midnight shift began with TeV experts conducting octupole studies, with Pbar stacking, and with MiniBooNE taking beam.
At 12:40 AM, the TeV suffered a sector DQ0 quench.
Operations put the TeV into shot setup at 5:48 AM.
The Plan for Friday and the Weekend
The plan for today and this weekend is to stack, stash, and store.
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