• Rotator ramp development

• NB: Switching between longitudinal and transverse stores requires calling Al until he specifies the steps necessary with sufficient clarity such that they can be done by operations or automated, whichever comes first.
• 6 bunch ramp including rotators, change tunes for better yellow lifetime. In particular try to get the yellow tune below the diagonal by raising the horizontal tune.
• Fill #1: If rotator ramp is basicaly lossless, just go for 109 bunches at 1e11.
• Vahid will use Fill #1 to tune the rotator settings in consultation with the experiments. You'll have to call him when a successful ramp is imminent.
• Fill #2: Switch back to pp12b-rot0 for one store and ramp 109 by 1e11 bunches for PHENIX setup. They need ~2 hours with this store. Make sure that the on shift crew knows that this store is entirely for them and that they let you know when they have finished so you can dump it. Take CNI meausruements at the start and end of this store as normal. Run the Jet (even though it will be of limited use on a two hour store)
• Fill #3: Longitudinal store. Switch to pp12b-rot1 and ramp 109 bunches at 1e11 (essentially means go back to fill #1)
• Feel free to call me if you have problems

• Adjust yellow abort kicker timing problem.
• Resume ramp development to 109 bunches, start raising bunch intensity
• Adjust store tunes/chroms to fix colliding lifetime.

If energy ramp with transverse collisions is set up, begin rotator ramp development.
• Start with 6 bunches
• If 6 bunches survive, do wiggles ramp to measure chroms
• Set chroms and try full bunch number ramp (109, 1e11)

• Maintenance: In particular, the IR 12 vacuum will be bad for some time because of teh polarimeter setup and the blue vertical injection damper bpm was changed. These may have impact on operations.

• Ramp development for 255 GeV:
  • Re-establish 6x6 bunches, 1e11 pp12b-v2 through pp12b-rot0
  • Adjust chroms on ramp to ~2 units using this as a guide.
    • Someone remind me that when we have established a full 109 bunch ramp at full intensity that we have to take another ramp chrom measurement to establish a target for next time.
  • If ramp transmission nominal (>95%), raise bunch number 56->84->109, checking for coherence as normal.
  • Vertical tunes are identical for most of the ramp. Please be on the lookout for BBQ cross locking conditions.
  • Rebucketing should be on by default in the ramp storage server. Blue in particular may need tweaks to improve post-rebucketing lifetime.
  • If you have 56 or more bunches, you can do some preliminary tuning for collision and store lifetime.
  • If the vacuum at IR12 appears to be an impediment to increasing the total intensity, fill with high per bunch intensity (1.8-2e11) and lower bunch number in order to better approximate store lifetime conditions.

• Resolve problem with DX magnet splining (and splines for some quads.

• Ramp development for 255 GeV:
  • Call Al before you ramp. He has some work left to do on the wfgs before you can ramp successfully.
  • Establish 6x6 bunches, 1e11 pp12b-v2 through pp12b-rot0
  • Measure chroms on ramp (wiggles). You probably have to raise the tunes to to (0.685, 0.680) from 106->238 seconds..
  • Adjust chroms as necessary and resume ramp development at the low tunes (0.680, 0.675) from 106->238 seconds
  • If ramp transmission nominal (>95%), raise bunch number 56->84->109, checking for coherence as normal.
  • Vertical tunes are identical for most of the ramp. Please be on the lookout for BBQ cross locking conditions.
  • Try rebucketing. RF has set it up for 255 GeV and it may just work. If you survive the gymnastic and it seems to work, tune up the lifetime afterwards. If it becomes an impediment to ramp development, skip it for tonight.
  • When six bunches is successful, increase the bunch number (6->56->84->109), checking for coherence.

• Power supply work for 255 GeV ramp, IP2 beta* = 2 m

• Finish power supply work
• Ramp development for 255 GeV:
  • Establish 6x6 bunches, 1e11 pp12b-v2 through pp12b-rot0 with 'high' tunes (0.685, 0.680) from 106->238 seconds.
  • Measure chroms on ramps with high tunes.
  • Adjust chroms as necessary and reduce tunes to 0.680, 0.675 from 106->238 seconds
  • If ramp transmission nominal (>95%), raise bunch number 56->84->109, checking for coherence as normal.
  • Vertical tunes are identical for most of the ramp. lease be on the lookout for BBQ cross locking conditions.

• 6 bunch ramp for optics, beta* measurement
• 2-3 ramps for rebucketing tuning.
• Return to stores

• PHYSICS. There, I declared it.
• Carbon polarimeter + storage cavity noise diagnosis
• BBQ yellow-to-blue vertical tune lock diagnosis
• 109x109 bunch stores, 1.2e11

• 109x109 bunch stores, increasing intensity to 1.5e11

• Continue stores.

