p-p Preparation Status

In the schedule below, Day 0 is 29 January, the day after the Maintenance Day to switch over the Q7 and sextupoles.

Day      Activity

0	 Test ramp, snakes and rotators to operating current (Maintenance Day(s))

1-2	 Establish AGS extraction/RHIC injection (Nick)
	 AGS to RHIC synchro (RF group)
	 Injection kicker timing (Wolfram)
	 Check injection damper	(Rob)  
	 Turn on snakes (Waldo, Mei)
	 Adjust bend trim (Vadim)	
	 Check snake bumps, establish Golden Orbit (Vadim, Waldo)
	 Establish RF capture (RF group)
	 Setup WCM, BPMs, IPM, BBQ, Artus, Polarimeter (Roger L., Todd, Roger C., Al, Angelika, Mike)  
	 Correct orbits, tunes, chromaticity and coupling 
	 Check spin pattern

3-5	 Snake current scan at injection (Mei)
	 Ramp development (no rotators yet), using tune feedback
	 Check separation bumps

6-7	 Rotator ramp development (using tune feedback)
	 Optics correction in blue, at near-integer store working point (Todd, Mei)
	 Collision setup

8-14	 Setup collimation (Angelika)
	 Overnight stores
	 Increase number of bunches and bunch intensity	 
	 Fine-tune the ramp to maximize polarization
	 IR nonlinear corrections (Fulvia)
	 Nonlinear chromaticity correction (Yun)

15-	 Physics
	 Development during Day shifts

The following update on the status of preparations for polarized proton running was contained in an email from Chris Montag dated 27 Sept 2007.

Dear colleagues,

As discussed at the retreat, we will run the "Blue" RHIC ring at a new,
near-integer working point (.96/.95), while the "Yellow" ring remains at
the current polarized protons tunes (.695/.685).
As part of the preparations for this running mode, we have to make sure
that all RHIC systems that rely on tune measurements, use the tune
setpoint, or rely on the tune or the betatron phase advance over a large
portion (> one arc) of the ring are capable of dealing with the new
working point.
As a starter, I have attached a list of systems that need to be checked
and probably updated. This list is not necessarily complete, so I would
like to ask everybody to take a careful look at this list and let me know
if I missed something. I also would like to ask the listed contact persons
for each system on the list to let me know of the status of their
respective systems.

With best regards and many thanks,

        Christoph

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System			Contact		Comments
	
Artus			A. Drees	separate peak finder windows; 
					zooms should not reset after each measurement

Chromaticity Control	S. Tepikian	chromaticity sign;
					tune peakfinder (?)

Damper (injection)	A. Drees	check betatron phase advances for new tunes

Decoupling		J. Beebe-Wang	tune peakfinder

GapCleaner		A. Drees	different tunes in both rings

InjectionTuning		W. Fischer	decoupling?

IPM			S. Tepikian	beta-functions still correct?

Orbit			V. Ptitsyn	get tunes separately for both rings

PLL Tunemeter/BBQ	P. Cameron	different search windows in both rings

RampEditor/Model	N. Malitsky	robust tune setting near the integer

RhicBTF			P. Cameron	betatron phase advance

SkewQuadModulation	Y. Luo		betatron phases/tunes