Run-9 Schedule Milestones

Paul Sampson's maintenance/startup schedule is a available here.
His injector startup schedule as of Jan. 5 is available here.

Mei Bai's Startup plan is available here

Milestones Progress
11/21/2008 NSRL Run 08C ends NSRL 08C is finished. The run was extended to 11/22/08.
12/02(05)/2008 Beam in and possibly after the first Linac Tank Delayed, 01/05/09 29 mA BLIP beam after tank 2
~12/10/2008 Beam at the end of the Linac Delayed, see the Journal note on 01/09/09
~12/23/2008 Linac ready to deliver beam to BLIP Delayed (delivered on 01/12/2009)
01/05/2009 BLIP operations begin Delayed, see the Journal note on 01/09/09
01/10/2009 RHIC cooldown to 45 K RHIC cooldown on time. Yellow cooldown delayed by broken valve boxes. Fixed. No delay on 4.5 K cooldown is expected.
01/12/2009 Beam in Booster On time, beam to BLIP on 01/12/2009
01/19/2009 Beam in AGS Beam to AGS on Time
02/02/2009 Blue Ring 45K to 4.5K cooldown begins, Cooldown will take ~3-3.5 Days. Blue ring is ready for injection 2 days later.     Blue cooldown to 4.5 K has begun on 02/02/2009, progresses well.
02/05/2009 Yellow Ring 45K to 4.5K cooldown begins, Cooldown will take ~3-3.5 Days. Yellow ring is ready for injection 2 days later.  Yellow cooldown to 4.5 has begun on 02/03/2009.
02/07(08)/2009 -
02/14/2009

Injection in Blue and Yellow rings

  • Establish circulating beam
  • RF capture
  • Instrumentation setup
  • DX/Snake training if not done
  
02/15/2009 -
02/16/2009

LLRF ramp and 9MHz cavity commissioning.

  • Also, polarization setup
  • Instrumentation setup
 
02/17/2009 -
02/27/2009

Ramp development and store optimization

  • Ramp development optimization (5 days)
  • Store setup (4 days)
  • Store optimizations and increasing intensity (3 days)
  
02/28/2009 Delivered colissions  
03/01/2009 -
03/02/2009		 Rotator Ramp development  
~03/08/2009 NSRL Run 09 begins