• Access for PHENIX VTX detector, phase shifter, polarimeter troubleshooting.
• Recover and ramp for vernier scan

• 8 hour stores, start at 96 bunches, 1.2e11

• Continue stores. Increase bunch number to 109, 1.2e11

• Condition the vacuum in the vicinity of the 9 MHz with full intensity rebucketed fills at injection.

• Continue conditioning if progress is being made to full intensity stores.
• Provide collisions with maximum intensity that the 9 MHz vacuum will bear.

• Provide collisions with maximum intensity that the 9 MHz vacuum will bear.

• Establish rebucketed stores with 109x109 bunches

• Continue day work.
• Give experimenters stores with at least 56 bunches, 1.4e11 by midnight.

• COLLISIONS!
• Take polarization measurements per Haixin's instructions
• All stores must be rebucketed.

• Chrom drift correction
• Store tune correction
• Progress to 109x109, 1.5e11/bunch injected

• Continue day work.
• Work toward over night stores with whatever total intensity has been established as reliable.

• COLLISIONS!
• Take polarization measurements per Haixin's instructions
• All stores must be rebucketed.

• Experimenters will hold on to this store until ~1100.
• Fix tune glitch between energy and rotator ramp (Al)
• Make settings for skew quad families 1 and 3 the same at injection in both rings.
• Fix store lifetime, store tunes (remember to put good settings in design of storage ramp store stone). Raise vertical away from 2/3, lower horizontal away from 7/10. Keep an eye on the emittance, if you get severe blowup, further tuning with that store might be fruitless.

• Continue day work.
• Work towards over night stores with whatever total intensity has been established as reliable. 56x56 at 1e11 would be fine.

• COLLISIONS!

• Rebucketing setup

• Continue rebucketing
• RF work towards rebucketing with beam.
  • Before RF departs for the night both operations and RF need to be satisfied that operations knows the nominal RF setup and ramping procedure. Ops should note this in a suitable place in the wiki.
• Decide by 1400-1500 whether to switch to 28 MHz ramping and continue rebucketing setup during tomorrow's day shift.
• Whether rebucketed or not, work toward delivering 56x56 bunches to experiments at midnight. If rebucketed, focus will likely be store lifetime and maybe collimation. If 28 MHz ramping, ramp losses are likely chrom related.
  • Check with Michiko during the day regarding instrumentation needs with 28 MHz setup. I don't expect timing shifts (we had none during 9->28MHz switchovers last year), but change in peak current could affect things.

• Collisions for experiments with at least 56x56 bunches, rebucketed or not.

• CNI setup
• Rebucketing

• Continue rebucketing
• RF work towards rebucketing with beam.
  • Before RF departs for the night both operations and RF need to be satisfied that operations knows the nominal RF setup and ramping procedure. Ops should note this in a suitable place in the wiki.
• Resume ramp development, get to 109 bunches

• Collisions for experiments with at least 56x56 bunches.

• Phase shifter work and parasitic accesses: 10am- ~6pm

• Access continues into early evening
• RF work towards rebucketing with beam.
  • Before RF departs for the night both operations and RF need to be satisfied that operations knows the nominal RF setup and ramping procedure. Ops should note this in a suitable place in the wiki.
• Resume ramp development, get to 109 bunches

• If 109x109 bunch ramp with ~1.4e11/bunch (injected) established with reasonable store lifetime, move on to optics work.
  • Nonlinear IR corrections (Zimmer, needs 1/2 hour heads up)
  • Local coupling measurements at store: closed bump (Zimmer, Marusic(Al will 'stop by')) and tbt (Yun, Simon White (Simon will watch in the log))
  • AC Dipole optics measurement at store (Mei)
  • IPM scans at injection (Connolly, will check in around 0500)
• If all the above is complete, return to ramp development (e.g. store lifetime).

• Access to address bi8-sq3
• If RF ready, begin rebucketing.
  • Optics measurements (Mei, Yun) only in as much as they truly do not impede rebucketing efforts.

• Continue rebucketing setup
• Resume ramp development (up to 109x109)
• Angelika is available after 2100 to do collimator setup at store
• Aim to deliver at least 56x56 for experiments tonight at midnight

• Deliver collisions to experiments

• Address RF phase and energy jumping problems to avoid snake quench issues.
• Diagnose and fix bunch lengthening after injection. Possibly a longitudinal instability, no beam since we increased the Laundau voltage
• Move on to rebucketing if above problems are resolved.

• Continue RF work from this morning. Move on to rebucketing.
• When RF has finished, resume ramp development.

