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RHIC RETREAT 2000
Thu Nov 16 / Fri Nov 17
Third floor, Student Activities Center, SUNY/StonyBrook
Organizer: Todd Satogata (satogata@bnl.gov)
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16 2000
8:00 LIGHT BREAKFAST
8:30 PLENARY - PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION SATOGATA 302
10 Retreat Organization Satogata
20 Overview: Setting The Stage (PowerPoint) Roser
20 Power Supplies and Ramping Ganetis
20 High Frequency/RF (MS Doc) Brennan
20 AP Studies/Issues Pilat
10:00 COFFEE
10:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS (Open discussions room 305)
ACCELERATOR PHYSICS/HIGH FREQUENCY PILAT 302
10 Optics measurements/ AC dipole Bai
10 Luminosity/ Vernier scans Drees
10 Collimation (Postscript) Fliller
15 Linear IR correction Ptitsyn
15 Nonlinear IR correction Pilat
POWER SUPPLIES AND RAMPING GANETIS 303
20 New power supplies for next run Sandberg
20 Hardware reliability Schultheiss
20 Planned improvements during shutdown Ganetis
20 Controls Issues Clifford
10 Session Discussions Ganetis
12:00 LUNCH
1:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS - CONTINUED
ACCELERATOR PHYSICS/HIGH FREQUENCY PILAT 302
15 IBS/ Time-dependent/ Beam-beam Fischer
10 Instabilities/ Injectors (Postscript) Blaskiewicz
10 Bunch length evolution Brennan
15 Polarization overview / Polarimeter (ps) Huang
10 Effect of snakes / pp studies Mackay
10 Beam control for polarization Ptitsyn
POWER SUPPLIES AND RAMPING GANETIS 303
25 Ramping - Hardware Issues Bruno
20 Ramping - Software Issues van Zeijts
20 System Fault Diagnostics Ganetis
15 System Startup in March Sandberg
10 Session Discussions Ganetis
3:00 COFFEE
3:30 PLENARY - PARALLEL SESSION REPORTS SATOGATA 302
15 Power supplies/ramping Ganetis
15 High Frequency/RF Brennan
15 AP Studies/Issues Pilat
45 General discussion
6:30 DINNER: Eastern Pavilion (sushi/chinese), Stony Brook
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RHIC RETREAT 2000 Thu Nov 16 / Fri Nov 17
DRAFT: October 31 2000 SUNY/StonyBrook
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17 2000
8:00 LIGHT BREAKFAST
8:30 PLENARY - PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION SATOGATA 302
25 Controls Morris
25 Instrumentation Cameron
25 RHIC 2001 Plans and Goals Trbojevic
10:00 COFFEE
10:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
RHIC 2001 PLANS AND GOALS ROSER 302
15 Tandem intensity D. Steski
15 Beyond 10^9/bunch (MS Doc) M. Brennan
15 AGS extraction chitter W. Glenn
15 ATR emittance measurements N. Tsoupas
15 Context switching (Postscript) K. Gardner
15 Discussion L. Ahrens
INSTRUMENTATION CAMERON 305
60 Tune Measurements / Damping Drees/Cameron
30 Chromaticity Measurements Tepikian
CONTROLS MORRIS 311
45 Data Acquisition, Monitoring, & Logging Morris
35 Fault Reporting & Recovery Procedures D'Ottavio
12:00 LUNCH
1:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS - CONTINUED
RHIC 2001 PLANS AND GOALS TRBOJEVIC 302
20 STAR Critique Session Summary B. Christie
20 PHENIX A. Franz
20 Run 2001 Dry Run System Commissioning D. Trbojevic
15 Operations Planning P. Ingrassia
15 Discussion
INSTRUMENTATION CAMERON 305
25 BPMs Satogata/Cernig
20 Transverse Profile Connolly
20 Longitudinal Profile Lee
CONTROLS MORRIS 311
45 Sequencing / Ramping / Knobbing van Zeijts
45 Analysis Tools: Ramp Comparison & Post Mortem Laster
3:00 COFFEE
3:30 PLENARY - PARALLEL SESSION REPORTS SATOGATA 302
15 Controls Morris
15 Instrumentation Cameron
15 RHIC Upgrades Mackay
45 RHIC 2001 Plans and Goals: open discussion Trbojevic
5:00 CLOSE-OUT Satogata 302
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