Ahrens: Injectors

1. More logging in the injectors; interface between logged data and applications. The information is in there; can we get it back out? [Ahrens]

2. Visual displays of intensity, polarization, and emittance through the injector chain so we can visually pattern-match to tell what's good and what's bad. (This is already done with an injector intensity strip chart but not done with emittance or polarization) [Minty]

3. Impact of going over to EBIS and how the transition from using Tandem over to using the EBIS will be orchestrated. [Zeno]

4. Proposal: AGS coupling and emittance growing IPM measuring study [Tsoupas]

5. Proposal: cost effective alternative for the present AGS beam dump. [Tsoupas]

Ingrassia: Operating the Collider Complex

1. Repeatability vs. “re-commissioning” (lattice, ramps, instrumentation) [Litvinenko]

2. Operations related organization: Do we need 2, a Scheduling Physicist and a Run Coordinator? Can RC model be changed? Effective and short meetings. Time meetings [Pilat]

3. Incremental performance improvements vs. steady running [Fischer]

4. Role of Run Coordinator [Trbojevic]

5. Effective use of accelerator physicists on shift [Montag]

MacKay: Spin

1. RHIC Polarization losses [MacKay]

· Snake calibrations

· Logged Px Py measurements from CNI, STAR, PHENIX

· Fix and maintain horizontal orbits at snakes

· May help explain and fix inconsistencies with rotators

2. The figure of merit seems to falling. How are we going to advance by the large amount needed? [Leitch]

3. Propose the formation of a polarization task force to address continuous RHIC polarization improvements and maintenance [Zelenski]

4. Upgrades to RHIC ramping system: [MacKay]

· Better handling of multiple ramps (e.g. pp83+rotators)

· Implement a pause feature (done at FNAL)

· Suggested method: slow down pseudo-time to zero, make measurements: (polarization, tune, chromaticity), optionally dump beams, accelerate pseudo-time from zero to normal rate to finish ramp and complete hysteresis cycle

Michnoff: Controls, Applications, and Mistake-Proofing

1. Applications development, decisions, lines of authority [D’Ottavio]

2. Proposal: institute a poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) initiative. [Michnoff]

3. Proposal: to use a Wiki to organize and communicate what operators need to know and learn. Further, we propose that Wiki’ s maintained by any groups become available to other groups [Schoefer]

4. Proposal: to add postmortem ability to the BPM system, before after beam abort [Satogata]

Sandberg: Systems

1. In preparations for this session several issues were raised which were not necessarily thought to be problems by the equipment specialists such as:

A) Number and Quality of the read-backs from the AGS MMPS

B) Beam problems caused by the F to P transfer at the AGS MMPS

C) Reliability and user friendliness of the new Iris scanner system

How serious are these concerns and how do we give these types of problems proper priority? [Sandberg]

2. More scopes for transition [Brennan]

3. Test planning: Much equipment at RHIC cannot be adequately tested until the machine gets cold. A systematic study should be done to determine the appropriate amount of time required for this testing and what measure could be taken to either reduce this time or make it more effective [Sandberg]

4. Plant engineering is becoming increasingly less responsive to our needs; this affects safety and machine performance. As is obvious over the last few years, system reliability is linked to the operations of air-conditioning systems and water intrusion into buildings. Safety is surely compromised by improper lighting and leaky roofs over energized electrical equipment. [Sandberg]

5. A database of C-AD equipment should be developed including maintenance schedules, spare parts, and expected retirement date. One way to improve reliability and readiness is to replace a certain percentage of older equipment before such equipment reaches its end of life.[Sandberg]

6. Improvement of emittance measurements; One system or many? [Zelenski]

7. Proposal: determine a limited set of failure modes within the Access Controls Group equipment that could be repaired by others (CAS) during off normal hours. The way in which this would be done and the work reviewed must be carefully planned and approved by the Radiation Safety Committee. [Sandberg]

Satogata: Operations Analysis

1. We propose to work out a process to determine a measure of luminosity that is agreeable to experiments and C-AD, including the topic of Vernier scans, cross sections and need for prompt and regular reporting, perhaps online [Roser/Christie]

2. Propose to extend our use of bunch-by-bunch measurements parasitic to collisions, usage such as IPM [Minty]

3. Suggestion: Hold a RHIC Workshop an emittance and luminosity [MacKay]

4. Lattice choices, IBS lattice pro’s and cons and plans to separate gamma-T for two rings [Ptitsyn]

5. Interaction diamond size: how much can it be improved and what impact on the experiments as install upgrades that require ever tighter diamond sizes (+- 10cm PHENIX vertex cut) [Leitch]

6. Propose to use BBQ or tune tracking hybrid to routinely optimize steering collisions by maximizing coherent beam-beam tune shift [Satogata]

7. Propose to improve parasitic chromaticity measurements from Schottky, even if it is only the sign [Satogata]