• Continue ramp development.
  • Increase bunch number and intensity
  • Ramp chrom measurements as needed
• If we get to 56x56 bunches at >1e11 with good store lifetime, call Angelika for steering and collimator setup. Angelika needs the following
  • Some setup time at injection with beam (56x56)
  • Some time to set up between the energy and storage ramps (please manage the Up sequnce appropriately)
  • Then continue on to the storage ramp and let her steer into collision at PHENIX (and maybe STAR) and proceed with collimator setup from there.
• When Angelika is done proceed to further increasing bunch number and intensity.

• Yellow high current (250 GeV) shutoff (until ~1400)

• CNI setup (1-2 hours)
• BPM fixed trigger timing (1-2 hours) [simultaneous with CNI]
• RF 28 MHz setup for rebucketing. (~1 hour)
• Resume ramp development.
  • Increase bunch number and intensity
  • Ramp chrom measurements as needed

• Continue ramp development.
  • Increase bunch number and intensity
  • Ramp chrom measurements as needed
• If we get to 56x56 bunches at >1e11 with good store lifetime, call Angelika for steering and collimator setup. Angelika needs the following
  • Some setup time at injection with beam (56x56)
  • Some time to set up between the energy and storage ramps (please manage the Up sequnce appropriately)
  • Then continue on to the storage ramp and let her steer into collision at PHENIX (and maybe STAR) and proceed with collimator setup from there.
• When Angelika is done proceed to further increasing bunch number and intensity.

• DX training until ~1600-1700

• RF in, work to continue work on loops, particularly yellow
• Please test a fill with nominal total injected intensity (1.8e11/bunch in up to 109x109 bunches). (not for ramping)
• If time allows (or if work can go on in parallel with RF), Yun can should take TBT local coupling data.
• Ramp if RF is ready (see notes OWL shift notes re: feedback support)

Notes
• Al and Michiko plan on arriving for the midnight shift. No need to call in. Al can be called starting at 2000 for if there are problems with tune/coupling/orbit feedback and these problems are stopping RF progress.
  
• Goal for ramp development is to get to at least 56x56 bunches to store with >1e11 by the 2359, Monday 1/30. We would then be able to give midnight shifts to the experiments.
  
• Do not spend much time tuning for non-colliding store lifetime. Just enough that the ramp goes well and the store losses are not terrible since we will spend almost no time in that state.
  
• Do not spend any time hunting for collisions at low intensity/bunch number. Priority is ramping intensity/bunch number first, easy enough to find collisions once that effort has progressed.
  
• There obviously won't be any down time, but if there is and there will be no RHIC beam for >20 min, please give PHENIX a call so they can start a cosmic run. Then PLEASE remember to call them to turn off before you inject again.

To Do
• Ramp development
  • Get beam to flattop with good efficiency.
  • Top priority once ramp efficiency established: Chrom measurement on the ramp.
  • Raise intensity/number of bunches. Adjust chroms as needed. Take new chrom measurements if necessary.
• Activities below to be done as needed or as time presents itself (if, for instance, ramping is actually not possible over night).
  • If bunch-to-bucket phase detector available, correct longitudinal matching via RhicInjection (ops)
  • Improve injection efficiency and AtR losses
  • 109x109 at 1.8e11/bunch if not done yet
  • Watch out for/investigate spontaneous tune feedback disengagement
  • Linear optics check: (still not yet done in yellow)
    • AC Dipole betas and phase measurement
  • Local coupling
    • If opportunity presents itself, take store data with closed bump method (Al)
    • TBT method data taking (at injection/store) subject to Yun/Simon availability

• DX training until ~1600-1700 (about 2 quenches)

• RF in work to continue work on loops
• If RF is ready for ramps, first ramps start late in the shift.
• Want to test nominal total injected intensity (1.8e11/bunch in up to 109 bunches). This morning injection efficiency was abysmal. Ops should find and fix the problem(s). Can try this before RF gets there. Nice to do with them around.
• If RF unavailable when injection is ready, Haixin may have further polarimeter work.

• Ramp development
  • Get beam to flattop with good efficiency.
  • Chrom measurement on the ramp.
  • Activities below to be done as needed or as time presents itself (if, for instance, ramping is actually not possible over night).
• Beam back from RF at time TBD, rough guess 0200 (as of 1300, have not spoke to RF yet)
• If bunch-to-bucket phase detector available, correct longitudinal matching via RhicInjection (ops)
• Improve injection efficiency
• 109x109 at 1.8e11/bunch if not done yet
• Investigate tune feedback disengagement
• Linear optics check: (still not yet done in yellow)
  • AC Dipole betas and phase measurement
  • Chromaticity and dispersion measurement
• 'Dry' ramp. Go through ramp cycle with nominal sequences. In particular check that gammats do not jump. (needs Al)
• RHIC IPM calibration scans with beam (needs high total intensity)
• Local coupling?
  • Anything to be done with closed bump method?
  • TBT method data taking subject to Yun/Simon availability

