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D0 Run Plan Period

  From:    EVE Thursday  May  15, 2003
  Through: OWL Tuesday   May  20, 2003
Run Plan Index
  • Current Situation & Plans
  • Magnet Polarities
  • Trigger Configurations & Prescales
  • Beams Division Schedule & Status
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  • Global Monitoring
  • D0 Shift Schedule
  • Run Limits
  • Periods Without Shot Setup or Colliding Beam
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    		Special Notes
  • Shifters: Run, Store and Pause Transitions  (12 May 2003)

  • Shift Captains: Prescales and Data Taking Efficiency  (12 May 2003)

  • Shift Captains: Beam Halo at D0  (1 May 2003)
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  • Current Events
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    Control Room Procedures Index
  • BLS Power Supplies
  • Calorimeter for Non-CAL Shifters
  • CFT Inputs to L1 Muon
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  • CFT Shifter On-Call 
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  • Changing Prescales
  • Controlled Accesses
  • Combined Test Stand Operations
  • Disable/Enable Muon Front-End
  • FPD Operations
  • FPD Procedures for CAL Shifters
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  • Magnets Operations
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  • Resetting Trips Due to Water Drip Detection
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  • SCL Inits
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  • Training
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    Current Situation and Plans

    • Stack 'N Store through Owl Mon May 19. No scheduled accelerator studies prior to the week of May 19th. Premature termination of stores can lead to proton-only TeV studies while the stack is built up. There _may_ be a maintenance day during the week of May 12th which could permit access to the collision halls and tunnel for 8-12 hours.

    • Shot setups will be determined by stack size, usually >150 mA and by the Accelerator Operations status. If a store is lost prematurely, a shot may be attempted from a smaller stack ~120 mA.

    • Non-Expert Shifter Operations are now performed by the Shift Captain.

    • 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!

    Magnet Polarities

    (from Tuesday 08:00 May 13) 

       Solenoid = Forward
   Toroid   = Reverse

    (from Tuesday 08:00 May 20) 

       Solenoid = Forward
   Toroid   = Forward

    (from Tuesday 08:00 May 27) 

       Solenoid = Reverse
   Toroid   = Forward

    For more details click on Magnet Operations

    Trigger Configurations

    global_CMT-11.04.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, 13E30, 15E30, 20E30, 25E30, 30E30, 35E30, 40E30, 45E30, 50E30 and 60E30. If help is needed with additional prescales, contact the Triggermeisters.
    • In this configuration, we see L1/L2/L3 rates of 600-1200/300-800/30-60 Hz, which is primarily a function of the instantaneous luminosity. If the rates are too high - L1>1400 or L2>850 or L3>65 Hz - or the global FEB > 10% - contact the Triggermeister. A good effort should be made to keep the average global FEB rate below 6%.

    The D0 Shift Schedule

    • D0 Shift Calendar
    • All Captain and DAQ shifts are 24/7.
    • Shifters can be on-call:
      1. if there is no Store,
      2. if MCR states there is no shot setup expected for 4 or more hours,
      3. if the situation with the sub-detector is stable,
      4. if there are no sub-detector tasks to perform (checklist, calibration, special runs, monitoring), and
      5. if the Shift Captain is in agreement
        6.
    • Calorimeter and Muon Shifters do not need confirmation from their sub-detector coordinators. However, there are Special Instructions which Muon Shifters must follow before leaving.
    • For the SMT & CFT/PS/FPS sub-detectors, the Shift Captain will need approval from their sub-detector coordinators (Eric/Breese or Fred/Jadzia respectively) before releasing the shifters:
    • Shifters must report in with the Shift Captain to give a contact number before leaving.

    Recorded Physics Run Limit

    • 4 hours

      •     or

    • Inst. Rate
      in Taker < 25 Hz
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    Global Monitoring: Trigger & Physics Examines

    • Main Global Monitoring page.
    • Global Monitoring (GM) is being coordinated by Pushpa Bhat, Michiel Sanders and Joe Steele. 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.

    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.