PS-SPS Days

Session

Session 2: Re-commissioning and Testing the Equipment

S2

18 Jan 2006, 14:00

Council Chamber

Description

Aim of the session is to provide information and to give a summary of the most important commissioning and test activities for the CCC & linked systems and all machines that were not running in 2005. This covers the so-called “hardware test phase” from end of installations and modifications up to the cold-check out of the machines. All beam related aspects are covered in Session 3.

12. CCC Commissioning

Django MANGLUNKI

18/01/2006, 14:00

The civil engineering of the CCC building is finished; the furniture and racks have been installed and equipped with computers and servers. The testing of these equipments has started and the room will be handed over to Operations in February. Here we present the schedule for the commissioning of the control room, its communications systems, the access control systems for the room...

13. Specific safety Issues for 2006 compared to 2004

Paolo CENNINI (CERN)

18/01/2006, 14:30

Safety Requirements due to installation activities taking place in parallel with commissioning: PS Inflector Zone, LEIR Commissioning. Ionizing Radiation Hazards: Operational dosimeters, PS Bridge Closure. Oxygen Deficiency Hazards: SPS Transfer Tunnels and LHC Cold Tests, Oxymeters, Level 4 Courses. Handling Hazards: Loading/Unloading places. Reserved corridors for load handling...

17. Access and safety systems – modifications and tests

Rui NUNES

18/01/2006, 14:50

This talk will present the changes resulting from the move from the MCR to the CCC for the PS access control system and the displacement of the SPS access consoles in to the CCC respectively. The PS access system has been modified to be able to operate with a console located 4 km’s away. A project to upgrade and replace the PS secondary areas access control has been launched. The same...

14. PS hardware tests

Raymond BROWN (CERN)

18/01/2006, 15:40

After the extended shutdown of 2005/6 there has been extensive work on the PS Ring, which will require some special start-up and testing. Mentioned will be the changes to the layout of elements in the straight sections, the main magnet units which have been revised and the auxiliary magnets which after many years of disuse have finally been purged from the machine. I shall present the...

15. SPS hardware tests

Nicolas GILBERT

18/01/2006, 16:10

Following the particular extended shutdown of 2004/2005, the main activities on the SPS machine will be presented, focusing on the few activities which could impact on a "standard" restart. A simplified planning shall be presented, underlining the overlap time period during which the hardware tests will be carried out in parallel with the completion of some installation...

16. Experimental Areas hardware tests

Ilias EFTHYMIOPOULOS

18/01/2006, 16:40

The startup of 2006 will find the SPS beam lines with renovated hardware and control software. The hardware renovation includes a major part of the beam instrumentation, the access system, the vacuum and possibly the magnet control. The new control software is built in unison with the control software for the accelerators thus marking the end of NODAL era for the secondary beams. A...