• DX quench training: 0900-1300
• Inject and begin RF work 1300-2359
  • Nominal intensity test with RF on hand (target: 2e11/bunch in 109 bunches)

• RF work continues until midnight
  • Bunch-to-bucket phase detector
  • Push button reset (or instructions) for LLRF arc detect pull.
  • Loops
  • Test radial steering with yellow beam (addressing unexplained permit pull)

• Beam back from RF at midnight
• If bunch-to-bucket phase detector available, correct longitudinal matching via RhicInjection (ops)
• Top priority: Orbit feedback tests
• Linear optics check: (not yet done in yellow)
  • AC Dipole betas and phase measurement
  • Chromaticity and dispersion measurement
• RHIC IPM calibration scans (needs high total intensity) (Roger Connolly)
• Local coupling
  • IR bump method: retake data (consistency check). If data are understood, try applying correction. (Al, Michiko, Vadim)
• Weighted SVD test (Chuyu)
• Disperson free steering (Chuyu)
• ORM data taking (Tasha, no call-in, she'll call you or just come in). If the time presents itself earlier than she arrives, Al can get the script started.

• Power supplies:
  • Get yellow 100 GeV ramp-ready
• RF
  • High-level arc detector adjustment
  • SF6 purge and replace
• RF SF6 work (necessity determined after morning meeting) is the limiting access: ring locked up by 1400-1500 hrs.

• Power supply work for 4-5 hours after RF work done (est. finished at 1800-2000)
• RF loop work to follow until midnight (There has been a two hour slip late in the schedule. Please hand over the machine for instrumentation setup by 0200.) If it helps, in the current schedule, RF loop work is scheduled for tomorrow starting as early as 1300 (depending on DX quench recovery) and lasting until midnight.

Note: The power supplies will be ready for ramping very soon. Priority for use of the beam time goes to the other two critical areas: RF and feedback (and their prerequisite systems and instrumentation). CNI setup has second priority. Testing, measurement and development of non-ramp critical items (optics, local coupling, beta* etc.) can proceed when they don't impede progress toward ramp-readiness. Ties go to the runner.
• Instrumentation setup
  • Blue: BPM timing (Michnoff)
  • Yellow:
    • BPMs (Michnoff)
    • BBQ, BTF: check at higher beam current (Minty, no need for call-in)
• Feedback (blue): Orbit, 10 Hz
• Feedback (yellow): Tune/coupling, orbit, 10 Hz
• CNI Setup: Blue2, Yellow1 and Yellow2 still need work (Haixin)

• Power supplies:
  • Get yellow 100 GeV ramp-ready
• RF
  • High-level arc detector adjustment
  • SF6 purge and replace
• RF SF6 work (necessity determined after morning meeting) is the limiting access: ring locked up by 1400-1500 hrs.

• Power supply work for 4-5 hours after RF work done (est. finished at 1800-2000)
• RF loop work to follow until midnight (There has been a two hour slip late in the schedule. Please hand over the machine for instrumentation setup by 0200.) If it helps, in the current schedule, RF loop work is scheduled for tomorrow starting as early as 1300 (depending on DX quench recovery) and lasting until midnight.

Note: The power supplies will be ready for ramping very soon. Priority for use of the beam time goes to the other two critical areas: RF and feedback (and their prerequisite systems and instrumentation). CNI setup has second priority. Testing, measurement and development of non-ramp critical items (optics, local coupling, beta* etc.) can proceed when they don't impede progress toward ramp-readiness. Ties go to the runner.
• Instrumentation setup
  • Blue: BPM timing (Michnoff)
  • Yellow:
    • BPMs (Michnoff)
    • BBQ, BTF: check at higher beam current (Minty, no need for call-in)
• Feedback (blue): Orbit, 10 Hz
• Feedback (yellow): Tune/coupling, orbit, 10 Hz
• CNI Setup: Blue2, Yellow1 and Yellow2 still need work (Haixin)

• Power supplies:
  • Finish blue 100 GeV hysteresis
  • Fix yellow injection ripple
  • Investigate blue main dipole alarms
  • Continue making yellow ramp ready
  • Blue to high (250 GeV) current
• RF: arc detector tests

• Power supply handover for beam work late afternoon, early evening (As of 1400, Don's estimate is ring ready for injection at 2100)
• Prior to beam work: Run the RHIC/Ramp/Newfill sequence.
• Re-establish coasting beam with snakes off,
• When it's safe to turn on snakes (good injection efficiency, lifetime, orbit), have Mei reconfigure the permit for snakes on. Run the newfill sequence again to enable her changes.
• Install snake bumps (see run plan)
• Ramp snakes to operating current (RampEditor)
• Install snake bumps into design of vertical correctors (see run plan)
• Re-establish good conditions with coasting beam with snakes on
• When lifetime is good enough for capture, call Kevin Smith to begin.
• It probably goes without saying, but if there is a break in the capture work that doesn't also prevent blue injection, you can work on re-tuning in blue.

