| Jul 10-13 | RHIC Retreat 2006 |
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Jun 30 |
End of Run-6. (21.2 weeks of cryo operation) |
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Jun 26-30 |
Warm-up to liquid Nitrogen temperatures |
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Jun 20-26 |
250 GeV accelerator development |
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Jun 20 |
End of 31.2 GeV Physics Run |
| Jun 12 | Rotator readjustment: PHENIX longitudinal polarization; STAR and BRAHMS - vertical polarization. |
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Jun 6 |
Start of 31.2 GeV Physics Run. |
| Participating experiments: STAR, PHENIX and BRAHMS. | |
| PHENIX, STAR and BRAHMS vertical polarization. | |
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Jun 5-6 |
11 GeV accelerator development |
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Jun 5 |
End of the 100 GeV Physics
Run. |
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May 10 |
Rotator readjustment: PHENIX longitudinal polarization; STAR longitudinal polarization |
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Apr 26 |
Rotator readjustment: PHENIX longitudinal polarization; STAR vertical polarization. |
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Apr 14-21 |
Unscheduled shutdown (investigation of arc flush accident) |
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Apr 6 |
Rotator readjustment: PHENIX radial polarization ; STAR vertical polarization. |
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Mar 5 |
Start of the 100 GeV Physics Run. |
| Participating experiments: STAR and PHENIX. | |
| PHENIX radial polarization ; STAR longitudinal polarization. | |
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Feb 12 |
End of cooldown and PS tests |
| Feb 1 |
Run-6 begins as
the ring cooldown to 4K starts. |
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Jan 30 |
Vertical ring
realignment has been finished. |
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Jan 26 |
Ramp with lowered
injection energy (Ggamma=45.5) has been developed and tested. |
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Jan 23-27 |
RHIC Dry Run |
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Jan 19 |
PLL Feedback
Readiness Review |
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Jan 16 |
Start of AGS
setup with polarized protons |
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Jan 12 |
Official
announcement that RHIC Run-6 will go on. |
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Jan 9 |
RHIC Cooldown to
80K begins. |
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Dec 22 |
There is a Santa
Claus: first news about possible funding for the RHIC Run-6. |
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Nov 17 |
Mini-dry
run for critical RHIC systems. |
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Nov 15 |
BPM system upgrades and repairs completed. |
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Nov 9 |
Because of budget problems the Run-6 has been postponed to later part of FY06 . |
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Oct-Jan |
RHIC Injection
Kicker upgrades for shorter risetime. |
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Oct-Jan |
PLL Tune/Coupling
Feedback developments and tests |
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Oct-Jan |
Measurements of vertical movement of
IR4 and IR8 triplets. |
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Oct 18 |
STAR detector shielding completed. |
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Oct 13 |
Dependence of beam lifetime and transverse emittance on the number of bunches has been reported following the analysis of Run-5 data. |
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Aug-Jan
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Vacuum upgrade work continues through the all shutdown period. |
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Aug 29 |
Lattice with reduced dispersion in IR6 and IR8 triplets has been developed. |
| Aug 25 | Accelerator physics experiment results indicate that beam conditioning (scrubbing) may be effective way for the pressure rise reduction in RHIC. |
| Jul 19 | RHIC Collider Projection updated. |
| Jun 15-17 | RHIC Retreat 2005 |
