NA61/SHINE run schedule/plans: 2014-2017 NA61/SHINE beam request 2014 NA61/SHINE Hardware Upgrade meeting, November 6-8, 2013 Moving towards heavy ions: 2011: Pb+Pb at 80A GeV/c

2014: August 4-24 (3 weeks without beam): - detector tests - Kr calibration runs October 20 – December 15 (8 weeks out of 9 weeks for all users in H2): - PSD calibration (1 week) (muons at 158 GeV/c) - beam/detector commissioning (2 weeks) (protons at 158 GeV/c) - p+Pb at 158 GeV/c – physics (5 weeks)

2015: January 12 – March 16 (9 weeks, NA61 only): - Ar beam set-up (3 weeks) - Ar+Ca at 6 momenta – physics (6 weeks) September 24 – October 12 (8 weeks): - beam set-up/detector com. (2 weeks) - USNA61 - physics (6 weeks) (not approved, addendum needed by October 2014) October 12 – December 1 (7 weeks): - beam set-up/detector com. (1 week) - p+Pb at 6 momenta GeV/c - physics (6 weeks) December 1 – December 7 (1 week): - Pb+Pb test run (1 week)

2016 (no detailed schedule yet): September – October (7 weeks): - beam set-up/detector com. (1 weeks) - USNA61 - physics (6 weeks) (not approved, addendum needed by October 2014) November – December (8 weeks): - beam set-up/detector com. (2 weeks) - Pb+Pb at 6 momenta - physics (6 weeks) (not approved, addendum needed by October 2014)

2017 (no detailed schedule yet): June – July (8 weeks): - beam set-up/detector com. (2 weeks) - Xe+La at 6 momenta - physics (6 weeks) August - September (7 weeks): - beam set-up/detector com. (1 week) - USNA61 - physics (6 weeks) (not approved, addendum needed by October 2014) November - December (7 weeks): - beam set-up/detector com. (1 week) - Pb+Pb with VD - physics (6 weeks) (not approved, addendum needed by October 2015)

2018: LS2

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2014 proton period:

2015 NA61 argon run:

2015 proton period:

2014 duty cycle: FT cycle (72 or 75%), beam (32 or 33%) 2015 during the LHC filling: FT cycle (67%), beam (15%) FT cycle: 10.8 sec with flattop 4.8 sec (4.8/10.8*0.72 = 0.32)