Continue yellow injection or capture work from EVE.
• If capture finishes with beam time left: then injection work in blue and yellow instrumentation setup can continue in parallel to the extent possible. In the event of conflict, priority goes to getting blue beam lifetime established and blue CNI work.
  • Enable the 9 MHz permit input if it has been disabled.
  • Turn on the 9 MHz and BS1 if they are off
  • Optics tuning will be necessary since we will be on hysteresis.
  • With reasonable bunched beam lifetime in blue, CNI setup can begin (Haixin)
  • Before instrumentation setup, Al has to be called to adjust the global beam synch link timing.
  • Notify instrumentation personnel for setup of:
    • BPMs (Michnoff)
    • Injection damper (Michnoff)
    • Artus (Michnoff)
    • 10 Hz feedback (Hulsart)
    • Orbit feedback (Marusic)
    • WCM (Hoff)
    • BBQ (Wilinski)
    • BTF (Wilinski)

• Power supply work: yellow to injection energy, blue to 100 GeV hysteresis
• Effect repair of 9 MHz cavity

• Power supply and RF work continue

Notes

To do

• Priority is to establish coasting beam in yellow. 9 MHz, and YS1 have to be off. Note this means that work in blue and yellow cannot really be done simultaneously. This also may mean that the 9 MHz permit input has to be disabled.
  • Begin with zero strength in design of all correctors and zero current in the yellow snakes ('zero' in the snakes might mean putting 1 A in RampEditor)
  • You can try to inject immediately with the injection kicker (and skip the corrector method first-turn). If you run into trouble, like splattering all over the injection area that you can't fix, fall back on the corrector (see the run plan for details)
  • If you have circulating beam with good injection efficiency and lifetime and reasonable average orbit without snakes then:
    • Call Mei and have her enable and set the snake BLM thresholds appropriately. Trigger the ev-newfill event if she requires it. Make sure the newfill sequence is not issuing RF hard resets.
    • Ramp snakes to operating current (RampEditor)
    • Install snake bumps into design of vertical correctors (see run plan)
    • Re-establish good coasting beam with snakes on
• Injection work in blue
  • Enable the 9 MHz permit input if it has been disabled.
  • Optics tuning will be necessary since we will be on hysteresis.
• With reasonable bunched beam lifetime in blue, CNI setup can begin (Haixin).
  • Vacuum in IR4 will be suboptimal. Please monitor it when injecting multiple bunches. I think there is not a problem if one stays below, say, 56 bunches (which should be more than enough to do CNI work).

• Power supply work: yellow to injection energy

• Power supply work continues

• Re-establish captured beam with 9 MHz, Landau (ops)
• RF work (KSS), from 'beam on' to ~0400
  • Bunch-to-bucket phase detector
  • Preliminary loop checkout
  • 28 MHz and bouncer phase-ins
• Optimize longitudinal matching (requires operational bunch-to-bucket phase detector) (RF+ops).
• 10 Hz feedback (Rob Hulsart)
  • Test algorithm that weights the colliding IRs (Chuyu, Michiko)
• Orbit feedback setup (Al, Michiko)
• BBQ system bandwidth check (Michiko)
• Re-measure and apply local coupling (Al)
• Polarimeter setup (Haixin)

• Power supply work: Yellow leakage current find and fix. Requires access to whole ring + sweeps

• Power supply work continues
• Sweeps

• Note: If problems arise with the capture or timing setup, call Kevin Smith. LLRF is available for support for problems and failures, but is otherwise not on the schedule for development tonight.
• Power supply work and sweeps end ~midnight
• Fix 9 o'clock snake bump
• Re-establish captured beam: 9 MHz, Landau must be on
• Address apparent rev-tick jumping: maybe have been undamped synchrotron oscillations in 9 MHz bucket (no Landau)
• Instrumentation setup: BPMs, WCM, BBQ, BTF, Artus, injection damper
• Optimize orbit/tune/coupling/chroms, install IR separation bumps
• If blue is still off hysteresis (likely) do not adjust the bend trim to fix the radius.
• If we get to the point where blue captured beam is as good as it will get we can move on to setting up the orbit/tune/coupling feedbacks.

• Current limiting key test (1-2 hrs)
  
• Blue snakes to high current. (2-3 hrs)
  

• If power supply personnel are available, two people will come in and fix the broken gamma quad. When they have finished, re-establish circulating beam with snakes and move on to capture.
  
• If the gamma quad cannot be fixed today, then re-establish beam after Don's remote work and move directly to capture without the gamma quad. We should contact Steve in the meantime to fix the model. If the gamma quad really cannot be fixed, then we will need a sufficiently accurate model to have orbit corrections.
  

• Yellow high current (250 GeV) shutoff (until ~1400)

• CNI setup (1-2 hours)
• BPM fixed trigger timing (1-2 hours) [simultaneous with CNI]
• RF 28 MHz setup for rebucketing. (~1 hour)
• Resume ramp development.
  • Increase bunch number and intensity
  • Ramp chrom measurements as needed

• Continue ramp development.
  • Increase bunch number and intensity
  • Ramp chrom measurements as needed
• If we get to 56x56 bunches at >1e11 with good store lifetime, call Angelika for steering and collimator setup. Angelika needs the following
  • Some setup time at injection with beam (56x56)
  • Some time to set up between the energy and storage ramps (please manage the Up sequnce appropriately)
  • Then continue on to the storage ramp and let her steer into collision at PHENIX (and maybe STAR) and proceed with collimator setup from there.
• When Angelika is done proceed to further increasing bunch number and intensity.

• DX training until ~1600-1700

• RF in, work to continue work on loops, particularly yellow
• Please test a fill with nominal total injected intensity (1.8e11/bunch in up to 109x109 bunches). (not for ramping)
• If time allows (or if work can go on in parallel with RF), Yun can should take TBT local coupling data.
• Ramp if RF is ready (see notes OWL shift notes re: feedback support)

Notes
• Al and Michiko plan on arriving for the midnight shift. No need to call in. Al can be called starting at 2000 for if there are problems with tune/coupling/orbit feedback and these problems are stopping RF progress.
  
• Goal for ramp development is to get to at least 56x56 bunches to store with >1e11 by the 2359, Monday 1/30. We would then be able to give midnight shifts to the experiments.
  
• Do not spend much time tuning for non-colliding store lifetime. Just enough that the ramp goes well and the store losses are not terrible since we will spend almost no time in that state.
  
• Do not spend any time hunting for collisions at low intensity/bunch number. Priority is ramping intensity/bunch number first, easy enough to find collisions once that effort has progressed.
  
• There obviously won't be any down time, but if there is and there will be no RHIC beam for >20 min, please give PHENIX a call so they can start a cosmic run. Then PLEASE remember to call them to turn off before you inject again.

To Do
• Ramp development
  • Get beam to flattop with good efficiency.
  • Top priority once ramp efficiency established: Chrom measurement on the ramp.
  • Raise intensity/number of bunches. Adjust chroms as needed. Take new chrom measurements if necessary.
• Activities below to be done as needed or as time presents itself (if, for instance, ramping is actually not possible over night).
  • If bunch-to-bucket phase detector available, correct longitudinal matching via RhicInjection (ops)
  • Improve injection efficiency and AtR losses
  • 109x109 at 1.8e11/bunch if not done yet
  • Watch out for/investigate spontaneous tune feedback disengagement
  • Linear optics check: (still not yet done in yellow)
    • AC Dipole betas and phase measurement
  • Local coupling
    • If opportunity presents itself, take store data with closed bump method (Al)
    • TBT method data taking (at injection/store) subject to Yun/Simon availability

• DX training until ~1600-1700 (about 2 quenches)

• RF in work to continue work on loops
• If RF is ready for ramps, first ramps start late in the shift.
• Want to test nominal total injected intensity (1.8e11/bunch in up to 109 bunches). This morning injection efficiency was abysmal. Ops should find and fix the problem(s). Can try this before RF gets there. Nice to do with them around.
• If RF unavailable when injection is ready, Haixin may have further polarimeter work.

• Ramp development
  • Get beam to flattop with good efficiency.
  • Chrom measurement on the ramp.
  • Activities below to be done as needed or as time presents itself (if, for instance, ramping is actually not possible over night).
• Beam back from RF at time TBD, rough guess 0200 (as of 1300, have not spoke to RF yet)
• If bunch-to-bucket phase detector available, correct longitudinal matching via RhicInjection (ops)
• Improve injection efficiency
• 109x109 at 1.8e11/bunch if not done yet
• Investigate tune feedback disengagement
• Linear optics check: (still not yet done in yellow)
  • AC Dipole betas and phase measurement
  • Chromaticity and dispersion measurement
• 'Dry' ramp. Go through ramp cycle with nominal sequences. In particular check that gammats do not jump. (needs Al)
• RHIC IPM calibration scans with beam (needs high total intensity)
• Local coupling?
  • Anything to be done with closed bump method?
  • TBT method data taking subject to Yun/Simon availability

• DX quench training: 0900-1300
• Inject and begin RF work 1300-2359
  • Nominal intensity test with RF on hand (target: 2e11/bunch in 109 bunches)

