Monday July 10 – MORNING – Plenary (Danfords’ Diplomatic Room)
Monday July 10 – AFTERNOON – Goals Au-Au: Luminosity, Preparation
(Danfords’ Diplomatic Room)
Tuesday July 11 – MORNING – Goals P-P: Luminosity, Polarization
(Danfords’ Diplomatic Room)
Tuesday July 11 – AFTERNOON – Availability and Reliability
(Danfords’ Diplomatic Room)
Wednesday July 12 – MORNING – APEX, Model, Developments
(Danfords’ Bayles Room)
Wednesday July 12 – AFTERNOON – Closeouts
(Snyder Auditorium)
8:30 10
min Lowenstein Welcome
8:40 30
min Bond The Big Picture (RHIC, Nuclear Physics, BNL)
9:10 10
min Pilat Retreat
goals, organization, deliverables
9:20 10
min Fischer Luminosity
goals and ERTAF
9:30 20
min Huang OverviewRun-6
– Injectors
9:50 25
min Ptitsyn Overview
Run-6 – RHIC
10:15 15 min Bai Overview
PP 250 GeV and future goals
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 25 min Christie STAR
(Run-6, plans/requirements for Run-7)
11:25 25 min Deshpande Phenix (Run-6, plans/requirements for Run-7)
11:50 20 min Brown Scheduling
Physicist issues
12:10 – 14:00 pm Lunch Break
Session Organizers: Angelika Drees,
Wolfram Fischer
Session Chair: Vladimir Litvinenko
14:00 25 min Drees Overview
(luminosity goals, Run-6 vs. Run-4)
14:25 25 min
14:50 20 min Brennan Injectors with
Au (bunch intensity, Booster merge)
15:10 20 min Ahrens Injectors issues
for ions (other than bunch merging)
15:30 – 16:00 pm Coffee Break
16:20 25 min Blaskiewicz Stochastic cooling
16:45 25 min Hseuh Vacuum
performance and Run-7
17:30 pm – End of session
Session Organizers: Christoph
Montag, Wolfram Fischer
Session Chair: Vadim Ptitsyn
8:30 20 min Montag Overview
8:50 20 min Ahrens Injectors PP
performance for Run-7
9:10 20 min Brennan Shorter proton bunches
9:30 20 min Roser Spin
Resonances for “Dummies”
9:50 20 min Huang AGS Polarimeter and targets
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:15 15 min Luo Qx=2/3 correction
11:30 15 min Montag 10Hz feedback
12:15 – 14:00 pm Lunch Break
Session Organizers: Peter
Ingrassia, Rob Michnoff, and Fulvia Pilat
Session Chair: Mike Brennan
14:00 15 min Pilat Availability
goals and plans
14:15 15 min Ingrassia Review
Run6 (Run5, Run4) availability
14:30 15
min Marr Running
RHIC like a Swiss clock
14:45 15 min Sampson Quality
Control During Maintenance
15:00 15 min Michnoff Total
Quality Management
15:15 15
min Morris Controls
- Software
15:30 15 min Oerter Controls
- Hardware
15:45 15
min Reich
Access
Controls
16:00 – 16:30 pm Coffee Break
16:30 15 min Bruno
RHIC Power
Supplies
16:45 15
min Sandberg Electrical
Systems
17:00 15 min Raparia Linac
17:15 15 min Zaltsman RF
systems
17:30 15 min Hseuh Vacuum Systems
17:45 15 min Nicoletti Cryogenic
system
18:00 15
min Russo Instrumentation
18:15 15 min Ingrassia Human
Error and Performance
18:30 pm – End of session
Session Organizers: Mei Bai, Todd
Satogata
Session Chair: Dejan Trbojevic
8:30 20 min Pilat APEX summary
8:50 20 min Bai Linear
lattice, gradient errors, ORM
9:10 20 min Zelenski Emittance
9:30 20 min Zhang Electron cloud
issues for Run-7
9:50 10 min Fischer Long range
beam-beam and compensation
10:00 – 10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30 20 min Malitsky Model update and
progress
10:50 20 min Tepikian Ramp designer
for Run-7
11:10 20 min Cameron Operational
feedback systems for RHIC
11:30 20 min Brown Tune ripple
11:50 – 14:00 pm Lunch Break
Session Chair: Derek Lowenstein
14:00 30 min Tiefenback
Jlab operations and plans
14:30 20 min Drees, Fischer Summary Au-Au
session
14:50 20 min Montag, Fischer Summary PP
session
15:10 20 min Pilat, Ingrassia, Michnoff Summary
availability session
15:30 20 min Bai, Satogata Summary
APEX, modeling session