MOM Report Paul Soler MICE Operations Manager University of Glasgow MICO April 4, 2011

Commissioning Needs-Soler2 Commissioning Needs MICE shift 23/3/11 —Shift went well and most systems tested (see P. Hodgson’s report last week) —However, BPM was not able to be tested Beam Position Monitor: —Contacted Pierrick Hanlet and Alan Bross to see what could have been the problem —Discovered that HV was badly configured after EPICS tests —There are two CAEN SY127 crates (one on top of large SY527 crate and one next to BPM) o These need to be “daisy chained” but were not o SY127 cable connected to SY527 cable (which is at CAEN for repair) o With instructions from Pierrick, connected one SY127 to the other and terminated connections properly (however need to test)

April 4, 2011Commissioning Needs-Soler3 Commissioning Needs Henry removed MICE DAQ PCs from rack DAQ-04 —It includes: Grid data mover PC, "micestore", all miceacq* servers and DAQ KVM system. —PCs are currently in R76 —Old rack to be removed and new rack to be installed —Goal is to reinstall PCs around 14 April —Consequences: o No data taking until reinstalled o KVM box has been removed - machines that connect through it will need to use a local keyboard and monitor (miceraid1&2; micecss1; micepps1; targetctl1). o No backups of eLog, MICEmine, etc. (micestore removed) o Cannot test BPM again until system reinstalled

April 4, 2011Commissioning Needs-Soler4 Commissioning Needs Beam Magnets: —Water leak in trench next to receiver fixed by John Govans —Q6 water remains off until access at the end of this ISIS period Target in R78 —Ran successfully for actuations —However, it kept on getting stuck —Ken stopped it on 1/4/11 at ~17:00. —Target will need to be dismantled for inspection to understand why it is sticking

April 4, 2011Commissioning Needs-Soler5 Commissioning Needs Matt Hills is commissioning H2 system with cryostat —However, H2 line has developed leak: 0.73 mbar/hour —System shut down and leak to be fixed next week when Matt returns

April 4, 2011Commissioning Needs-Soler6 Run plan ISIS schedule: —1 March – 14 April 2011: ISIS run o 15 April – 17 April 2011: machine physics o 18 April – 1 May 2011: Easter shutdown o 2 May – 8 May: run up and machine physics o 9 May 2011: machine permits —10 May – 9 June 2011: ISIS run o 10 June – 12 June 2011: machine physics o 13 June – 26 June 2011: shutdown o 27 June – 3 July: run up and machine physics o 4 July 2011: machine permits —5 July – 4 August 2011: ISIS run o 5 August – 7 August 2011: machine physics o 8 August – 4 September 2011: shutdown? (subject to change) This Friday 8 April (12:30-13:30): Machine scheduling meeting (any requests?)