• RF work continues until midnight
  • Bunch-to-bucket phase detector
  • Push button reset (or instructions) for LLRF arc detect pull.
  • Loops
  • Test radial steering with yellow beam (addressing unexplained permit pull)

• Beam back from RF at midnight
• If bunch-to-bucket phase detector available, correct longitudinal matching via RhicInjection (ops)
• Top priority: Orbit feedback tests
• Linear optics check: (not yet done in yellow)
  • AC Dipole betas and phase measurement
  • Chromaticity and dispersion measurement
• RHIC IPM calibration scans (needs high total intensity) (Roger Connolly)
• Local coupling
  • IR bump method: retake data (consistency check). If data are understood, try applying correction. (Al, Michiko, Vadim)
• Weighted SVD test (Chuyu)
• Disperson free steering (Chuyu)
• ORM data taking (Tasha, no call-in, she'll call you or just come in). If the time presents itself earlier than she arrives, Al can get the script started.

• Power supplies:
  • Get yellow 100 GeV ramp-ready
• RF
  • High-level arc detector adjustment
  • SF6 purge and replace
• RF SF6 work (necessity determined after morning meeting) is the limiting access: ring locked up by 1400-1500 hrs.

• Power supply work for 4-5 hours after RF work done (est. finished at 1800-2000)
• RF loop work to follow until midnight (There has been a two hour slip late in the schedule. Please hand over the machine for instrumentation setup by 0200.) If it helps, in the current schedule, RF loop work is scheduled for tomorrow starting as early as 1300 (depending on DX quench recovery) and lasting until midnight.

Note: The power supplies will be ready for ramping very soon. Priority for use of the beam time goes to the other two critical areas: RF and feedback (and their prerequisite systems and instrumentation). CNI setup has second priority. Testing, measurement and development of non-ramp critical items (optics, local coupling, beta* etc.) can proceed when they don't impede progress toward ramp-readiness. Ties go to the runner.
• Instrumentation setup
  • Blue: BPM timing (Michnoff)
  • Yellow:
    • BPMs (Michnoff)
    • BBQ, BTF: check at higher beam current (Minty, no need for call-in)
• Feedback (blue): Orbit, 10 Hz
• Feedback (yellow): Tune/coupling, orbit, 10 Hz
• CNI Setup: Blue2, Yellow1 and Yellow2 still need work (Haixin)

• Power supplies:
  • Get yellow 100 GeV ramp-ready
• RF
  • High-level arc detector adjustment
  • SF6 purge and replace
• RF SF6 work (necessity determined after morning meeting) is the limiting access: ring locked up by 1400-1500 hrs.

• Power supply work for 4-5 hours after RF work done (est. finished at 1800-2000)
• RF loop work to follow until midnight (There has been a two hour slip late in the schedule. Please hand over the machine for instrumentation setup by 0200.) If it helps, in the current schedule, RF loop work is scheduled for tomorrow starting as early as 1300 (depending on DX quench recovery) and lasting until midnight.

Note: The power supplies will be ready for ramping very soon. Priority for use of the beam time goes to the other two critical areas: RF and feedback (and their prerequisite systems and instrumentation). CNI setup has second priority. Testing, measurement and development of non-ramp critical items (optics, local coupling, beta* etc.) can proceed when they don't impede progress toward ramp-readiness. Ties go to the runner.
• Instrumentation setup
  • Blue: BPM timing (Michnoff)
  • Yellow:
    • BPMs (Michnoff)
    • BBQ, BTF: check at higher beam current (Minty, no need for call-in)
• Feedback (blue): Orbit, 10 Hz
• Feedback (yellow): Tune/coupling, orbit, 10 Hz
• CNI Setup: Blue2, Yellow1 and Yellow2 still need work (Haixin)

• Power supplies:
  • Finish blue 100 GeV hysteresis
  • Fix yellow injection ripple
  • Investigate blue main dipole alarms
  • Continue making yellow ramp ready
  • Blue to high (250 GeV) current
• RF: arc detector tests

• Power supply handover for beam work late afternoon, early evening (As of 1400, Don's estimate is ring ready for injection at 2100)
• Prior to beam work: Run the RHIC/Ramp/Newfill sequence.
• Re-establish coasting beam with snakes off,
• When it's safe to turn on snakes (good injection efficiency, lifetime, orbit), have Mei reconfigure the permit for snakes on. Run the newfill sequence again to enable her changes.
• Install snake bumps (see run plan)
• Ramp snakes to operating current (RampEditor)
• Install snake bumps into design of vertical correctors (see run plan)
• Re-establish good conditions with coasting beam with snakes on
• When lifetime is good enough for capture, call Kevin Smith to begin.
• It probably goes without saying, but if there is a break in the capture work that doesn't also prevent blue injection, you can work on re-tuning in blue.

