Scheduling Meeting Minutes: 07 Jan 2008

We have money for 17 weeks of RHIC running.  That means 5 weeks of polarized protons.  Because of the extra week of Set-Up required for 500GeV running, this makes it much more likely that only 200GeV running will be considered. There are attempts to get an extra week of pp running time; i.e. 6 weeks of pp.  If the extra week of pp running is possible, there may be time to do a 2 week 200GeV run followed by a 1 week 500GeV run (with a week of development in between).

Here is a brief summary of the schedule as discussed in the meeting, making the assumption that there will be 5 weeks of pp running,  It will certainly be superseded by discussions Tuesday afternoon, but it provides milestones to look at.

Jan 9           APEX 5AM - 5PM
                      (Vacuum work gets done in Booster)
Jan 15        APEX 8PM - 8AM Jan 16
Jan 16        Maintenance 6AM - 6PM
Jan 17        AGS Cold Snake is cold
                     (Polarized Proton development behind stores)
Jan 19        (Au-31+ behind stores, coordinated with pp)
Jan 23       APEX 5AM - 5PM
Jan 31       d-Au running complete
Feb 1         Switch Q7 polarity / ZDCs
Feb 2         Set-up for pp at ? GeV
Feb 16       pp running
Mar 1-7      pp ends.
                     (Low Energy Au-Au running?)

Projects for a long shutdown: