Minutes of the PS-SPS Users Meeting held on15th of July 2021
PS Machine Report (Alexander Huschauer)
- See slides
- Main fault: power supply (figure of 8 loop)
- Beam expected back by lunchtime
- 3x10^13 (two injections) ready for SPS
- AD losses reduced
- AWAKE beams getting in good shape -> will be ready in time next week
- nTOF DSO test -> access until lunchtime
SPS Machine Report (Hannes Bartosik)
- See slides
- Increasing intensity on target
- T10 instrumentation being worked on
SCHEDULE and ACCESS:
- Dedicated MD 21.7. and parallel MD 22.7.
nTOF
- Ready for beam on Monday.
NA users tour de table
- H2 : CMS OT (Dragoslav Lazic)
- Installed, safety passed
- Ramping magnet up this afternoon.
- H2 : NA61 SHINE (Seweryn Kowalski)
- Nikos: beamline is ready
- Will take first beam tomorrow evening
- H4 : GIF / RD51/ CMS ECAL
- GIF (Martin Jaekel)
- All set-ups running now, also the one late arrival which is replacing a set-up which had dropped out.
- Preferred Tuesday settings (higher intensity)
- RD51 (Eraldo Oliveri)
- Started to take beam Tuesday afternoon around 16:00
- All 4 set-ups running now: Two will manage to finish, the other two are in good shape as well
- ½ hour access needed
- CMS ECAL
- H6: ALICE ITS3 / ATLAS MALTA / NUCLEON
- Hadron and muon beams are set-up, working on electron beams
- ALICE ITS3 (Francesca Carnesecchi)
- Taking beam since Tuesday, beam is good.
- ATLAS MALTA (Valerio Dao)
- Started to take beam on Sunday already
- NUCLEON (Igor Kovalev)
- In preparation for next week
- H8: ATLAS RPC / LHCb / CMS MTD
- LHCb (Heinrich Schindler)
- Ready to take data (about 10^6)
- CMS MTD (Badder Marzocchi)
- Finalizing set-up, currently having the safety visit, ready for beam at noon.
- Alexander: physics from this afternoon
- ATLAS TRT in week 30 (Anatoli Romaniouk) in PPE158 will take pi and mu at max rate.
- K12: NA62 (Jurgen Engelfried)
- Ready to take beam and waiting
- Johannes Bernhard:
- Johannes and Lau and Niels working on the P42 line set-up (line from the T4 target to the T10 target).
- Not even muons arriving at T10 for the time being
- M2: COMPASS (Jan Matousek)
- See slides.
- First beam on Saturday already
- Set-up with beam will start next week.
- Johannes: COMPASS beam still needs fine-tuning, beamline from now on under the responsibility of Alexander and Dipanwita
- AWAKE (Edda Gschwendtner)
- Ready for beam next Wednesday
Supercycles, Wobbling, Target intensities
See INDICO agenda for details
AOB
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Minutes by E.B. Holzer
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