SafetySchedule: Past, Present and

FutureRHIC and Experiment ReportsMachine and System ReportsAOB

Take 5 for Safety………..Ed Lessard

APEX on 20 Feb, 5:00AM – 5:00PM. * squeeze to 60cm went well in APEX, so we skipped

intermediate stages, 80cm, 70cm, … More work on * squeeze is scheduled for APEX tonight.

PASS had gate microswitch problems again (2GE1). Switched JET from Blue to Yellow.

New Ramp was developed to keep Blue and Yellow beams separated at the JET target. This ramp appears to give reduced polarization in Yellow, and perhaps larger emittance. Reverted to previous ramp.

Power dip on Sunday took most of the day to recover. Short access on Monday for JET magnet cooler repair,

and PHENIX and STAR making minor fixes.

APEX begins 8:00PM tonight. Maintenance begins with Polarized Source Heater

off at 7:00AM Wednesday morning for source maintenance. RHIC access starts at 8:00AM PHENIX doing MuTr Trigger prototyping STAR access for PP2PP AGS Polarimeter Target work

NSRL Experiments start next Monday, 3 March 2008.

Continuing work on NSRL recertification Backflushing D6 on Maintenance Day

Feb 26 / 27 APEX/Maintenance

Mar 3 NSRL starts running

Mar 10      pp ends, 8:00 AMStart Low Energy Au-Au running

Mar 12 RHIC Run 08 ends, 8:00 AM Cryo warm-Up Begins

Mar 12 Booster/AGS running til midnight

RHIC – pp……………..….Christoph Montag STAR......................................Bill Christie PHENIX.................................Mike Leitch Polarimeter.……………………Haixin Huang PP2PP…………………….…….Wlodek Guryn NSRL…………………………..…Adam Rusek BLIP…………………….…..Leonard Mausner Operations.…………………….…Fulvia Pilat

Operations……..……….Peter Ingrassia Sources……………………....…Jim Alessi Booster and AGS...............Leif Ahrens Maintenance………….…Paul Sampson Expt Support & Facilities…Al Pendzick Instrumentation……...……..Tom Russo

Vacuum..........................Mike Mapes Cryogenics…………..Andy Warkentien Power………………………Jon Sandberg RF................................Alex Zaltsman Controls...........................John Morris Access Controls……….Jonathan Reich RCF………………………....Michael Ernst*

*not present