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d-Au Setup Status & Schedule. 04 December 2007. Kip Gardner. This week’s fills. Status. Current speculation is that poor yellow lifetime is due to small blue transverse emittance compared to yellow.
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d-Au Setup Status & Schedule 04 December 2007 Kip Gardner
Status • Current speculation is that poor yellow lifetime is due to small blue transverse emittance compared to yellow. • Overnight we reduced deuteron bunch intensity and increased number of bunches in each ring; this helped. • Exploring options for increasing blue or decreasing yellow beam size.
Schedule • Physics production stores Weekends, Evenings and Owls. • Machine development Weekdays.1) Yellow tune feedback ramp and replay.2) Injection drift compensation.3) Increase number of bunches and bunch intensity.4) Scrubbing.5) …