D0 Run Plan

Questions, comments and requests should be sent to the D0 Run Coordinator
Last modified: Sat Nov 30 03:26:22 CST 2002


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Run Plan Period

   From:     Day shift Saturday November 30, 2002
   Through:  Owl shift Tuesday  December 3,  2002

Current Situation & Plans |  Beams Division Schedule & Status |  D0 Shift Schedule |  Magnet Polarities |  Trigger Configurations & Prescales |  Global Monitoring |  Run Limits |  Periods Without Shot Setup or Colliding Beam |
D0 Control Room Procedures - Standard instructions which change infrequently.
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Current Situation and Plans

  • From Tue Nov 26 Owl - Tue Dec 3 Owl, the Tevatron will follow a schedule of Stack 'n Store. Shot setups will be determined by stack size, preferably >140 mA and by the Accelerator Operations status.
  • There will likely be 5 shifts of beam studies on Dec 3 & 4. The final schedule will be announced Monday morning Dec 2.
  • There is a special run request from Levan Bubukhadia for a L1 CTT Trigger Study. The run should be taken in the last hour of the current store. Page Levan about 1.5 hours before the end of the store (tentatively scheduled to end about 10:00 Sat Nov 30).
  • There is a request by Nirmalya Parua to take a special run to study the Jet Energy Scale offset correction. The request is for 50k events at a luminosity near 25E30. Note: Nirmalya will be out of town until 07:00 Sun Nov 31. Page him after this time if the luminosity is suitable.
  • Only the DAQ Shifter should issue the manual SCL inits during global physics data taking, with one exception - Muon Shifters will send SCL inits after stopping/starting PDT crates. All shifters should clearly communicate requests for Pauses and SCL inits with the DAQ Shifter.
  • The Shift Captain should call the MCR at the beginning of each shift and as needed to keep up with dynamic schedule of the Tevatron. The MCR may give D0 quiet time or a Controlled Access (CA). Page Dmitri Denisov for CA approval. See the whiteboard for CA requests.
Read the D0 Logbook before your shift in order to be better prepared!

D0 Restricted

Beams Division

Accelerator Weekly Schedule

Beams Division Notification - Also known as Channel 13.

MCR E-log - Current news from the Beams Division. (FNAL domain only)

CDF E-log

The D0 Shift Schedule

  • D0 Shift Calendar
  • All Captain and DAQ shifts are 24/7.
  • There are Special Instructions for SMT Shifters.
  • Detector shifters can be on-call for an owl shift:
    1. if there is no Store
    2. if MCR states there is no shot setup scheduled between midnight and 08:00
    3. if there are no subsystem tasks to perform (calibration, special runs, monitoring)
    4. if the Shift Captain & subsystem coordinator(s) are in agreement
    Shifters must report in with the Shift Captain to give a contact number before leaving.
  • All other shifts during the week are ON.

Magnet Polarities


(from Tuesday 08:00 November 26)
   Solenoid = Forward
   Toroid   = Reverse

(from Tuesday 08:00 December 3)

   Solenoid = Forward
   Toroid   = Forward

For more details click on Magnet Operations

Trigger Configurations

global_CMT-9.30.xml
  • Rules for Changing Prescales - choose the prescale set which has a name closest to the Luminosity at the start of the run.
  • Available prescale sets for the above trigger are:  05E30, 10E30, 15E30, 20E30, 25E30, 30E30, 35E30, 40E30, 45E30 and 50E30. If help is needed with additional prescales, contact the Triggermeisters.
  • In this configuration, we see L1/L2/L3 rates of 250-600/100-250/25-50 Hz, which is primarily a function of the instantaneous luminosity. A good effort should be made to keep the average global FEB rate below 2%.

Global Monitoring: Trigger & Physics Examines

  • Main Global Monitoring page.
  • Global Monitoring (GM) is being coordinated by Pushpa Bhat. The GM console, d0ol33, is reserved for the GM shifter during scheduled shifts when there is beam. Useful information, numbers and plots should be inserted into the electronic logbook under the GM tab.
  • The name of an institution will be listed next to the GM shifter when the Global Monitoring shift is being run remotely. There is a GM Web Communicator GUI to be used by the Shift Captain, remote GM Shifter, and other shifters as needed. The interface is very simple; shifters communicate via typed text. The gui should be open by default on the Captain console. If not, the gui can be launched with the following command sequence: setup d0online; start_daq gmwebcom.
  • Online Data Monitoring - Current status of Online Monitoring and Examine instructions.
  • The Shift Captain should continue to run the vertex examine (currently on d0ol27). Michiel Sanders has documented the Vertex Examine Instructions in PDF and HTML. For reference, look at the VE plots entered in the logbook during previous shifts.

Recorded Physics Run Limit

  • 4 hours

  •     or
  • 500,000 events

  •     or
  • Inst. Rate
    in Taker < 25 Hz

Periods Without a Shot Setup or Colliding Beams

  • During non-colliding beam, the  zero_bias_3L1L2L3_1out-1.00.xml  trigger should be run with all available crates to exercise the DAQ as long as this does not conflict with commissioning or calibration efforts. By default, 'Recording' should be ON as we would like to monitor the full data path from the detectors to tape at the Feynman Computing Center. There are three trigger bits with prescales which have been tuned both to exercise the L1, L2 and L3 rates and to send an average of 1 Hz to tape. The prescales should only be changed by or with approval of the triggermeisters.