Continue yellow injection or capture work from EVE.
• If capture finishes with beam time left: then injection work in blue and yellow instrumentation setup can continue in parallel to the extent possible. In the event of conflict, priority goes to getting blue beam lifetime established and blue CNI work.
  • Enable the 9 MHz permit input if it has been disabled.
  • Turn on the 9 MHz and BS1 if they are off
  • Optics tuning will be necessary since we will be on hysteresis.
  • With reasonable bunched beam lifetime in blue, CNI setup can begin (Haixin)
  • Before instrumentation setup, Al has to be called to adjust the global beam synch link timing.
  • Notify instrumentation personnel for setup of:
    • BPMs (Michnoff)
    • Injection damper (Michnoff)
    • Artus (Michnoff)
    • 10 Hz feedback (Hulsart)
    • Orbit feedback (Marusic)
    • WCM (Hoff)
    • BBQ (Wilinski)
    • BTF (Wilinski)

• Power supply work: yellow to injection energy, blue to 100 GeV hysteresis
• Effect repair of 9 MHz cavity

• Power supply and RF work continue

Notes

To do

• Priority is to establish coasting beam in yellow. 9 MHz, and YS1 have to be off. Note this means that work in blue and yellow cannot really be done simultaneously. This also may mean that the 9 MHz permit input has to be disabled.
  • Begin with zero strength in design of all correctors and zero current in the yellow snakes ('zero' in the snakes might mean putting 1 A in RampEditor)
  • You can try to inject immediately with the injection kicker (and skip the corrector method first-turn). If you run into trouble, like splattering all over the injection area that you can't fix, fall back on the corrector (see the run plan for details)
  • If you have circulating beam with good injection efficiency and lifetime and reasonable average orbit without snakes then:
    • Call Mei and have her enable and set the snake BLM thresholds appropriately. Trigger the ev-newfill event if she requires it. Make sure the newfill sequence is not issuing RF hard resets.
    • Ramp snakes to operating current (RampEditor)
    • Install snake bumps into design of vertical correctors (see run plan)
    • Re-establish good coasting beam with snakes on
• Injection work in blue
  • Enable the 9 MHz permit input if it has been disabled.
  • Optics tuning will be necessary since we will be on hysteresis.
• With reasonable bunched beam lifetime in blue, CNI setup can begin (Haixin).
  • Vacuum in IR4 will be suboptimal. Please monitor it when injecting multiple bunches. I think there is not a problem if one stays below, say, 56 bunches (which should be more than enough to do CNI work).

• Power supply work: yellow to injection energy

• Power supply work continues

• Re-establish captured beam with 9 MHz, Landau (ops)
• RF work (KSS), from 'beam on' to ~0400
  • Bunch-to-bucket phase detector
  • Preliminary loop checkout
  • 28 MHz and bouncer phase-ins
• Optimize longitudinal matching (requires operational bunch-to-bucket phase detector) (RF+ops).
• 10 Hz feedback (Rob Hulsart)
  • Test algorithm that weights the colliding IRs (Chuyu, Michiko)
• Orbit feedback setup (Al, Michiko)
• BBQ system bandwidth check (Michiko)
• Re-measure and apply local coupling (Al)
• Polarimeter setup (Haixin)

• Power supply work: Yellow leakage current find and fix. Requires access to whole ring + sweeps

• Power supply work continues
• Sweeps

• Note: If problems arise with the capture or timing setup, call Kevin Smith. LLRF is available for support for problems and failures, but is otherwise not on the schedule for development tonight.
• Power supply work and sweeps end ~midnight
• Fix 9 o'clock snake bump
• Re-establish captured beam: 9 MHz, Landau must be on
• Address apparent rev-tick jumping: maybe have been undamped synchrotron oscillations in 9 MHz bucket (no Landau)
• Instrumentation setup: BPMs, WCM, BBQ, BTF, Artus, injection damper
• Optimize orbit/tune/coupling/chroms, install IR separation bumps
• If blue is still off hysteresis (likely) do not adjust the bend trim to fix the radius.
• If we get to the point where blue captured beam is as good as it will get we can move on to setting up the orbit/tune/coupling feedbacks.

• Current limiting key test (1-2 hrs)
  
• Blue snakes to high current. (2-3 hrs)
  

• If power supply personnel are available, two people will come in and fix the broken gamma quad. When they have finished, re-establish circulating beam with snakes and move on to capture.
  
• If the gamma quad cannot be fixed today, then re-establish beam after Don's remote work and move directly to capture without the gamma quad. We should contact Steve in the meantime to fix the model. If the gamma quad really cannot be fixed, then we will need a sufficiently accurate model to have orbit corrections.