DØ Current Daily Run Plan
The Run Plan can be found at
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/runcoor/runplans/runplan.html
The Run Plan Standard Instructions can be found at
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/runcoor/runplans/runplan_standard.html
This run plan covers:
- From : Eve shift Dec 27, 2001
- Through: Eve shift Dec 30, 2001
Magnet configuration (check magnet orientation instructions in the Standard
Plan) :
- Toroid: On Reverse
- Solenoid: On Forward
Current Situation and Plans
Accelerators studies are in progress and will last till Friday (12/28) morning. After studies accelerator will do stores till January 2nd.
The main task of the shift crew is to collect data in stable global runs. Maximum
input rate into Level 3 will be dictated by stable running and currently is about 12-15 Hz.
By default, all crates should be included in global runs unless
experts have removed them, with the exception of the CFT (see below).
Experts should be contacted if there are problems
with any of the readout crates.
The FPD could move the pots not earlier than 8 hours before planned end of
a store. There is a new plan agreed to by Run Coordinator and the Beams
Division (see Standard Run Plan). Before any pot motions the MCR and CDF
must be informed. In particular, CDF would like to be informed about which
pots are being moved.
The major shift tasks are:
- Keep DAQ running collecting colliding beam data and cosmics or
beam halo data. Recording must
be kept ON for all runs.
- All test runs and trigger configurations must be stopped and freed before starting the global data taking run with colliding beam.
CFT special runs may only start after the global run is going.
- Include all front-end and readout crates in the data taking; experts have
to be called in the case of problems.
Detector experts should clearly indicate the status of crates
on the white board in the Control Room.
- Conduct Captain and shifters' walkthroughs, fill check lists and
report all problems to experts.
- Run all detectors at full voltages (beam conditions permitting).
- Monitor beam losses and silicon radiation doses.
- Help experts with short controlled accesses.
- Run all detector Examines under Detector shifter control. Report any
problems to the subdetector coordinators.
Until further notice the Global Examine is broken and need not be run.
- When there is no beam, calibration runs should be taken. These runs
should be coordinated with the DAQ shifter.
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From now on, the offline farms will process all data in global
physics runs, hence captains are no longer responsible for making shiftsets.
If there are special runs (cosmics, halo, etc) that needs to be reprocessed
on the farms, then the persons requesting the special data collection is
required to fill in the
shiftset request form and to send mail to
d0-farms@fnal.gov.
- People have requested that the shift summary report still be mailed to
d0shifters, as well as posting on D0news. If many people on d0shifters
do not wish to see this, we will set up a separate mailing list.
Any work that will be disruptive to data taking during colliding beam
(e.g. DAQ system tests, L3 tests, TFW work, sDAQ etc.) must be approved
by the Run Coordinator.
All work in the MCH must be done with the full knowledge and presence
of the experts and can only occur during times when there is no colliding
beam. No cables, configurations, crates etc should be changed
without the experts' explicit approval.
Also the shift captain and DAQ shifter must be kept informed of
any activity in the MCH (this includes test systems for L2, STT, etc.)
and this work needs to be
recorded in the electronic
logbook, with the names of the people involved.
CFT Operations
Until further notice, to aid debugging and commissioning the CFT, the
following plan is in effect. When there is no colliding beam, the CFT
crates are under the control of the CFT shifter.
During colliding beam:
- The CFT shifter will communicate with the Captain and DAQ shifter and
request whether the CFT crates (0x50,0x51,0x52,0x53) are to be included
in the primary global run or not.
- If desired by the CFT shifter, CFT crate(s) will be excluded from the
global run and sDAQ runs with the CFT only may be run independently.
- If independent CFT pDAQ runs or unsuppressed CFT running in the global
runs are requested, the Run Coordinator must approve the run. This
does not apply to sDAQ runs.
- Once debugging work with one or more CFT crates has been completed and
the crates are available for more than an hour for regular running, the
CFT shifter should inform the Captain and DAQ shifter that the crate(s)
are available for global runs. These crates must be run in suppressed
mode. The global run should not be stopped just to include these
crates, but the next natural, convenient break in the run should be
used to include the crates.
Standard Trigger Files
For colliding beam trigger configuration file is
- global_CalMuon-3.10.xml
There are prescale files for 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10E30 and a panic file.
For example, for luminosity between 3E30 and 5E30 use prescale file 4E30 and
similar for other prescale files.
If there are problems with the v3.10 file, contact Michael Begel who is the
acting Trigger Meister.
For cosmic ray running use one of two files (depending upon L2 crates status):
- cosmics-1.1.xml - does not include the L2 crates
- cosmics-1.2.xml - contains the L2 crates in non-readout mode
For proton-only beam running:
- proton_halo_only-1.2.xml
Planned Special Runs or Activities
None at the moment
See the Special Run Request Binder for details
Special run forms are available in the Special Run Requests
binder in the control room.
Send comments/corrections to
Leslie Groer
Last modified: Tue Oct 22 05:44:23 CDT 2002